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Okay, we'll call this meeting to order. Roll call, please, Fernando.

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Council member Reves. Council member Green. Present. Council member Beltran. Present. Vice member Kirby. Present. Mayor Meister. Present. Oral communication. This is opportunity to address the city council on any matter scheduled for a closed session, unless additional time is authorized by the council. Each speaker shall be limited to three minutes. Does anyone want to come forward at this time?

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No, you got to turn the mic on, ma'am.

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Thanks. Great start. I'm here this evening to talk to you about a few things. And as you

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know, we've all met. The first time I met you was over the phone, Mr. McCurvey. Meister,

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you were an ongoing pain in my butt. And, Mr., I don't know you, Mr. Rebus, but you are

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a retired state employee, okay, and Raymond, nice to see you, and I'm sorry Mr. Green,

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I've never had a chance to get to know you.

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But the reason I'm coming to talk to you today is about some of the issues and accusations

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towards people that are residents of this town that you're representing.

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I think there's been some sort of a back-and-forth communication issue that I think we can resolve because you were for us, right?

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And so on this trail I've been on in the last few weeks, I discovered something that I wasn't aware of.

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This town has the highest sales tax of any city in this county and other places as well.

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Also, another thing that I discovered was that we have the highest unemployment rate here in Portaville.

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And if you just look at those two issues and think about what we can do to resolve it,

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then we would be making some progress instead of going back and forth amongst each other.

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Am I right?

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Do you agree?

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Do you disagree?

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If not, please tell me why.

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You receive your retirement, right?

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You are California retiree, and you receive your pension.

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don't answer. You don't have to answer, but you can if you want to. Because I'm

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engaging you right now. So bottom line is that you have your health benefits. You

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have your pension and you earned it. You paid into it. But actually it was the

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people that came before you. That you were paying into. So depending on when you

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retired like for instance right now even though you may not be a member of the

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California Retire Reassociation you are paying into the system and you have

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your health care right same thing with our employees here with the

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unemployment rates as they are the economy as bad as it is why would you want to

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basically contract out some of our jobs that we have that the city workers had in

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in the past.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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I have more time asking for it.

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I gave it to you.

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Oh.

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15 minutes when you came here, and I want to continue to talk.

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Ma'am, do you need to grab control of yourself and have?

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Call me ma'am.

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Ma'am, you're out of line.

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I'm going to ask for you to stop.

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You'll have another opportunity for oral communication

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to finish your, ma'am, your time is up.

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Please, please have a seat.

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And why can't I stand here and have a little bit more time?

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I'm going to ask for us to go into recess and then if we can just have the police department

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remove her.

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We're going to go into recess.

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Okay.

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We'll be back in bringing back the meeting back into order.

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You know, before closed session council comments are meant to talk about what is going to be

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in closed session.

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I always respect the first and then the right to say what you feel the need to and so I respect that but there is a time limit because the city still has business to do.

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With that is there anyone else that would like to say anything?

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I promise it's about closed session.

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So the items ahead of you, there's a couple of items you guys are going to be negotiating on.

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I guess my concern is more of process and maybe an opportunity for the council to maybe reassure the public.

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There are people we're going to be negotiating with, these are somebody that's been known to the council,

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somebody that's publicly been supporting certain council members.

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So, how does the city know that, how do the people know that that's going to be an honest and fair negotiation?

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That's the biggest concern.

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And secondly, it looks like, yeah, I guess you guys can't say much of that.

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That's just my only concern is maybe sharing with the public if you can.

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And not necessarily what you're doing at closed session, but

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maybe later on during the council comments, an education session of how you go about keeping personal alliances or friendships aside when you negotiate for the business and protect taxpayers dollars.

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Thanks for your time, gentlemen.

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Thank you, Mr. Saleh.

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Is there anyone else?

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Do we have anyone online, Fernandes?

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My name is Jerry Rousseau.

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I came in here on March 3rd on an issue.

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I was wondering maybe you guys could look back on YouTube and get back on me on the same issue, but a different a different thing

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But I came up here to tell the city workers a great job

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This gentleman right here good job

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I mean I see all the stuff that he does on the city council

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about a lot of stuff on YouTube

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It's a lot of work, you know, be a part of the city, all of you guys, you know what I mean?

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It's a hard work, you know what I mean?

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All of you guys, you know what I mean?

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It's a lot of work, working for the city.

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You know what I mean?

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It goes, it's better for you.

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But I just have a great one.

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Thank you, sir.

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Anyone online, Fernando?

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Okay, moving on to close session, City Manager.

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Thank you, Mayor and Members of the Council.

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We have six items on close session tonight.

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First item is government code section 54956.8, conference with real property negotiators, property APN 253160-064, and

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And dash 065-068-069-070 and 261-125-018 and dash 020, agency negotiators richer tree negotiating parties is City of Portable and James Gardery Shelton under negotiation terms and price.

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Item number two, government code section 549-56.8, conference with the real property negotiators.

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And property is APN 261-130-002 and 253-160-059, agency negotiator, Richard Tree, negotiating

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parties, city of Portable, and the state of California, department of general services under

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Under negotiation is terms and price.

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Item number three, government code section 54956.8, conference with real property, negotiators and property.

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APN 268-00100-001, and 268-110-034, agency negotiator Richard Tree, negotiating parties of the city of Portugal and SME Homes Incorporated.

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Under negotiation, terms and price.

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Item number four, government code section 54956.95, a liability claim.

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Claiming is bowing.

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Guan, agency claimed against city of Portoville.

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Item number five is government code section 54956.95, and liability claim.

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Claiming is Robert Perez, agency claimed against city of Portoville in the final item on the closed session.

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agenda is government code section 549-56.9D2, conference with legal counsel, anticipated litigation,

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significant exposure to litigation, one case in which facts are not yet known to potential plaintiff.

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Okay, with that, we will go into closed session and re-convene at 630.

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Okay, we'll reconvene to open session and report on any reportable action taken in closed session. Yes, we have reportable action for item number four. The council voted five to zero to reject the claim of bowing one. And for item number five, the council voted five zero to reject the claim of Robert Perez, and that's the end of reportable action. Thank you, ma'am. Okay, I'll ask you all to stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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Allegiance led by Council member Greene, and then please remain standing for invocation if someone would like to give one.

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Before we do the pledge of allegiance, I'd like to take a moment of silence from Miles Elliott.

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He was a helicopter pilot from our community who was fighting wild land fire in Utah and unfortunately the tragedy happened and he crashed his helicopter and he paid the ultimate sacrifice and service to others.

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and there is no greater love than to give one's life in service to others and so

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we want to honor miles by a moment of silence.

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Councilman Green.

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All right, everybody, please salute and pledge.

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I pledge to the United States of America and to the Republic

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for which it stands, one nation, and regard, individual,

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liberty and justice for all.

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Great job, kids.

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I can hear every one of you.

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Excellent.

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Go ahead, ma'am.

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As we gather together today, I pray that we bind ourselves in unity and when accord.

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Let our concerns for our city and resident support of it empower our thoughts and our actions

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and deeds to be fruitful in our endeavors to live a peaceful and a prosperous life.

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Before we pray for our land to be increased, with jobs, business opportunities and increased

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finances, let us be thankful for our liberty and freedom given to us at the cost of many

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lives. Freedom is never without a cost. Let us put aside arguments, disputes, name

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calling and accusations, and may we not be entangled with anger and hate towards anyone.

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Though disagreements arise and opinions may vary at critical times, let us keep in our

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mind and heart that if we stay committed to the needs of our community that all things

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do work together for the glory of God. Write the vision down and make it plain on tablets

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and believe in faith it will be fulfilled. A city divided against itself will not prosper

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and division usually starts within. I pray that our community will keep an open mind regarding

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that will speak and act respectfully towards all.

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A plan for peace and unity will cause future plans to prosper in all ways.

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The words that we speak are seeds that will bring forth our harvest for our lives and the city.

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So let us celebrate God's goodness, mercy, and His great hand upon us.

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Matthew 535 states, or by the earth for it is his footstool.

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We must be willing to reach peaceful agreements with all opponents, or our city will not prosper.

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So let us all be in peace and agreement together in unity and I pray in the name of the Lord

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Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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Okay.

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I'm not saying anyone else, please be seated.

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Okay,

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we're going to go into council comments, and I'll go ahead and lead tonight with those comments.

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And just to finish up with Miles Elliott, he was a father of Truxton,

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fiance to Brianna Grove, and a pillar in our community.

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He did photography to pictures of baseball, football, and was also a board member of the Port of the Little League.

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and a board member of our airport committee, and was just an outstanding gentleman.

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And so our community lost a great man.

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I want to sincerely just thank our Portavill Fire Department, Chief Cogburn, and his command staff,

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Portavill Police Department, Chief Raider and his command staff.

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And all adjoining agencies like the Toole River Fire Department,

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the Tulip County, Tulary County Fire Department, the Sheriff's Office, and countless agencies around our county that came together for the procession, I want to thank the community who came out and line the streets to honor this man because he was a hero.

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And that's what we do here in Portable, we honor our heroes, so I just want to state that for the record.

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Assemblywoman Macido and Senator Grove will be reading a adjourn in memory of Miles Elliot at the state capital and that will be coming in the future and they'll be reading his name into the state record.

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So it's good things are coming.

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With this, we set a new flag policy and I'd like to make a motion that the flag we flew at half mass over city hall.

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We honor Miles Elliott's family by dedicating that flag to the family.

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It's going to take a vote by the council, but that would be my motion on the table.

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Okay, we have a first and a second.

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Is there any discussion?

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We'll call for the vote.

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Roll, call.

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Councilmember Rivas?

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Aye.

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Councilmember Green?

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Aye.

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Councilmember Beltran?

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Aye.

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Vice Mayor McCurvy?

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Aye.

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May I, Mr.

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Aye.

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Passes 5-0.

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Okay.

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Moving on.

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August 5th, I met with Andy Garcia.

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He is in the city manager and we talked about an investment in our community.

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He's looking to bring a trampoline park to the city of Portaville.

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So really exciting things going on.

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We want to continue to support business owners and entrepreneurs that want to invest in

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our communities.

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So really exciting stuff.

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August 6th, we met with the Tuley River Tribal Council, myself, Vice Mayor McCurvy, and supporting staff.

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We discussed, first they give us a tour of the new expansion, the hotel, the convention center, and

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future lazy river.

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Really some amazing stuff going on out there.

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We also talked and discussed our MOU for our fire department and police department.

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And we want to continue to work alongside with the Tuley River tribe.

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August 7th, I had the great honor, some guys that I used to do tile with 21 years ago.

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I went down to our future community center that's being built.

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It's going to have basketball courts, volleyball courts, pump track, splash pad, and playground.

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And they were actually tiling it.

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And so it was kind of a full circle for me where I got to go back with guys that I worked

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with 21 years ago and got a little private tour.

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And I presented them challenge coins, challenge coins that you all will get here tonight.

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I would just suggest to my colleagues, if you'd like to go on tour, set up with City Manager Tree and go and take a tour and it really is a special thing that's going on there exciting for the future of Portoville.

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Also August 7th, I went and met with Johnny Ramirez and the Ville Academy.

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I presented a proclamation from the City of Portoville for the Ville Academy day.

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They had Fresno Pro Am in on August 7th with the professional basketball league at Granite Hill.

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So I was really excited to see that.

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August 8th, I attended Cala event where I was a special guest speaker.

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And that is California American Latino Association.

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And my message was clear, we may not be able to change Sacramento.

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We may not be able to change DC, but if we get involved here at the local level and we invest in ourselves with our time and our energy, we can make a difference here in Portugal, but it takes us getting involved.

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August 11th, I did a ride along with the Refuse Department.

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Really some things that I've learned from our Refuse Department.

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One is the cans for residentials.

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There's a reason why they want the cans, your trash cans off of the curb and it's because

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of the arm that goes out and grabs it, if it's up on the curb it will actually grab the

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wheels and when they take it and dump it it gets lost into the truck.

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And so they request, humbly requests that we put our cans on the road and it makes it faster

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for them going forward.

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Also, avoid your basketball hoops or mailboxes and cars when be thinking about them when they're coming by because they have a lot of cans.

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We are understaffed in our trash department.

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There are guys I have to do 16 cans and 1,600 cans in one day.

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It takes some 10 hours in a truck driving, so a lot of hard work from these guys.

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We talked, I then had a meeting with the staff and we talked about customer service and some of the changes that came during COVID-19 and where they went away from,

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you know if a can was slightly open and able to be retrieved, they went away from doing so.

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And so we want to revitalize that and focus in on customer service.

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We also talked about route software that'll be coming into play in about two months, and we're going to be adding four more drivers with four diesel trucks.

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It's kind of interesting, and I went with this right along and the diesel trucks are actually a lot better than the CNG when the CNG trucks get filled, they don't have the power and it's the same problem with the electric trucks.

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So, we want to be good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and buy those diesels, so these guys have good equipment, and equipment that will last, we get our money's worth.

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We also talked with the street sweeper, we have one driver in this city, we have one driver that has to cover 400 lane miles, we have to invest in our street department, we got to get another driver, we need to get another truck to help relieve his job.

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And really, we want to beautify Porterville, and these are the steps we have to take to do so.

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In my eye-opening experience, and I'm going to make another motion here, is some of the problems with trash around the city.

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You know, I'm never going to try to sell you that we're going to solve homelessness.

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We will enforce the laws and we've been doing so, but the homeless will always be with us.

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And so one of the prop-

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Problems is they get in the dumpsters and they make a mess and they pull the trash out of the dumpsters and it's on the sides. And it's not the truck drivers fault and it's not the business owners fault either. And so what I'd like to do is get what I'm calling an eye sore crew, like a two man crew that goes and takes care of eye sores when our drivers do pull up. And they see an issue where trash has been pulled out and out on the street or in these bins.

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means that we can then call this crew to go and clean up this mess.

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Also, it would help with cleaning our trash trucks also in the future.

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I also would like to, I talked with Hugo in the trash department and he challenged me because I gave my word that we won't sell the refuse department if they deliver customer service.

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And that is the focus that I want to continue to drive on.

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And so what I would, with my motion, I want to table the selling of the refuse department,

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but still continue to look at investing in a transfer station at Teapot Dome.

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I think the drive out to Wood Lake is way too far for not only our trash truck drivers, but the residents of Portoville.

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And so I think in partnering with the county and

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finding a way that we can get a transfer station here locally, it'll really help the community at

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large and also help our trash truck drivers or the refuse department.

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That is my

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motion that I'm putting on the table.

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If any of you guys would like to make a

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comment I know that you both when they did some ride alongs as well. Well thank

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you mayor for laying all of that out I've been busy. I did a ride along with

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John Morrison this week too and and it's really true the diesel trucks are so

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far superior to the CNGs and the other equipment that they have.

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Not only are they faster and get the job done better, but they're more comfortable, they're more effective, and they last longer.

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And so I think that was a great investment that we made, and there's validation there.

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I know there's some conversations about expense, but I think if you do the long term on that, it's actually going to pay us back.

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We're actually going to save money.

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While we're helping these guys get to 1,600 or 1,400 bins, whichever route that they're on.

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I think it's important that we continue to focus on this.

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When the downtown committee, we had a lot of discussions downtown about the trash in

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the alleyways.

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And when we come down and we have parades, and we come down and we celebrate downtown

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and our great downtown that we're revitalizing, our alleyways need some work still.

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And so I think the idea of mayor that you're presenting here that we would have someone that

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could go and take care of some odd things, that's kind of a tiger team or whatever we would

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We call that someone that could go and help us to square away those areas.

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We want to make those places safe and clean.

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So when we come down here for a parade that we can park away from Main Street and still

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work through those alleyways and not be worried about the trash and the clutter and those things.

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So I really like this idea, I think it's a terrific idea.

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And it was great to get some time to spend with the refuse folks and look at where the rubber

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meets the road, so to speak.

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but how hard it is with the transferring of trash, because we have now this long trip that we have to make to dump the trash.

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A transfer station would be very, very vital and essential to helping us to keep people from going down in these alleyways and just dumping stuff from their house.

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Because that's what's happening, I think this would be a way to address that as well.

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So I think I would second that motion after those comments, Mayor.

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Okay, we've got a person a second, and I just want to clarify my motion.

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We're tabling the cell of the refuse, but we're still going forward with researching on a transfer station.

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Either we privatize that transfer station, or we look at a partnership between the county and the city.

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And then also the two-man tiger team, I like that.

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The two-man tiger team that goes around and takes care of eye sores where trash has been dumped in our city.

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And continue the efforts to beautify Porterville.

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So we have a first and second, is there any other discussion?

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So I like the tabling of the refuse, I think that was something I recommended back when we were talking about it.

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So I support that, but on the cleanup crew, would that be, I don't know if your recommendation is that we hire two new people.

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or we're looking at the encampment abatement team and maybe they make a team out of that one.

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No, I'm talking about out of the refuse enterprise using refuse enterprise funds to hire two specific guys and get their own specialty truck that could go around and clean up trash.

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And this is not only with commercial side, but there's also, sometimes the drivers may lose a bin and trash spills in front of a residential house.

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The trash truck driver getting out and trying to clean that up takes time.

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And so if we had a crew that could come and help and clean to keep our trash truck guys going or refuse truck drivers, then we could continue doing business.

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Thank you, Mayor, just to clarify and thank you for that.

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That's all I had, thank you.

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Okay, so we have a first and a second, go ahead, Councilman Revis.

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Yes, sir. Yes, I also went on a ride along with the Refuge and me and Gilbert Semental, who is the Union, I guess, negotiator.

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We had a good discussion and it was exciting and I seen some of the things that they encounter.

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So during our my run with him with the routes, he was explaining a lot of issues that they were having.

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And I've seen it for first hand view the issues and dilemmas.

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And before I get a little too further ahead of myself, I'd like the suggestions that you made mayor along with you Mr.

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Rice mayor and thank you for clearing that up Mr. Beltran on those two men tiger crew that you mayor mentioned.

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So with that, I have some thoughts that I want to bring to the table if we can, when we table this.

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on streamlining, and I do not entertain the thought of outsourcing our refuge to outside companies at this time.

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So I just want to make that clear on my point.

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So with that, at a good time, they treated us with all due diligence, respect, and courtesy, and at a fun time.

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But they do need help, and we will try to find some things to streamline and make it more resilient for the city of Portoville

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to have their trash truck picked up on early fashion, so.

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Thank you, Councilman Revis.

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Okay, we have a first and a second.

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We'll call for the vote.

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Roll call, please.

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Councilman Revis.

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Councilman McLean.

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All right, Councilman Belchren.

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Vice Mayor McLean.

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All right, Mayor Meister.

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All right, passes 5-0.

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Okay, just finishing up here.

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August 12th, I met with a local concerned citizen.

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And we talked about asphalt in the city.

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You know, we've expanded what we're doing here in the city of Portoville.

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just four years ago we were doing, I think we did 15 lane miles, and then five years ago

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we were only doing five lane miles of self-performed street maintenance.

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And so when you do the math over the last four years, we've done 90 lane miles.

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If you go to the four years before I was elected, we only did 30 lane miles.

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So we made a significant investment in our roads.

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We are now investing $3 million annually and performing 30 lane miles of self-performed

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street maintenance.

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And so that talk came up, some of the concerns are the asphalt that we're getting, and we need to be testing the asphalt that we get so that we make sure we're getting high quality asphalt the asphalt we're paying for, I'm not going to make a motion on that but I just I want to thank the concerned citizen, I think it was a good meeting and they brought some really good points to the meeting.

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And then the 13th, I met with the Chamber of Commerce, had a really great discussion on the future of Porterville and the relationship with Chamber of Commerce.

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We talked about leadership, Porterville, we talked about the Christmas parade.

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We also talked about shop local, did you know every dollar that spent locally turns into $3 around our city?

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And so we want to shop local as much as we can, but we have to reduce regulations, we have to create an environment where businesses

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This is want to come and open.

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With that, we also talked about fraud.

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We have our senior citizens' class, it's happening more and more where individuals are going and

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making a claim against our senior citizens and they'll take $10,000, $15,000 from our senior citizens, excuse me.

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Without them even knowing what's going on.

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And so Chief Raider, I'm hoping that we can work with Chamber and commerce and come up with some kind of presentation that we could get in the port of a recorder, get on record, teaching people about how these scam artists are using, they're finding out what your information is, who your children are and try to educate them to not be handing over these kinds of funds to people.

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And so that's something that we'll continue to talk about, but it was a great conversation with the Chamber of Commerce.

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And then yesterday, I met at PDC with Dr.

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John O'Keefe and supporting staff, I was the city manager and vice mayor was with me.

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And we talked about mental illness and homeless and expansion of Portable Developmental Center.

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I've talked with state legislature, I've talked with the governor's office, I've talked with our sheriff.

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The state of California and the way we're doing businesses wrong.

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We're funding NGOs and billions of dollars are being lost statewide and we need to bring it back in house and

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Start investing into facilities like PDC to address the homeless and the mental illness that are on our streets every day and so

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This approach is bottom-pressure and we're creating top-pressure. This is a big ass. This is years in the making, but

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But we have 1100 acres out at Portable Developmental Centers.

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It's a great opportunity for expansion and great jobs in our city.

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And talking with Dr. O'Keefe, he pointed out that there are a lot of jobs currently vacant at Portable Developmental Center.

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So if you are, if you have a family member or you are looking for a job, go and

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research and look into and see what kind of opportunities there may be for yourself.

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He said it's mostly psyched techs and behavioral health those fields are having a hard time so there's a demand out there

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Yes, the word vice mayor. I am finally finished. Go ahead, sir

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No, I'm just gonna leave it there because I'm excited about all the folks that we have visiting us this evening

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And we're gonna get to some recognition and and I'm gonna a great presentation. You've been very busy

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I really appreciate that but I'm gonna go and I'll talk later about some of these other things that I had on my list

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Okay, wonderful. Councilman Revis, do you have any comments?

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No comment at the same. Councilman Green?

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No comment at this time, Mayor.

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Councilman Beltran.

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So I'll just echo what the mayor said about the community coming out to recognize Miles

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Elliott. I was able to briefly be out there and seeing Portable High School had, seemed

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like a hundred students or more out there.

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Employees from the hospital out there so it was really

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We really need to see the community rally around the family and just acknowledge who he was in our community.

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Secondly, school starting back up and we see our chambers feel today with young athletes in our community.

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But as school year starts, we're going to get a lot of knock on our doors or see kids soliciting to sell chocolate or buy fundraiser items.

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Just be mindful that these are keeping kids busy, sometimes their families can afford equipment or trips.

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And so before you just are annoyed by maybe somebody knocking your door,

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maybe you get two or three here in our popular area.

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Just think about their future and that you're pouring into them.

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So just be mindful of the supporting kids in our community.

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And these future athletes and hopefully leaders in our community, they stay here and grow a family.

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And then lastly, a shameless plug because there's a big crowd here.

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We have our link committee tickets or a drive-through dinner and this helps with our

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homeless

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events it's a one year or one our annual

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Drive-through dinner that $15 a ticket

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You can purchase them here at City Hall at the planning desk or you can contact me

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I'll be happy to give you guys a ticket. So thank you guys. That's it

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Okay, with that we'll move on to our presentation and is the coach in the room. We're

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Devon, come up, come up, bring all the kids up.

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Wow, this is amazing.

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No, no, stay there for now.

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Just a sec, we're going to call you up all the way here and shortly.

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So, it's so amazing to have you guys in here.

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You guys are the future of our city and you guys are working hard.

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And your champions, right?

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All right, we're so proud of you guys and it's a great honor for us to recognize you guys here today.

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Before I read this certificate, I want to tell you about this challenge coin you guys are getting here today.

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We are celebrating 250 years as Americans, 250 years of greatness.

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And the City of Porterville had special coins made, we only made a thousand of them.

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On the front side, has anybody seen our farmer statue on Main Street?

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Yeah, on the front of this coin has a farmer statue.

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and it says America 250 and then E. Pluribus Unum, which is right in front of me and that means Adam any one, one Adam any.

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And then on the backside is Portable Home Rule, 100 years of charter status and our city motto in God we trust.

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So we have this here for you guys today, I have certificates signed by myself as well.

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But before I read the certificate, I'm going to pass it off to the vice mayor for some words.

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efforts. Thank you very much, Mayor. Now, you guys, I understand you guys, your organization

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has been around for about 75 years, which is amazing in itself, so it's just a great opportunity

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for us to recognize you and the longevity of this greater

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The organization, both of my girls were in Neptuneites. So in 2011, I was a stroke and turn coach out there, and I used to travel around, and I know exactly what you guys are doing.

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It's just amazing as individuals and as team members, how you guys will go out, and I experienced it firsthand, and you would travel to other cities together, eat together, swim together, do so many things together, it's like a big family. And so I just wanted to say thank you so much for

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or all that you guys do all the time over those 75 years.

