[0:02] At

[0:08] this time, I will call the August 6, 2024 meeting of the River City Council order to stand and join me in a pledge, a resolution pledge.

[0:18] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, to my nation and to my power, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:37] have every month here at 5.30. And we're going to do citizens comment, public comment, Mrs.

[0:46] time set aside for citizens to address the city council on any of the item of interest to the

[0:51] public that's in with our subject matter jurisdiction. For items that are on the agenda,

[0:57] that's when you'll give your public comment. We reserve the right to limit speakers three

[1:02] minutes and please understand by law that the city council cannot make

[1:06] decisions on matters that are not on the agenda and they'll be forwarded to the

[1:11] city manager's office. We'll start out with public comment, citizens comment? JR?

[1:17] Yes, I just want to take this time mayor to acknowledge that I'd say

[1:21] Linda Gibbons was a nominated and awarded the woman of the year for the

[1:26] Himming County and I was able to go to her celebration at Wilcox golf

[1:30] course and see a lot of individuals stand up and really acknowledge what she's

[1:35] done for the Latin American community. So on behalf of the City Council I express

[1:40] our congratulations to her. Thank you. Just want to make sure I'm trying to fake Anita here.

[1:51] I'm sorry. Sorry about that.

[1:59] You haven't started the clock yet, have you? I'm doing it right now.

[2:03] I'm here to pray.

[2:06] Father, thank you for this life that you have given us that is so rich,

[2:10] it is so meaningful for so many of us, sadly not so rich and not so meaningful for many

[2:19] others. Thank you for this community in the different ways that they show care both through

[2:27] government agencies, non-profits, individual citizens' efforts. This is a great place,

[2:34] Father and I, thank you that I can live in a place like this. I pray that as time goes

[2:39] on we'll continue to find solutions, we'll continue to be able to provide housing, we'll

[2:44] have resources of finances, resources of volunteers and time and facilities. Then we'll be able

[2:54] to see that terrible things that happen to folks that have lost their way will begin to

[2:58] see those mitigate and see people come back to stabilize. As much as it's possible for

[3:05] a city or a county government to deal with that, Father, I pray that our city and our

[3:09] county would be responsive, would be accountable, and would be very fruitful in the things that

[3:16] they do. We have so many opportunities, so few resources, Father, I pray you'd

[3:22] give them wisdom and discernment so that this group might know how to proceed in

[3:27] ways that have the best impact in the most meaningful outcomes for so many

[3:31] people. Watch over this council, this staff, and other employees of Lesson. Give

[3:36] them grace, Father. Thank you for this country. Thank you for this community.

[3:42] Father, thank you for this life that we have. I ask it all in Jesus' name.

[3:58] This

[4:03] is Ken. It is great to join you folks this evening online and as I usually do I would

[4:09] like to read scripture this evening. Honorable Mayor, esteemed members of the City Council.

[4:14] Can you hear me?

[4:19] I'm concerned about Israel at war.

[4:22] They are surrounded by enemies.

[4:25] And they are a friend that nation is a friend of the United States.

[4:28] So they're friends of people here in Red Bluff, too.

[4:32] In Psalm 115, the Bible gives glory to God.

[4:37] It's a Hebraic Psalm, and it's typically read during the Passover,

[4:41] known as a hallowed. But listen to what the Hebrew thought is in worshiping God.

[4:48] Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Thy name give glory. Because of Thy living kindness, because

[4:55] of Thy truth, why should the nations say, where now is their God? But our God is in the heavens.

[5:02] He does whatever He pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of man's hands.

[5:08] They have mouths, but they cannot speak. They have eyes, but they cannot see.

[5:13] They have ears, but they cannot hear. Noses, but they cannot smell. Those who make them

[5:19] will become like them, everyone who trusts in them.

[5:23] O Israel, trust in the Lord. He is their help in their shield. O House of Aaron, trust in

[5:28] the Lord. He is their help in their shield. You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord.

[5:35] He is their help in their shield. The Lord has been mindful of us. He will bless

[5:41] us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. He will

[5:46] bless those who fear the Lord, the small, together with the great. May the Lord

[5:51] give you increase, you and your children. May you be blessed of the Lord,

[5:56] maker of heaven and earth. The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the

[6:01] earth He has given to the sons of men that dead do not praise the Lord nor do

[6:07] any who go down into silence but as for us we will bless the Lord from this

[6:13] time forth and forever praise the Lord. Now I'm not a Hebrew I'm not a Jewish

[6:19] man but I have been as the Bible says adopted into the family of God and some

[6:24] of us here in this room are likewise. The scriptural phrase used is

[6:29] grafted in which means we're seated at God's table with the Hebrew people. Just a

[6:34] tip of the hat to these people our prayers our thoughts go up to them as

[6:38] they're involved in some horrible warfare and I know it's around the globe

[6:44] wish or around the globe greeting and prayer for these people but that's my

[6:52] concern this evening. Thank you so much for listening thank you for

[6:55] considering the word of God, Psalm 115.

[6:59] Public comment, citizens comment.

[7:02] Jackie?

[7:11] My name's Jackie Hernandez, and I live out at Highland Bluffs.

[7:15] And I want to thank each and every person here that had to do with getting the work started out there,

[7:23] the read-abatement that I came two weeks ago about, or longer.

[7:28] But anyway, it's not quite then.

[7:31] I hate to be like the wife the gujian honey do list and say, but but

[7:37] Unfortunately, it's not quite done. So what I'd like to do at this time is get on the agenda

[7:43] So that I could be able to discuss this matter.

[7:52] Can I

[7:54] Yes, oh

[7:57] Portion of the end of the council meeting where the members can put on a future agenda item

[8:03] So they'll be able to discuss that and give me direction if they want me to put that on a future agenda.

[8:08] Oh, okay. All right. Thank you.

[8:09] You're welcome.

[8:12] Other comments, citizens comment?

[8:17] Seeing no one else.

[8:19] Any agenda corrections?

[8:21] Yes, there was two minor corrections. One in item number six, which begins on page 71.

[8:28] The ordinance was in there twice. It was duplicated, so we removed one copy.

[8:32] In addition to that the page numbering was added by the deputy city clerk. Those are the only corrections

[8:40] One just wanted to announce happening currently as national night out

[8:44] It's actually being held at room park near the Chamber of Commerce office that last until 8 p.m

[8:50] If you'd like swing by and visit with our police and fire personnel

[8:54] Also the nomination period is still open for anyone wishing to run for city council that period closes on August 9th

[9:02] but it's incumbent, does not file paperwork,

[9:05] it gets extended to August 14th.

[9:08] Also, there is just a reminder

[9:10] that Tame County Associations of Realtor

[9:12] is holding a public forum on August 12th

[9:15] from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Veterans Hall

[9:17] to kind of have a panel forum

[9:19] about how the PATH Navigation Center

[9:21] has positively impacted the unsheltered residents

[9:24] within the community.

[9:26] I know that Chief Lockmire will be attending

[9:29] in addition to Captain Ortega,

[9:31] and then Cole McClure, our homeless liaison officer, will be there too.

[9:35] And then the last thing I wanted to say, City of Herbalup hasn't been directly impacted by the park fire,

[9:41] but we know that there's thousands of personnel that are here in our area from around the state of California

[9:47] helping to protect life, property, and our natural resources.

[9:51] I just wanted to say thank you to all those personnel, and I know that Chief Lockmire and Scott Miller,

[9:56] our public force director, have a couple of updates as well.

[9:58] That's it. Okay.

[10:00] Do you want to resource who's got here?

[10:03] Yes, sir.

[10:04] Summer programs are wrapping up for this year.

[10:07] The pool program as well as the fund zone program over the summer.

[10:12] And so we have about 25 apart type of staff members that the city hires for the summer and those programs will be coming to an end shortly.

[10:21] The programs went very well to the best of my knowledge.

[10:23] We're also recruiting new police officer, corporal, and sergeant positions, and we have been advertising the $40,000 hiring bonus for

[10:32] lateral people for that. That was approved at West Council. That's all I have to say.