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But I would like to give Evan a few minutes to talk

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about maybe some accomplishments

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that are so important this year.

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And then you can take it away from me, Evan,

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and then maybe we'll close that and do a picture.

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Vice mayor, before Evan speaks,

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can we give the other, my other colleague?

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Sure, absolutely.

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And say, Councilman Revis, you have any comments?

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Yes, sir.

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Hey, I just want to say thank you for what you do.

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I used to be, my grandkids used to be with your guys for about three years and I remember

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those evenings, those hot days and hot evenings and all over the place and seeing you guys

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compete was an amazing thing to watch and I just want to say thank you, thank you for

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your accomplishments, thank you for your tenacity and focusing on your vision.

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So thank you coach and all you guys, thank you very much.

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Thank you. Councilman Green, you have any comments?

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01:31:32,950 --> 01:31:44,290
I think if I'm not mistaken, the mayor mentioned to me that in your 75-year history, this is only the second time that they have won the gold medal.

419
01:31:44,750 --> 01:31:45,230
Outstanding.

420
01:31:45,870 --> 01:31:54,850
And that's great. And I'll take, you know, I know how great you kids must be because when we were done, the pledge of allegiance I could hear every one of you.

421
01:31:54,850 --> 01:32:00,690
I mean, it was, I applaud you kids for being patriots.

422
01:32:01,230 --> 01:32:02,410
Keep up the good work.

423
01:32:03,950 --> 01:32:11,110
And you guys probably like, where do you go from here?

424
01:32:11,430 --> 01:32:12,830
Does there, because I don't really

425
01:32:12,830 --> 01:32:14,190
know much about the NEP tonight.

426
01:32:14,490 --> 01:32:14,950
NEP tonight.

427
01:32:15,110 --> 01:32:17,410
So is there a different, like, in a little league, you got?

428
01:32:17,850 --> 01:32:20,430
Well, I bet Coach Evans is going to tell us everything right now.

429
01:32:20,490 --> 01:32:21,870
That's why I'm explaining just a few minutes.

430
01:32:22,050 --> 01:32:23,030
Councilman and Beltran?

431
01:32:23,030 --> 01:32:35,650
Yeah, congratulations to all of you. Well done. You guys are getting all the attention. You guys got the medals, but give your parents a hand too for all the time that they're with you guys.

432
01:32:44,440 --> 01:32:50,500
Yeah, because without that support, it'd be really hard to accomplish what you guys did. So thank you parents out there.

433
01:32:51,000 --> 01:32:56,900
But great job sticking with it, not quitting, giving up when you didn't think you could do it. So great job of sticking with it.

434
01:32:58,420 --> 01:33:00,420
Okay, Coach Evan, go ahead, sir.

435
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:03,660
Well, first of all, thank you guys for inviting us here today.

436
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:08,340
I know all the kids and myself and all the families are super excited.

437
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:15,920
Basically, what I wanted to let everyone know is, you guys kind of hit it on the head.

438
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:18,340
I know a couple of you have been neptanites in the past.

439
01:33:19,900 --> 01:33:25,100
We have been around since 1955, so 76 years.

440
01:33:25,100 --> 01:33:33,760
This is our second time winning our league which is the Central Valley Recreational Swim League.

441
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:39,200
It goes, we are the most southern team in the league.

442
01:33:41,210 --> 01:33:49,540
There's a team in Sierra, that's kind of the furthest north, Sierra, Madera, and then

443
01:33:49,540 --> 01:33:50,900
all the way over to Kalinga.

444
01:33:50,900 --> 01:33:56,620
And there's about 25 teams, there might be a few less than that within our league, all

445
01:33:56,620 --> 01:33:58,760
from that little section of our valley.

446
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:07,360
But yeah, this group of kids and parents in our board and coaches was an awesome group

447
01:34:07,360 --> 01:34:08,680
to work with this year.

448
01:34:09,540 --> 01:34:15,680
One of the things that I want all the neptanites to know in anyone that's here is that I always

449
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:17,180
like to say that this is my family.

450
01:34:18,420 --> 01:34:33,080
And it really showed this year because at our finals, that's our all-star meet, just about every age group was either first, second or third in their relay, which is a team event.

451
01:34:33,380 --> 01:34:44,140
So if you don't know anything about swimming, it's four swimmers and the age groups range from 18 and we had a three year old on our team this year.

452
01:34:44,140 --> 01:34:48,800
So, from three years old to 18 years old, that is our age group.

453
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:55,520
And, you know, it's sectioned off a little better than that when we go to the meets.

454
01:34:55,780 --> 01:35:01,060
You know, there's six and under, seven and eights, nine, tens, 11, 12s, 13, 14s, and then

455
01:35:01,060 --> 01:35:02,060
15 to 18 years.

456
01:35:03,900 --> 01:35:08,140
But almost every age group that we had, at least in one of the relays, they got first,

457
01:35:08,300 --> 01:35:10,360
second, or third, which was quite an accomplishment.

458
01:35:11,300 --> 01:35:12,420
That's not always the case.

459
01:35:12,420 --> 01:35:18,740
So, that was a big reason for our team winning the league this year was the relay events.

460
01:35:19,980 --> 01:35:25,520
And it takes all of them working together and spending those long hot nights together.

461
01:35:26,760 --> 01:35:33,480
All the families showing up every day to practice to the five hour swim meets, driving in

462
01:35:33,480 --> 01:35:39,600
an hour and a half to the swim meets, it takes everybody in this room to make that happen.

463
01:35:39,600 --> 01:35:41,400
And so I just want to say thank you to all you guys.

464
01:35:41,400 --> 01:35:42,500
You guys did awesome this season.

465
01:35:43,300 --> 01:35:44,660
And thank you to the parents.

466
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:46,160
You guys are awesome.

467
01:35:46,660 --> 01:35:48,280
We could not do this without you guys.

468
01:35:48,860 --> 01:35:51,520
And our coaches, some of us are in blue.

469
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,020
Some of us were in yellow shirts here today.

470
01:35:54,180 --> 01:35:57,500
But we have about 10 to 15 coaches on staff.

471
01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:01,600
Coach Freddie, he's sitting right over there.

472
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:03,020
He's the assistant head coach.

473
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:04,600
And then our board.

474
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:06,920
Our board has been amazing for the last couple of years.

475
01:36:06,920 --> 01:36:09,560
and they've helped make this a success.

476
01:36:10,100 --> 01:36:13,700
So awesome job this year, guys, you guys did absolutely amazing.

477
01:36:13,960 --> 01:36:16,180
And thank you guys again for inviting us today.

478
01:36:16,200 --> 01:36:16,740
Thank you, Evan.

479
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:17,300
Great job.

480
01:36:17,400 --> 01:36:17,800
Outstanding.

481
01:36:24,140 --> 01:36:24,400
Okay.

482
01:36:25,780 --> 01:36:27,320
So we have certificates.

483
01:36:27,580 --> 01:36:30,420
I'm going to read one and I didn't pick this one.

484
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:31,640
Is Grant Aguilar here?

485
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:32,460
Yeah, Grant.

486
01:36:32,580 --> 01:36:33,160
All right, Grant.

487
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:34,200
This is your certificate.

488
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:35,240
Wait, just wait there.

489
01:36:36,100 --> 01:36:37,100
I'm going to read yours.

490
01:36:37,440 --> 01:36:38,200
All of yours.

491
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:39,660
Read the same way, okay?

492
01:36:41,060 --> 01:36:41,940
Grant Aguilar.

493
01:36:41,940 --> 01:36:51,360
And recognition of winning the 2026 Central Valley Recreational Swim League as a member of the Portavill Neptinites Recreational Swim team.

494
01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:57,380
This exceptional achievement reflects the team's dedication, discipline, and commitment to excellence.

495
01:36:57,760 --> 01:37:02,920
Bringing honor to the City of Portavill as set in a standard achievement for future generations.

496
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:08,720
The City Council commends you and your teammates for your hard work, sportsmanship, and

497
01:37:08,720 --> 01:37:17,740
an outstanding representation of the community by the City of Portugal on August 18, 2026, signed by myself, Mayor Greg Meister.

498
01:37:18,280 --> 01:37:19,820
So congratulations to all of you.

499
01:37:26,930 --> 01:37:34,450
Okay, so the council's going to come down and we're going to bring you guys some challenge coins, and then coach, you're going to get the certificates, you can hand those out.

500
01:37:34,790 --> 01:37:35,610
Perfect, thank you.

501
01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:47,960
You know, if you're parents, if you're parents, if you guys want to be in the picture, you could come up here and stand in the back.

502
01:39:53,880 --> 01:39:56,320
Don't be shy, come on up.

503
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:06,760
This reminds me of a swan meet.

504
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:08,880
Okay,

505
01:40:39,250 --> 01:40:43,090
everybody look over there. Say nip tonight.

506
01:40:47,460 --> 01:40:48,160
That's good.

507
01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:48,260
Good.

508
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:53,140
Wow, there's a lot of cameras out there. Yeah.

509
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:56,300
One, two, three.

510
01:40:57,180 --> 01:40:58,060
Meptin' nights.

511
01:41:00,900 --> 01:41:02,040
I don't know which one to look at.

512
01:41:03,180 --> 01:41:04,860
Okay, look at the center.

513
01:41:07,920 --> 01:41:08,760
Meptin' nights.

514
01:41:10,040 --> 01:41:13,180
Did we get everybody? One from the city. You got to get Eureka.

515
01:41:13,860 --> 01:41:16,540
You would think the portable recorder would take a picture of you.

516
01:41:16,740 --> 01:41:17,120
Thank

517
01:41:23,680 --> 01:41:26,440
you guys for everything.

518
01:41:26,440 --> 01:41:27,680
Thank you.

519
01:41:27,800 --> 01:41:33,180
I remember those days with the span of history, great job.

520
01:41:33,600 --> 01:41:34,300
All right.

521
01:41:34,540 --> 01:41:34,620
Out.

522
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:36,840
Future leaders.

523
01:41:37,840 --> 01:41:39,200
Everybody get a ball.

524
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:39,680
Welcome.

525
01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:40,560
You guys take care.

526
01:41:40,680 --> 01:41:41,480
Keep working hard.

527
01:41:45,140 --> 01:41:45,980
Oh, thank you.

528
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:46,480
Thank you.

529
01:41:46,520 --> 01:41:47,160
Have a great job.

530
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:47,660
Thank you.

531
01:41:47,940 --> 01:41:48,280
Great job.

532
01:41:51,200 --> 01:41:52,100
Thank you.

533
01:41:52,740 --> 01:41:53,300
Thank you.

534
01:41:53,900 --> 01:41:54,240
Thank you.

535
01:41:55,020 --> 01:41:56,060
Hey coach.

536
01:41:56,460 --> 01:41:59,140
If anybody, oh, you've got some extra clients.

537
01:41:59,360 --> 01:41:59,960
Do you have them next?

538
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:03,760
Yeah, but I've got, if we're here, if not,

539
01:42:04,020 --> 01:42:05,940
reach back out to us and we'll make sure we're good.

540
01:42:06,540 --> 01:42:07,460
Don't leave any kids out.

541
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:09,320
Thank you.

542
01:42:14,100 --> 01:42:14,700
It was fun.

543
01:42:15,340 --> 01:42:16,380
The biggest one yet.

544
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:19,340
Now, before we get our ass kicked, that was fun.

545
01:42:41,020 --> 01:42:41,880
Great job, man.

546
01:42:42,420 --> 01:42:42,940
It's true, man.

547
01:42:43,480 --> 01:42:44,040
That's fun.

548
01:43:01,820 --> 01:43:02,300
Well,

549
01:43:11,270 --> 01:43:15,370
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get better than that, it just doesn't.

550
01:43:18,930 --> 01:43:24,690
It really is a great privilege to honor these kids in the hard work they do.

551
01:43:59,440 --> 01:43:59,920
Okay,

552
01:44:02,270 --> 01:44:04,390
we're going to move on to oral communication.

553
01:44:06,820 --> 01:44:11,880
This is the opportunity to address the council of any matter of interest whether on the agenda

554
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:16,720
or not, please address all items not scheduled for public hearings at this time unless additional

555
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:20,540
time is authorized by the council, each speaker shall be limited to three minutes.

556
01:44:21,120 --> 01:44:25,220
The total time for public comment shall not exceed one hour.

557
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:28,740
If you'd like to come forward, please come forward at this time.

558
01:44:39,270 --> 01:44:41,370
Okay, two seconds, all of a sudden I'm on file.

559
01:44:41,850 --> 01:44:46,670
I want to bring to your attention the street light on West Olive.

560
01:44:47,750 --> 01:44:49,110
Olive and Porter.

561
01:44:49,730 --> 01:44:55,850
If you are on olive and you're traveling east, the red, the yellow and the green are

562
01:44:55,850 --> 01:44:59,970
are so faded and it's been that way for quite some time that you cannot see.

563
01:45:00,920 --> 01:45:06,520
So that's a big issue. It's been that way for quite some time, and I just want to bring that up to you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

564
01:45:13,290 --> 01:45:36,170
Members of the council. There comes a point when silence is no longer neutrality. Can you state your name for the record, please? No. There comes a point when silence is no longer neutrality. Silence becomes a choice. And when racism and xenophobia are being expressed in our community, particularly by people who openly identify themselves as supporters of

565
01:45:36,170 --> 01:45:40,790
members of this council, the people of Portoville have a right to know where each of you stands.

566
01:45:41,370 --> 01:45:46,430
Let me be very clear, you are not responsible for every word spoken by every person who

567
01:45:46,430 --> 01:45:51,170
supports you, but you are responsible for your own response when those words cross the

568
01:45:51,170 --> 01:45:56,690
line into racism, xenophobia, or the demeaning of people because of where they came from,

569
01:45:57,090 --> 01:46:00,310
what they look like, or whether someone thinks they are American enough.

570
01:46:00,970 --> 01:46:02,250
And silence is a response.

571
01:46:02,250 --> 01:46:09,910
So, tonight, I am not asking this council collectively to hide behind a generic statement about kindness or civility.

572
01:46:10,310 --> 01:46:15,470
I am asking each council member individually to denounce racism and xenophobia.

573
01:46:16,070 --> 01:46:22,150
Not someday, not privately, not through a carefully worded statement that condemns hate on all sides.

574
01:46:22,550 --> 01:46:28,390
Say it plainly. Racism is wrong, xenophobia is wrong, and neither is welcome in Porterville.

575
01:46:28,390 --> 01:46:33,410
And if that behavior comes from someone who voted for you, supported your campaign,

576
01:46:33,870 --> 01:46:38,490
stood beside you or shares your politics, it should be just as easy to condemn.

577
01:46:39,090 --> 01:46:41,290
In fact, that is when leadership matters most.

578
01:46:41,810 --> 01:46:43,390
Porterville belongs to all of us.

579
01:46:43,490 --> 01:46:48,030
It belongs to the families who have lived here for generations and the families who have arrived recently.

580
01:46:48,650 --> 01:46:54,310
It belongs to people whose first language is English and those whose first language is Spanish or something else.

581
01:46:54,310 --> 01:46:59,030
It belongs to people of every race, ethnicity, religion, and political belief.

582
01:46:59,430 --> 01:47:04,210
No political faction gets to decide who is sufficiently American to belong here.

583
01:47:04,870 --> 01:47:10,630
And no elected official should allow supporters to believe that racism or xenophobia is tolerated

584
01:47:11,190 --> 01:47:13,810
simply because those supporters are politically useful.

585
01:47:14,470 --> 01:47:18,190
You were not elected only to represent the people wearing your campaign signs.

586
01:47:18,190 --> 01:47:21,450
You represent the people being targeted by these words too.

587
01:47:21,450 --> 01:47:25,310
So I'm asking each one of you to answer a very simple question.

588
01:47:25,950 --> 01:47:31,990
Do you unequivocally condemn racism, and xenophobia, and port devil, including when it comes

589
01:47:31,990 --> 01:47:33,090
from your own supporters?

590
01:47:33,630 --> 01:47:38,710
There should be no hesitation in answering that question, because leadership isn't demonstrated

591
01:47:38,710 --> 01:47:40,970
by condemning your political opponents.

592
01:47:41,550 --> 01:47:45,450
Leadership is demonstrated when you are willing to look at the people standing beside you

593
01:47:45,450 --> 01:47:50,410
and say, this is wrong, you do not speak for me, and this is not who port devil is.

594
01:47:50,410 --> 01:47:59,430
Tonight, during your public comment time, every member of this council has an opportunity to say that and every member of this council should.

595
01:48:09,420 --> 01:48:18,900
Good afternoon, my name is Gavin Lembrina Blackwell, and I am here on my third attempt to convince the Portable City Council to disband a contract with flock.

596
01:48:18,900 --> 01:48:32,000
In October 4th, 2025, a woman in Florida named Lindsey Brook, Isaacs, discovered that her car was flagged in a hit end run that involved the deaths of three people.

597
01:48:33,140 --> 01:48:43,800
She spent 13 years in jail facing eight felony charges, and they were barely able to say that they didn't have enough evidence to convict her.

598
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:48,940
What is this? Guilty until proven innocent? Are we seriously going to continue to use

599
01:48:48,940 --> 01:49:03,480
flock when they have demonstrated that they have demonstrated that they do not work as

600
01:49:03,480 --> 01:49:08,100
they should? There have been mistakes that have been made and since it's an AI there's

601
01:49:08,100 --> 01:49:09,940
no one that can really be blamed.

602
01:49:12,240 --> 01:49:14,820
The decision for surveillance should be up to the people

603
01:49:14,820 --> 01:49:16,600
for it is them who lose their privacy.

604
01:49:18,420 --> 01:49:25,240
Another thing I want to bring up, there is a crosswalk that is currently not in use

605
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:29,200
on Morton, and it connects a trail that is paved.

606
01:49:31,260 --> 01:49:37,340
One night I was right there, I wasn't going to cross with someone stopped for me, and I

607
01:49:37,340 --> 01:49:39,620
decided, hey, they're being nice, I'm going to cross.

608
01:49:40,280 --> 01:49:44,160
And so I have my phone out since it's dark, and I have the light on, shining it so people

609
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:48,780
can see me. I walk past the first car and I hear the screech of tires. I look to my right

610
01:49:48,780 --> 01:49:49,960
and it's a police officer.

611
01:49:52,220 --> 01:49:55,800
Personally, I don't have any quarrels with the police. I just wish

612
01:49:55,800 --> 01:50:01,960
maybe it would take better care because there are a lot of people, a lot of kids who like to

613
01:50:01,960 --> 01:50:07,800
bike at night and it's pretty much the culture nowadays for them. And so what if there was a kid

614
01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:10,240
who was biking, being dumb, and the officer hit him?

615
01:50:13,250 --> 01:50:16,230
My last and final thing to address,

616
01:50:16,230 --> 01:50:21,430
There is a crosswalk on Maine and Henderson.

617
01:50:21,850 --> 01:50:23,610
It's right next to the old statue.

618
01:50:24,030 --> 01:50:29,890
I am not a slow walker, I press the thing to get the sign and be able to walk and I can't make it.

619
01:50:30,490 --> 01:50:33,610
What if someone elderly was there and they tried to cross?

620
01:50:34,670 --> 01:50:38,810
What if they couldn't and it stopped right there and there were people honking at them?

621
01:50:39,830 --> 01:50:40,070
I mean,

622
01:50:44,010 --> 01:50:45,550
please look into that.

623
01:50:45,550 --> 01:50:53,290
And for the crosswalk that doesn't work on Morton, at least put up a sign that says it's not an use so that people don't accidentally use it.

624
01:50:53,530 --> 01:50:54,190
Thank you for your time.

625
01:50:54,410 --> 01:50:55,170
Thank you, Mr. Morton.

626
01:51:06,750 --> 01:51:07,810
My name is Jacob Walker.

627
01:51:08,950 --> 01:51:12,870
My stream, sorry, I'm meeting fell through, but I look forward to when we get to do that.

628
01:51:14,590 --> 01:51:21,250
First, McCurvy, you said at the end of the last meeting there's three Supreme Court cases that ruled ALPRs are constitutional.

629
01:51:21,850 --> 01:51:34,250
that's not true, some lower courts in Virginia have ruled them constitutional, and some of those have already been appealed by federal courts, the Supreme Court, the federal Supreme Court is not ruled on ALPRs.

630
01:51:36,250 --> 01:51:40,470
We're having this debate in real time all across the country, the verdict is still out.

631
01:51:42,050 --> 01:51:50,210
It was said at the last meeting that we don't share data with federal agencies, but we do share data with over 320 organizations across California,

632
01:51:50,210 --> 01:51:57,090
including still to this day, Elkahone, which is currently being sued for sharing their data illegally with federal agencies.

633
01:51:57,450 --> 01:51:59,910
Who knows how many more of these organizations do the same?

634
01:52:00,430 --> 01:52:06,530
I trust our officers, but I don't know that I could trust 320 agencies across the state.

635
01:52:07,750 --> 01:52:13,950
If the moral, constitutional, legal, and anecdotal arguments for these cameras aren't enough, then what will be?

636
01:52:14,170 --> 01:52:18,390
If every other city in the country cancels their contracts, because flock lied to them.

637
01:52:18,390 --> 01:52:22,150
As is the case in nearly a hundred cities who have canceled.

638
01:52:23,030 --> 01:52:28,110
Would you still hang on to the system because you haven't seen it misused with your own two eyes?

639
01:52:30,030 --> 01:52:42,550
Because I can tell you all with confidence that your eyes see no greater truth and your minds make no better argument than the tens if not hundreds of thousands of citizens who are aware of these cameras and know what they mean for their individual liberties.

640
01:52:43,350 --> 01:52:47,330
I understand that these cameras help solve crimes, but they do not prevent them.

641
01:52:47,930 --> 01:52:51,510
There are many things you can focus on that prevent crime altogether.

642
01:52:52,290 --> 01:52:57,010
Starting with the literacy rate crisis we have, these kids can't read.

643
01:52:57,470 --> 01:52:59,490
It's a big issue going on right now.

644
01:52:59,810 --> 01:53:05,550
And studies show two thirds of students who cannot read proficiently by fourth grade will eventually end up incarcerated.

645
01:53:06,010 --> 01:53:08,410
That's from the national assessment of adult literacy.

646
01:53:09,130 --> 01:53:11,610
So you can check that out because it does seem like a big number.

647
01:53:12,350 --> 01:53:17,130
Big brother and sister programs show reduction in youth delinquencies by 30%.

648
01:53:17,130 --> 01:53:25,390
The list goes on, all of these things not only benefit us because we are safer as a result, but they lead to huge economic productivity results.

649
01:53:26,030 --> 01:53:34,850
It's more financially sensible than giving $240,000 to a company that calls its critics domestic terrorists, uses these cameras,

650
01:53:34,850 --> 01:53:43,470
Whereas, uses cameras and kids' gymnastics rooms to pitch their surveillance capabilities and was funded by a company who aids in genocide.

651
01:53:44,750 --> 01:53:51,290
You guys do not work for the police, your job is not to make them more powerful, your job is to protect our rights as citizens.

652
01:53:51,810 --> 01:53:55,310
We are not governed by the demands and wants of the executive branch.

653
01:53:55,630 --> 01:54:03,750
We govern ourselves through you, our elected officials with the explicit purpose of maintaining our inalienable rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

654
01:54:03,750 --> 01:54:12,370
which last I checked does not involve using your power to aid in the fortification of an ever-growing, ever-more militarized police surveillance state.

655
01:54:12,490 --> 01:54:17,910
Thank you Mr. Miserable, and we are built upon technologies that undermine our liberties break by break.

656
01:54:27,620 --> 01:54:50,700
I'd recommend that you pull your latest Mission Impossible video off your Facebook page, unless you can show that you actually have contacted Sony USA at the right to use Mission Impossible theme, and also have model releases for all the kids in the video around the ship.

657
01:54:50,700 --> 01:54:56,040
If you don't have permission from those parents, that's actually considered trafficking.

658
01:54:56,800 --> 01:54:57,040
Thank you.

659
01:54:57,380 --> 01:54:58,020
Thank you, sir.

660
01:55:04,030 --> 01:55:06,070
And I will say my name, it's David Horowitz.

661
01:55:07,270 --> 01:55:11,090
So it's kind of interesting that one of the people that came up here talked about racism.

662
01:55:12,670 --> 01:55:18,170
And said that if there's anybody on the council who's people are being racist, they should

663
01:55:18,170 --> 01:55:25,050
deny them and give them a hard time and not want them to be part of their group anymore.

664
01:55:25,050 --> 01:55:33,010
So, if this be the case, I have a question, I was at a dinner not too long ago, that was hosted

665
01:55:33,010 --> 01:55:34,930
by a Mexican-American organization.

666
01:55:35,630 --> 01:55:41,410
And what they were sent was this, dear racist Mexicans, Latinos trying to be white.