[10:37] Okay, the new development director, Beth Lundauer.

[10:42] Hello, thanks, ma'am.

[10:44] Fire Chief Mike Bachmauer.

[10:47] Honorable Mayor, members of Council, good evening. Today for the fire department, in relation to the Park Fire,

[10:54] We have one

[10:58] engine along with two of our division chiefs who today I think their assignment is in

[11:02] Mill Creek so they might be pretty busy right now as that's where the majority of the fire

[11:07] activity is. The public information I've seen is all I know so they know the fires over 414,000

[11:15] acres at this point. There's something like 35, 3600 personnel on that distributed across all

[11:21] kinds of apparatus. In addition to those crews working there we also have an

[11:27] engine and three personnel who are out doing a helibase standby and we'll talk

[11:31] too much about that because Mr. Miller will talk about that as the airport

[11:34] manager but once they get over a certain number of helicopters or ships on

[11:39] station then they have to have an engine do standby while they're doing

[11:42] their operations in case there's an incident at the helibase so that's what

[11:46] we're out doing out there currently have been since Saturday the 27th, I believe.

[11:54] In addition, just to remind everybody, there's a couple of ways to get information.

[11:59] One of the things that runs through the County Sheriff's Department used to be called Zone

[12:03] Haven.

[12:04] It is now switched to what's called Genesis and you can go to a website protect.genesis.com

[12:12] and Genesis is spelled G E N A S Y S and at that location if you have internet

[12:20] access you can put your address in and it will search and tell you which

[12:24] evacuation zone you're in. There's also a really handy app that I think

[12:29] everybody in the department has had for quite a while even my wife's had it for

[12:33] like two years and I just heard about it called Watch Duty and so when you

[12:38] download this app in your phone and put in your information it will give

[12:42] you updates about incidents that are occurring around your area up to and

[12:47] including it is tied into the Genesis system and will give notifications on

[12:52] evacuations. So if anybody needs any of that information, download the watch through

[12:57] the app or go to protect.genesis-g-e-n-a-s-y-s.

[13:10] No offence.

[13:13] Police Department acting chief, correct me.

[13:18] I'd just like to echo the words by City Manager Pumbler,

[13:25] they're in the field on the park fire due to our staffing levels.

[13:28] We've been unable to send any of our personnel for that,

[13:31] so we just appreciate the ones that can do to help our community.

[13:34] And just for the personnel that are out at the river park tonight,

[13:38] being with our community, we appreciate them,

[13:40] and hopefully we get a good turnout out of the park.

[13:43] It seems like every year now it's on a city council week.

[13:47] It's the first Tuesday in August every year.

[13:51] Yeah.

[13:52] Director of Public Works, Scott Miller.

[13:55] Thank you, Mayor.

[13:56] Members of the City Council.

[13:57] As Chief Blockbinder said, you know, our airport is really hopping starting Saturday.

[14:04] We got word from Monty Smith with Cal Fire.

[14:09] The unit chief pertaining with land.

[14:12] give us a heads up that it was going to be coming down myself and Gary Walker with

[14:17] Cardian aircraft services where are we preparing for as we were watching to come

[14:21] that much closer we started proactively getting set up our pre-plan for out of

[14:27] the site as well as bringing in a bunch more fuel to supply the thirsty birds

[14:31] we didn't know how many that we're going to get we were originally told

[14:34] roughly about 12 end up ramping up to 17 and to date the largest ramp

[14:40] that we did have out there was 37 aircraft additional aircraft teams out

[14:45] there by far this is our largest mobilization of L base to date previous

[14:50] record was 33 they have a temporary tower set up out there that is

[14:55] controlling aircraft coming in and going out because the helicopter

[15:00] We're trying to find the most efficient fastest route to respond to the incident, as well as

[15:05] multiple loads underneath their ships. We want to make sure that we keep a proper separation.

[15:10] Our general aviation airport is still open and going, so in conjunction with emergency

[15:15] responses. It is a very dynamic situation, so the aircraft will come in and leave. I

[15:21] think we've ramped down to about 15 was our lowest at any point, and then it's backed

[15:26] I think currently right about 25 AT&T actually brought out some therapy dogs

[15:33] to bring out to the crews to help relieve some of the stress and stuff

[15:38] that they're fighting out there which was a pretty cool little issue. One of

[15:44] the other things I would like to you know command CAL FIRE and those stuff for

[15:47] this activation is they're utilizing a lot of local resources for this. Just

[15:53] at or how a base alone we have emergency command support which provides trailers

[15:57] and other large-scale stuff to support the buyer. All American emergency

[16:03] services, TENS, air conditioning systems, cooling centers for the crews that are

[16:07] out there, Ben's trucking, Kevin's delinquent, Green Martin whiskey kitchen

[16:11] has their cook trailer out for providing dinners to all the crews out

[16:17] there, but also command Captain Casey Hickok with the team that's out there

[16:23] providing crash rescue. Not only have they been doing crash rescue services out

[16:28] there, familiarizing themselves with the aircraft should an instant come up, he's

[16:32] also providing some of his other side skills and talents in what I like to

[16:38] call preventative crash rescue. The aircraft tower had a comms issue and

[16:44] actually one of their insisted with getting their system back up and

[16:47] operational so we had proper communications going back and forth.

[16:51] So, taking and providing a good qualified personnel for out there.

[16:55] Some stuff that's outside of the holiday operations.

[17:00] Got a couple of road closures that are coming up.

[17:02] One that's gonna be ours is Low Hall Street, Thursday night at 1130 PM to 7 o'clock in the morning.

[17:09] We'll be doing some repair issues there, striking and cleaning up on the edge.

[17:14] edge of that roadways. It's just kind of a neighbor. So when we close it down to do it at night,

[17:18] we're also doing a bunch of stop bars, crosswalks, and stuff around the schools.

[17:23] The approach was going to be required for that. And then also for the county project on South Maine,

[17:27] with a roundabout project, the northbound I-5 ramps will be closed from I-5 to South Maine.

[17:35] That'd be Wednesday and Thursday nights from 7 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the

[17:40] both of those days.

[17:42] We sent off little blasts to the hospitals,

[17:45] the fire departments, and such,

[17:46] so that they were all aware of that for safety,

[17:48] but more than that.

[17:50] Thank you.

[17:51] Yeah, we don't have any commission reports.

[17:54] We don't have any presentations.

[17:56] Conflict and Ventures Declaration.

[17:58] If we have an item on the agenda and you have a conflict,

[18:01] make sure you announce that.

[18:03] Then we shall go to the Consent Agenda Approval of Minutes.

[18:06] We've got three items.

[18:07] and City Council Regular Meeting on May 5th,

[18:11] City Council Regular Meeting on March 19th,

[18:14] and number three,

[18:15] Resolution of City Council's City of Red Blocks

[18:17] Authorized and Designing City Manager

[18:20] as the authorized representative

[18:22] to sign and file a financial assistance application

[18:24] for the Waste Plot and Reclamation Plant Treatment

[18:27] Realizability Project.

[18:38] Motion by.

[18:42] Second.

[18:43] Second by Council Member Hurton.

[18:45] Any further discussion?

[18:45] Can

[18:48] you pose, chair votes aye, motion carried,

[18:53] killer agenda, number four, school resource

[18:56] officer, MOU of the Revlock Union Elementary School District, and this will be acting chief

[19:01] Clinton Ortega.

[19:03] Thank you, Mayor and members of the City Council.

[19:06] Tonight for approval you have a memorandum of understanding between the Revlock Union

[19:10] Elementary School District and the Revlock Police Department.

[19:14] This MOU is very similar to the contract or MOU that you had in front of you

[19:20] with rental high school with a few differences.

[19:23] This contract is a three-year contract

[19:25] with the option of two one-year contract

[19:28] or one-year extensions for a total of five

[19:31] potential years for an MOU.

[19:34] With this MOU, it also has funding

[19:37] that's provided by AV109,

[19:39] which is the public re-alignment act

[19:42] that offsets some of the costs

[19:44] that the school has had to provide in the past.

[19:46] So with that, the elementary school has only provided $20,000 towards the SRO officer in

[19:55] the past.

[19:56] So we'll continue to receive that money from AB 109 and then this contract will provide

[20:02] funding for the subsequent three years, but that funding is a little bit different than

[20:06] what the Rebel High School provides because of the offset funding.

[20:09] So tonight we're asking for the City Council to approve the MOU between the Rebel

[20:14] up to the elementary school district and the rebel police department with the

[20:17] authority for the chief of police decided also

[20:25] I'm glad we're here is 20

[20:28] grand and now

[20:32] getting this we're actually getting close towards the end of

[20:37] this contract we're going to be paying getting the money reimbursed to us for

[20:41] this SRO great officers that's nice I

[20:55] make a motion to approve the memorandum

[20:58] of understanding between the red blood union elementary school district

[21:01] by the Police Department for School Resource Officer Services and Authorized Achievement of Police Decision.

[21:08] Questions by Council Member Ben-Gaulis?

[21:10] Any questions by Council Member Burton for the discussion?

[21:16] All in favor?

[21:17] Aye.

[21:18] Any opposed?

[21:19] Chair votes aye.

[21:20] All in favor?

[21:23] Aye.

[21:24] Any opposed?

[21:25] All in favor?

[21:26] Aye.

[21:27] Any opposed?

[21:29] Chair votes aye.

[21:29] All in favor?

[21:33] Aye.

[21:34] Any opposed?

[21:35] members. On May 21st, 2024, the city council approved a contract with public relations firm

[21:42] Clifford Moss for assistance with the city's proposed ballot measure to repair the city's

[21:47] dreams. FM3 research was hired to conduct a survey of Rev. Love residents for that ballot

[21:53] measure. That survey results were conducted in June of this year with 325 likely voters

[22:02] for the November election that were contacted via phone,

[22:06] cell and online with text and email.

[22:10] Tonight, we have with us Miranda Everett of FM3 Research.

[22:14] She's going to go through the survey results.

[22:17] In addition to that, we also have Laura Prody of Clifford Moss.

[22:21] And so I think at this time, Miranda,

[22:24] I'm going to go ahead and pull up my screen with slides,

[22:26] and then you can take away.

[22:28] Thanks so much.

[22:37] So let me know when they're on the screen

[22:39] just because I can't see.

[22:40] Ah, here we go.

[22:42] So my name is Miranda Everett.

[22:43] I'm a senior vice president at FM3 Research.

[22:45] We are a public opinion research and strategy firm based

[22:48] in Oakland, Los Angeles, and Portland.

[22:51] I'm here to present tonight the results of the survey

[22:55] that was just mentioned, which we

[22:58] can start with on the next slide with our methodology.

[23:01] So first, this was a survey conducted in mid-June

[23:04] with likely November 2024 voters in Red Bluff.

[23:08] that was determined based on their prior vote history. So folks who have turned out in prior

[23:13] presidential elections or frequently turned out as well as relative newcomers to the city were

[23:18] included in that sample. We were able to speak to 325 random and representative members of the

[23:24] community using, as was mentioned, kind of every tool in the toolbox, phone calls with live

[23:30] interviews, email invitations and text message invitations directing folks to an online

[23:36] The margin of sampling error for this study is 5.7% for the full sample and in places where we employed a split sample, which I'll describe in a moment, that margin of sampling error is closer to 9%.

[23:51] So moving into some of the context that we asked about in this survey, starting on the next slide, we asked voters to tell us whether they have favorable or unfavorable views of the city government and the city council more specifically.

[24:05] You can see here that they're pretty split down the middle, a little bit more positive

[24:10] than negative here, 39 to 34 for yourself, City Council, 38 to 34 for your colleagues

[24:17] in City Government more broadly.

[24:20] And you can see there's about a quarter in either case who are just not really aware

[24:24] enough to give an opinion.

[24:25] And this isn't uncommon in smaller cities if folks are, you know, in our modern

[24:30] news environment and not especially tuned in and they give kind of middling or

[24:36] or decline to rate. So fairly in line with what we see in many places.

[24:41] However on the next slide you can see when we ask people whether they are satisfied with city

[24:45] services in general there's a lot of dissatisfaction. In fact 55% say they are dissatisfied with

[24:51] city services, 21% giving it kind of the lowest rating of very dissatisfied and just 5%

[24:58] saying they're very satisfied. And this is something that I think is going to be drawn out in some

[25:04] additional slides as you'll see starting on the next one. The majority here harbors some level

[25:11] of concern with the city's financial management. You can see 54% say the statement, I trust the

[25:17] city to manage taxpayer funds wisely is an inaccurate one. 37% say that is very inaccurate

[25:23] and then 36% say they actually do trust the city.

[25:27] And so, you know, there is a certain level

[25:30] of public cynicism about government in many cases.

[25:33] And here you can see that also applies

[25:36] to the local context.

[25:38] On the next slide, I think this is one of the key findings

[25:41] that really stood out to us in this study

[25:43] is just how great the appetite is

[25:46] for funding to maintain local streets and roads.

[25:49] As you can see, 80% say there is a great need

[25:53] or some need for such funding, 61% give it the highest reading of great need for funding.

[25:59] Of course, this question isn't tied to a particular mechanism, amount, project list, anything

[26:05] like that.

[26:06] Just looking to see whether voters recognize this need in the community.

[26:11] In some communities, we don't see numbers nearly as high, and I think this is a really

[26:16] striking finding, really broadly seen as a need.

[26:21] So next, moving more specifically to the measure we tested, on the next slide you can see the language that we used in our survey.

[26:29] Now, we wrote it as a special purpose measure, which has a two-thirds vote threshold.

[26:33] We also wrote it for the one-cent level, which I know is different than what you're considering tonight.

[26:39] Our kind of mode of research typically is to start at the higher level, and if people don't have an appetite for that to kind of pull some different levers and see where people land.

[26:49] And then you as policy makers along with staff can really decide what makes the most sort of policy sense

[26:55] But given the the research limitations we had we just wanted to look at at this

[27:00] This is as close as possible to what people might see on a November ballot 75 words

[27:05] It's got some of the required phrases that the state

[27:10] Requires the duration of the tax the amount things like that as well as a brief kind of listing of what it might fund

[27:16] So, everyone either heard or read this pretty early on in the survey.

[27:21] And the next slide shows the reaction to that.

[27:24] We saw nearly two-thirds support for this, 65% said they would vote yes, 41% said they

[27:29] would definitely vote yes.

[27:32] Notably, that's quite a high level, but it is a high bar to clear that two-thirds.

[27:37] So, given the margin of error of the survey overall being around 6%, that puts us in

[27:42] a place where we're right at the margin needed for passage.

[27:45] It's just really tough to get to two-thirds in many places.

[27:50] The next slide digs into the demographics just a bit more.

[27:53] You can see the patterns of support by gender and by age.

[27:57] It's slightly broader among women at 70%, than among men at 64%.

[28:02] By age, the patterns are pretty similar, just margin of error differences there as

[28:07] well.

[28:09] The next slide shows some distinctions by party registration and voters racial or

[28:14] ethnic identity. You can see two-thirds of Democrats support the measure,

[28:18] as do two-thirds of independents. Republicans, who are typically quite

[28:22] critical of many tax measures, also support this at three and five level.

[28:27] That is a great sign, but it's just still tough for a two-thirds measure.

[28:32] And then we can see white voters a bit more strongly supportive than voters of color,

[28:36] although both are offering majority support.

[28:39] On the next slide, you can see those earlier questions about need for funding

[28:43] and about trust of the city in managing funds and how people's kind of

[28:49] interactions of opinions work with the vote on the measure. So at the top of the

[28:54] slide you can see those who see a great need for roads funding, 75% of them

[28:58] support this measure, 63% of those who see some need for funding support the

[29:03] measure, and of those who trust the city to manage funds wisely, 78% are

[29:07] supporting the measure, and even 55% of those who don't trust the city to

[29:12] manage the funds wisely, still say they would vote yes on the measure as we

[29:15] provided it to them.