667
01:55:42,010 --> 01:55:44,090
You don't like, they don't like you either.

668
01:55:44,290 --> 01:55:45,870
Pendejo, Joe, stupid.

669
01:55:46,510 --> 01:55:48,130
Well, let me tell you who sent that.

670
01:55:49,110 --> 01:55:50,070
It was a bell tram.

671
01:55:51,310 --> 01:55:56,190
So, you should probably deny your family as thinking like you.

672
01:55:56,630 --> 01:55:58,810
That's what this woman wants you to do, okay?

673
01:55:59,310 --> 01:56:01,470
Because to me, that's a pretty racist comment.

674
01:56:02,350 --> 01:56:09,330
You know, the people are allowed to hold political dinners, fundraisers for the people they want to support.

675
01:56:09,930 --> 01:56:15,110
But when another group wants to send out stuff like this, that to me is racism, right?

676
01:56:15,350 --> 01:56:16,050
It shouldn't be done.

677
01:56:16,050 --> 01:56:21,290
And another thing, as far as racism goes, and it was interesting of who was complaining

678
01:56:21,290 --> 01:56:26,730
about the racism, because I was here two weeks ago talking about the fact that I keep

679
01:56:26,730 --> 01:56:30,770
getting berated because I'm Jewish, and I'm getting a little tired of it.

680
01:56:31,850 --> 01:56:36,110
The funniest part about it, which wasn't funny at all, and I noticed the pink-aird lady's

681
01:56:36,110 --> 01:56:40,170
not here tonight, but a purple pink, whatever, she's crazy.

682
01:56:40,170 --> 01:56:46,910
I'm standing out in the foray, talking to Greg Sheldon, and this purple hair lady comes

683
01:56:46,910 --> 01:56:49,750
and starts braiding me for being Jewish and cussing me out.

684
01:56:50,350 --> 01:56:53,050
After I just talked about why are we doing this?

685
01:56:53,630 --> 01:56:57,730
So if you want to talk about racism, maybe you should talk with your own people about the

686
01:56:57,730 --> 01:57:02,510
racism that they're putting forward because we're getting tired of it.

687
01:57:02,870 --> 01:57:03,930
I'm getting tired of it.

688
01:57:04,430 --> 01:57:07,470
I don't need to be braided because of the way I was born.

689
01:57:07,950 --> 01:57:08,930
I was born Jewish.

690
01:57:08,930 --> 01:57:13,790
I can't change that, I don't want to change that, and I'm not going to change that.

691
01:57:14,530 --> 01:57:17,190
But I'm getting tired of being berated because I'm Jewish.

692
01:57:17,930 --> 01:57:22,630
So maybe the people on the left might want to try and be a little more civilized, because

693
01:57:22,630 --> 01:57:25,870
they want to have discussions, that's what we're all about, discussions.

694
01:57:26,470 --> 01:57:32,050
But to berate people for no reason, for being a Mexican that's in favor of certain Republicans,

695
01:57:32,490 --> 01:57:33,130
that's wrong.

696
01:57:33,610 --> 01:57:36,590
To berate me because I was born a Jew, that's wrong.

697
01:57:37,970 --> 01:57:41,030
So if you want to start, start in your own house.

698
01:57:41,490 --> 01:57:42,530
Thank you, Mr. Horowitz.

699
01:57:50,010 --> 01:57:58,310
Karen Anderson, so I just have a few thoughts on something that just came to mind not too long ago.

700
01:57:59,750 --> 01:58:05,390
When we were in school, all of us in school, we had at one point or another to participate in a group project.

701
01:58:05,990 --> 01:58:09,710
We're broken up into groups, three, four, five people in a group.

702
01:58:09,710 --> 01:58:16,630
could have been started like an elementary school, middle school, for sure, definitely high school.

703
01:58:17,770 --> 01:58:21,390
Often there was one person who would kind of take the lead.

704
01:58:22,110 --> 01:58:24,430
Others would not do much at all.

705
01:58:25,590 --> 01:58:30,130
Everybody would receive equal credit, which was not fair, wasn't right.

706
01:58:31,250 --> 01:58:34,970
This can transfer over to the workplace.

707
01:58:34,970 --> 01:58:43,230
There may be a project that whatever organization or company has, corporation, there's a project.

708
01:58:44,450 --> 01:58:47,290
Sometimes people take credit for things they didn't do.

709
01:58:48,730 --> 01:58:53,770
One of those things came up tonight in comments that Mayor Meister brought up previously.

710
01:58:54,810 --> 01:59:02,730
He mentioned that there were several miles of road work that were done that he was responsible for in the last four years.

711
01:59:02,730 --> 01:59:08,870
He hasn't been mayor for four years, he hasn't been on the council for four years, I don't believe.

712
01:59:09,290 --> 01:59:13,430
Maybe two years as a city council member and then two as mayor.

713
01:59:14,290 --> 01:59:19,830
But for him to take credit for all of the road work that's been done in the last four years.

714
01:59:20,170 --> 01:59:31,590
Is like a student or a person in a company that takes credit for the project that was started before they even came into position of power.

715
01:59:32,890 --> 01:59:41,250
sometimes plagiarism comes up that's another thing this can result in in

716
01:59:41,250 --> 01:59:47,990
unwarranted praise unwarranted attention it's not fair it's not right sooner

717
01:59:47,990 --> 01:59:53,930
later the light comes on the light is shown things are exposed the truth will

718
01:59:53,930 --> 01:59:58,660
eventually come out. Thank you. Thank you, Karen.

719
02:00:08,080 --> 02:00:38,060
Yes, I heard your opening speeches. You spent all of two hours with the driver and had an eye-opening experience. Well, that's an experience. You should have had long before you decided to try and outsource their jobs. It would have saved a whole lot of grief. And when you were done with your little joy, right? Mr. Meister, you didn't join their safety meeting. There was no safety meeting. There was a meeting which purposely excluded their superintendent and director that you and Mr. Tree arranged where you told them we were going to speak first and they could ask questions.

720
02:00:38,060 --> 02:00:46,680
questions later, you want better customer service, you want cleaner trucks, you want them to pick up the overload account and then get out and pick up the mess that's left.

721
02:00:47,200 --> 02:00:54,560
You want them to go ahead and work overtime to complete these tasks because Lord knows these guys have nothing better to do than clean up messes that they didn't make.

722
02:00:55,200 --> 02:01:04,400
Lord knows the director has better things to do than retrieving oversized TV box that someone was too lazy to haul the mile down the road to the recycling center.

723
02:01:04,400 --> 02:01:10,580
We also don't need to wait for the county nor do we need a partner with the county to reopen T-Pot Dome landfill.

724
02:01:11,060 --> 02:01:19,320
We have a transfer station at the corp yard that's fully permitted for up to 500 tons, trash, grain waste, recycling.

725
02:01:19,940 --> 02:01:23,780
And if you have questions about it, Mr. Revas, feel free to contact me, I'll let you know.

726
02:01:25,120 --> 02:01:32,520
You've then went so far as to tell them they needed to ask for a 401k plan during their next negotiation because purses so bad.

727
02:01:32,520 --> 02:01:37,080
and then you had the nerve to suggest that maybe their female superintendent was

728
02:01:37,080 --> 02:01:42,680
a diversity hire. No, it wasn't misunderstood and yes, it was most definitely

729
02:01:42,680 --> 02:01:48,100
heard correctly. As the former female superintendent, listen carefully so there's no

730
02:01:48,100 --> 02:01:53,080
misunderstanding because I can't say the exact two words I'd like to but one of

731
02:01:53,080 --> 02:01:57,660
them starts with an F and I'm sure you can figure out the rest and if all of that

732
02:01:57,660 --> 02:02:02,240
isn't enough, you go improve that that meeting was truly about. It was just another

733
02:02:02,240 --> 02:02:05,240
photo-op for your campaign posts on Facebook and TikTok.

734
02:02:05,740 --> 02:02:09,540
You posted that you wanted to thank those men for their hard work and you look forward

735
02:02:09,540 --> 02:02:13,900
to continuing to work alongside them and giving them the tools, staffing, and support

736
02:02:13,900 --> 02:02:14,480
they need.

737
02:02:14,880 --> 02:02:16,600
How disingenuous can you get?

738
02:02:17,180 --> 02:02:19,900
Where was that support when you were trying to get rid of them?

739
02:02:20,260 --> 02:02:24,360
Where was the thanks when you sat up there and publicly chastised them and told them to

740
02:02:24,360 --> 02:02:24,860
do better?

741
02:02:25,420 --> 02:02:26,840
Well, here's a thank you to you, too.

742
02:02:27,320 --> 02:02:31,380
Thank you for finally pulling your head out of your, well, you can figure that out, too.

743
02:02:31,380 --> 02:02:33,200
Thank you, Mr. Ferguson.

744
02:02:39,010 --> 02:02:40,910
Steve Kimbrough, I've been here before.

745
02:02:41,670 --> 02:02:44,530
What I want to do is address the flock stuff.

746
02:02:45,170 --> 02:02:49,570
We have people up here at this podium lie to you about the company.

747
02:02:50,150 --> 02:02:52,350
One, it was founded in 2017.

748
02:02:53,150 --> 02:02:58,570
So some of the dates and some of the stuff they give you is just made up.

749
02:02:59,230 --> 02:03:05,230
So what I would like you guys to do to kind of stop it is have the police chief bring in the person

750
02:03:05,230 --> 02:03:09,110
is responsible for the searches and tell you how it's used in this town.

751
02:03:09,630 --> 02:03:15,310
That will help a lot, that will educate you, and the citizenry of what this tool does

752
02:03:15,310 --> 02:03:19,390
for the city, and not just rumors of what people read on the web.

753
02:03:19,730 --> 02:03:20,030
Thank you.

754
02:03:20,250 --> 02:03:20,810
Thank you, sir.

755
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:29,100
Hi, my name is-

756
02:03:29,100 --> 02:03:29,520
City Clerk.

757
02:03:29,720 --> 02:03:30,200
Hold on, man.

758
02:03:30,580 --> 02:03:31,980
Is there anyone online?

759
02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:33,960
Are you on her?

760
02:03:34,360 --> 02:03:34,500
Okay.

761
02:03:34,780 --> 02:03:35,180
Go ahead, man.

762
02:03:35,760 --> 02:03:36,140
Alrighty.

763
02:03:36,340 --> 02:03:36,440
Hi.

764
02:03:36,540 --> 02:03:37,760
My name is Kalista Walker.

765
02:03:37,980 --> 02:03:39,700
My apologies if my voice is a little shaky.

766
02:03:39,700 --> 02:03:43,920
I think you don't love public speaking, but I'm here today as a proud member of Porteville.

767
02:03:44,420 --> 02:03:53,460
I love being a constituent here, I love working here, and I think that what makes Porteville so different is we have a strong sense of community and we work hard.

768
02:03:53,920 --> 02:04:02,400
And I think that AI defeats the purpose of that, and you guys have heard it, I have a whole thing written down of why flock AI is bad.

769
02:04:02,880 --> 02:04:08,020
Even our AI posters, I think that we have such a community of small business owners,

770
02:04:08,360 --> 02:04:14,100
graders, artists, we could be using them, but we should also be using our own skills and

771
02:04:14,100 --> 02:04:21,600
our own power, rather than AI surveillance, but I'm actually going to forego what I wrote.

772
02:04:24,200 --> 02:04:29,580
I just hear this my first time getting to hear people, and there's a lot of anger, there's a lot of divide.

773
02:04:29,580 --> 02:04:35,400
we see it in Portaville and we see it across the country and we have a strong sense of community

774
02:04:36,220 --> 02:04:41,460
except for right now. We have a lot of angry people up here from both sides and I think that

775
02:04:41,980 --> 02:04:46,300
it's going to become a problem where you guys are getting just a lot of people who are very angry

776
02:04:46,820 --> 02:04:56,280
but no solutions. And I love our community but I hate to see it so ugly and divided. People are

777
02:04:56,280 --> 02:05:26,040
people are hurt and people are blaming each other, and I think that maybe as community what the gentleman right before me said when it comes to flock, I think that would be an amazing opportunity to clear things up because there's a lot of frustration with that itself but also there's such a divide in portable right now that I think there's a bigger problem I think we all need to come together because it's not about the right or the left and it's not about conspiracy theories, it's not about

778
02:05:26,040 --> 02:05:32,000
But having power over each other surveillance, it's about supporting each other.

779
02:05:32,460 --> 02:05:38,840
I think about if you do believe what would Jesus do, but Jesus helps their neighbor, they heal the sick, they help the poor.

780
02:05:39,740 --> 02:05:45,860
And I see a lot of just ugliness right now, and not a lot of, I think what we should be doing.

781
02:05:47,120 --> 02:05:51,060
Hopefully that made sense, I didn't follow a single thing I wrote, so thank you guys.

782
02:05:51,060 --> 02:05:51,180
Yes.

783
02:05:51,540 --> 02:05:52,380
Thank you.

784
02:05:56,910 --> 02:05:59,590
Hey guys, it's me Alexis, I still live here in Portivell.

785
02:06:00,570 --> 02:06:04,010
I just want to bring something here, attention, I don't have anything to complain about yet,

786
02:06:04,170 --> 02:06:10,090
but the county voted on data centers this morning and they put a 45 day moratorium on allowing

787
02:06:10,090 --> 02:06:16,790
any data centers to be built within the outer line communities of the county, however, that

788
02:06:16,790 --> 02:06:22,190
leaves opportunity for data center developments, developers to infiltrate into the cities to

789
02:06:22,190 --> 02:06:29,530
trying to get proposals into the city as well, the county decides what their regulations

790
02:06:29,530 --> 02:06:30,270
are going to be on it.

791
02:06:30,430 --> 02:06:35,070
However, the county has made it very, very clear that if any cities receive proposals

792
02:06:35,070 --> 02:06:40,870
that they will send letters of opposition to those proposals, they don't think any applications

793
02:06:40,870 --> 02:06:45,490
are in, but I did want to bring it to your attention because Portville has a ton of land to develop

794
02:06:45,490 --> 02:06:50,590
on in the outer skirts, so I would hate to see a data center come in and try and infiltrate

795
02:06:50,590 --> 02:06:54,690
on that land, just ahead of my good luck to me.

796
02:06:55,050 --> 02:06:55,150
Thanks guys.

797
02:06:55,210 --> 02:06:55,810
Thank you, Alexis.

798
02:07:07,640 --> 02:07:08,020
Hello, gentlemen.

799
02:07:08,380 --> 02:07:08,740
Taha Sully.

800
02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:09,440
I have just some file.

801
02:07:11,440 --> 02:07:13,060
I want to talk about some items on the agenda.

802
02:07:13,380 --> 02:07:13,920
Item number one.

803
02:07:14,180 --> 02:07:15,160
I see the accent standards.

804
02:07:15,620 --> 02:07:16,820
It looks like promising technology.

805
02:07:17,140 --> 02:07:21,080
I like the idea of early intervention and accountability side of it.

806
02:07:21,380 --> 02:07:25,100
I guess my question is, and this is probably going to be solved because I do read the agendas

807
02:07:25,100 --> 02:07:29,140
and sometimes there's a little bit left to be had as far as information.

808
02:07:29,700 --> 02:07:35,660
You know, what are we using now and how is this going to replace, and I know it's $73,000 worth.

809
02:07:35,660 --> 02:07:40,140
It doesn't sound like a lot of work five years of a still, it would be a very beneficial moving forward.

810
02:07:40,280 --> 02:07:42,320
I know I'm asking something from the chief of police.

811
02:07:42,980 --> 02:07:47,160
Just more information, just more information on what's going on with this on the agenda item.

812
02:07:47,780 --> 02:07:48,840
Number six, tort reform.

813
02:07:49,080 --> 02:07:50,420
I know there's an ask for us to join that.

814
02:07:50,880 --> 02:07:54,260
I had the opportunity of doing a risk management academy, so that one caught my eye.

815
02:07:54,260 --> 02:08:01,000
Okay, my understanding is this is trying to limit liability on cities for things that happen.

816
02:08:01,700 --> 02:08:08,480
I get that, but also I don't want this to turn to people getting hurt for things that they didn't do and not getting their fair shake.

817
02:08:08,800 --> 02:08:12,680
So maybe we'll just take a look at that and see exactly what they're asking for, what kind of reform.

818
02:08:13,340 --> 02:08:15,100
And what can we do to prevent losses ourselves?

819
02:08:15,300 --> 02:08:20,240
What can we do within our city government and promote safety and control the controllables is the thing I learned.

820
02:08:20,240 --> 02:08:25,280
And how can we have that within all our departments, safety minded person, how do we take care of our community?

821
02:08:26,140 --> 02:08:30,680
Number 13, I want to say welcome Brian, I'm glad to see somebody step forward to be a part of that committee.

822
02:08:30,840 --> 02:08:31,820
I'm excited about that.

823
02:08:32,700 --> 02:08:38,900
Number 14, I know we have an idea for communication specialists, I agree, we all can agree from the person who just spoke before us.

824
02:08:39,340 --> 02:08:42,660
We can do a better job of communicating, but this is another permanent position.

825
02:08:43,140 --> 02:08:49,460
And what's the real cost and benefits and the retirement package and I read in the report, this is something, but it's going to go through all departments.

826
02:08:49,460 --> 02:08:54,700
I know some departments already have their PR people, so that person's begun already consolidating.

827
02:08:55,400 --> 02:08:57,340
I know the city manager at one time talked about an app.

828
02:08:58,500 --> 02:09:05,180
The issue with the app was cost, but now this is a whole person, so that's a lot more so just taking about that with our budget situation.

829
02:09:06,420 --> 02:09:17,800
And lastly, number 19, this one really hits home, and that's where I dropped off with my letter, you know, a year ago I had a situation where I had a significant leak, I figured it out.

830
02:09:17,800 --> 02:09:24,460
I came to the city, asked for not just reimbursement for the water, but for the sewer rate because my water went into the ground, not into the sewer.

831
02:09:24,720 --> 02:09:31,520
Unfortunately, I got rejected, so I'm trying to figure out what changed, what was the sudden change of heart then now we're going to do this program.

832
02:09:32,200 --> 02:09:39,180
It's coming out of the water, I think the water enterprise, so we're all going to bear that.

833
02:09:39,280 --> 02:09:43,860
These $2,500 refunds, while we were given some money, some people were all going to bear that.

834
02:09:43,860 --> 02:09:51,360
And lastly, I'm really excited that we finally table the RFQ, but I would challenge you to go further and just kill it.

835
02:09:51,680 --> 02:09:55,960
We don't need to do it if we're going to support these people and we're going to commit to that.

836
02:09:56,520 --> 02:10:03,260
I feel like tableings like, all right, it's like an ultimatum and I don't think that's how you run a city organization of business by giving ultimatums.

837
02:10:03,700 --> 02:10:06,120
So, thank you for your time and have a great evening, gentlemen.

838
02:10:06,360 --> 02:10:07,240
Thank you, Mr. Saleh.

839
02:10:13,960 --> 02:10:15,040
Hi, good evening.

840
02:10:15,260 --> 02:10:16,880
My name is Jasmine Gutierrez.

841
02:10:17,100 --> 02:10:18,120
I'm a resident of Porterville.

842
02:10:18,260 --> 02:10:19,920
I'm a recent graduate from Fresno State.

843
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:22,380
And I'm taking time today to speak about the use

844
02:10:22,380 --> 02:10:23,240
of flock cameras.

845
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:25,420
Like many residents here, I was unaware

846
02:10:25,420 --> 02:10:27,220
that flock cameras had been installed,

847
02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:28,320
which should raise concern.

848
02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:31,640
Flot cameras are automated license plate readers.

849
02:10:32,100 --> 02:10:34,380
Flot cameras take pictures of any vehicle passing by

850
02:10:34,380 --> 02:10:36,440
with the driver unaware raising concerns about

851
02:10:36,440 --> 02:10:37,320
our civil liberties.

852
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:39,680
Flot cameras collect information like the

853
02:10:39,680 --> 02:10:41,740
make model and license plate of an individual's car,

854
02:10:41,740 --> 02:10:43,740
or as well as one's daily movements.

855
02:10:44,300 --> 02:10:45,700
Data collected from flock cameras

856
02:10:45,700 --> 02:10:48,220
is a contributor to a national network of surveillance tools.

857
02:10:48,680 --> 02:10:50,840
This information is collected and shared without a warrant.

858
02:10:51,460 --> 02:10:54,300
Law enforcement agencies with working flock contracts

859
02:10:54,960 --> 02:10:57,900
are allowed to access this data under their own discretion.

860
02:10:58,540 --> 02:11:00,520
The use of flock cameras should raise local concern

861
02:11:00,520 --> 02:11:01,900
as there isn't heavy regulation

862
02:11:01,900 --> 02:11:03,620
as to how the data may be used.

863
02:11:04,080 --> 02:11:05,880
Across the nation, there have been multiple cases

864
02:11:05,880 --> 02:11:08,420
of police officers stalking ex-partners

865
02:11:08,420 --> 02:11:11,400
using flock cameras or similar forms of ALPRs.

866
02:11:11,740 --> 02:11:17,180
Flock cameras invite and allow communities to be heavily policed, especially affecting black and brown communities.

867
02:11:17,780 --> 02:11:26,120
Civil rights groups have found flock cameras have in place in areas that are predominantly people of color and low income neighborhoods.

868
02:11:26,720 --> 02:11:30,940
Members of the community should have been allowed to join in the discussion of placing flock cameras in our city.

869
02:11:30,940 --> 02:11:33,880
I ask that the mayor and then the rest of the council council

870
02:11:33,880 --> 02:11:39,420
Portables contract with flock cameras and to not replace it with an alternate automatic license plate reader

871
02:11:39,420 --> 02:11:46,280
I ask that the city of portable also release the full flock safety contract including the cost covered by portable taxpayers

872
02:11:46,280 --> 02:11:48,520
Thank you. Thank you, ma'am

873
02:11:56,460 --> 02:12:01,940
For two years or more and you hear people coming up here talking about racism

874
02:12:02,780 --> 02:12:05,940
First time I saw racism face-to-face

875
02:12:07,120 --> 02:12:14,540
I'm not going to state my name, but it's when I came to the liberty of blessing meeting that y'all had, okay?

876
02:12:15,060 --> 02:12:18,000
First time, face to face with racism with you two.

877
02:12:19,400 --> 02:12:23,240
Second time, I said, let me come here and see if City Council is about.

878
02:12:24,540 --> 02:12:32,480
Hell, he reads off an email, a racist homophobic email, and you sit there and didn't do anything

879
02:12:32,480 --> 02:12:34,320
and he's shaking his head and smiling.

880
02:12:35,680 --> 02:12:37,580
You wonder why this city is divided?

881
02:12:38,020 --> 02:12:40,060
It's divided because of you up there.

882
02:12:41,460 --> 02:12:48,040
It's divided because of your racism, your homophobic and your sexism that you have here in

883
02:12:48,040 --> 02:12:48,640
this town.

884
02:12:49,280 --> 02:12:50,980
And you're the ones disparaging it.

885
02:12:51,720 --> 02:12:52,500
Thank you, sir.

886
02:12:54,940 --> 02:12:56,600
Okay, do we have anyone online?

887
02:12:58,000 --> 02:12:59,900
Okay, thank you.

888
02:12:59,960 --> 02:13:01,120
All right, moving on.

889
02:13:01,960 --> 02:13:03,680
Back to council comments.

890
02:13:04,880 --> 02:13:06,380
Councilman Beltran, do you have any comments?

891
02:13:08,860 --> 02:13:10,300
I'll start off on the lighter stuff there.

892
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:14,020
Thank you, those who brought the signal lights and crosswalk issues.

893
02:13:14,240 --> 02:13:15,780
That's exactly what we'd like to hear.

894
02:13:16,260 --> 02:13:17,980
There's an issue going on in the city.

895
02:13:17,980 --> 02:13:19,860
We'll try to thank you, Mr. Payne.

896
02:13:19,860 --> 02:13:23,940
He got the information and, you know, it will be addressed as soon as possible.

897
02:13:25,680 --> 02:13:34,640
Secondly, yeah, the talk about, I'm so thankful when I ran almost four years ago, I don't

898
02:13:34,640 --> 02:13:38,000
remember any of that stuff going on with the condemnation.

899
02:13:38,340 --> 02:13:44,800
I think at that time it was everybody respected each other, even though we may have disagreed

900
02:13:44,800 --> 02:13:51,540
at different things. Everybody was very respectful. It's not unique to Portaville, unfortunately,

901
02:13:51,840 --> 02:13:56,000
when we had the presidential elections. I mean, sometimes families were divided friends.

902
02:13:56,640 --> 02:14:02,520
Different things became between people. And I'm saddened to hear, you know, as unfortunately

903
02:14:02,520 --> 02:14:08,460
another election time comes, it brings out sometimes the worst in us. I don't know if that's

904
02:14:08,460 --> 02:14:13,480
just our nature as humans, you know. We have wounds that happen to us, and we don't know

905
02:14:13,480 --> 02:14:18,080
know how to deal with them and how to address them when we might misunderstand something

906
02:14:18,080 --> 02:14:19,400
that's happening around us.