[29:19] Notably as I mentioned before we asked about a couple

[29:21] different approaches just to see if we got broader support with a shorter

[29:27] sunset or a lower tax amount. Statistically speaking the differences

[29:32] are marginal and so our kind of conclusion there was to really let

[29:36] policy guide that decision-making because voters are really open to that

[29:40] one cent 20-year tax as well as to three quarters or to 10 cents or three quarters of a cent or 10

[29:46] years rather. Another question we put to voters pretty fundamentally here is knowing that you

[29:52] could have either a tax that is in place longer and has enough funding over time to repair major roads

[29:59] and neighbors.

[30:00] Neighborhood streets. Or you could have a tax that expires more quickly and takes care

[30:05] of major roads, but not neighborhood streets. And when we put it to voters in those terms,

[30:10] kind of weighing those choices, 70% say they prefer the tax that's in place longer and

[30:16] takes care of more of the city's needs. Really quite a broad margin here. It's kind of striking

[30:21] how broad this margin is. And then you have about 21% who don't say they don't know.

[30:25] twice as high as the share who would prefer the the shorter sunset.

[30:32] Next you

[30:33] see a number of potential investment priorities. There's a few slides in this

[30:38] series, three slides. These are ranked in order of the share who called each an

[30:42] extremely or very important priority for the funds. So at the top of the list

[30:46] you can see a lot of things related to streets and roads. That includes fixing

[30:50] potholes, repairing and maintaining local streets and roads, doing it to

[30:54] reduce the need for future repairs. So putting that kind of finer point on why

[30:58] in just a few words that's important too. And then providing safe routes to

[31:02] school for children. All of these things valued by four and five voters or more

[31:07] and the extreme value they place on it is also quite high. On the second slide

[31:12] you can see things that are valued at seven and ten to eight to four and

[31:15] five. That includes reducing damage to vehicles caused by potholes, making the

[31:20] city eligible for state and federal matching funds. That's something that

[31:24] really stands out to voters.

[31:25] Local control and annual audits,

[31:27] an important piece of the puzzle,

[31:29] as well as upgrading sidewalks

[31:31] for people with disabilities.

[31:32] All of those things also broadly include.

[31:36] Relatively low on the list,

[31:37] you can see improving traffic safety,

[31:42] repairing and maintaining sidewalks,

[31:44] doing so to attract businesses,

[31:46] building sidewalks in places without them.

[31:48] These are still things that in those shades of blue,

[31:50] you can see broad shares of voter support,

[31:52] Just with a little less intensity and then paving unpaid streets and roads. That's kind of the lowest on the to-do list for voters overall

[32:01] So next we've provided some additional information to voters to see where they are after they've learned more about a measure

[32:07] Both kind of from the positive side and the negative side of the point

[32:10] One is to take a good good look at back as you've seen already our initial vote was 65 to 28

[32:17] Which is a brief position to be in we're at a majority measure, but tough for a two-thirds

[32:23] After positive information, we move up that definitely yes share by six points.

[32:27] Our overall yes share doesn't move too much, but a good sign there.

[32:31] And then after critical messaging, we see with our final vote,

[32:34] we're at 59% yes to 33% no.

[32:37] So, again, that would be a great place to be for a majority measure,

[32:40] but at two thirds, it's just pretty tough.

[32:44] The next slide shows who is overrepresented in our consistent yes category,

[32:49] who is overrepresented in our consistent no category,

[32:51] category, who our swing voters are, who kind of move back and forth, who are kind of open

[32:56] to more information or change their mind throughout, and just shows a little bit about who those

[33:02] folks are in each category.

[33:04] I think it's important to note here that really it's kind of a mixed bag and not as typical

[33:09] as we see on many measures where this kind of looks like purdy lines.

[33:13] It's a little different than what we see in some other places.

[33:17] So starting on the next slide, you see some of the arguments that we shared in favor of

[33:21] a measure, some rationals to support it.

[33:25] The potential wear and tear on your cars, the kind of potholes and that kind of maintenance

[33:30] really stood out to folks 45 percent of them, so that's a very convincing reason to consider

[33:35] a yes vote.

[33:36] Forty-three percent said a message really dealing with PCI, although we didn't use

[33:40] that technical term.

[33:41] and we said streets that are rated as failing or poor

[33:44] was a standout message for them.

[33:46] The idea of accountability and kind of ensuring

[33:50] that it will be spent on this thing

[33:51] that we saw earlier in the survey

[33:52] they really notice and care about

[33:54] which is the street and road conditions

[33:56] really stands out as well.

[33:58] The next slide shows things that ranked a little bit

[34:01] lower in terms of connecting with voters

[34:05] and their concerns.

[34:06] The idea that sales taxes are paid largely

[34:09] by out of towners. The idea that a dollar on a hundred dollar purchase is a small price to pay.

[34:14] Those aren't as important to people as just hearing and having explained to them how the

[34:19] measure is going to really deal with that fundamental problem they saw of the road

[34:22] conditionings as we saw in the prior slide. And the next slide just shows the ranking

[34:26] are very convincing. We already showed you as well as the folks who say,

[34:30] yeah, this is somewhat convincing. And you can see a lot of these are connecting to seven

[34:33] and 10 voters or more, those top two are really kind of a standout, as we said.

[34:41] Now, on the other side of the point, we also wanted to make sure we tested some potential

[34:46] critiques we might hear in the community from organized groups who might oppose and

[34:51] just really get a good, honest look at whether it's going to be worth the city's resources

[34:55] to put something in front of voters with that in mind.

[34:58] At the top of the list, a very simple message saying taxes are too high and another

[35:02] that seeing cost of living is out of control. Those are the things that really resonate on

[35:07] the no side and that is something we've been seeing across the state and in many other

[35:11] states, frankly, on every kind of tax revenue measure these days. Just the idea that people

[35:16] are feeling pretty pressed and it can be hard to sort of justify additional costs.

[35:21] So that is not unique to your community. And the next slide shows just how much

[35:25] those resonate. You can see there are a couple where they're getting close to the

[35:30] a 70% range, so those are ones that are potentially meaningful for folks.

[35:36] And then another few of those that really fall flat, like the other priorities message, saying

[35:40] we just don't need to spend money on roads right now.

[35:42] That's something that people are really rejecting.

[35:45] It's really about whether they're ready for a tax increase.

[35:49] So another thing we did at the very end of the survey, it wasn't quite a fair

[35:52] test because after all of this pro and con messaging, particularly the con messaging,

[35:57] was test a simple majority general-purpose measure.

[36:02] You can see this one has a 50% plus one threshold.

[36:04] It includes much more things in addition to roads like storm drains, emergency response, et cetera.

[36:10] And we wanted to tuck that into the end of the survey and just see how it was reacted to that as well.

[36:15] And you can see on the next slide that after the whole back-and-forth about the roads measure,

[36:21] views of this are not particularly sunny.

[36:23] We're at 47% yes to 45% no.

[36:25] But a good share of folks, about 8% are undecided because they've kind of gone through a whole

[36:31] survey where we talked about roads quite a bit and now we're moving to this other option.

[36:36] And so I think that often we see when we check in that second question, it's not quite

[36:41] a fair look, but it does give us an indication that that real focus on roads is quite important

[36:46] to folks.

[36:49] So another thing we did is briefly test some key messengers, wanted to know who

[36:52] people trust or want to hear from on this type of message, measure and learn more about.

[36:59] Firefighters are beloved.

[37:00] That's common in every community, but especially yours right now and sure.

[37:05] Volunteers, police officers, traffic engineers, construction workers, these are all folks

[37:10] that folks in your community who really want to hear from and really trust and they're

[37:15] more mixed to negative on hearing from the Red Bull of Daily News or the Chamber

[37:20] of commerce or taxpayer associations. And these are kind of common patterns we find. Folks really

[37:26] want to hear from those who kind of have that day to day experience and don't necessarily have

[37:30] something to gain by a measure being passed. So just to wrap up, our poll does show a challenging

[37:38] path forward for a special purpose roads measure in 2024. We've got two-thirds support

[37:43] based on the ballot measure alone. That's fantastic news. But for the tough margin,

[37:49] you've got it two-thirds you've just got no margin for error here as folks might be persuaded to

[37:54] drop off or not show up. So there's not quite as much room to breathe. So this is something

[37:59] that's really going to take an effort to get passed and help voters really understand how

[38:04] it's going to address that issue. The good news though is that folks really clearly see

[38:10] the need for roads funding. That is something that there's there's really no question about.

[38:15] So kind of making the case for that how this is going to address potholes,

[38:18] street and road conditions, things like that, that's really going to be key.

[38:22] And as we were developing this survey, we're kind of building the plane as we're flying

[38:26] it.

[38:27] ACA-1 was also a factor that was originally drafted to apply at the state level to measures

[38:32] like this, and it could have reduced the vote threshold to 55%.

[38:36] That was part of why we wanted to spend a lot of time on that special purpose piece.

[38:41] This is now known as Prop 5, and now it only applies to infrastructure bonds, and

[38:45] so it wouldn't apply to this measure here,

[38:49] but pending the fate of Prop 5 in November in the future,

[38:53] a bond might also be worth a look

[38:54] because it has that lower vote threshold.

[38:57] So that kind of takes us to the end of the survey

[39:00] and I'm happy to take questions.

[39:04] Right here.

[39:06] Council.

[39:06] Paul.

[39:08] Yeah, thank you, Miranda.

[39:10] I just wanted to say, Anita,

[39:13] that I'm also a little karate I believe is also on.

[39:15] She's the phone number 408, if you want to promote her.

[39:20] The survey is close, as Miranda indicated.

[39:24] The item after this action is a sales tax measure that

[39:29] is a special use tax that is 66.7% voter threshold.

[39:35] We went that way purposefully so that those funds generated

[39:40] if that measure does pass can only be used for the purposes

[39:43] of the streets.

[39:44] can't be diverted to anything else that would only go to the streets and the improvements

[39:48] thereof. So, I just wanted to add that in. I do know

[39:52] that if Laura hopefully can participate with us as well, just to answer

[39:56] any questions, but I just wanted to make that comment.

[39:59] Okay. Gals, what are your comments?

[40:08] Appreciate what Tom said. You know, one of the greatest, one of the most frequent

[40:12] comments to me, made by the citizens of the fact that there is

[40:17] something being said around that we will pass this tax and then the funds will be

[40:23] used someplace else and I don't know what it's coming from the five

[40:26] individuals shared that would be and that's kind of something that's always

[40:29] approaching I want to I made that clear to them this is a measure that it is

[40:33] streets only as Tom has indicated this measure and it's there's audit factors

[40:38] into this and I really appreciate the work that's been done with the

[40:42] survey and the citizens have asked us to fix the streets and that has been our

[40:49] objective and our priority for a long time. It's just not this year that this

[40:54] council's been working on it and I appreciate the work that other council

[40:57] members have done with this but this money will be used for streets and

[41:03] there'll be an audit and so on to protect this money that is not used

[41:07] anything else.

[41:12] Well,

[41:17] is that even for the public? But you never ask. Randall, let me ask you a

[41:23] question that isn't reflected in the survey, but your experience may help. When you have a

[41:29] measure like this, is the voter propensity higher among people who favor the measure or higher

[41:37] among people who oppose the measure?

[41:43] That is not something that is consistent across studies.

[41:47] I can, in a few moments here, look at the differences by voter turnout, but

[41:53] typically demographics like party or age or home ownership or income have much

[42:01] more to do with that correlation than voter turnout. And here we saw broad

[42:05] support across party lines, which we don't always see, but just a little

[42:10] lower than two thirds with Republicans. So I can look that up. I think that's

[42:16] an important consideration given that we've got such a small margin of error.

[42:22] Second question, also not addressed by the survey but asking about your experience,

[42:27] you may know, and I think unless I'm mistaken, there is still the likelihood of two measures on the ballot.

[42:33] Is that still the case?

[42:38] And signatures with the August name.

[42:41] Okay, so it's possible that there will be two measures.

[42:46] Is that correct?

[42:47] The City Council doesn't control that initiative, so I don't know the status of that.

[42:53] So, Rhonda, my question is, if you have two competing measures on the same ballot with different parameters,

[43:02] what is your experience as to how likely it is that either of them would pass?

[43:09] Yeah, we often find, you know, we do a lot of work where perhaps they're, you know,

[43:16] high school district and a community college district or something like that,

[43:20] not quite the overlap that we may see here potentially, but we find often that

[43:24] voters kind of consider them on their merits individually. Do they feel like

[43:29] the mechanism is the right one? Do they feel like the amount is right? Do they

[43:33] feel like now is the time and the need is urgent? The impact of a campaign to

[43:38] really distinguish the two and say you know this is the one you should

[43:41] support or you should support both or whatever it might be could have an

[43:45] impact in a small community as well and maybe that's something Laura has more

[43:48] experience with but I think in this case it can be hard to say but typically what

[43:53] we find is that voters evaluate each measure sort of on their own merits. My

[43:58] experience as a voter there are more lines of text there as explaining a

[44:05] measure unless likely I am to read all of the lines of text and since these

[44:10] These are both highly technical in terms of the term, the amounts, the years, everything

[44:18] else you buy is cross-breeding both of these.

[44:22] Do you find that people read thoroughly before they decide in your experience program?

[44:32] That's the music I'm playing.

[44:34] I've never heard that before.

[44:38] And I go to a lot of these.

[44:41] Yeah, I think that 75 words we put in front of people is the one thing they're going

[44:45] see right above where they check yes or no, and so that's what we put in front of everybody.

[44:50] That is kind of the truest test.

[44:52] Of course, depending on, you know, the scenario, people might see long signs or see on Facebook

[44:58] or whatever it is.

[44:59] Yes on measure.

[45:09] I think that's why that 75 words is the most important thing we look at, because that is the one thing we know. It is right about where they check yes or no, and that is the one thing that we're pretty certain most people read.

[45:24] Thank you, Miranda. A question for council then, and Tom, maybe a question for you.

[45:29] I'm understanding that if the agenda item tonight is passed, the city will have on the ballot

[45:39] in November a measure as you've described it in Ashista.

[45:43] And I'm understanding, Tom, I know you don't have control over what you're posing or the opposite may do,

[45:50] but when is the deadline for that to be finished?

[45:55] And am I understanding you to say that the other competing proposal has not yet completed

[46:02] all of its needs to be able to get it on the ballot?

[46:06] Nothing's been submitted to the city yet and the deadline for our tax measure we move forward

[46:11] is Friday, August 9th.

[46:13] So we intend if the council makes action this evening to get that to register our voters

[46:18] in the next day or two.

[46:19] Yeah, what are you going to do Cody?

[46:22] After that's not on the agenda tonight.

[46:24] What is it?

[46:25] We are actually discussing the results of a survey.

[46:28] All right, that's amazing.

[46:30] Thank you.

[46:32] Are there public comment around the phone?

[46:36] No, Jim's erased.

[46:38] Okay.

[46:39] We're done with that one, then we'll go to number six.

[46:42] An ordinance of the city of Rebluff imposing a transaction and use tax to be administered

[46:47] by the California Department of Tax and Food Administration.

[46:50] Tonight, we're going to conduct a public hearing and waive the second reading

[46:53] Is that my title on the DOC ordinance number 1085 for Red Bluff Street repair and safety

[46:59] measure gone? Thank you Mayor, Council Members. As indicated at the last meeting on July 16th,

[47:06] the Council directed staff to alter the ordinance in the following manner provide a sales tax rate

[47:12] of three quarters of one cent for a period of 20 years. And that was done. I just wanted to

[47:18] just talk briefly and with the last presentation this was touched on a little bit to to clear up any

[47:24] confusion that makes this regarding a general purpose tax and a special use tax. As the council

[47:30] is aware what is proposed and before you this evening is a special use tax. A general obligation

[47:36] tax requires 50 plus one voter approval. When those funds come in and they're funneled down

[47:44] through the state of California. Those come in as revenues for the city's budget and then are

[47:50] allocated accordingly through the budgetary process. That's not the same as what's proposed this

[47:56] evening. Proposed this evening is a special use tax. It requires 66.7% voter threshold.