907
02:14:22,320 --> 02:14:27,720
I do a lot of research on our community and most people probably know at one point

908
02:14:27,720 --> 02:14:32,040
that KKK marched down Main Street, that's how much of a life and well it was in our community.

909
02:14:32,720 --> 02:14:34,820
I believe it may have happened also in the 80s.

910
02:14:36,960 --> 02:14:40,820
My wife works in real estate, there were some homes when they were looking at the deeds,

911
02:14:40,820 --> 02:14:43,420
Hispanics weren't allowed to own homes in port about one point.

912
02:14:44,340 --> 02:14:48,140
Even soccer, it was not allowed in the area.

913
02:14:48,380 --> 02:14:50,700
Believe it or not, how interesting soccer wasn't allowed.

914
02:14:51,400 --> 02:14:55,060
They had to believe go to the county, I believe, to approve them to be able to play soccer.

915
02:14:55,960 --> 02:14:59,800
So unfortunately, there's some deep rooted, you know, I said wounds.

916
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:29,700
Eight different things that happen to people. I'm sorry to hear my last name attached to something that may have been said. It's unfortunate. I'm sure there's times in anger that I feel something, but I try to make sure when I do address somebody, I try not to do that. Doesn't mean I'm without fault. There might be something I said to somebody 20 years ago. But no, I condemn any hate, hateful speech, any hate in the heart. There's times when I get anger with things that I see or hear, but I just pray on it and meditate.

917
02:15:29,700 --> 02:15:32,600
and just say, you know what, who am I going to represent?

918
02:15:32,820 --> 02:15:36,120
What am I going to look like when I'm representing my family?

919
02:15:36,920 --> 02:15:39,900
And so, I will condemn anything that's said negatively

920
02:15:39,900 --> 02:15:40,820
about other people.

921
02:15:40,920 --> 02:15:41,880
We may not agree with them.

922
02:15:41,960 --> 02:15:43,020
We might not like what's happening,

923
02:15:43,520 --> 02:15:44,700
but there's a better way to do it.

924
02:15:44,840 --> 02:15:48,800
Do it with better speech, with love, and better ideas.

925
02:15:49,440 --> 02:15:50,860
That will ultimately win out.

926
02:15:51,060 --> 02:15:52,940
So, I'm sorry people are going through that,

927
02:15:53,540 --> 02:15:56,740
whether it's people stepping up to be leaders in the community

928
02:15:56,740 --> 02:15:59,420
or in the private lives, there's no place in that.

929
02:15:59,420 --> 02:16:01,040
You know, we're not going to grow as a society.

930
02:16:01,680 --> 02:16:05,600
You know, we see war, we see a lot of these different things that come from ultimately hate.

931
02:16:06,460 --> 02:16:11,360
And whether it's in the national level, world level, just here in our own backyard, let's do this to do better.

932
02:16:12,580 --> 02:16:13,900
Thank you, Councilman Beltrein.

933
02:16:14,020 --> 02:16:15,200
Councilman Green, do you have any comments?

934
02:16:17,750 --> 02:16:23,970
About the only thing I'd like to say is, is about the tribalism or polarization of the community.

935
02:16:24,170 --> 02:16:27,730
Well, it's not just the community, but thank you.

936
02:16:29,290 --> 02:16:29,770
Can

937
02:16:32,490 --> 02:16:34,290
you hold it for me, Mr. Nat?

938
02:16:34,670 --> 02:16:35,530
I appreciate that.

939
02:16:35,750 --> 02:16:36,290
Continue on.

940
02:16:37,210 --> 02:16:41,710
I think, you know, it takes two to be, it takes two to have polarization.

941
02:16:42,870 --> 02:16:44,450
I mean, people need to think about it.

942
02:16:44,710 --> 02:16:47,390
It's not just local.

943
02:16:47,610 --> 02:16:48,330
It's nationwide.

944
02:16:48,710 --> 02:16:49,270
It's worldwide.

945
02:16:49,830 --> 02:16:58,690
And it's when you pigeonhole people as racist, misogynist, homophobes.

946
02:16:58,690 --> 02:17:06,410
I don't really know of anybody, in my experience with everybody up here, I don't see that.

947
02:17:07,050 --> 02:17:18,690
But being polarized and having different, it takes two, it takes two sides to have a problem.

948
02:17:18,970 --> 02:17:20,330
That's all I'm going to say, thank you.

949
02:17:20,650 --> 02:17:21,090
Thank you.

950
02:17:21,390 --> 02:17:21,990
Councilman Green.

951
02:17:22,350 --> 02:17:24,230
Councilman Revis, do you have any comments?

952
02:17:30,150 --> 02:17:36,550
I think everybody, depending on what nationality you are, what race you are, what ethnic you are.

953
02:17:36,990 --> 02:17:38,910
Everybody's racist at one point or another.

954
02:17:39,410 --> 02:17:46,550
Could be your racist against homosexuality be racist because he has a long hair.

955
02:17:47,110 --> 02:17:48,010
Everybody's prejudiced.

956
02:17:48,610 --> 02:17:52,650
That's when you just need to control and how you're upbringing is.

957
02:17:52,650 --> 02:17:56,470
But anyway, I've been, I've experienced it all my life.

958
02:17:56,890 --> 02:18:05,050
I think everybody has, but I'm not gonna go back and entertain that type of rhetoric.

959
02:18:05,450 --> 02:18:10,070
I did just, I'm not because, you know, there's times where I've sat down with my mother

960
02:18:10,070 --> 02:18:14,370
and my grandfather, and they've told me the times of how they grew up.

961
02:18:14,850 --> 02:18:20,250
They couldn't speak, and every time they spoke a Spanish word, money was taken away from

962
02:18:20,250 --> 02:18:28,610
them and sometimes they weren't able to eat so don't you know unless you lived it you really don't

963
02:18:28,610 --> 02:18:33,690
know what you're talking about because there is a lot of racism in this country and I do know

964
02:18:33,690 --> 02:18:40,290
growing up KKK used to be here and they used to have their things out there and by the two core

965
02:18:40,290 --> 02:18:47,750
area and I know the Grand Wizard used to have an auto part store here and Lindsay used to back in the

966
02:18:47,750 --> 02:18:53,890
day in the city council, they would pretty much ensure that during their council meetings

967
02:18:53,890 --> 02:18:59,590
that they would not have the Hispanics or the minorities within the city limits.

968
02:19:00,370 --> 02:19:06,050
So it is here, it was here, and anybody can be racist, anybody.

969
02:19:06,470 --> 02:19:10,010
It doesn't matter who you are, male, female, it doesn't.

970
02:19:10,010 --> 02:19:19,490
So, let's just, but on the topic of accusing certain people of what, of some of my colleagues

971
02:19:19,490 --> 02:19:24,110
up here being raised, I haven't seen it, and if I, and I'm the kind of person that

972
02:19:24,110 --> 02:19:29,450
will tell them straight to their face, and if you don't believe me, you just don't know

973
02:19:29,450 --> 02:19:29,610
me.

974
02:19:30,770 --> 02:19:35,170
That's how I am, because I lived it 36 years inside prison.

975
02:19:35,170 --> 02:19:37,210
You want to know what racism is?

976
02:19:37,650 --> 02:19:40,430
It's in there because you don't have a choice.

977
02:19:41,690 --> 02:19:42,450
You don't.

978
02:19:43,370 --> 02:19:44,990
They tell you what to do.

979
02:19:46,410 --> 02:19:47,490
They tell you when to eat.

980
02:19:48,690 --> 02:19:51,230
They tell you when to sleep and how to say hello.

981
02:19:51,810 --> 02:19:53,450
And I'm talking about the convicts.

982
02:19:56,050 --> 02:19:58,590
You are already put in that category.

983
02:19:58,970 --> 02:19:59,990
You don't have a choice.

984
02:20:01,990 --> 02:20:03,870
Racism is a cesspool in there.

985
02:20:04,590 --> 02:20:06,630
A lot of hatred, a lot of evilness

986
02:20:06,630 --> 02:20:07,710
and a lot of predators.

987
02:20:09,210 --> 02:20:10,950
It's the worst of the worst.

988
02:20:12,810 --> 02:20:17,270
And so when I came out here, there is racism,

989
02:20:17,750 --> 02:20:19,970
but I don't entertain it, and I don't give it the time of day.

990
02:20:21,630 --> 02:20:25,770
I just wish him well, say a little prayer, and I'm on my way.

991
02:20:26,150 --> 02:20:29,570
Because if I feed into it, then I encourage it.

992
02:20:30,210 --> 02:20:31,170
I'm not going to do that.

993
02:20:32,070 --> 02:20:36,150
And I know these colleagues, their faith, religion, man,

994
02:20:36,150 --> 02:20:38,310
And all of them all the way down to Mr. Beltrein.

995
02:20:39,770 --> 02:20:45,490
It's unfortunate that there's a lot of hatred, a lot of anger in here, for some people.

996
02:20:45,830 --> 02:20:52,170
But we're just trying to fix something that has been an issue for too long.

997
02:20:52,870 --> 02:20:58,610
And I'm sorry that it's hitting home for some, but this is a business, and

998
02:20:58,610 --> 02:21:00,770
you have to treat it as a business like Mr.

999
02:21:00,890 --> 02:21:02,790
Taha Saleh, he should know what business is.

1000
02:21:02,790 --> 02:21:07,670
is, he should know because he runs a business.

1001
02:21:08,270 --> 02:21:10,810
He knows how to, you have to run it like a business.

1002
02:21:11,050 --> 02:21:12,470
So in regards to racism,

1003
02:21:15,240 --> 02:21:16,780
I've seen it, lived it.

1004
02:21:17,400 --> 02:21:18,520
I just don't entertain it.

1005
02:21:19,640 --> 02:21:21,140
So with that, I'll turn it over to you.

1006
02:21:22,100 --> 02:21:25,020
Thank you, Councilman Revis, vice-memory curry.

1007
02:21:26,100 --> 02:21:27,480
I just have a few comments.

1008
02:21:27,880 --> 02:21:32,400
The flock conversations continuing and for those that are new, we've been doing this for

1009
02:21:32,400 --> 02:21:40,660
a little bit. We did put a comprehensive article in the newspaper and we've been doing some follow up just to make sure to dispel any myths and rumors and conjecture.

1010
02:21:41,460 --> 02:21:53,840
And I'll just say this, we do have strict controls and audits in our city to make sure that the things that people have been talking about which are not happening here don't ever happen here.

1011
02:21:54,080 --> 02:21:57,440
So just want to set the record straight on that. Thank you guys for coming in.

1012
02:21:57,440 --> 02:22:02,780
There's a lot of concern about this everywhere, it's become a national conversation, and it's

1013
02:22:02,780 --> 02:22:06,000
good to have it here, and it's good to have it civilly, and just make sure that we're

1014
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:07,300
not talking past each other.

1015
02:22:08,040 --> 02:22:10,300
Thank you guys for coming in and sharing your concerns.

1016
02:22:11,480 --> 02:22:17,400
I put an article in the paper last week about racism, and got a lot of good conversations

1017
02:22:17,400 --> 02:22:18,200
about that.

1018
02:22:18,400 --> 02:22:23,700
So, it's a difficult conversation when you look at it because a lot of people will politicize

1019
02:22:23,700 --> 02:22:26,540
racism, and use it as a weapon.

1020
02:22:26,540 --> 02:22:29,600
And I think that we have to be careful when you look at history.

1021
02:22:29,860 --> 02:22:31,080
You can see how that can be done.

1022
02:22:32,480 --> 02:22:35,300
The good book teaches us a couple of things, right?

1023
02:22:35,860 --> 02:22:38,740
If you answer a fool's argument with a foolish argument,

1024
02:22:38,860 --> 02:22:39,740
you become a fool.

1025
02:22:40,500 --> 02:22:41,920
And so let's not do that.

1026
02:22:42,560 --> 02:22:44,800
And let's continue to be working towards unity

1027
02:22:44,800 --> 02:22:48,260
because those seeking division using those terminologies

1028
02:22:48,260 --> 02:22:52,760
and these politicized approaches using racism

1029
02:22:52,760 --> 02:22:55,760
to browbeat their enemies, it's not new.

1030
02:22:55,760 --> 02:22:58,120
This started in the early 1900s.

1031
02:22:58,520 --> 02:23:02,220
It's attributed to Leon Trotsky and the socialist organizations

1032
02:23:02,220 --> 02:23:03,320
in the Russian Revolution.

1033
02:23:04,000 --> 02:23:07,160
It's all documented, and they use it as a weapon.

1034
02:23:07,520 --> 02:23:09,320
But as far as this conversation,

1035
02:23:09,620 --> 02:23:10,720
I think it's a good conversation.

1036
02:23:11,140 --> 02:23:13,140
And firsthand, we've all experienced it.

1037
02:23:13,720 --> 02:23:15,660
So let's work together and make sure

1038
02:23:15,660 --> 02:23:18,460
that we're not doing that to each other with each other.

1039
02:23:18,640 --> 02:23:20,120
And if we see it, let's call it out.

1040
02:23:20,440 --> 02:23:22,200
But let's not go so far that we try

1041
02:23:22,200 --> 02:23:24,100
to diminish other people using those terms.

1042
02:23:24,100 --> 02:23:25,460
That's my comment.

1043
02:23:26,360 --> 02:23:26,820
Thank you, sir.

1044
02:23:27,500 --> 02:23:31,700
You know, just to clear some of the records on the, like the roads,

1045
02:23:32,340 --> 02:23:38,160
I absolutely was instrumental on the expansion of roads in the community.

1046
02:23:39,880 --> 02:23:41,940
Our streets department's doing the work.

1047
02:23:42,620 --> 02:23:45,080
Their management teams are putting together the plan.

1048
02:23:45,540 --> 02:23:51,840
But I was instrumental in moving funds to fund the 30-lane miles that we are doing now today.

1049
02:23:51,840 --> 02:23:56,980
a $3 million investment, so I just want to clear that for the record and I have been elected for four years.

1050
02:23:59,820 --> 02:24:02,060
Wendy Ferguson, she holds merit.

1051
02:24:02,540 --> 02:24:08,980
She's an ex-ployee of the city, she actually left the city to go to Viselia and she's correct.

1052
02:24:09,360 --> 02:24:14,780
She's obviously well connected still with the Refuse Department and I appreciate her clearing the record.

1053
02:24:14,980 --> 02:24:17,860
I did recommend to the staff, the drivers.

1054
02:24:17,860 --> 02:24:27,860
When they're coming and asking for raises and negotiations, I advise them to ask for a match on their 401K.

1055
02:24:28,260 --> 02:24:31,120
I think it's wise to invest in your future.

1056
02:24:31,840 --> 02:24:37,540
And so, you know, they make many ask and they never ask for a match on their 401K.

1057
02:24:37,700 --> 02:24:42,620
And that's something that I would like to support as a Mayor of Portable and maybe a future councilman.

1058
02:24:43,100 --> 02:24:51,060
And because I work for the state and there are people that retire from the state and still have to go back to work.

1059
02:24:51,720 --> 02:24:56,400
And so if they're putting in a 401k throughout their career, it gives them a buffer.

1060
02:24:57,040 --> 02:25:01,820
And so it's just the goal is just to take care of the sending employees at the end of the day.

1061
02:25:02,320 --> 02:25:04,420
And so I appreciate her bringing that to the table.

1062
02:25:05,180 --> 02:25:11,040
The talks of, you know, it should drop the name of the person, I'm not going to use it, but I don't even know her.

1063
02:25:11,040 --> 02:25:20,720
So to say that I said she's a DEI hire or she's not qualified for the job is a blatant lie and I want to clear that for the record as well.

1064
02:25:21,320 --> 02:25:26,280
Now this council led on killing any DEI style of hiring.

1065
02:25:27,240 --> 02:25:29,740
This council took it in closed session and we killed it.

1066
02:25:30,160 --> 02:25:32,500
So I just want to clear that for the record as well.

1067
02:25:32,640 --> 02:25:33,940
That's what I was talking to.

1068
02:25:36,260 --> 02:25:40,160
You know, this talk of racism, I'm not even going to feed into it.

1069
02:25:40,880 --> 02:25:45,760
It's laughable that the person that's come in here and called me a Nazi, a white nationalist,

1070
02:25:46,120 --> 02:25:49,360
all kinds of slanderous defamation.

1071
02:25:50,100 --> 02:25:57,540
And then once me to say something about it, no, I'm going to keep leading, by example, I'm

1072
02:25:57,540 --> 02:26:01,880
going to continue to do what's right for my community, I'm not going to play into these

1073
02:26:01,880 --> 02:26:07,980
politics of race, it doesn't, I care about merit, that's what I care about.

1074
02:26:08,380 --> 02:26:09,660
What do you bring to the table?

1075
02:26:09,780 --> 02:26:10,660
Are you a hard worker?

1076
02:26:11,340 --> 02:26:15,740
I don't care about genders or the color of your skin.

1077
02:26:16,560 --> 02:26:19,740
It's what do you bring to the table and I want the best person for the best job.

1078
02:26:20,240 --> 02:26:23,200
And that's what America is about, and that's what I support.

1079
02:26:23,820 --> 02:26:26,380
So with that, we will move on to the consent calendar.

1080
02:26:26,540 --> 02:26:30,340
All consent calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted in one motion.

1081
02:26:30,340 --> 02:26:59,380
there will be no separate discussion of these matters unless the request is made and which event the item will be removed from the consent calendar and all items removed from the consent calendar for further discussion will be heard at the end of schedule matters. I would like to poll agenda item number 14 this council have any other agenda items they like to see pulled number one please. So we have one 14 is there any others?

1082
02:27:01,800 --> 02:27:06,080
Okay, I'll make a motion one through 14 excluding one and 14.

1083
02:27:06,220 --> 02:27:06,760
I'll second.

1084
02:27:07,460 --> 02:27:09,780
Okay, we have a first and a second, we'll call for the vote.

1085
02:27:11,180 --> 02:27:13,180
If we are using our monitors, gentlemen,

1086
02:27:22,530 --> 02:27:23,650
passes 5-0.

1087
02:27:24,370 --> 02:27:29,250
Okay, moving on to our first public hearing in the night, city manager.

1088
02:27:29,790 --> 02:27:31,210
Thank you, Mayor and members of the council.

1089
02:27:31,610 --> 02:27:37,630
Our public hearing tonight is a conditional use permit, PRC, 2026-13-C for

1090
02:27:37,630 --> 02:27:40,670
or dead in saloon located at 1200 South Main Street.

1091
02:27:40,690 --> 02:27:42,990
I'm asked Director Dignum to provide the staff report.

1092
02:27:44,770 --> 02:27:47,430
Good evening, Mayor, members of Council.

1093
02:27:48,930 --> 02:27:51,230
Tonight's subject is the conditional use permit

1094
02:27:51,230 --> 02:27:53,710
for the dead in saloon at 1200 South Main Street.

1095
02:27:54,730 --> 02:27:56,910
The purpose of this item is to conduct a public hearing

1096
02:27:56,910 --> 02:27:58,550
and consider a conditional use permit

1097
02:27:58,550 --> 02:28:02,230
to allow the reopening of a previously operated bar tavern

1098
02:28:02,230 --> 02:28:04,570
within an existing commercial building

1099
02:28:04,910 --> 02:28:06,550
at 1200 South Main Street.

1100
02:28:06,550 --> 02:28:19,030
The applicant, Don Burns, on behalf of property owner Mike Colletto, proposes to reopen the previously operated Harleys Tavern under the business name, Dead and Saloon, at 1200 South Main Street.

1101
02:28:19,870 --> 02:28:34,410
Approval of the CUP with a lot of proposed tavern, use and support the applicant's acquisition of a state of California type 48 alcohol beverage control ABC license, which authorizes the onsite sale and

1102
02:28:34,410 --> 02:28:36,670
consumption of beer, wine and distilled spirits.

1103
02:28:37,690 --> 02:28:43,110
Based on the applicable ABC licensing threshold for the census tract, the proposed on sale license

1104
02:28:43,110 --> 02:28:48,050
would not result in an over-concentration of alcohol licenses within the census tract.

1105
02:28:48,870 --> 02:28:54,290
The subject property is located within the CR zone district, which has a general plan

1106
02:28:54,790 --> 02:29:00,670
land used designation of retail centers and allows bars and taverns subject to the approval

1107
02:29:00,670 --> 02:29:01,950
of a conditional use permit.

1108
02:29:02,810 --> 02:29:08,050
The Portavill Development Ordinance requires the City Council to make specific findings prior

1109
02:29:08,050 --> 02:29:10,630
to approving or modifying a conditional use permit.

1110
02:29:11,150 --> 02:29:15,370
Staff evaluated the proposed use and determined that the required findings can be made as

1111
02:29:15,370 --> 02:29:15,730
follows.

1112
02:29:16,390 --> 02:29:21,170
Number one, the proposed project advances the goals and objectives of the city and is consistent

1113
02:29:21,170 --> 02:29:24,570
with the policies of the general plan and other applicable plans.

1114
02:29:25,130 --> 02:29:29,770
The reopening of a tavern at 1200 South Main Street supports the following City of Portavill

1115
02:29:29,770 --> 02:29:37,410
general plan policies, ED-G-2 to retain, improve, and promote existing businesses in Portoville.

1116
02:29:38,110 --> 02:29:43,370
ED-G-5 retain existing local businesses and foster local startups.

1117
02:29:44,310 --> 02:29:51,430
LU-G-1 to promote a sustainable, balanced, land-use pattern that responds to the existing

1118
02:29:51,830 --> 02:29:58,330
and future needs of the city. There are no other applicable specific plans for the project location.

1119
02:29:58,330 --> 02:29:59,710
Number two.

1120
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:11,520
The location-size design and operating characteristics of the proposed project are consistent with the purposes of the district and conform with the general plan, development ordinance and other applicable plans adopted by the city council.

1121
02:30:13,950 --> 02:30:29,810
The CR zone district does allow bars and taverns subject to approval of the conditional use permit. The proposed project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act.

1122
02:30:31,890 --> 02:30:37,950
And based on the project application, applicable general plan and zoning requirements, departmental

1123
02:30:37,950 --> 02:30:42,210
review, and the findings described above, staff recommends approval of the conditional

1124
02:30:42,210 --> 02:30:46,890
use permit for the dead insolute at 1200 South Main Street, subject to the applicable conditions

1125
02:30:47,430 --> 02:30:48,210
of approval.

1126
02:30:48,770 --> 02:30:54,670
The recommendation is that the city council number one conduct a public hearing to receive

1127
02:30:54,670 --> 02:30:59,790
testimony regarding the proposed conditional use permit for the dead insolute at 1200 South

1128
02:30:59,790 --> 02:31:06,450
main street. And based on a procedural correction, staff is recommending that we continue the

1129
02:31:06,450 --> 02:31:09,230
hearing to the meeting of September 1st.

1130
02:31:11,190 --> 02:31:16,530
Okay. Okay, bringing it back to the council will open the public hearing. You heard that

1131
02:31:16,530 --> 02:31:22,910
we're going to prolong the public hearing to the next meeting. We'll open the public hearing

1132
02:31:22,910 --> 02:31:26,230
at this time. Does anyone have anything that they would like to say?

1133
02:31:28,400 --> 02:31:29,480
I'm not seeing anyone.

1134
02:31:29,480 --> 02:31:30,820
Is there anyone online for an amdou?

1135
02:31:32,440 --> 02:31:33,100
No, Your Honor.

1136
02:31:33,460 --> 02:31:34,960
Okay, we'll close the public hearing.

1137
02:31:35,400 --> 02:31:37,860
Actually, we're going to, are we keeping the public hearing open?

1138
02:31:37,860 --> 02:31:38,920
Oh, that's you are correct.

1139
02:31:39,060 --> 02:31:40,420
We'll keep the public hearing open.

1140
02:31:41,200 --> 02:31:43,760
We'll just amend that little shot there.

1141
02:31:44,540 --> 02:31:47,820
So, and we will, do we need to bring it back to council for comments?

1142
02:31:48,460 --> 02:31:50,440
Or we're prolonging it to the next meeting?

1143
02:31:51,060 --> 02:31:55,060
Well, first, I want to make it clear we're adjourning the public meeting to,

1144
02:31:55,560 --> 02:31:57,300
and we need to state the specific date.

1145
02:31:57,300 --> 02:31:59,600
I don't know if that was September 1st.

1146
02:31:59,600 --> 02:32:01,640
We're adjourning the meeting to September 1st.

1147
02:32:01,720 --> 02:32:03,560
But they don't have to re-notice who they've already noticed.

1148
02:32:03,880 --> 02:32:04,040
Okay.