[48:04] When those funds are collected and funneled from the state of California to the city,

[48:08] they come in as revenue, but they can only be spent in a specific manner related to the

[48:13] the way that they were collected,

[48:15] which is for our streets.

[48:17] As the council is aware,

[48:19] this ordinance is really two components.

[48:20] There's the ordinance itself

[48:22] in addition to the expenditure plan.

[48:25] And so I just wanted to touch on a couple of highlights.

[48:28] Again, the mechanics of this ordinance

[48:31] with the exception of the sunset date of 20 years

[48:35] and the tax rate have been the same

[48:38] since who was first presented to the city council

[48:41] until you're meeting on April 2nd of 2024.

[48:44] As I mentioned, this is a special use tax

[48:46] of three quarters of 1% of 1 cent.

[48:50] This is a 20 year term.

[48:51] It's only for streets within the city of Ruff Love.

[48:54] It requires a local street strategic plan,

[48:57] which is essentially how, when those funds are collected,

[49:01] how they are going to be spent

[49:02] on engineering design, construction, et cetera.

[49:05] It requires the creation of an oversight committee,

[49:08] It requires annual audits and reports on the revenues generated.

[49:12] It will approve existing streets and develops ADA improvements where required.

[49:17] There's an expenditure plan that is connected to this ordinance that lists the potential cost identified

[49:23] in the pavement condition index that was completed as well as engineering

[49:28] and design ADA improvements and construction management costs.

[49:32] As was indicated earlier, this requires as a special use tax

[49:38] 66.7% of the voters. If it is passed based upon a kind of a five-year average of sales

[49:45] tax data, we would anticipate that that would generate potentially $3.8 million annually with

[49:52] $76 million total. Now, that factors in that the sales tax never increases in the city

[49:59] of Revla, and we don't know over time that it will. And so, this is kind of the culmination

[50:05] of a process that really began in February of 2023

[50:09] with kind of your adoption of the Capital Improvement Program

[50:12] and then kind of listing the things

[50:13] that we've done since that point in time.

[50:16] So it's taken a lot of work to get here,

[50:18] a lot of staff time.

[50:20] Thank you to Scott Miller Public Works Director,

[50:22] Robbie Campman and Sophia Meyer

[50:25] for all their input to where we're at.

[50:27] So especially use tax three quarters of one cent in 20 years.

[50:32] That's what's before you that is approved this evening and it'd be moving forward to the voter of registrars

[50:38] Beyond the November 20 for 24 election

[50:42] And with that that would be available for any questions. I

[50:49] think I'm going to do is open the public hearing at 620

[50:52] public hearing 620 if anybody in the public or on the phone want to comment

[50:59] In the survey that was done that assessed the condition of the streets of neighborhood streets compared to major routes or major traffic

[51:06] Did it culminate with any kind of a priority assuming that this measure passed as to what

[51:14] the rationale would be or how the decisions would be made as to which streets would have

[51:20] priority of repair?

[51:23] So, yes, there was what's called a decision tree and that, obviously, the streets that

[51:29] have the lowest pavement condition index, which is PCI, those are something that

[51:36] may need to be addressed first but that's a decision that would be made when

[51:40] the formation of that local street strategic plan is formed but yes the

[51:45] pavement condition survey did give us kind of a decision tree on what should

[51:50] go first. Is the PCI lower on neighborhood streets than it is on

[51:56] regular routes? It just depends throughout the city it's not in any one area or the

[52:00] other. It's all over the city. Okay, thank you Tom.

[52:06] Good

[52:18] evening. My name is Steve

[52:22] Madaffo. I'm here as the city president of the DeTamah County Association of Realtors.

[52:27] I'm speaking here with the chair of the Government Affairs Committee for 2024.

[52:32] We're here as the DeTamah County Associates of Realtors. Our association has

[52:36] been diligent working on engaging with local communities throughout educational

[52:40] educational forums, public relations, and governmental affairs.

[52:44] With that said, a few weeks back we had reached out to our city manager, Tom Westbrook, and

[52:48] Council Member Cody Strach with the intention of holding an educational day for the Realtors

[52:53] Association to discuss two slated, quote, road ordinances that were potentially going

[52:58] to the ballot for November.

[53:01] The goal for this meeting was to have a learning session for the Association followed

[53:05] by an open forum for the public.

[53:07] We wanted to present the pros and cons of each ordinance with an outline of what would

[53:12] be provided as far as the longevity of our roads, monetary assistance, and all other items

[53:18] of interest pertaining to these two ordinances.

[53:21] Our initial objective was to openly and publicly support one of the ordinances, the one which

[53:27] we believe to be the best interest in our community.

[53:30] Upon a deep dive of each proposal and multiple reviews, it was the conclusion of the Association's

[53:36] board of directors in addition to a unified singular ordinance that both ordinances needed

[53:42] improvement and consolidation with the other and could not be supported as written.

[53:47] Therefore a unanimous decision was made to no longer support a side and move to have

[53:52] an educational day to oppose each proposed ordinance.

[53:56] Upon this decision we have some ideas and some suggestions that which we believe would

[54:02] be more palatable to the public and likely garner potential support for more local organizations.

[54:09] In our same ability to publicly oppose decisions before our community, we have the ability

[54:13] and intention to proactively support items of interest to our community.

[54:24] We have the ability and intention to proactively support items of interest to our community

[54:28] and look forward to doing so with the measures and ordinances that will move our community

[54:32] in the direction we all want to head.

[54:34] Thank you for your time.

[54:36] Thank you.

[54:37] Another public comment, citizens comment.

[54:47] Public hearing at 624.

[54:49] No, we'll bring it back to council.

[54:53] Comments.

[54:55] One is three quarters of a cent,

[54:59] which doesn't apply to food, medicine,

[55:01] different things.

[55:02] So you're talking about for every

[55:04] hundred dollars you spend,

[55:06] that's an additional 75 cents.

[55:10] That's it.

[55:11] You know, in how many places do you go now

[55:13] with the University of Red Bluff at different businesses when it comes in at

[55:17] an odd number for like the dollar 29 did they ask you hey do you just want to

[55:20] round this up you know sure that's nothing that's what I'm saying 75 cents

[55:25] is hardly anything the other thing is it's been kind of wrong information but

[55:31] out there and one of the things I want Tom to let me know is we're gonna

[55:36] have an oversight committee when are they gonna be appointed when this

[55:39] passes.

[55:43] There's a couple of things that we'll do is the council may know on

[55:47] members of the public if a measure passes in November the revenues don't

[55:52] start being collected until 120 days after which is around April 1st. So I

[55:56] would believe there would be after that probably the beginning of 2025 for the

[56:02] creation of those committees. Okay but it could be done earlier. It could be.

[56:08] I would suggest that it was waiting until at least the November timeframe to see how the measure succeeds.

[56:17] Okay.

[56:38] Council has done what the citizens have asked us to do.

[56:43] And with that in mind,

[56:48] we will join in when everybody sees what can be done for our community.

[56:54] because there's been a lot of effort done by staff to

[57:02] make this happen for the citizens.

[57:07] That's something that we did on our own.

[57:10] It's something that people stood here and asked us that the roads needed to be fixed.

[57:16] And what I see on the survey that was presented is yes, fixed potholes, fixed streets,

[57:23] But the priority also within those three is safety for our children to get to school.

[57:36] Our children have to be safe. Our citizens have to be safe.

[57:40] Our vehicles, people are tired of driving over potholes and I'm not blaming public works.

[57:46] They've done an exceptional job and I talked to Rick over there and his staff is kind

[57:57] of job.

[57:57] And

[58:01] you have to give credit to these guys when they're out there fixing this

[58:10] proposal

[58:11] because the

[58:35] streets look phenomenal.