1149
02:32:04,460 --> 02:32:08,060
And then you guys can discuss it, but I mean, it's not going to be appropriate.

1150
02:32:08,080 --> 02:32:09,060
This council have any comments?

1151
02:32:10,200 --> 02:32:12,900
We're not voting on this, so we'll see it September 1st.

1152
02:32:12,960 --> 02:32:15,040
Yeah, I just motion to go September 1st.

1153
02:32:15,700 --> 02:32:17,960
Do we need a motion that just carries on, right?

1154
02:32:18,780 --> 02:32:22,820
Yeah, I would motion to adjourn it to September 1st.

1155
02:32:22,840 --> 02:32:25,380
I second his motion, we'll call for the vote.

1156
02:32:25,380 --> 02:32:26,420
passes

1157
02:32:39,730 --> 02:32:45,570
5-0. Okay moving on to second reading agenda item 16.

1158
02:32:49,980 --> 02:32:52,300
Fern, were you going to read that one, of course?

1159
02:32:56,660 --> 02:32:58,700
Yes, I'm going to give you one moment.

1160
02:33:01,710 --> 02:33:06,990
The ordinance number 1934 in ordinance of the city council, the city of Portugal,

1161
02:33:07,590 --> 02:33:13,570
repealing and replacing sections 2-26.1 through 2-26.4 of chapter 2,

1162
02:33:13,570 --> 02:33:26,630
And adding sections 2-26.5 through 2-26.9 are the portable municipal code pertaining to code enforcement officers including the relocation of the code enforcement function to the building division within the planning and engineering department.

1163
02:33:27,030 --> 02:33:33,810
Staff's recommendation is that the city council gives second reading to ordinance number 1934 way further reading and a doubt set of ordinance.

1164
02:33:35,950 --> 02:33:38,230
Okay, do we, that's it, right?

1165
02:33:38,950 --> 02:33:40,170
Do you need to make a motion?

1166
02:33:40,450 --> 02:33:42,470
Okay, I'll make a motion to go with staff recommendation.

1167
02:33:42,470 --> 02:33:45,650
Okay, first and a second, we'll call for the vote.

1168
02:33:54,840 --> 02:33:58,180
Passes 50, okay, moving on, you need to read by title only?

1169
02:33:58,280 --> 02:33:58,640
Yes, Ron.

1170
02:33:59,000 --> 02:33:59,240
Go ahead.

1171
02:33:59,760 --> 02:34:16,300
Ordinance number 1934, an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Portivo, repealing and replacing sections 2-26.1 through 2-26.4 of Chapter 2, and adding sections 2-26.5 through 2-26.9 of the Portivo municipal code pertaining to code enforcement officer.

1172
02:34:16,300 --> 02:34:17,320
Thank you, sir.

1173
02:34:17,860 --> 02:34:20,960
Okay, moving on to the second reading, agenda item number 17.

1174
02:34:22,780 --> 02:34:24,900
I'll turn that over to Fernando again.

1175
02:34:25,580 --> 02:34:26,180
Yes, Your Honor.

1176
02:34:26,340 --> 02:34:33,620
We have agenda item number 17, an ordinance number 1935.

1177
02:34:33,640 --> 02:34:35,860
An ordinance of the City Council, the City of Portivo,

1178
02:34:36,040 --> 02:34:38,540
a meeting chapter 15 of the Portivo Municipal Court

1179
02:34:38,540 --> 02:34:41,040
pertained to business licenses, including the transfer

1180
02:34:41,040 --> 02:34:43,980
of administration of the city's business license program

1181
02:34:44,350 --> 02:34:46,020
to the planning and engineering department

1182
02:34:46,020 --> 02:34:49,960
and related administrative updates, staff's recommendations, that the City Council gives

1183
02:34:49,960 --> 02:34:53,920
second read into ordinance number 1935, way further reading and that said ordinance.

1184
02:34:54,640 --> 02:34:59,160
Okay, bringing it back to the Council, I'll make a motion to go with staff's recommendation.

1185
02:35:01,060 --> 02:35:01,620
Second.

1186
02:35:02,020 --> 02:35:04,500
Okay, we have a first and a second, Councilman Beltran.

1187
02:35:06,040 --> 02:35:13,260
It is a comment briefly, Director Dingham, you've got a plate full.

1188
02:35:14,660 --> 02:35:19,360
And being the Fire Marshal as well, now the Director for Planning and Engineering.

1189
02:35:19,880 --> 02:35:22,720
Great job, I know you're up for that task.

1190
02:35:24,640 --> 02:35:30,340
Just knowing that you're overseeing so much, I know I can overextend myself at times, thinking I'm capable.

1191
02:35:30,980 --> 02:35:35,120
I want to be that person that says, I know you're up for it.

1192
02:35:36,000 --> 02:35:41,380
I disagree with this just because I don't want to put more on your plate because you have so much going on.

1193
02:35:41,380 --> 02:35:49,220
As much as I respect and know your capabilities, I want to be that person that speaks into you said, I think you got your plate full.

1194
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:54,740
But anyhow, I love what you stepped up to do though, but I just want to make those comments.

1195
02:35:56,300 --> 02:35:59,440
Okay, we have a first and a second, we'll call for the vote.

1196
02:36:08,060 --> 02:36:11,760
Passes 4-1. Okay, moving on to schedule matter.

1197
02:36:12,340 --> 02:36:14,660
Yes, go ahead, re-by title only, sir.

1198
02:36:14,660 --> 02:36:18,280
ordinance number 1935 in the ordinance of the City Council of the City of Portugal,

1199
02:36:18,480 --> 02:36:21,900
a man in chapter 15 of the Portable Municipal Code, pertaining to business license.

1200
02:36:23,400 --> 02:36:29,740
Thank you, sir. Okay, moving on to schedule matters. Do we want to just do one, 14, 18 and 19?

1201
02:36:30,060 --> 02:36:32,960
Let's do it. Councilman Beltran, you pulled one. Go ahead, sir.

1202
02:36:35,220 --> 02:36:40,720
Yeah, thank you. It's a great product. I can see where it's get a really reduced staff time. It'd be efficient.

1203
02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:45,060
I really love what an overall package it does provide. I think it's going to be

1204
02:36:45,060 --> 02:36:46,620
very beneficial.

1205
02:36:47,380 --> 02:36:53,240
But my only concern was that kind of like the flock situation is, I saw in the agreement

1206
02:36:53,240 --> 02:36:59,900
that they are allowed to use the footage and they call it de-identifying so they'll

1207
02:36:59,900 --> 02:37:05,880
take away any insignia, names, identifiers to know what the videos are from for training

1208
02:37:05,880 --> 02:37:08,960
purposes and to make a better product.

1209
02:37:09,460 --> 02:37:14,420
And I had asked the city manager, we weren't really sure if there was a clause that we could

1210
02:37:14,420 --> 02:37:21,540
We just say, no, we still want the product, but we don't want you to use any of our things that are developed through our videos to be utilized in any train.

1211
02:37:21,680 --> 02:37:24,900
I didn't know if it was a clause that we can, or it's all or nothing, I guess.

1212
02:37:25,840 --> 02:37:43,020
Yeah, and maybe to that point, I shared the clause or the section with the agreement in front of if you have that section just so we could share it on the screen for the council and the public that council in Beltrein is brought up in.

1213
02:37:43,020 --> 02:37:52,000
So Megan, I know this is quick, but in your review, is there any concern with what Axon is asking for?

1214
02:37:53,500 --> 02:38:11,560
Yeah, the way I read this is that it's not really about them sharing it for training, it's more like if there's an issue and they need a troubleshoot it, that they have access to our content to make sure that they can accurately troubleshoot their system.

1215
02:38:12,640 --> 02:38:18,760
It specifically mentions performing troubleshooting diagnostic system monitoring, maintenance, and incident response.

1216
02:38:20,060 --> 02:38:26,420
Otherwise, the city retains all right, including intellectual property rights in the content.

1217
02:38:26,660 --> 02:38:30,860
So I personally am not concerned with the way the agreements are in.

1218
02:38:30,940 --> 02:38:37,200
But if there's another part that's raising a concern outside of that, I'd be willing to look at it.

1219
02:38:39,320 --> 02:38:41,280
I think I can clear this up for you.

1220
02:38:41,340 --> 02:38:49,820
It's a good question, so the cameras that are the footage that we retain in our axon database is evidence.

1221
02:38:50,540 --> 02:38:54,180
They are not allowed by law to possess or use that evidence.

1222
02:38:54,840 --> 02:38:59,960
There are occasions where, especially for axon standards, so

1223
02:38:59,960 --> 02:39:05,440
there's multiple axon products that the police department uses and law enforcement overall uses.

1224
02:39:05,440 --> 02:39:07,600
is, axon standards is very different.

1225
02:39:07,820 --> 02:39:12,420
It is for strictly for oversight, admin reviews,

1226
02:39:12,780 --> 02:39:16,940
internal affairs investigations, so anything that is pulled

1227
02:39:17,440 --> 02:39:22,600
from evidenceaxonevidence.com into axon standards

1228
02:39:22,800 --> 02:39:27,120
is used for the sole purpose of investigations

1229
02:39:27,120 --> 02:39:28,240
and accountability.

1230
02:39:29,640 --> 02:39:33,520
There are occasions where a police officer will do something

1231
02:39:33,520 --> 02:39:39,380
than really awesome, and they want to use it to train other law enforcement agencies

1232
02:39:39,380 --> 02:39:40,300
across the country.

1233
02:39:40,900 --> 02:39:44,520
In those instances where that might be useful, they would ask us.

1234
02:39:47,200 --> 02:39:48,460
Yeah, thank you for that clarification.

1235
02:39:48,720 --> 02:39:52,320
It might have just been me and all the stuff that I'm reading that I got these two as one.

1236
02:39:52,900 --> 02:39:54,540
And so thank you for putting this up there.

1237
02:39:54,680 --> 02:39:58,640
And this, mostly not just educate myself, but also the community what the questions about

1238
02:39:58,640 --> 02:39:59,700
how videos are used.

1239
02:40:00,140 --> 02:40:01,540
And so I love the product again.

1240
02:40:01,680 --> 02:40:04,940
It wasn't so much that I was against it, it's just to clarify so people understand.

1241
02:40:04,940 --> 02:40:07,840
And we do have a lot of good restrictions and oversight.

1242
02:40:08,100 --> 02:40:08,360
Thank you.

1243
02:40:08,780 --> 02:40:09,280
That's all mayor.

1244
02:40:09,600 --> 02:40:11,780
Okay, I'm going to make a motion to go with staff recommendation.

1245
02:40:12,420 --> 02:40:12,720
Second.

1246
02:40:13,180 --> 02:40:14,260
Okay, we have a first and second.

1247
02:40:14,420 --> 02:40:15,000
Is there any other comments?

1248
02:40:16,000 --> 02:40:16,120
No.

1249
02:40:16,460 --> 02:40:17,380
Okay, let's call for the vote.

1250
02:40:24,090 --> 02:40:27,470
Passes 5-0, okay, moving on to schedule matter number 14.

1251
02:40:28,250 --> 02:40:33,830
Mr. Tree, we had our city manager meeting yesterday or agenda briefing.

1252
02:40:34,570 --> 02:40:37,010
I voiced my concerns on the pay scale.

1253
02:40:37,730 --> 02:40:39,230
I'd like to bring it down.

1254
02:40:39,230 --> 02:40:50,170
I think we discussed the 210 level, I can't remember, I think it's 60 to 75,000 a year just for clarification.

1255
02:40:52,190 --> 02:40:54,970
I don't know if that's something we could pull up for colleagues.

1256
02:40:56,690 --> 02:41:06,390
We could pull up the pay and benefit plan, but I can tell you that the range 210 is the starting salary of $63,876.

1257
02:41:07,770 --> 02:41:14,570
with a five-step increase, which would cap out at 77,952.

1258
02:41:16,710 --> 02:41:22,690
We did some wage comparison to that point, the Tlaire County, their media specialists,

1259
02:41:22,890 --> 02:41:27,130
which is essentially doing the same function, is almost identical salary.

1260
02:41:28,050 --> 02:41:29,550
What you recommended or what I'm recommend?

1261
02:41:29,550 --> 02:41:30,670
What you're recommending, okay.

1262
02:41:30,670 --> 02:41:45,790
And then there are others, the city of Isaiah has a median communication specialist that's about $5,000 more, 67,000 starting out and then they have a manager at 102,000.

1263
02:41:45,930 --> 02:41:53,230
And the good thing about the step system is, if you do have someone that's highly qualified, maybe coming from the county.

1264
02:41:53,230 --> 02:42:03,550
They, you have the ability to end the discretion to identify the skills of that future employee and you can give them a higher step coming in.

1265
02:42:03,790 --> 02:42:12,110
So that would be my motion as to amend it to the 210 salary range, is there any other comments?

1266
02:42:17,800 --> 02:42:24,640
Yeah, similar, I didn't like the pay, I'm glad if we're entertaining this, it's brought down.

1267
02:42:25,120 --> 02:42:31,760
But even a comparison with a county in Visalia between not necessarily just their budgets alone are a lot larger than ours.

1268
02:42:31,760 --> 02:42:35,360
I think at least three times that the county's probably a billion dollars versus ours.

1269
02:42:36,360 --> 02:42:41,160
But then also just the size of the department's how much bigger they are.

1270
02:42:41,360 --> 02:42:43,460
So I don't like that apples to apples comparison.

1271
02:42:45,160 --> 02:42:52,360
But my recommendation was when I had my meeting yesterday as well was I think this might be something that could be also a part time basis.

1272
02:42:52,360 --> 02:42:56,100
So we're not looking at retirement and benefit taxes that can really,

1273
02:42:56,720 --> 02:43:00,840
now you're talking upwards of $100,000 for an employee to,

1274
02:43:01,700 --> 02:43:06,420
you know, I think information is important in nowadays.

1275
02:43:06,420 --> 02:43:10,040
There's so many avenues that people can get content.

1276
02:43:10,060 --> 02:43:15,700
And I know that's a part that we need to figure out on the backside as an organization.

1277
02:43:16,100 --> 02:43:19,320
Some departments have members that are better at it than others

1278
02:43:19,320 --> 02:43:22,240
or have personnel that have some time that they're able to.

1279
02:43:23,020 --> 02:43:26,660
So I get that that might be, I wanna say a weak link,

1280
02:43:26,780 --> 02:43:29,280
but a thing that we need to look at.

1281
02:43:29,460 --> 02:43:31,440
But at this price tag, I just don't,

1282
02:43:32,140 --> 02:43:34,800
I would more entertain a part-time job,

1283
02:43:35,300 --> 02:43:37,500
especially if we're gonna compare to the county and by cell,

1284
02:43:37,600 --> 02:43:39,440
they have a much bigger structure.

1285
02:43:40,280 --> 02:43:42,900
I mean, again, I think I'm more in the part-time range

1286
02:43:42,900 --> 02:43:45,460
of that would bring it around like 45,000.

1287
02:43:45,580 --> 02:43:48,280
Thank you for making your point, is there anything else?

1288
02:43:49,980 --> 02:43:54,440
Yeah, so you wanted it to be a part time you said it three times. So does

1289
02:43:54,440 --> 02:43:56,520
Council agreeing do you have any comments?

1290
02:43:59,100 --> 02:44:01,140
I'm just trying to wrap my head around it

1291
02:44:01,140 --> 02:44:05,320
but it seems like maybe at this point in time it seems to me to be kind of

1292
02:44:05,320 --> 02:44:09,600
prudent maybe to slow the truck down a little bit and really flesh this out a

1293
02:44:09,600 --> 02:44:16,540
little further and give it some more thought before we jump off the bridge into

1294
02:44:16,540 --> 02:44:21,960
the creek for now deep it is. That's what my recommendation is.

1295
02:44:22,080 --> 02:44:27,540
Okay, so you're recommending you don't want this position at all, we have a recommendation

1296
02:44:27,540 --> 02:44:33,520
of part time. I'm saying the salary range of 210, Councilman Revis, do you have any comments?

1297
02:44:41,340 --> 02:44:41,880
Well, since,

1298
02:44:45,460 --> 02:44:51,340
I mean, I think the city needs something like this. And I think we need a good

1299
02:44:51,340 --> 02:44:57,120
with a source for communication with the public.

1300
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:22,640
I like the idea of what Mr. Beltran said at part time, but I don't think that's going to bring anything in in that aspect with high cost of living and a few other things. I think if we have the budgetary to do it now, I think we should do it, but at a lower pay as what the mayor recommended.

1301
02:45:25,180 --> 02:45:29,520
It's up there, but I mean, we got to see what our options are.

1302
02:45:29,520 --> 02:45:37,320
but I support the, I think we need this, and I think that we need to move forward with this.

1303
02:45:37,520 --> 02:45:38,440
So with that, pass it on.

1304
02:45:38,580 --> 02:45:41,740
Thank you, Councilman Rivas, Vice Member Kirby, do you have any comments?

1305
02:45:45,720 --> 02:45:47,560
No, is there a second, AJ?

1306
02:45:48,860 --> 02:45:51,960
Yeah, I don't have any comments, I concur.

1307
02:45:52,620 --> 02:45:56,320
Yeah, and I'm still supporting my motion.

1308
02:45:56,320 --> 02:46:00,020
I think this is important to get the public outreach.

1309
02:46:00,020 --> 02:46:02,360
the town square is social media today.

1310
02:46:02,980 --> 02:46:06,180
Just posting in the port of a recorder is not sufficient.

1311
02:46:06,400 --> 02:46:15,220
We need to be showing what the city is doing to better the lives of the constituent supporter bill on the daily if we can pull it off.

1312
02:46:15,420 --> 02:46:17,560
So I think it's important.

1313
02:46:18,160 --> 02:46:21,300
I think this is a good wage in our community.

1314
02:46:21,900 --> 02:46:26,120
Maybe we are wanting a talented person and so this will bring that talent.

1315
02:46:26,620 --> 02:46:27,980
So we have a first and a second.

1316
02:46:28,160 --> 02:46:29,360
Let me say one more thing.

1317
02:46:30,020 --> 02:46:33,500
I want to make sure I want to make it clear, I'm not against the position.

1318
02:46:34,240 --> 02:46:44,040
I think more slow down a little bit because in part time, yeah, that sounds good, but I think you're going to have a hard time getting a qualified person for part time.

1319
02:46:44,780 --> 02:46:47,920
That's just probably not going to happen, so I just want to make it clear.

1320
02:46:48,080 --> 02:46:49,300
I do support the position.

1321
02:46:49,300 --> 02:46:51,160
I just think we have to think about it a little more.

1322
02:46:51,760 --> 02:46:54,360
Okay, so we have a first and a second.

1323
02:46:54,540 --> 02:46:55,400
We'll call for the vote.

1324
02:47:06,020 --> 02:47:07,540
I think you just click it.

1325
02:47:07,540 --> 02:47:09,280
No, just touch the, whatever other one you want.

1326
02:47:10,000 --> 02:47:10,320
Okay.

1327
02:47:11,860 --> 02:47:12,820
Pardon me.

1328
02:47:15,460 --> 02:47:16,840
Passes three, two.

1329
02:47:17,580 --> 02:47:21,160
Okay, moving on to schedule matter number 18, City Manager.

1330
02:47:21,960 --> 02:47:22,420
Thank you, Mayor.

1331
02:47:22,600 --> 02:47:29,240
This is for consideration of amendments to the city's entertainment zone back on March 17th.

1332
02:47:29,540 --> 02:47:34,620
The City Council adopted ordinance number 1930, amending chapter 15.2.

1333
02:47:34,620 --> 02:47:42,900
zero of the portal municipal code to establish the entertainment zone within the city ordinance number

1334
02:47:42,900 --> 02:47:48,560
1930 currently establishes two entertainment zones. The first zone is our downtown zone consisting

1335
02:47:48,560 --> 02:47:53,660
of Main Street between all of Avenue and Morton Avenue including adjacent sidewalks and public

1336
02:47:53,660 --> 02:47:59,380
right-of-ways. The second is our airport zone consisting of a designated public area consisting

1337
02:47:59,380 --> 02:48:29,360
consisting of designated public areas of the portable municipal airport on July 21st, the City Council of Discuss Entertainment Zone, the mayor made a motion to expand the entertainment zone to include the portable sports complex and Main Street parking lots, and also asked to review the existing wristband fee, and so we're bringing this item forward for further discussion regarding staff is looking for direction on

1338
02:48:29,360 --> 02:48:35,480
specific areas to expand to, including, it's already mentioned,

1339
02:48:36,260 --> 02:48:40,480
Main Street parking lots but also there's four complex, if Council would like,

1340
02:48:40,740 --> 02:48:44,720
any other areas as well as staff is looking for direction,

1341
02:48:45,100 --> 02:48:50,140
either to increase, decrease or keep the risk and fee the same.

1342
02:48:51,020 --> 02:48:57,640
Once staff gets direction, we would bring back the amended ordinance

1343
02:48:57,640 --> 02:49:01,700
for city council for the council's consideration.

1344
02:49:03,220 --> 02:49:04,840
Okay, thank you city manager.

1345
02:49:05,220 --> 02:49:06,800
And I'll go ahead and lead on this.

1346
02:49:06,900 --> 02:49:07,640
It was my motion.

1347
02:49:09,060 --> 02:49:11,700
You know, it was exciting to see the farmer's market

1348
02:49:11,700 --> 02:49:14,800
and this is where as we said, you know,

1349
02:49:15,120 --> 02:49:16,980
we don't want to close down Main Street

1350
02:49:16,980 --> 02:49:19,200
or certain streets, let's move it to the parking lot,

1351
02:49:19,300 --> 02:49:21,640
but we still want them to have access

1352
02:49:21,640 --> 02:49:25,260
to the entertainment zone or any kind of future group.

1353
02:49:26,260 --> 02:49:33,080
So what I would say with this motion is we encompass all live to Morton, third street to D street.

1354
02:49:33,380 --> 02:49:38,820
It creates a downtown entertainment zone that has our parking lots within it.

1355
02:49:39,580 --> 02:49:46,440
And then also with the expansion, I'd like to see this expansion out to the sports complex.

1356
02:49:47,360 --> 02:49:50,700
I know Vice Mayor had mentioned the fairgrounds.

1357
02:49:51,220 --> 02:49:54,040
We do not have jurisdiction over those fairgrounds.

1358
02:49:54,160 --> 02:49:57,900
They have their own board, it is their land, not our land.

1359
02:49:58,220 --> 02:50:09,160
And so I don't think we even have the ability to really that's their decision to make on how they want to run their facility out there.

1360
02:50:09,640 --> 02:50:14,660
But I think that the sports complex, if we can expand out to there, it creates the opportunity.

1361
02:50:14,660 --> 02:50:34,160
I mean, like I've said in the past for maybe Eagle Mountain because you know to do an outdoor concert or other venues, excuse me, or even possibly say like a Christian ban comes to town and the churches all gather together and have a Christian concert out in the park we create this atmosphere.

1362
02:50:34,440 --> 02:50:38,720
I'm not saying they're going to drink alcohol but creates an atmosphere where people could come together.

1363
02:50:38,720 --> 02:50:44,820
I think that the risk bands need to stay where they are.

1364
02:50:45,060 --> 02:50:46,400
That's my position right now.

1365
02:50:47,560 --> 02:50:49,840
I'll pass it off, vice mayor, do you have any comments?

1366
02:50:51,640 --> 02:50:54,100
No, I concur.

1367
02:50:55,100 --> 02:50:59,180
I think originally when we made the downtown entertainment zone,

1368
02:50:59,320 --> 02:51:00,520
we had not had an event.

1369
02:51:01,280 --> 02:51:02,960
And so now that we've had an event and we

1370
02:51:02,960 --> 02:51:07,520
see how that works, the $10 was definitely a challenge for

1371
02:51:07,520 --> 02:51:10,440
or someone because that's a barrier.

1372
02:51:11,580 --> 02:51:13,400
And there's been a lot of debate about that.

1373
02:51:13,540 --> 02:51:16,600
I think that the most important part of that debate for me

1374
02:51:16,600 --> 02:51:22,200
was when you use money, that's a contract.

1375
02:51:22,640 --> 02:51:24,420
So when you say, I'm going to pay 10 bucks,

1376
02:51:24,580 --> 02:51:26,260
I'm serious about following the rules.