[58:37] They pay a 10% to, I believe, a 10% or a 10% or a 4% sales tax of tourists.

[58:45] It's a minimal on the survey, I think it's 40 something percent of tourism that people

[58:51] feel will help.

[58:52] But let me tell you, every dollar they spend here will also help fix our streets.

[58:56] And we need to make this community

[59:02] and enjoy services,

[59:06] the tourism that is here, it will

[59:07] enhance our community tremendously.

[59:10] So I hope everybody joins in and helps us get this measure done.

[59:15] It's a real tight threshold looking at the survey.

[59:22] We're right margin.

[59:25] So it's up to the citizens.

[59:29] We've done what you've asked it to do and now it's up to you.

[59:32] join in and and help us get this done because we need our speech face we have a

[59:39] motion right unfair that survey can we identify safe passes for them we have a

[59:45] motion by councilmember Gonzalez to waive the second reading except my

[59:49] title and adopt ordinance number 1085 for Rudd-Luff Street Repair and Safety

[59:53] Mentor is there a second I'll

[59:58] second it further

[1:00:00] So that survey very clearly identified high levels of accountability, a lack of current

[1:00:06] trust in the government, and safe passes schools as a priority for everything they're doing.

[1:00:10] As people complete these surveys, each question adds a forwarding into the item that they're

[1:00:16] discussing. So when those surveys ask things like, do you care about safe passes schools,

[1:00:21] rank these items and they rank them, and then they readdress, who is up for a vote,

[1:00:27] It factors into their opinion. There's an assumption that what they're talking about is going to do that thing.

[1:00:33] But this, this ordinance doesn't do that thing. There is no realistic accountability taken to it, right?

[1:00:39] There's a citizen oversight committee. The council will point out over regulation at their will,

[1:00:45] just like the bullet train had it, right?

[1:00:48] The loss of waste is billions of dollars and had all the same things this ordinance has.

[1:00:52] it's almost like a copy and a paste. When you go to actually enact the things that are

[1:00:57] written in here, it amounts to very, very little accountability. You can do almost whatever

[1:01:02] you want with this money. You can appoint whoever you want to the oversight committee.

[1:01:07] They can issue anything and they like. And frankly, if they issue a negative opinion,

[1:01:12] this council has a habit of not responding to those anyways, like the grand jury writes

[1:01:16] letters to call us out when you do nothing. These aren't accountability measures.

[1:01:23] find your successors and you, but this doesn't find anyone.

[1:01:29] I just wanted to throw that out there before you start saying,

[1:01:32] hey, we're presenting this thing that the citizens asked for, or not.

[1:01:35] We're presenting a thing that was homebrewed and telling them that it's what they asked for

[1:01:39] and it's not what they asked for.

[1:01:42] That's all.

[1:01:45] That's one more hurtful or life-smearing rider than you.

[1:01:51] You can get a motion in a second.

[1:01:52] I'm

[1:01:57] going to get into an argument about this,

[1:02:02] that I will say that I tire of being accused

[1:02:07] of being corrupt, of lying.

[1:02:15] In fact, those statements are made in a very general way.

[1:02:19] That I would suggest goes past the city council and I resent them to

[1:02:28] suggest that this ordinance

[1:02:31] is corrupt, creates a slush fund.

[1:02:34] We have no intention of really fixing the streets.

[1:02:37] And the council does appear about people in the city. I am tired of hearing about that from a particular council member, by the way.

[1:02:47] It's a slash button.

[1:02:50] Change it. I won't call it that.

[1:02:51] And I'm going to borrow a phrase from someone who is running for a higher office this year in response to the activations of being dishonest and corrupt.

[1:03:08] And that is this because

[1:03:13] there's this speaking statements. I assume that it applies to me as well to the ordinance

[1:03:17] So no

[1:03:19] From what I've read that's not correct because you've said it in other instances. I'm lying saying to you and

[1:03:26] This typically just happens on social media. So if you have something to say about me

[1:03:31] Say it to my face. I do we mean we don't know say it's very important

[1:03:39] You're creating a slush fund, and the entire ordinance is highly correctable, and I don't

[1:03:44] think that is true.

[1:03:45] That is not true.

[1:03:46] And you know it.

[1:03:47] It's not true.

[1:03:48] And quite frankly, I'm going to say one other thing because this is going to be voted on.

[1:03:53] I am surprised that you don't recuse yourself from voting on this.

[1:03:57] You know, I do for things less than this as another council member.

[1:04:02] I know it's up to you, but it is a direct conflict of interest.

[1:04:06] Yes, it is.

[1:04:07] They don't make money.

[1:04:10] That's all I'm going to say.

[1:04:13] Can you tell us more about it?

[1:04:15] This

[1:04:19] is big enough that it requires my thinking.

[1:04:27] So I

[1:04:32] demonstrated, and I think we needed to survey to demonstrate the fact that pretty

[1:04:36] much everybody is in agreement that the roads need to be repaired.

[1:04:40] So the streets need to be repaired.

[1:04:46] So, a lot of thinking has gone into this, a lot of preparation has gone into this, a lot of effort has gone into this.

[1:04:53] I think we have all done.

[1:04:56] Staff Council is

[1:05:03] the best way to do this.

[1:05:06] I think we've come up with a good compromise in the fact that the three quarters of a percent for the 20 years,

[1:05:12] obviously a full percent for 25 years would have brought in maybe another 20 million.

[1:05:17] But I think we've brought up a big compromise here that's going to make a good dent in the

[1:05:22] project.

[1:05:23] We've got a problem that we, it's overwhelming to us, and we need the funding for it somehow

[1:05:29] and this is the best way that staff and we, at least four-fifths of the council has come

[1:05:34] up with to do this.

[1:05:37] So, and I think I agree with councilmember Gonzalez, all we're doing here in when we

[1:05:43] vote on this, it should have passed, is we're putting this out to the people and

[1:05:47] that's where it belongs, right? This is asking you for more revenue and it

[1:05:53] so it belongs in your hands and that's all we're doing is we've presented, we've

[1:05:57] put together what we think is best to present to you to do this to handle a

[1:06:01] problem. When it comes down to,

[1:06:06] you know, I think one thing I'm starting to

[1:06:08] learn here being on the council is to have faith in you and your voters. I hope

[1:06:16] that you see through who has integrity, who does not have integrity, who has the

[1:06:23] best interest of the city of mind, who does not have the best interest in the

[1:06:26] city of mind. I really really hope that the voters had a thank you for

[1:06:31] being here but I hope everybody in our city gets really informed and

[1:06:36] learns and sees.

[1:06:40] Reach out to us if you want to speak to us and get to know us. So, so that

[1:06:45] you can really learn who has integrity, who doesn't have integrity. You know, when the

[1:06:50] word slush funds are thrown out, those are easy to throw out there, but when there's

[1:06:54] no evidence for that at all, but it's thrown out there in the powerful words,

[1:06:59] forever tax right so this obviously is not forever so that's an inaccuracy right

[1:07:06] then and there but so we're I think we've done the best we could with the

[1:07:12] presenting what we think is the best way to tackle the problem that we've got so

[1:07:17] I think that's what we're at and put it out there for the voters to to say

[1:07:21] whether they agree or not got

[1:07:26] a motion in the second and I think I'll do a

[1:07:38] I think one thing that would have helped is this, maybe in what is this August, maybe September and October all social media be shut off so you can just get the truth instead of looking at social media, I'd go for that.

[1:07:56] Okay, we'll go to number seven.

[1:08:01] Contact the public, see a resolution of River City Council number one, calling an election

[1:08:06] on a ballot measure to ask the voters of the city or up in California whether to pass

[1:08:10] a street repair and safety measure special tax.

[1:08:13] Number two, requesting the board of supervisors in County of Consolidate of Municipal Election

[1:08:18] on a local measure with other elections to be held on November 5th, 2024, Consolidate

[1:08:24] election day number three requesting the King County Board of Supervisors to

[1:08:27] print the Tame County elections official to render election services to City in

[1:08:31] number four approving the proposed ordinance either Tom or Sophie. Thank you Mr. Mayor.