1377
02:51:26,800 --> 02:51:30,280
And I like that because it's self-policing for the most part,

1378
02:51:30,440 --> 02:51:33,040
because folks that are going to participate in that

1379
02:51:33,040 --> 02:51:36,120
are going to have to put some money in the pot and say,

1380
02:51:36,120 --> 02:51:42,720
I'm signing up it could be done with five bucks and I think you know we could bring it back and look at that again

1381
02:51:42,720 --> 02:51:45,460
But I don't think it's a showstopper keeping it at 10

1382
02:51:45,460 --> 02:51:50,880
But it does put a lot of pressure on whoever's having the event to make sure that they design the event properly because

1383
02:51:51,720 --> 02:51:53,580
It could be a barrier to the event

1384
02:51:54,220 --> 02:52:00,320
But I think in the context of what we have done and what we're planning to do at the sports complex

1385
02:52:00,320 --> 02:52:04,800
I think it still makes sense at ten bucks. So I'm gonna stay there

1386
02:52:04,800 --> 02:52:23,380
I'm not moved yet, and I think the idea of expanding the, just I think what we're saying is we're just going to make the existing zone around Main Street bigger, but we still come back to the council and decide how big it is by each event.

1387
02:52:23,380 --> 02:52:31,260
So we're just we're casting a wider net to start now that we've seen the success and so if someone wants to have a

1388
02:52:32,760 --> 02:52:38,180
Smaller event that's it that's isolated to a parking lot or some then we can make it just that size

1389
02:52:38,180 --> 02:52:44,540
It'll be within the new boundaries, and so I like that too. I guess I didn't understand the

1390
02:52:46,880 --> 02:52:51,040
The fairgrounds properly. We don't want to have an entertainment zone in the parking lot, right?

1391
02:52:52,500 --> 02:53:01,200
So that was a faux pas, but I think this is a good move and it's adjusting it slightly, it's not a big adjustment and I think it expands it a little bit.

1392
02:53:01,640 --> 02:53:07,500
I'm hoping that we can have some events at the airport and at the sports complex, but it's going to take someone to lead them.

1393
02:53:08,160 --> 02:53:18,140
We are creating the conditions and I think that this opens it up for us to invite someone to have a farmer's market type thing or a downtown.

1394
02:53:18,480 --> 02:53:19,560
I think that's helpful.

1395
02:53:19,560 --> 02:53:28,120
So I am with the mayor on his comments and I concur for those reasons, so I go with the recommendations that the mayor made, was that it?

1396
02:53:28,740 --> 02:53:30,360
Yeah, that would be a motion, I like that.

1397
02:53:30,660 --> 02:53:32,360
Yeah, I will second that.

1398
02:53:32,640 --> 02:53:34,020
Okay, we have a first and a second.

1399
02:53:34,180 --> 02:53:35,740
Councilman Revis, do you have any comments?

1400
02:53:36,000 --> 02:53:36,520
No comments.

1401
02:53:36,820 --> 02:53:37,380
No comments?

1402
02:53:37,480 --> 02:53:38,040
Councilman Green?

1403
02:53:38,320 --> 02:53:38,700
No, sir.

1404
02:53:39,060 --> 02:53:39,760
Councilman Beltran.

1405
02:53:43,870 --> 02:53:47,490
I don't mind the expansion of the parking lot areas.

1406
02:53:47,490 --> 02:53:54,430
is more only concern would be if staff or the zoning department could look at if there's any

1407
02:53:55,310 --> 02:54:00,070
properties that may be problematic with having alcohol near them. I don't know if there's

1408
02:54:00,070 --> 02:54:04,070
anything like that, like a school because it'd be closed. I don't know if there's I'm not in that

1409
02:54:04,070 --> 02:54:09,390
world, so just making sure legally there's no conflicts with having alcohol around somebody. I

1410
02:54:09,390 --> 02:54:16,250
hate to do it if it was like a sober living place adjacent to something, but so Councilman Bell

1411
02:54:16,250 --> 02:54:21,430
I'll try and just interrupt you for a second, sorry, but it's going to come to the council.

1412
02:54:21,850 --> 02:54:25,230
So we'll have that ability to show discretion if something like that happens.

1413
02:54:25,550 --> 02:54:29,470
Yeah, just so people know that's my mind thought, I'm not just, you know,

1414
02:54:29,590 --> 02:54:33,690
rubber stamping things, I'm just kind of looking ahead to when these things do come before us.

1415
02:54:36,070 --> 02:54:41,270
I don't really care to expand it much further than that for now.

1416
02:54:41,270 --> 02:54:47,530
All of these my thought is because initially when the entertainment zone came to us was let's revitalize downtown.

1417
02:54:48,050 --> 02:54:54,390
The whole thing was that strived businesses downtown to get that businesses kind of influx of business,

1418
02:54:54,690 --> 02:54:58,510
get people re-acquainted with businesses that are downtown.

1419
02:54:59,590 --> 02:55:10,770
And so that's kind of, I see the bigger picture, but I guess I'm having trouble saying we had one event downtown now that spread this all over our community.

1420
02:55:10,770 --> 02:55:23,730
When the main focus was to bring people to downtown, I'm glad the fee is going to stay similarly sets the consensus is I believed you know $10 shouldn't be a barrier for something that's free that's mostly free

1421
02:55:23,730 --> 02:55:26,850
I guess if it's a concert those promoters may have a charge

1422
02:55:27,910 --> 02:55:34,370
But the other point of bringing it to downtown and having an entertainment zone was to create funds to then support

1423
02:55:35,530 --> 02:55:38,670
infrastructure or beautification projects in downtown Portaville.

1424
02:55:39,570 --> 02:55:44,290
So if we were going to look at lowering that rate, then we're just,

1425
02:55:44,690 --> 02:55:47,990
we're not going to raise any funds for what the purpose of this was.

1426
02:55:49,690 --> 02:55:54,050
So those are kind of my little bit of concerns of, we've only had one event and

1427
02:55:54,050 --> 02:55:55,710
now we're going to spread this a little bit further.

1428
02:55:56,330 --> 02:56:02,970
I don't see how if a big concert comes for some reason.

1429
02:56:02,970 --> 02:56:06,970
And I guess this is part of getting ahead of that.

1430
02:56:07,590 --> 02:56:15,110
But part of talking about the fee was there's a cost to these community events.

1431
02:56:16,130 --> 02:56:23,830
So I think the car show one since it was considered kind of a large event was roughly $10,000.

1432
02:56:25,030 --> 02:56:29,130
I don't think we recouped that kind of money and that's not in the intention.

1433
02:56:29,130 --> 02:56:33,590
But the more that we're expanding this to other areas,

1434
02:56:35,050 --> 02:56:37,510
there's already some comments about how much we're spending now.

1435
02:56:37,690 --> 02:56:41,170
What is it going to look like when this starts to happen?

1436
02:56:41,330 --> 02:56:44,110
So I'd like to get the farmer's markets going,

1437
02:56:44,130 --> 02:56:46,290
maybe more things geared towards downtown,

1438
02:56:46,290 --> 02:56:49,910
which that was kind of the whole point of this before we start expanding this.

1439
02:56:49,990 --> 02:56:54,190
I love the idea of the parking lots off of Main Street to the Mayor's comment.

1440
02:56:54,390 --> 02:56:55,770
I don't like shutting down Main Street.

1441
02:56:55,770 --> 02:57:13,090
So if D Street or Second Street could be used, I think that's awesome, but again, I don't like that we're going to maybe expand it further because we haven't shown the success yet from the first phase before we're looking at phase two or phase three.

1442
02:57:13,610 --> 02:57:17,710
I like to make sure that phase one worked out really well. So those are my comments.

1443
02:57:18,110 --> 02:57:20,630
Thank you, sir. We have a first and a second. We'll call for the vote.

1444
02:57:29,540 --> 02:57:31,740
Sorry, Your Honor, it's not working correctly.

1445
02:57:31,740 --> 02:57:32,800
Let's see a roll call.

1446
02:57:33,520 --> 02:57:34,580
Councillor Mareevis.

1447
02:57:34,680 --> 02:57:34,840
Aye.

1448
02:57:35,260 --> 02:57:35,920
Councillor Maree green.

1449
02:57:36,400 --> 02:57:36,600
Aye.

1450
02:57:36,900 --> 02:57:37,560
Councillor Beltrein.

1451
02:57:37,760 --> 02:57:37,920
No.

1452
02:57:38,400 --> 02:57:39,140
Vice Mayor McCurvy.

1453
02:57:39,300 --> 02:57:39,480
Aye.

1454
02:57:39,860 --> 02:57:40,280
Mayor Meister.

1455
02:57:40,620 --> 02:57:40,800
Aye.

1456
02:57:40,960 --> 02:57:41,760
Passes 4-1.

1457
02:57:42,420 --> 02:57:42,700
Okay.

1458
02:57:44,060 --> 02:57:46,180
Moving on to schedule matter number 19.

1459
02:57:46,720 --> 02:57:49,860
This is one that I, oh, go ahead, City Manager.

1460
02:57:50,360 --> 02:57:58,880
Definitely, Mayor, this is one that you requested back in July 21st, which is a consideration of a courtesy leak program for utility customers.

1461
02:57:58,880 --> 02:58:15,480
In response to the approved motion, staff to develop a proposed courtesy leak adjustment program for residential and commercial utility customers who experience unusually high water usage resulting from unintended verified leak.

1462
02:58:15,850 --> 02:58:25,540
The program is intended to provide limited financial relief while encouraging prompt repair of leaks and maintaining appropriate safeguards for the city's utility funds.

1463
02:58:25,540 --> 02:58:37,120
Under the proposed guidelines, the applicant must be the utility account holder of record and may receive no more than one courtesy leak adjustment during any two year period.

1464
02:58:37,580 --> 02:58:55,460
The leak must be repaired before the request is submitted and a completed request for review form with required supporting documentation must be submitted within 90 calendar days following the end of the billing period in which the unusually high water usage associated with the leak first appeared.

1465
02:58:55,460 --> 02:59:01,940
Customers must provide reasonable documentation demonstrating that the leak occurred and was repaired.

1466
02:59:02,640 --> 02:59:12,380
Supporting documentation may include invoices or receipts from a repair professional receipts for materials used in self-perform repair.

1467
02:59:13,020 --> 02:59:22,240
Photographs written documentation, describing the leak or other information determined appropriate by the city's utility billing supervisor.

1468
02:59:22,240 --> 02:59:52,220
The guidelines also require customers to take responsibility and time in the action after becoming aware of a potential leak, including when the city provides an automated or other leak notification because we don't have the smart meters installed throughout receipt of an automated notification is not required for eligibility and customers without a smart meter technology remain eligible under the same

1469
02:59:52,220 --> 02:59:59,100
program requirements. Eligible leaks generally include unintended water loss

1470
02:59:59,100 --> 02:59:59,860
resulting from

1471
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:29,980
We've broken or leaking water lines, failed plumbing fixtures, irrigation system leaks, underground service line leaks, or other verified water system failures, intentionally discretionary or avoidable water use, including filling your swimming pool, excessive irrigation of your lawn, or water intention left running, and water loss resulting from interference.

1472
03:00:29,980 --> 03:00:36,460
from a city-owned water system component such as our meter box or water meter is not eligible.

1473
03:00:37,960 --> 03:00:43,160
So we'll go into detail regarding the residential accounts and commercial accounts.

1474
03:00:43,420 --> 03:00:48,800
For residential, the qualifying residential accounts, the courtesy adjustment will apply to

1475
03:00:48,800 --> 03:00:52,780
eligible water consumption charges attributed to the verified leak.

1476
03:00:53,440 --> 03:00:57,680
No more uses will generally be established using the customer's usage for

1477
03:00:57,680 --> 03:01:00,640
the same billing month from the prior year.

1478
03:01:01,200 --> 03:01:07,480
If comparable prior year usage is unavailable, the utility billing supervisor may use available

1479
03:01:07,480 --> 03:01:13,180
historical consumption data or other reasonable and representative methodology.

1480
03:01:14,360 --> 03:01:21,080
Staff is proposing that the maximum total courtesy adjustment for a residential account is $500

1481
03:01:21,480 --> 03:01:23,700
per approved leak occurrence.

1482
03:01:23,700 --> 03:01:31,780
For commercial accounts, the courtesy adjustment will be calculated using the customer's normal

1483
03:01:31,780 --> 03:01:36,220
historical water usage under the proposed guidelines the adjustment applies to the

1484
03:01:36,220 --> 03:01:41,900
eligible water consumption charges attributed to the verified leak and sewer charges calculated

1485
03:01:41,900 --> 03:01:46,320
on the elevated water consumption resulting from the verified leak.

1486
03:01:47,200 --> 03:01:50,840
Same, still using the same historical information.

1487
03:01:51,220 --> 03:01:58,420
However, the maximum total courtesy adjustment for a commercial account is $2,000 per approved leak occurrence.

1488
03:01:59,360 --> 03:02:07,960
The draft program that was attached to the staff report also discusses in detail regarding the program administration and appeals.

1489
03:02:08,740 --> 03:02:15,520
For example, the utility billing supervisor will administer the program, review applications, verify billing.

1490
03:02:15,520 --> 03:02:20,720
in consumption, history, determine whether a reported condition qualifies as an eligible

1491
03:02:20,720 --> 03:02:27,360
leak and establish an alternative normal usage methodology when necessary.

1492
03:02:28,480 --> 03:02:34,300
A written determination, approving, denying or modifying a request will generally issue

1493
03:02:34,300 --> 03:02:40,420
within 30 days after receipt of a completed application and all required supporting documentation.

1494
03:02:41,780 --> 03:02:48,520
the applicant who disagrees with the utility billing supervisor determination may appeal to the city manager or

1495
03:02:48,520 --> 03:02:56,080
designate within 15 calendar days. The city manager will also issue a final written determination generally within 30

1496
03:02:56,080 --> 03:03:03,960
calendar days after receipt of the completed appeal. Staff is proposing that the program be effective on the date

1497
03:03:04,940 --> 03:03:17,120
Established by City Council and will apply only to eligible leaks moving forward during the billing periods ending on or after the effective date.

1498
03:03:17,560 --> 03:03:22,600
Currency leak adjustments approved under the program will be funded by the Water Enterprise Fund.

1499
03:03:23,080 --> 03:03:30,540
The proposed Currency leak adjustment program guidelines including the request for review form are attached for council consideration.

1500
03:03:30,540 --> 03:03:48,500
Staff's recommendation is that the city council won approve the courtesy league adjustment program and associate program guidelines as presented with any modifications directed by the city council and to authorize the city manager to take the administrative actions necessary to implement the program.

1501
03:03:49,020 --> 03:03:50,580
Staff is happy to answer any questions.

1502
03:03:51,040 --> 03:03:55,660
Thank you city manager and I think this is great work I appreciate it.

1503
03:03:55,660 --> 03:04:02,400
I couldn't really pick a part, it's kind of a learning thing as we go forward we may have

1504
03:04:02,400 --> 03:04:03,460
to make some adjustments.

1505
03:04:03,960 --> 03:04:11,820
Main reason why I requested this or made a motion for this, you know, we've seen residential

1506
03:04:11,820 --> 03:04:20,100
owners, we've seen commercial owners, we've seen churches come to the city in closed session

1507
03:04:20,420 --> 03:04:23,020
and the recommendation is always to decline.

1508
03:04:23,020 --> 03:04:32,820
And you fill for them because sometimes they don't know they even have a water leak and we're charging them for it.

1509
03:04:33,140 --> 03:04:49,200
And so I think this is a good way of showing some grace for our constituents and working with them to make sure that they fix their leaks, which are important, but also not over charging them on something that they didn't have a lot of control over.

1510
03:04:50,020 --> 03:04:52,720
Pass it off, Councilman Beltram, do you have any comments?

1511
03:04:54,240 --> 03:04:55,600
Councilman Green, do you have any comments?

1512
03:04:59,120 --> 03:04:59,920
I'm not sure.

1513
03:05:01,440 --> 03:05:02,980
Well, that's perfect, I can move.

1514
03:05:04,520 --> 03:05:18,700
I just think that, well, it's like just one question, like if, say I turn on my sprinklers in the back yard and you leave for the whole weekend and I come home and the next month I get a bill for $607 on my water bill and I go,

1515
03:05:18,700 --> 03:05:24,040
So, hokey smoke, well I'm going to apply for the first time lead thing.

1516
03:05:24,820 --> 03:05:31,460
So, how is that going to, how is that going to be to determine whether that's legit or

1517
03:05:31,460 --> 03:05:32,160
not legit?

1518
03:05:32,940 --> 03:05:34,400
Yeah, answer for that one.

1519
03:05:35,000 --> 03:05:35,980
Really good question.

1520
03:05:36,120 --> 03:05:44,220
The short answer is excessive watering of your lawn is not an eligible action under this

1521
03:05:44,220 --> 03:05:44,620
program.

1522
03:05:44,620 --> 03:05:52,200
You need to have a verified leak that is corrected by a licensed professional.

1523
03:05:52,480 --> 03:05:57,340
So there's a valve that was broken, right?

1524
03:05:57,720 --> 03:06:02,920
That could potentially be a situation where we could reimburse up to $500.

1525
03:06:03,940 --> 03:06:09,100
I recently had a broken valve in my backyard on woke up Sunday morning and

1526
03:06:09,100 --> 03:06:10,620
my whole backyard was flooded.

1527
03:06:10,620 --> 03:06:25,080
So that, but leaving on the sprinklers, no, but something that's broken, pictured, we can verify, and you have to call plumber out or someone else licensed or a professional to fix it.

1528
03:06:25,220 --> 03:06:27,760
Then yeah, you have the proper paperwork and we can proceed.

1529
03:06:28,160 --> 03:06:30,460
Thank you, City Manager, was that your only question?

1530
03:06:30,600 --> 03:06:30,720
That's good.

1531
03:06:31,340 --> 03:06:32,260
Council Member Revis.

1532
03:06:33,080 --> 03:06:35,540
Where was this program seven years ago?

1533
03:06:37,040 --> 03:06:49,800
because I a 30 yard roller dumped it on my, a roller on my driveway and you know

1534
03:06:49,800 --> 03:06:57,340
and then they land pretty rough. They do. Well when I turn on my sprinkler, the

1535
03:06:57,340 --> 03:07:01,100
corner wheel was about two feet from my sprinkler and it was under cement.

1536
03:07:04,880 --> 03:07:05,520
I

1537
03:07:05,520 --> 03:07:08,320
They're leaking I go what the heck it's going on

1538
03:07:09,200 --> 03:07:14,720
Well, the roller did it because of the vibration when he slammed it down. It was not intentional, but it happened

1539
03:07:15,440 --> 03:07:21,800
But other than that I wish it would be retroactive seven years. I way I can get my money back

1540
03:07:21,800 --> 03:07:27,440
But I'm not looking for that. I'm just I'm glad this is here for the people. I'm glad that it's a grace thing and

1541
03:07:28,200 --> 03:07:29,920
I mean, it's a good

1542
03:07:30,780 --> 03:07:33,840
It's a good thing that we're doing for the people because some people

1543
03:07:34,940 --> 03:07:38,260
residents they need, it's not their fault.

1544
03:07:38,800 --> 03:07:43,000
So I'm looking forward to seeing if we have to find two of some things.

1545
03:07:43,580 --> 03:07:48,180
Great, if not, I think I'm motioning to go forward with this, I like it.

1546
03:07:48,260 --> 03:07:51,540
Okay, we have a motion on the table and you're correct.

1547
03:07:51,740 --> 03:07:55,800
We don't want to go in the past and try to correct all the wrongs from the past.

1548
03:07:56,000 --> 03:07:58,160
We're looking at the future and trying to deal with it, right?

1549
03:07:58,260 --> 03:07:59,340
So I appreciate the comments.

1550
03:07:59,540 --> 03:08:00,680
We have a motion on the table.

1551
03:08:03,220 --> 03:08:10,500
I can think of four major in the last four years where it was thousands of dollars,

1552
03:08:10,740 --> 03:08:16,680
where it was below the pavement and you took a long time to find it and it impacts

1553
03:08:16,680 --> 03:08:21,500
a business and a family and so I think it's prudent.

1554
03:08:21,960 --> 03:08:28,080
It goes a little further than we would any of the other services because right now everything

1555
03:08:28,080 --> 03:08:29,420
I think stops at the curb, right?

1556
03:08:30,600 --> 03:08:33,060
So this is saying, you know, if this thing happens,

1557
03:08:33,060 --> 03:08:37,580
pass the curb and it's a legitimate under this criteria,

1558
03:08:37,580 --> 03:08:38,860
then we'll have some grace.

1559
03:08:39,180 --> 03:08:40,760
I think it's a prudent thing to do.

1560
03:08:40,960 --> 03:08:42,160
We've got to make sure it's not abused,

1561
03:08:43,020 --> 03:08:44,740
and we've got to be careful that, you know,

1562
03:08:44,820 --> 03:08:47,440
it really is helping the people that it's intended to help.

1563
03:08:47,540 --> 03:08:49,640
And I think those examples in my mind are those.

1564
03:08:50,900 --> 03:08:53,240
And I'm for this, but we've got to be careful

1565
03:08:53,240 --> 03:08:54,440
that we don't let it get abused.

1566
03:08:55,100 --> 03:08:59,600
And to that point, staff will be providing quarterly updates.

1567
03:09:00,000 --> 03:09:00,780
That's wonderful.

1568
03:09:01,400 --> 03:09:05,020
Okay, I'll second the motion, let's call for the vote.

1569
03:09:13,510 --> 03:09:15,850
Okay, pass it as four and one abstain.

1570
03:09:16,850 --> 03:09:24,510
All right, moving on to 1234 reports to the East Groundwater Sustainability Agency.

1571
03:09:24,790 --> 03:09:29,910
Now there's two of them, Mr. Mayor May, I'm just doing both at the same time where they've got them listed separately.

1572
03:09:29,910 --> 03:09:32,530
or throw that stone and kill two birds, sir.

1573
03:09:34,390 --> 03:09:50,050
Well, what I'm going to do here is just kind of give everybody an overview of the meeting or meetings and I want to bore you with a bunch of laborious information and I will give

1574
03:09:50,050 --> 03:09:56,750
of some places where you can go if you have any questions and want to learn more about

1575
03:09:56,750 --> 03:10:05,690
what the ETGSA or Tule East GSA is doing and what we're working at because I will tell

1576
03:10:05,690 --> 03:10:06,730
you before I get started.

1577
03:10:07,170 --> 03:10:14,010
The main thrust of both the Tule East and all the GSAs within the Tule subbasin at this moment

1578
03:10:14,010 --> 03:10:27,470
But is the laser focus on getting a GSA key plan to the state that will be accepted to mitigate subsidence along the Frank Kern Canal.

1579
03:10:27,990 --> 03:10:32,730
That's the main focus of all these agencies at the moment.

1580
03:10:32,890 --> 03:10:34,430
So I just leave you with that.

1581
03:10:34,610 --> 03:10:38,890
And on the August 5th meeting, it was called order at 9 AM in the morning.

1582
03:10:39,670 --> 03:10:42,490
In the meeting covered several key points.

1583
03:10:42,730 --> 03:10:46,590
Public comments were limited to three minutes when there were no public comments.

1584
03:10:47,290 --> 03:10:53,750
Robert Gould and Nicolai Morin from Ag Innovations introduced their facilitation support services.

1585
03:10:53,930 --> 03:10:57,150
And this is funded by the Department of Water Resources Grant.

1586
03:10:57,710 --> 03:11:07,310
The border proof, these people help facilitate all the other agencies in trying to keep everybody coordinated.

1587
03:11:07,310 --> 03:11:19,410
So, and the Board approved the July minutes, financial reports, and also the city employee benefits for the truly ESA staff.

1588
03:11:20,310 --> 03:11:29,170
Well registering and meeting and reporting policy was discussed with the focus on surface water prioritization and domestic well mitigation.

1589
03:11:30,930 --> 03:11:36,230
I mean, there's we're putting money, we have to put money back mandated by the state to

1590
03:11:36,230 --> 03:11:56,530
If there is a determined that a domestic well has been rendered without water that there is money in these mitigation domestic well mitigation funds to help take care of that to domestic well users.

1591
03:11:56,530 --> 03:12:23,930
The board also addressed the accelerator interim plan for the Tully sub-basin, emphasizing the need for a unified GSP plan, which is a ground water sustainability plan, and addressing subsidence issue, which I just mentioned about the front current canal meeting discussed the updated map of 78 zones and emphasizing the need for coordinated efforts to manage land subsidence.

1592
03:12:25,470 --> 03:12:30,170
in which this encompasses all of the GSAs in the truly subbasin.

1593
03:12:32,250 --> 03:12:38,270
There is an urgency to have this done by January, February, and this is important to get

1594
03:12:38,270 --> 03:12:44,150
this to the state before they come in and implement their plan, and it's not going to be pretty

1595
03:12:44,150 --> 03:12:46,950
if they do, and we don't get this taken care of.

1596
03:12:48,710 --> 03:13:15,750
The importance of water depth and sustainability, which is the depth that these well pumping from the lower aquifer, that's where most of the subsidence is coming from, which is usually below 600 feet deep wells emphasizing the importance of water depth potential for lawsuits of draconian pumping restrictions are imposed, which I don't that right now is not that big of an issue because

1597
03:13:15,750 --> 03:13:18,170
because we're hoping to avoid that.

1598
03:13:18,730 --> 03:13:22,470
The discussion also covered the formation of a technical committee,

1599
03:13:22,690 --> 03:13:29,990
the need for a basin wide approach to subsidence issues in the development of a new groundwater accounting system.

1600
03:13:30,770 --> 03:13:35,230
Upcoming meetings and the Prop 26 fee study were also highlighted.

1601
03:13:35,890 --> 03:13:43,450
And there will be a special meeting, this goes into, then the following Monday we had on August 10th.

1602
03:13:43,450 --> 03:13:58,250
We had a special meeting of the board, and this meeting focused on the Tule East GSA's fee study, and public hearing schedule, which is scheduled for September the second, and it will be here in the council chambers at 2 a.m.

1603
03:13:58,470 --> 03:14:02,790
2 p.m. in the afternoon on September the second.

1604
03:14:05,820 --> 03:14:13,980
Brandon Van Mugen and John Blitz from one of our consulting firms presented the study.

1605
03:14:13,980 --> 03:14:20,540
detailing the $62 per acre foot volumetric fee based on consumptive groundwater use.

1606
03:14:21,080 --> 03:14:27,520
This is a fee not a tax and it covers monitoring and porting and sub-basin coordination.

1607
03:14:28,140 --> 03:14:32,380
Total revenue requirement according to them is $4.1 million.

1608
03:14:33,640 --> 03:14:41,400
Public water systems such as Portaville will not, will be charged based on their full meter production.

1609
03:14:41,400 --> 03:14:48,720
and the Board accepted the study and said a public hearing date, which is September 2nd at 9 a.m. here in the chambers.

1610
03:14:50,500 --> 03:14:57,760
Also, there was discussed the need for community outreach meetings and the financial implications of these fees.

1611
03:14:57,760 --> 03:14:59,960
Now, the pul-

1612
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:28,980
Public hearing, again, as I said, is set for September 2nd at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm sorry, that's 9 a.m. Pardon me, then there, because I got this confused with, there's a public workshop being held by Tule East GSA here in the council chambers. That is at 2 p.m. on August 25th here in the council chambers. Now, anybody, for me to bore you with any more details,

1613
03:15:29,840 --> 03:15:32,860
Anybody that's interested and wants more information,

1614
03:15:33,700 --> 03:15:37,600
want to understand what the GSA is trying to accomplish.

1615
03:15:38,460 --> 03:15:40,840
And so forth, you have any questions?

1616
03:15:41,500 --> 03:15:46,220
Go to the TEGSA website, which is all lower case,

1617
03:15:46,700 --> 03:15:49,960
to the EastGSA.org.

1618
03:15:50,880 --> 03:15:55,180
And on that, on the website, you will find the email address,

1619
03:15:55,180 --> 03:16:02,740
unless in case you wish to direct a specific question to Mr. Rojillo,

1620
03:16:03,140 --> 03:16:07,060
Cadeo, who is the manager of the TEGSA.

1621
03:16:07,620 --> 03:16:11,680
Also, phone number you can reach is posted on the website.

1622
03:16:12,680 --> 03:16:18,320
So with that, I think that concludes what I have to say, unless Mr. Payne,

1623
03:16:18,360 --> 03:16:20,100
you have anything to add to that.

1624
03:16:20,500 --> 03:16:21,520
No, you covered it.

1625
03:16:21,640 --> 03:16:22,720
I really will.

1626
03:16:22,720 --> 03:16:26,000
So, thank you. I appreciate that.

1627
03:16:29,480 --> 03:16:31,140
Perfect answer, Mr. Payne.

1628
03:16:32,400 --> 03:16:35,400
Okay, moving on to Link Council and Bill Trin.

1629
03:16:37,100 --> 03:16:42,740
So the Link Committee met on August 5th at 3 p.m. across the street at the Thurman

1630
03:16:42,740 --> 03:16:43,800
conference room.

1631
03:16:45,680 --> 03:16:47,880
Roll call was taken or called a order.

1632
03:16:48,460 --> 03:16:49,320
There was a welcome introduction.

1633
03:16:49,560 --> 03:16:50,640
We had a couple of new faces.

1634
03:16:51,100 --> 03:16:52,420
I'll talk about them later.

1635
03:16:53,280 --> 03:16:54,760
The minutes were approved.

1636
03:16:55,340 --> 03:17:01,120
The only change to the budget was $5,000 was noted in our budget

1637
03:17:01,120 --> 03:17:05,060
that the council approved to give to the committee.

1638
03:17:05,860 --> 03:17:08,920
Of that, I think I mentioned the last time only $235 was used

1639
03:17:08,920 --> 03:17:11,640
to buy more canopies for shade during the summer time.

1640
03:17:13,760 --> 03:17:14,880
Onto, let's see.

1641
03:17:16,700 --> 03:17:23,720
The navigation update from the navigation center, both the bridge and emergency beds were full.

1642
03:17:24,620 --> 03:17:31,020
Full were placed in housing in July, there are four pending as of August the 5th.

1643
03:17:31,020 --> 03:17:37,580
The big news was just awaiting the official opening of the expansion and the showers and restrooms there.

1644
03:17:38,000 --> 03:17:41,120
I know we're waiting on Edison, but we're like, come on, come on.

1645
03:17:41,120 --> 03:17:44,780
Is there any way we could get higher up on that list to get checked off?

1646
03:17:45,460 --> 03:17:48,200
So just a lot of anticipation for that.

1647
03:17:49,060 --> 03:17:54,700
Next was the link subcommittee updates.

1648
03:17:55,540 --> 03:17:57,640
There were some improvements made to the shed.

1649
03:17:58,040 --> 03:18:03,800
There was ventilation because it's a closed up wooden shed that's prefabricated, no ventilation.

1650
03:18:04,540 --> 03:18:06,380
So that helped with stuff that stored in there.

1651
03:18:06,380 --> 03:18:11,340
the doors are reinforced because they were just having issues there. We did

1652
03:18:11,340 --> 03:18:15,640
discuss we debatement around the property as kind of earlier comments about

1653
03:18:15,640 --> 03:18:21,480
the beautification of our community. We want to make sure either King's view is

1654
03:18:21,480 --> 03:18:25,360
doing their part and if not so, volunteers can step in and make sure that

1655
03:18:25,360 --> 03:18:32,480
property is maintained as best we can. The next thing was the upcoming events and

1656
03:18:32,480 --> 03:18:34,840
And that is the drive-through dinner I mentioned earlier.

1657
03:18:35,720 --> 03:18:38,820
Letters for soliciting donations were sent out.

1658
03:18:39,380 --> 03:18:44,360
Not only are we doing the drive-through dinner, but we're also, this is the main part is for the winter coat drive.

1659
03:18:44,480 --> 03:18:54,060
And this is to give out jackets and warm weather items for the upcoming cold weather that will be happening in October.

1660
03:18:55,200 --> 03:18:58,060
Again, I mentioned earlier I have tickets for sale, they're $15.

1661
03:18:58,060 --> 03:19:04,400
$15 I really challenge anybody to really want to make an impact for these this is our one time we ask for funds

1662
03:19:04,400 --> 03:19:08,200
It really goes a long way. There are 150 tickets. We're selling

1663
03:19:08,740 --> 03:19:13,660
$15 a piece. There are limited four-pack tickets for $50 and

1664
03:19:13,660 --> 03:19:20,360
Think to Jane our meats. They're gonna be not only donating the meat, but they also be preparing it so the meat will be

1665
03:19:20,360 --> 03:19:23,000
very tender and very delicious

1666
03:19:25,460 --> 03:19:26,460
Let's see

1667
03:19:28,120 --> 03:19:34,160
We did talk about the cancellation of the last link event because the extreme heat a couple of weeks ago

1668
03:19:35,200 --> 03:19:38,560
We're looking forward to tomorrow's event the temperatures won't be as high

1669
03:19:38,560 --> 03:19:42,220
I want to thank cold blessings ice there are local veteran-owned

1670
03:19:43,180 --> 03:19:49,640
Business who's donating ice reached out to them and they said they'd be providing ice because along with just the

1671
03:19:49,640 --> 03:19:54,140
Services is something cold for them to drink a lot of them walk a long ways to get there

1672
03:19:54,140 --> 03:19:56,360
And there's really not a lot of places for them to keep cool

1673
03:19:56,360 --> 03:20:02,780
So just, and then King's view, we talked about their mental health team that's out working in the community.

1674
03:20:04,020 --> 03:20:09,500
Just continually connecting with them, the homeless are really hard to track, they move constantly.

1675
03:20:09,960 --> 03:20:16,040
And so just making sure to help the PD, help the businesses, help the overall look and

1676
03:20:16,040 --> 03:20:21,620
fill the community to making sure that we're working with our partners in the community to address those mental health issues.

1677
03:20:21,980 --> 03:20:25,540
What's great about this King's view team is they go meet the people where they're at.

1678
03:20:25,540 --> 03:20:28,440
They don't have to make an appointment, they don't have to drive to an office.

1679
03:20:28,920 --> 03:20:33,460
The team goes right to wherever they're at, so just it was really nice to hear about that effort.

1680
03:20:34,780 --> 03:20:42,320
The next meeting will be, I'm sorry, we have a subcommittee meeting tomorrow at Trinity Lutheran Church at 3 p.m.

1681
03:20:42,460 --> 03:20:44,720
Anybody who would like to volunteer to see with this.

1682
03:20:44,920 --> 03:20:50,240
This is a subcommittee that supports the overall committee, another opportunity to get connected tomorrow at 3 p.m.

1683
03:20:50,240 --> 03:20:52,920
I want to circle back to one of the gentlemen.

1684
03:20:53,280 --> 03:20:56,300
He's new to the group, but not new to the service at link.

1685
03:20:57,220 --> 03:20:57,960
His name is Mario.

1686
03:20:58,080 --> 03:21:00,880
He's the barber who volunteers his time every two weeks to cut hair.

1687
03:21:02,520 --> 03:21:04,560
Just, he came to say he wanted to do more.

1688
03:21:05,200 --> 03:21:06,480
He's a local business owner.

1689
03:21:07,360 --> 03:21:12,280
He shared his testimony of being an ex-addict and understanding where these people are coming from.

1690
03:21:12,900 --> 03:21:18,240
But again, it's just these people in our community that the unsung heroes are stepping up and

1691
03:21:18,240 --> 03:21:22,440
providing, he's obviously providing hygiene care with the haircuts.

1692
03:21:22,940 --> 03:21:27,680
But also supporting these people however, they're needed, not just on every other Wednesday.

1693
03:21:28,320 --> 03:21:30,980
So just really appreciate that gentleman's time.

1694
03:21:31,860 --> 03:21:36,880
And again, next link, the main link committee meeting will be September 2nd at 3pm.

1695
03:21:37,680 --> 03:21:38,640
Thank you, sir.

1696
03:21:38,920 --> 03:21:40,820
Okay, moving on to the Heritage Committee.

1697
03:21:41,400 --> 03:21:43,040
We met August 10th.

1698
03:21:43,040 --> 03:21:47,520
The first thing that matters was daughters of American Revolution update.

1699
03:21:48,220 --> 03:21:59,880
Final details were discussed regarding historic revolution and war patriot marker that would be dedicated to the city as part of the September 26 Washington Monument ceremony.

1700
03:22:00,300 --> 03:22:07,160
Next on the agenda was further discussion of the upcoming dedication ceremony at Veterans Park, logistics were planned, tasks were delegated.

1701
03:22:07,160 --> 03:22:10,780
Any new updates from the committee were commented on.

1702
03:22:10,860 --> 03:22:15,020
The calendar events was reviewed, the Washington Monument,

1703
03:22:15,200 --> 03:22:19,160
the marker for September 26th, Pioneer Day, October 3rd,

1704
03:22:19,200 --> 03:22:22,060
Veterans Day Parade for November 11th,

1705
03:22:22,060 --> 03:22:25,360
and then in December, the Zalad House Christmas tour.

1706
03:22:26,780 --> 03:22:30,220
And then something that I told Kathy, I would share,

1707
03:22:30,360 --> 03:22:35,320
about the daughters of American Revolution, bells across America.

1708
03:22:35,320 --> 03:22:48,860
They're celebrating 239th anniversary of doing this, and so that is September 20th, 2026 at the first congressional church here in Portoville.

1709
03:22:50,100 --> 03:22:58,800
Okay, moving on to Tilari County Association of Governance, they met yesterday I wasn't able to attend Councilman Revis.

1710
03:22:58,800 --> 03:23:04,960
Yes, sir. Thank you mayor for that update on the heritage committee and thank you for the link and the TGSA

1711
03:23:05,800 --> 03:23:08,180
Make it real quick the tea cag

1712
03:23:09,520 --> 03:23:11,540
We made on Monday, August 17th of

1713
03:23:11,540 --> 03:23:17,400
2026 me and the city manager attended the August tea cag meeting at the Teneric County Board of Supervisors

1714
03:23:17,400 --> 03:23:24,440
The consent calendar was approved which included a couple of notable items first funding was approved to support a regional

1715
03:23:25,180 --> 03:23:25,660
uniform

1716
03:23:25,660 --> 03:23:27,580
firm, fair program.

1717
03:23:27,880 --> 03:23:32,140
Now, passengers will pay the same fair regardless if you are writing in Porteville,

1718
03:23:32,300 --> 03:23:33,140
Teleria, and LaCellia.

1719
03:23:33,760 --> 03:23:39,000
The uniform transit fair program will also make it easier to implement regional pass programs.

1720
03:23:39,900 --> 03:23:45,040
Another notable item was the approval of the fiscal year 2026-27.

1721
03:23:45,540 --> 03:23:51,440
State of Goods Repair Project List, which includes Porteville Project to purchase two hybrid vans for

1722
03:23:51,440 --> 03:23:57,540
dollar code service, and the discussion items portion of the agenda, the TCA board approved the following.

1723
03:23:58,240 --> 03:24:05,220
Awarded the FAN, the Fair 3 Transit Study to Nelson Nygard for $125,400.

1724
03:24:06,500 --> 03:24:12,300
Awarded the mobility management study to via mobility for 350,000.

1725
03:24:13,100 --> 03:24:16,720
Purchased a community engagement tool for 4,500.

1726
03:24:16,720 --> 03:24:22,880
Approved the 2026 Title VI program, which is required to continue to receive federal funding.

1727
03:24:23,660 --> 03:24:27,420
Approved the TCAG Code of Conduct and Ethics Policy.

1728
03:24:28,040 --> 03:24:35,720
Measure our revenues for the July 26 was $4.3 million, almost the same as July of 2025.

1729
03:24:37,340 --> 03:24:41,420
They also mentioned September is Rail Road Safety Month.

1730
03:24:42,580 --> 03:24:50,560
The next TCAG board meeting will be on September the 21st, 2026 at the Tulary County Ag Commissioners Building and that's all out the report.

1731
03:24:50,680 --> 03:24:51,720
Thank you, Councilman Rivas.

1732
03:24:51,980 --> 03:24:57,740
Okay, moving on to oral communications, this opportunity to address the council on any matters of interest.

1733
03:24:58,060 --> 03:24:59,520
Your time will be limited three minutes.

1734
03:25:08,890 --> 03:25:10,210
Rockney and the address on record.

1735
03:25:10,810 --> 03:25:15,810
What you're receiving are some flyers for some events coming up at the Port of the Louth Lodge.

1736
03:25:16,530 --> 03:25:29,110
Also remember that the first Sunday of every month, we have our Veterans Breakfast, this coming month, we're going to actually implement it on the third Sunday of the month, so we're going to try to expand that.

1737
03:25:31,090 --> 03:25:33,910
Come and join us, it's a fun time.

1738
03:25:37,190 --> 03:25:37,950
Thank you, Mr. Neely.

1739
03:25:41,960 --> 03:25:44,860
I'm Alexis and haven't moved, still live here.

1740
03:25:46,140 --> 03:25:47,380
These are just some thoughts.

1741
03:25:48,000 --> 03:25:52,160
You mentioned Christmas stores at the Zolat House, but they do Halloween ones too for us spooky people.

1742
03:25:52,620 --> 03:25:54,300
I think they do a couple, they do ghost tours.

1743
03:25:54,800 --> 03:25:56,760
The museum sometimes does them too, they're really cool.

1744
03:25:56,960 --> 03:26:00,300
You have a chance, you should check them out, take your kids, it's not scary.

1745
03:26:01,200 --> 03:26:06,540
I did want to mention that I got to attend the Medal of Valor ceremony for

1746
03:26:07,820 --> 03:26:09,880
Mr. Hopper, and that was really awesome.

1747
03:26:09,880 --> 03:26:13,760
so I saw Chief Raider there with all our PPD captains

1748
03:26:13,760 --> 03:26:16,680
and it was a really nice short ceremony.

1749
03:26:17,420 --> 03:26:19,400
I don't know how much they'll do for him anymore

1750
03:26:19,400 --> 03:26:22,020
because it's a little long and metal of valor

1751
03:26:22,020 --> 03:26:24,320
is like the top honor you can get at TCSO,

1752
03:26:24,400 --> 03:26:25,500
so I just wanted to mention

1753
03:26:25,500 --> 03:26:26,540
that it was a beautiful ceremony

1754
03:26:26,540 --> 03:26:27,520
and they put it together well.

1755
03:26:29,240 --> 03:26:32,400
This is my thought on the expansion to the sports complex.

1756
03:26:32,500 --> 03:26:33,620
I think it's a great idea,

1757
03:26:34,280 --> 03:26:37,180
but we lack lighting out there so badly

1758
03:26:37,180 --> 03:26:42,340
that trying to host an event in the evening time, maybe a little bit difficult without

1759
03:26:43,120 --> 03:26:47,540
volunteer lighting that gets wheeled out there. I think the city should definitely look into putting

1760
03:26:48,060 --> 03:26:52,680
some more lighting out there. I'm going to be biased and say, especially for those kids that play

1761
03:26:52,680 --> 03:26:57,360
soccer, my son play soccer out there, and it would be really cool to do evening practices and stuff

1762
03:26:57,360 --> 03:27:02,020
along with being able to hold events. But that brings me to my next point. You have the casino

1763
03:27:02,020 --> 03:27:06,520
I know right there that is also expanding who can also host really large events.

1764
03:27:06,880 --> 03:27:15,780
So I would hate to like double up and have to compete with the casino with our venues versus their venues and who can host what and who wants the money and who doesn't.

1765
03:27:16,500 --> 03:27:19,240
That's it, I thought it was a productive meeting, good job tonight guys, thank you.

1766
03:27:19,440 --> 03:27:19,920
Thank you, man.

1767
03:27:23,520 --> 03:27:30,900
Jacob Walker, I don't have much to add this time around, but I did want to ask about the axon standards thing.

1768
03:27:30,900 --> 03:27:36,380
Is that just like a software or an operating system kind of thing or does it have anything

1769
03:27:36,380 --> 03:27:39,460
to do with implementing the fixed ALPRs at all?

1770
03:27:40,200 --> 03:27:40,480
Do we know?

1771
03:27:40,900 --> 03:27:41,020
Okay.

1772
03:27:41,380 --> 03:27:41,420
Cool.

1773
03:27:43,260 --> 03:27:50,780
And then I was going to pick back on the division conversations from earlier and I just

1774
03:27:50,780 --> 03:27:58,560
wanted to make a point that I think that the youth today is more united than it's ever

1775
03:27:58,560 --> 03:27:59,140
been before.

1776
03:27:59,140 --> 03:28:03,920
or I don't think we're really all that divided, we agree on almost most things.

1777
03:28:03,920 --> 03:28:07,640
We disagree on some things like forms of government and stuff like that,

1778
03:28:07,780 --> 03:28:11,540
but it's getting harder and harder to find younger people.

1779
03:28:11,660 --> 03:28:15,620
I disagree with and polls show that a lot.

1780
03:28:15,760 --> 03:28:20,700
You see it online a lot and I think there's a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel

1781
03:28:20,700 --> 03:28:26,300
in that regard that we're pretty united, I'd argue.

1782
03:28:26,520 --> 03:28:26,760
Thank you.

1783
03:28:26,760 --> 03:28:27,660
And so that's it.

1784
03:28:28,240 --> 03:28:29,280
Thank you, Mr. Walker.

1785
03:28:33,520 --> 03:28:34,960
Greg Shelton, maybe an awful little for drive.

1786
03:28:35,320 --> 03:28:37,140
I thought it was going to be a boring meeting,

1787
03:28:37,140 --> 03:28:38,680
and I guess I missed all the fireworks.

1788
03:28:40,140 --> 03:28:41,040
Sounded kind of ugly.

1789
03:28:42,100 --> 03:28:44,240
I don't like any allegations of racism.

1790
03:28:46,320 --> 03:28:47,920
I was talking to someone today

1791
03:28:47,920 --> 03:28:50,520
and I want to say that Mr. Mayor,

1792
03:28:50,760 --> 03:28:52,540
you were instrumental in doing those roles.

1793
03:28:52,880 --> 03:28:55,360
I think they would have probably got done,

1794
03:28:56,060 --> 03:28:58,360
but it wouldn't have been done as soon as it got done.

1795
03:28:58,360 --> 03:29:09,160
You know with you I feel like you know you pushed it you know and and I remember when I've even for us on council one thing that they complained about was the roads.

1796
03:29:09,320 --> 03:29:15,360
I've heard that for 25 years and I'm sure that even after these 30 miles they were going to hear about it some more.

1797
03:29:16,460 --> 03:29:21,520
But that's changed that I see and I can recognize I think the homeless people is better.

1798
03:29:21,520 --> 03:29:27,720
I think that the way we're handling homeless people is getting better, I'm not as bad as it was.

1799
03:29:28,980 --> 03:29:31,540
A lot of people want to complain about what this council did.

1800
03:29:32,200 --> 03:29:37,480
Yeah, this council broke some eggs, you know, but if you want to make a homie you've got to break some eggs.

1801
03:29:39,180 --> 03:29:49,640
And it seems like everybody's more responsive, I feel like I'm being treated better, you know, than before.

1802
03:29:49,640 --> 03:29:51,340
or I feel like a lot of people are.

1803
03:29:52,060 --> 03:29:54,220
So I don't agree with everything,

1804
03:29:54,580 --> 03:29:58,980
but it's the change that I haven't seen for over a decade.

1805
03:29:59,520 --> 03:29:59,960
So...

1806
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:03,600
No, you know, keep it up, that a boy. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Sheldon.

1807
03:30:06,210 --> 03:30:31,590
Is there anyone on mine, Fernando? You can keep coming up, sir. No, you're on it. Okay. Go ahead. Hi, Matthew. Do's are just on item 19. I own an old house. A couple of previous stories. I called the city in 2005, because I noticed I had a little leak from the main line coming to the house. Keep speaking in the mics of security. Sorry about that. No, it's okay. And I nicked it with just a shovel.

1808
03:30:31,590 --> 03:30:35,930
and I had 25 feet in the air because the line was thin, but our house was over a hundred

1809
03:30:35,930 --> 03:30:43,390
years old. When the folks came out, the water folks came out, I had two concrete liners

1810
03:30:43,390 --> 03:30:49,550
down to an old key type that they couldn't turn off. So they had to come back again. They

1811
03:30:49,550 --> 03:30:55,570
finally did fix it. That was fine and I got fixed. In 2016, I had a high pressure leak

1812
03:30:55,570 --> 03:30:58,190
between the house and a single card of the garage,

1813
03:30:59,430 --> 03:31:02,310
which would not turn off with my main valve.

1814
03:31:03,630 --> 03:31:08,190
I came down to planning and said, do you guys have anything that I don't know about?

1815
03:31:08,610 --> 03:31:10,310
That's commercial, whatever?

1816
03:31:10,870 --> 03:31:12,170
They said no, I said fine.

1817
03:31:13,210 --> 03:31:19,030
Talked to a neighbor two doors down, said, the funniest thing is I've got a high water bill leak.

1818
03:31:19,710 --> 03:31:22,530
Call the city of says, go turn hers off.

1819
03:31:23,350 --> 03:31:28,130
And I discovered in fact finding from some old neighbors in

1820
03:31:28,130 --> 03:31:30,690
mine who have lived for a long time, one of the previous

1821
03:31:30,690 --> 03:31:33,930
stories from my house owns the house, two doors down,

1822
03:31:34,530 --> 03:31:36,830
cat that at my end where it was leaking.

1823
03:31:37,630 --> 03:31:41,210
But they had the main valve at that house.

1824
03:31:41,630 --> 03:31:45,470
But it took weird investigation to go figure that out.

1825
03:31:45,730 --> 03:31:48,390
So older homes and older projects, you know, no.

1826
03:31:48,590 --> 03:31:49,310
Thank you.

1827
03:31:49,410 --> 03:31:49,590
Thank you.

1828
03:31:49,590 --> 03:31:50,490
Thank you.

1829
03:31:51,430 --> 03:31:52,930
Okay, is there any other comments?

1830
03:31:54,750 --> 03:32:00,750
I'm not seeing anyone, so we'll close oral communication and go into other matters.

1831
03:32:01,570 --> 03:32:03,730
Vice-member Curry, you want to lead other matters tonight?

1832
03:32:04,410 --> 03:32:06,150
Well, there was a couple things I didn't mention.

1833
03:32:06,630 --> 03:32:14,030
I really did enjoy the tour at the casino with the tribe, and we had a good meeting over there,

1834
03:32:14,110 --> 03:32:16,870
and we got to meet some new folks, and it was a really good event.

1835
03:32:16,870 --> 03:32:20,490
We're really building some strong relationships there with the tribe.

1836
03:32:20,710 --> 03:32:25,110
And there's a lot of good conversations and positive things going on.

1837
03:32:25,110 --> 03:32:31,010
I'm really happy to report that success and the optimism and

1838
03:32:31,010 --> 03:32:36,210
the progress that we're making with the tribe and just working on basic stuff.

1839
03:32:36,430 --> 03:32:37,630
Let's get some things done.

1840
03:32:37,770 --> 03:32:43,150
And they're really going to have a nice event center out there when it's done.

1841
03:32:43,150 --> 03:32:45,370
And they're making a lot of progress on that.

1842
03:32:45,490 --> 03:32:46,590
We got to see that firsthand.

1843
03:32:47,830 --> 03:32:53,310
I was able to judge at a car show this week at the Riverwalk

1844
03:32:53,310 --> 03:32:53,830
Care Center.

1845
03:32:53,990 --> 03:32:54,930
It's their second annual.

1846
03:32:55,070 --> 03:32:56,810
It was over there off of Morton.

1847
03:32:58,190 --> 03:32:59,210
It was a lot of fun.

1848
03:33:00,370 --> 03:33:01,170
It's amazing.

1849
03:33:01,370 --> 03:33:02,890
It was hot out, but there was a lot of shade.

1850
03:33:03,190 --> 03:33:06,550
So we spent a few hours out there with the folks.

1851
03:33:06,890 --> 03:33:11,410
And the residents there were out there able to participate.

1852
03:33:11,410 --> 03:33:18,370
And it's a good to get them out and I know my mother-in-law was in there a few years ago and our church things at that place

1853
03:33:18,370 --> 03:33:22,830
But it's really good for those folks and it's great to see the community coming together. I noticed a

1854
03:33:23,450 --> 03:33:26,070
bunch of kids there too with their bikes and it's

1855
03:33:27,090 --> 03:33:29,590
It's nice to see people getting together talking to each other

1856
03:33:29,590 --> 03:33:35,950
There was a lot of phones and people are out there having a good time and having real conversations and we're able to judge that

1857
03:33:36,810 --> 03:33:41,010
Councilman Rivas and I were there and we got on the microphone.

1858
03:33:41,150 --> 03:33:46,850
But I just wanted to shout out to Marla and to Catherine and the folks that put that

1859
03:33:46,850 --> 03:33:49,170
on at the Riverwalk Care Center.

1860
03:33:49,430 --> 03:33:50,330
It's a good event.

1861
03:33:50,570 --> 03:33:51,710
They're probably going to continue it.

1862
03:33:51,750 --> 03:33:55,350
That was their second annual and they invited us back to do a third annual.

1863
03:33:55,870 --> 03:33:56,750
So that was a good thing.

1864
03:33:56,910 --> 03:34:01,370
I really want to say a couple more things and just odds and ends.

1865
03:34:02,790 --> 03:34:08,130
There's a real healing power in this community when we come together and focus on the good.

1866
03:34:09,050 --> 03:34:12,310
And we see that a lot and I know that we're trending positively there.

1867
03:34:12,450 --> 03:34:16,630
It's really great to hear Mr. Walker's comments too because there is a lot of unity.

1868
03:34:17,110 --> 03:34:18,350
Let's focus on that unity.

1869
03:34:18,550 --> 03:34:23,950
Let's focus on the optimism because even in our church, we pray for all the first responders

1870
03:34:23,950 --> 03:34:29,850
and we pray for everybody that serves us and we pray when we lose those men and women

1871
03:34:29,850 --> 03:34:36,470
that support us like miles and we pay first family and it's good for the community to do that

1872
03:34:36,470 --> 03:34:40,970
and it's good that we do that here in this chamber and we got to continue to lift each other up

1873
03:34:40,970 --> 03:34:46,130
because these things are going to happen from time to time this is life and I just want to say a

1874
03:34:46,130 --> 03:34:50,550
positive thing about that and if we focus on the good things and those are the things that are going

1875
03:34:50,550 --> 03:34:57,650
to happen because we become what we focus on and if we focus on negativity and we focus on division

1876
03:34:57,650 --> 03:34:59,470
those are the things that we're going to get.

1877
03:35:00,270 --> 03:35:02,470
And so I just want to continue to encourage everyone.

1878
03:35:02,750 --> 03:35:03,910
The comments have been great.

1879
03:35:04,350 --> 03:35:05,550
There's a lot of good discretion.

1880
03:35:05,810 --> 03:35:08,190
There's a lot of listening going on,

1881
03:35:08,410 --> 03:35:12,410
and a lot less of the political posturing and those things.

1882
03:35:12,730 --> 03:35:15,450
And that's good because then we can get more business done

1883
03:35:15,450 --> 03:35:16,570
and it lightens the mood,

1884
03:35:16,710 --> 03:35:19,070
and it really shows the spirit of our community.

1885
03:35:19,190 --> 03:35:20,350
So I just want to say those things.

1886
03:35:22,050 --> 03:35:23,510
The NEP tonight's being here.

1887
03:35:24,350 --> 03:35:24,790
Awesome.

1888
03:35:24,790 --> 03:35:30,590
I really love that group and it's amazing how much time, you can see how close knit that

1889
03:35:30,590 --> 03:35:36,310
group is right, they were loud, they were together, they were motivated, I mean when

1890
03:35:36,310 --> 03:35:42,330
you get, that was only half, less than half right, you get the whole crew together and

1891
03:35:42,330 --> 03:35:47,290
go to another city and you spend six hours with them and man it's an event and it really

1892
03:35:47,290 --> 03:35:53,850
was a pleasure hosting them here tonight and that spirit in this chamber and just recognizing

1893
03:35:53,850 --> 03:36:01,530
recognizing that talent and the family environment that we have in our schools and our children to Mr. Walker's point.

1894
03:36:01,750 --> 03:36:06,370
There's a lot of unity there and we got to continue to lift up those kids and continue to encourage them.

1895
03:36:06,830 --> 03:36:11,450
And this is the way we do that and let's continue with all of the programs that we talk about up here.

1896
03:36:11,550 --> 03:36:21,130
We do a lot of things and I just want to highlight those and say it was a pleasure and it was an honor to look at the future leaders and we got to keep looking at them before us.

1897
03:36:21,130 --> 03:36:28,530
our culture has a problem. Our culture is looking at us before them and we have to flip

1898
03:36:28,530 --> 03:36:33,050
that back. When I grew up, it was them before us. We're living in a time where it's us before

1899
03:36:33,050 --> 03:36:38,870
them and the adults are kind of selfish right now. But the kids aren't and we've got to focus

1900
03:36:38,870 --> 03:36:42,130
on them and they're going to be the next leaders and that's the way it ought to be. And I just

1901
03:36:42,130 --> 03:36:47,330
want to say that, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Vice Mayor. We'll put Councilman Revis, I hate for you to

1902
03:36:47,330 --> 03:36:55,210
follow that, but I can follow that. I can't follow that. The only thing I can say is a few

1903
03:36:55,210 --> 03:37:00,470
things. Real simple. Isn't there enough evil in this world that we have to bring it

1904
03:37:00,470 --> 03:37:06,770
here to counsel? That's it. I mean, I mean, if there's issues that need to be addressed,

1905
03:37:08,330 --> 03:37:16,410
address them, but not with name calling, not with mocking, not with, oh, by the way, liquidity

1906
03:37:16,410 --> 03:37:17,830
I got it right this time.

1907
03:37:18,770 --> 03:37:20,350
Thank you, appreciate it.

1908
03:37:20,350 --> 03:37:21,570
Are you on a liquidity diet?

1909
03:37:21,710 --> 03:37:28,310
I guess so, but you know, somebody put it on their page and made a mockery of me.

1910
03:37:29,030 --> 03:37:33,550
And then they come out here and they don't want us to talk down to them.

1911
03:37:33,990 --> 03:37:36,570
I'm not going to talk down to you because I'm not going to stoop to your level.

1912
03:37:37,570 --> 03:37:44,160
I'm not much better than that, but liquidity, I got it right, okay?

1913
03:37:44,460 --> 03:37:44,880
I'll leave it there.

1914
03:37:45,320 --> 03:37:45,820
Thank you.

1915
03:37:46,740 --> 03:37:47,460
Councilman Reeves.

1916
03:37:47,460 --> 03:37:49,900
is Councilman Beltran.

1917
03:37:51,920 --> 03:37:56,400
Just briefly, I really appreciate looking at the tort reform

1918
03:37:56,400 --> 03:37:58,980
with the CalCities, and I just think about,

1919
03:37:59,460 --> 03:38:03,040
as we spent some money on some other projects,

1920
03:38:03,200 --> 03:38:05,680
I didn't think about some of the maybe lost opportunities

1921
03:38:05,680 --> 03:38:07,460
that we had when we left CalCities.

1922
03:38:07,820 --> 03:38:10,300
I think it was roughly $30,000 we paid a year,

1923
03:38:10,420 --> 03:38:12,060
but they have some great things.

1924
03:38:12,160 --> 03:38:14,180
We might not always agree with some of the things

1925
03:38:14,180 --> 03:38:16,880
that are happening, but we're talking about lobbyists

1926
03:38:16,880 --> 03:38:18,100
and different things that they can do.

1927
03:38:18,300 --> 03:38:21,480
I'm glad this didn't cost anybody to join that,

1928
03:38:21,540 --> 03:38:22,940
but there are some great things that they're doing.

1929
03:38:23,080 --> 03:38:25,000
As I'm glad we're continuing following them,

1930
03:38:25,100 --> 03:38:27,400
we get their emails still to kind of track things

1931
03:38:27,400 --> 03:38:28,740
that are important to our community.

1932
03:38:31,340 --> 03:38:34,040
Again, shameless, I got tickets.

1933
03:38:34,420 --> 03:38:37,640
I'm trying to hustle to make sure we sell those tickets,

1934
03:38:37,840 --> 03:38:38,960
so we don't want anything left.

1935
03:38:39,800 --> 03:38:41,660
If you're tired, don't want to cook on a Thursday,

1936
03:38:41,920 --> 03:38:43,160
you just drive through and pick up your mail,

1937
03:38:43,160 --> 03:38:45,380
so hit me up or another link committee member.

1938
03:38:46,340 --> 03:39:02,020
And lastly, more of just when I was speaking earlier about the social media person, I was trying to gather my thoughts and the mayor had said I repeated myself so it kind of got cut off there, but I have a full time job plus counsel duties and I do social media.

1939
03:39:02,160 --> 03:39:08,360
I got a couple of different platforms I do. It's not a job that is that difficult or needs to be paid that much money.

1940
03:39:10,260 --> 03:39:36,040
I just, I get it, you know, I think I just checked the city's WebP or Social Media and I think it's 5,000 people that follow, hopefully they'll improve, not everybody who has Social Media, even younger generations, some people are actually going against Social Media now, and so we'll see where that trend goes in a few years but I, it's stuff that I do as a side thing for free.

1941
03:39:36,040 --> 03:39:39,200
And so I just hated that we're spending tax payer money on something like that.

1942
03:39:39,500 --> 03:39:42,600
But overall we'll see how the product looks like and that's it, thank you.

1943
03:39:43,960 --> 03:39:47,320
Thank you, Councilman Beltrend, Councilman Green, do you have any comments?

1944
03:39:49,250 --> 03:39:54,270
Very little, I just want to kind of top off what Ed said about the kids.

1945
03:39:54,670 --> 03:39:58,170
The little neptenice, a little polywag kids that were in here.

1946
03:39:59,610 --> 03:40:04,830
When you get to be my age, kids just make their heart feel lighter.

1947
03:40:04,830 --> 03:40:10,450
you know they were just a pleasure and I was so impressed with them standing up here with my

1948
03:40:10,450 --> 03:40:16,330
back time with the Pledge of Allegiance. I believe I could hear every single one of them loud and

1949
03:40:16,330 --> 03:40:24,890
clear so I mean it was just it was a very joyful experience for me it makes makes my you know

1950
03:40:25,490 --> 03:40:32,510
feet feel lighter kind of like the old PF flyer tennis shoe commercials and we were kids where you

1951
03:40:32,510 --> 03:40:35,410
You can run your, jump your highest and run your fastest.

1952
03:40:36,230 --> 03:40:37,950
Well, that's what they make you feel like.

1953
03:40:38,150 --> 03:40:39,410
They make you feel really good.

1954
03:40:39,910 --> 03:40:42,070
Then also, I just have something to report

1955
03:40:42,510 --> 03:40:44,430
that I noticed the last few days,

1956
03:40:44,610 --> 03:40:46,970
I think we're out of the heat because of Jack Rabbits,

1957
03:40:47,030 --> 03:40:48,830
of Quitt Keren, can't deem it.

1958
03:40:49,010 --> 03:40:49,670
There we go.

1959
03:40:50,970 --> 03:40:52,710
All right, thank you, Councilman Green.

1960
03:40:52,870 --> 03:40:53,790
I'll be very quick.

1961
03:40:56,090 --> 03:40:59,230
Mr., I didn't get your last name, but Matthew,

1962
03:40:59,450 --> 03:41:01,770
I really appreciate you coming up and sharing your story

1963
03:41:01,770 --> 03:41:11,730
and how a leak impacted you and you had to pay a high rate for something that you didn't necessarily have full control over an interesting story.

1964
03:41:12,370 --> 03:41:16,630
And the good thing is what we did tonight is we're going to protect people like you in the future.

1965
03:41:17,670 --> 03:41:23,090
Mr. Walker, you know, we're probably closer in age than I am with these guys.

1966
03:41:23,670 --> 03:41:29,410
And I have to echo with what, and no insult there, Councilman Green.

1967
03:41:30,270 --> 03:41:44,190
But I would echo with you because, you know, I went to school here and, you know, the population, trying to compare the KKK and all this craziness, it's not something I dealt with growing up in Porterville.

1968
03:41:45,090 --> 03:41:50,410
You know, I was actually the minority in elementary school, you could say went to West Putnam.

1969
03:41:50,410 --> 03:41:56,110
And so, I even look at my children who are mixed blood.

1970
03:41:56,670 --> 03:41:58,950
You could say, mutts of the world.

1971
03:42:00,470 --> 03:42:01,650
And I'm proud of them.

1972
03:42:02,290 --> 03:42:02,830
I'm going to be wrong.

1973
03:42:03,070 --> 03:42:09,490
But it's just interesting how it's the same individuals that want to continue to try

1974
03:42:09,490 --> 03:42:15,530
to echo this and beat the drums of racism and try to keep it alive

1975
03:42:15,530 --> 03:42:22,290
when when we focus in on what matters and that's the people and and merit and we

1976
03:42:23,040 --> 03:42:29,690
continue going forward with that. So appreciate your comments as well. I'll end

1977
03:42:29,690 --> 03:42:36,070
with the tonight we approved the civic event. Many people are impacted by

1978
03:42:36,070 --> 03:42:41,190
cancer worldwide and in our community I know everyone knows someone that has

1979
03:42:41,190 --> 03:42:45,370
It's lost someone to cancer or have been impacted by cancer and it's so hard.

1980
03:42:46,130 --> 03:42:50,430
And it's so difficult to watch a family member go through chemo and

1981
03:42:50,430 --> 03:42:54,050
you're watching them slowly die before your eyes and it's heartbreaking.

1982
03:42:54,810 --> 03:42:58,270
And so we approved an event tonight for the run for life.

1983
03:42:59,510 --> 03:43:03,910
The Port ofville run for life, it's Saturday, September 5th.

1984
03:43:03,910 --> 03:43:07,710
I'd invite you, the community, if you could come out and give support to these families,

1985
03:43:07,710 --> 03:43:12,090
So these individuals that are in the fights for their lives, it'd be a great honor.

1986
03:43:12,250 --> 03:43:13,890
I'd love to walk with you for the event.

1987
03:43:14,590 --> 03:43:16,390
With that, pass it off to you, City Manager.

1988
03:43:17,070 --> 03:43:17,870
Thank you, Mayor.

1989
03:43:18,450 --> 03:43:25,750
I'm going to take this moment, I'll call it the City Manager's minute, but tonight, I'd ask for a couple minutes.

1990
03:43:26,670 --> 03:43:37,570
It last week I recognized and thanked many of our employees, but I forgot a couple, and so tonight I wanted to highlight some outstanding work by some of our staff.

1991
03:43:37,570 --> 03:43:43,850
First, I wanted to recognize Yulana Andrade, she really has been outstanding.

1992
03:43:44,520 --> 03:43:49,590
And often thinks outside of the box to support all of our departments.

1993
03:43:50,960 --> 03:43:56,450
And a recent example is in regards to our business license staff.

1994
03:43:56,830 --> 03:44:00,750
And they had recently been one person down.

1995
03:44:01,070 --> 03:44:04,570
And Yulana thought outside of the box,

1996
03:44:04,570 --> 03:44:12,430
Fox contacted one of our retired employees that previously served in the business license division.

1997
03:44:12,910 --> 03:44:18,410
And that employee was extremely excited to come back to work part time and help out the staff.

1998
03:44:18,670 --> 03:44:31,390
So it's just an example of outstanding work by Euliana, I appreciate how she's just constantly thinking on how to best support her staff and as well as all the departments within in the city.

1999
03:44:32,150 --> 03:44:37,750
In regards to the Fire Marshal position, I agree, Mr. Dignum has his hands full.

2000
03:44:38,150 --> 03:44:52,750
And so just recently, I'm happy to report that Melinda Rios, who was previously serving as the police department crime analyst, has been appointed as our new Fire Marshal.

2001
03:44:52,750 --> 03:44:59,970
but director Dignum is his request as not ended or he can't release that title yet because

2002
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:19,680
As he has graciously offered to help with the transition and appreciate Clayton offering that support. And we're excited for Melinda as she takes on these new responsibilities. And thanks for approving the community, the communications specialist.

2003
03:45:19,680 --> 03:45:30,560
Eureko Valarde back there has done an outstanding job and she has been tasked with communications for the city.

2004
03:45:31,540 --> 03:45:41,640
However, she doesn't have experiences in all the areas and we really wanted to maximize her talents and support her.

2005
03:45:42,260 --> 03:45:47,140
And so she's going to be transitioning back to our administrative services department.

2006
03:45:47,140 --> 03:45:51,460
to really essentially support our public records request.

2007
03:45:52,480 --> 03:46:02,180
Now we're going to have essentially three full-time employees to address or answer the

2008
03:46:02,180 --> 03:46:02,940
request.

2009
03:46:03,160 --> 03:46:07,640
When previously not too long ago, it was a half of a position.

2010
03:46:08,820 --> 03:46:13,560
And so that is unfortunate, but we are working through it.

2011
03:46:13,560 --> 03:46:17,040
It is a lot of pressure on our departments.

2012
03:46:17,440 --> 03:46:26,500
I recently, as I meet with each of our directors regularly and I ask them how they're doing and just as an example,

2013
03:46:26,860 --> 03:46:34,420
our finance department is spending two hours every couple of days to research and look up information.

2014
03:46:35,520 --> 03:46:40,260
And I meet with the next director, for example Clayton just today,

2015
03:46:40,260 --> 03:47:02,120
go in his office, see how he's doing, ask him a couple questions, and he's working on public records requests, spending hours working on that, so I appreciate their efforts in their timely response. I know it's a tough task, but we're up to essentially three people to support that, to support those requests.

2016
03:47:02,120 --> 03:47:08,640
Yes, appreciate Mary, your comments towards our fire department.

2017
03:47:08,800 --> 03:47:15,560
I do want to recognize Chief Cogburn, and Deputy Chief Rossmann, and the entire fire department for

2018
03:47:15,560 --> 03:47:23,020
their just tremendous support that they've provided to the Elliott family this past couple weeks.

2019
03:47:23,580 --> 03:47:30,960
It really shows in these difficult moments, the compassion and support shown by all of our employees.

2020
03:47:30,960 --> 03:47:37,140
It just says a great deal about who we are as an organization in our community.

2021
03:47:38,620 --> 03:47:44,320
I also want to thank city staff who helped coordinate and participate in the vehicle procession.

2022
03:47:44,940 --> 03:47:50,980
It was a meaningful show of support for the family and I appreciate everyone who helped to make it possible.

2023
03:47:51,180 --> 03:47:52,940
Thank you all very much.

2024
03:47:55,220 --> 03:47:57,460
And staying with the fire department.

2025
03:47:57,460 --> 03:48:04,920
And I also wanted to recognize members of our fire department who have been serving outside our community.

2026
03:48:05,580 --> 03:48:13,700
Assisting with fires throughout California, we know that work is taking them away from Porterville and their family.

2027
03:48:14,200 --> 03:48:18,980
But they're representing our city and helping other communities during times of need.

2028
03:48:19,400 --> 03:48:23,540
We appreciate their service and their willingness to answer the call whenever they're needed.

2029
03:48:25,560 --> 03:48:28,680
I wanted to give a quick update on some projects.

2030
03:48:29,360 --> 03:48:33,200
The Butterfield Stage Corridor project is essentially complete.

2031
03:48:34,040 --> 03:48:36,100
We're working through some punchless items.

2032
03:48:36,380 --> 03:48:41,100
I hope everyone has had the opportunity to get out and enjoy the new trail.

2033
03:48:41,800 --> 03:48:47,520
I know I have with Deputy City Manager Moore running on it.

2034
03:48:47,620 --> 03:48:53,340
It's great to see this project becoming something our residents can get out and use on

2035
03:48:54,560 --> 03:48:58,100
the overland rec center and park that you toured mayor.

2036
03:48:58,860 --> 03:49:00,100
It's progressing nicely.

2037
03:49:00,740 --> 03:49:05,280
There's still work ahead of us, but the project is really beginning to take shape.

2038
03:49:05,480 --> 03:49:09,720
And right now we anticipate the completion next year, early next year.

2039
03:49:12,020 --> 03:49:21,760
With the new school year getting underway, I wanted to highlight the many pedestrian safety projects that have been recently awarded.

2040
03:49:21,760 --> 03:49:28,020
construction on those improvements will begin in the next couple months and these investments

2041
03:49:28,020 --> 03:49:35,540
are really important, many of them focus around schools and neighborhoods for students and

2042
03:49:35,540 --> 03:49:41,440
families that are walking to school during the normal school, during their normal school

2043
03:49:41,440 --> 03:49:42,480
year routines.

2044
03:49:43,780 --> 03:49:50,500
For those that are more active, the city's sportsplex is currently under design.

2045
03:49:50,500 --> 03:49:59,380
This is an exciting project that will bring new recreation amenities to our community including pickleball courts, arena soccer fields and amphitheater and more.

2046
03:50:00,480 --> 03:50:04,780
We look forward to providing more information as that design progresses.

2047
03:50:07,760 --> 03:50:20,480
There are many projects underway in various stages and so I wanted to share with the council that the planning and engineering department is putting together a project update presentation.

2048
03:50:20,480 --> 03:50:25,160
that we'll be providing either the first or second meeting in September.

2049
03:50:25,760 --> 03:50:27,060
So we'll go more into detail.

2050
03:50:28,440 --> 03:50:32,980
I also want to recognize our parks and leisure services department

2051
03:50:32,980 --> 03:50:35,680
for another successful movie in the park.

2052
03:50:36,120 --> 03:50:39,200
They recently featured Lilo and Stitch.

2053
03:50:40,280 --> 03:50:46,660
Just providing an opportunity for families to get outside, enjoy the park, spend time together as a community.

2054
03:50:47,920 --> 03:50:51,280
thank you to our parks and leisure team and everyone who helped to make that

2055
03:50:51,280 --> 03:50:56,760
event possible. I understand that I call them the Guardians of Centino Park

2056
03:50:56,760 --> 03:51:02,040
and David who were sitting in the back row tonight had VIP seating so it's

2057
03:51:02,040 --> 03:51:09,240
cool that they were able to join and participate in moving the park. And finally

2058
03:51:09,240 --> 03:51:15,580
Mayor I want to wish you a happy birthday of this past Sunday and on behalf of the

2059
03:51:15,580 --> 03:51:20,140
city team. I hope you have a had a wonderful birthday and wish you a great year ahead.

2060
03:51:20,740 --> 03:51:23,560
Thank you, sir. Okay, with that, meanings of