[1:08:38] I'm glad to read that so you didn't have to. I appreciate that. We did a similar type

[1:08:43] thing when we asked to put the ballot measure on for the City, Treasurer City

[1:08:47] Clerk election and you're asking you to do that with the resolution that you

[1:08:51] just passed a few minutes ago and our resolution is 24.24. Before the

[1:08:58] street repair and safety measure we have to have it insolidated and that's what

[1:09:02] this ordinance will do along with putting forth the ballot language which is

[1:09:08] listed in section one and telling the voters as well that this is a two-thirds

[1:09:13] vote required. So unless you need me to go into greater detail I am happy to

[1:09:19] do so but it really is just asking you to do those four four things so we can get

[1:09:24] it on the actual election consolidated we have to get it over to which is

[1:09:29] very important. Okay just need a recommendation to approve resolution

[1:09:35] 24-2024. Motion by Vice Mayor Diders. Second. Second by Council Member Gonzales for

[1:09:43] the discussion. Call in favor. Can you oppose? Chair votes aye. Motion carries

[1:09:49] four-one. Number eight, a resolution of city

[1:09:54] reporting election requesting county elections to conduct the election

[1:09:57] requesting consolidation of the election and determining charges for counted

[1:10:01] statement. Again this is a similar resolution this is specifically for the

[1:10:06] council seats currently occupied by Mayor Parker and Councilmember Gonzalez as

[1:10:11] as well as the city treasurer and the city clerk positions

[1:10:14] were asking how and for those elections

[1:10:16] they are up for election in this term.

[1:10:18] Again, I see that consolidation

[1:10:20] from the county elections spoke to assist us

[1:10:22] in conducting that election.

[1:10:24] Question two.

[1:10:25] Motion by Vice Mayor Dyer's.

[1:10:29] Second.

[1:10:29] Second by Council Member Herton for their discussion.

[1:10:33] All in favor?

[1:10:34] Aye.

[1:10:35] Any opposed?

[1:10:36] Chair votes aye.

[1:10:37] Motion carries five vote.

[1:10:39] And if you haven't figured it out

[1:10:40] it haven't heard yet. I'm retiring. I am not running for election anymore. I've been through

[1:10:47] seven elections from then. Okay, number nine, yard sale council discussion. Council consider

[1:10:54] and discuss information provided by staff and provide direction as applicable.

[1:11:00] Mayor, I believe I'm the one that brought this up and since looking at this further,

[1:11:05] I believe there's been some things written into our ordinance in the city

[1:11:10] that does provide for some work to be or done to the issues of people just

[1:11:19] leaving stuff on their lawns and especially I brought it up because there's a

[1:11:25] particular house on Luther Road that I drive by every day and after you have a

[1:11:29] yard sale it was there for two months I mean and what I wanted was given to our

[1:11:36] staff to be able to tell these people clean it up you know it just looks

[1:11:41] care of

[1:11:44] how our city looks and that is one of the main streets that is used by

[1:11:49] tourist publics going to the airport everything so that's reason about it up

[1:11:54] but I believe there is enough there and Tom you can speak to us if you would

[1:12:00] like that that gives enough teeth to the art staff to be able to give with

[1:12:07] and clear these things up. Yeah I'll just comment that when we adopted our

[1:12:12] updated nuisance ordinance last year. It gives us the ability to do that. I do know that the community development director did spend a

[1:12:19] little time doing some research so perhaps just quickly you can go through what you found. Thank you. So just in the research that I did

[1:12:30] conduct I did talk with our code enforcement officer who has been in the

[1:12:34] middle for a little over a decade and he had declared that typically the

[1:12:39] issue with yard sales are the signs themselves, not the yard sales. So we

[1:12:45] haven't received very many complaints in relation to habitual offenders of

[1:12:52] reoccurring yard sales. When I looked at neighboring communities, Redding, Chico,

[1:12:58] and Corning, it does not appear that Corning has any adopted codes and Redding

[1:13:04] in Chico follow very similar models that are throughout California where they

[1:13:10] limited to three or less. Oftentimes there is not a monetary value related to a

[1:13:16] permit but folks do have to apply for permits. I think pretty much across the

[1:13:22] board what I've learned is it costs more for jurisdiction to regulate by

[1:13:28] sending out those code enforcement officers to have staff time filling out

[1:13:33] those permits. It ends up not being very fiscally beneficial to have specific language just to

[1:13:43] the point that you've already made. The nuisance code that was adopted in July gives us a lot

[1:13:48] of language and opportunity to be able to enforce anything that may be applicable to

[1:13:55] to an individual parcel, as opposed to having long, lengthy language that really boxes people

[1:14:02] in specifically to yard and garage sales. Additionally, the state has buyer permits

[1:14:13] in place that folks would have to use if they're selling or generating revenue multiple

[1:14:21] multiple times a year, so that's something we can monitor also for our business license

[1:14:25] practices.

[1:14:27] So ultimately, I think the research proves that having specific ordinance release is going

[1:14:33] to be necessary.

[1:14:35] I think our code enforcement officer can regulate it within the ordinances that we have in

[1:14:39] place.

[1:14:40] Let's

[1:14:44] be clear, I wasn't asking for permit, charts.

[1:14:50] Okay, so we were just giving information, is that satisfactory there?

[1:14:54] Yes, thank you.

[1:14:55] I appreciate that.

[1:14:56] Perfect.

[1:14:57] All right.

[1:14:57] Committee reports.

[1:14:58] Council comments.

[1:15:00] We'll start out with animal water, sewer project, JPA. There's a meeting this Thursday.

[1:15:05] You're kidding?

[1:15:07] About none.

[1:15:13] That's fine, but you had something to look forward to.

[1:15:17] I guess.

[1:15:19] Chamber of Commerce.

[1:15:20] Chamber of Commerce, this month will be the last month for the Wednesday Night Market downtown,

[1:15:27] and it's just been exceptional doing it really, really well.

[1:15:30] what we see for our community as usual and there is a good morning red block at

[1:15:36] Lassen House and I was looking for my I can't find time do you have August 29th

[1:15:41] August 29th. Thank you. Community Action Agency.

[1:15:48] Business Association August 19th, 5.15, La La Jara.

[1:15:53] Typen County Solveies Management Agency.

[1:15:58] executive convening meeting was cancelled and we'llabe on August 15th for meeting.

[1:16:03] Groundwater Commission on July 24th, the demand management working group got

[1:16:08] together to actually have their group up and running now so they'll start

[1:16:12] meeting. And then the next groundwater Commission is August 14th at 8.30 pm.

[1:16:18] local Agency Formation Commission they're

[1:16:27] both community center commission

[1:16:29] It should be this month, so we should be getting noticed pretty quick.

[1:16:33] Amy County continuum of care executive council.

[1:16:36] There should be a meeting next week.

[1:16:38] I don't know if I have the date.

[1:16:40] Amy County solid waste management agency.

[1:16:43] We're meeting on August 1.

[1:16:46] Paul Friend was named the interim agency manager in lieu of current agency manager being on the floor.

[1:17:33] Yeah, I just wanted to follow up on that particularly with Loli. She doesn't get a lot of credit, but she puts up with this guy all the time.

[1:17:44] I'm sure she's thrilled that he's going to be at home.

[1:17:47] He might run again.

[1:17:50] Great.

[1:17:52] Okay, we will go to future agenda items by consensus of council.

[1:17:58] Anyone want to bring forward?

[1:18:00] We have one request by Jackie Hernandez.

[1:18:02] We talked about we, the Bateman.

[1:18:04] Specifically I'd like to encourage any citizen in the class to get on the agenda,

[1:18:08] whether or not it's the same thing, I can generally fairly get a chance to engage.

[1:18:18] I think on that item it's probably just as easy for her to meet with Tom and the Chief.

[1:18:24] I think that's happened already. I've talked to Mr. Hernandez a couple times on the phone.

[1:18:29] I know that she has regular communication with the fire department as well, but that's your direction.

[1:18:34] You can certainly do that. If we can't come to resolution, then Jackie would have the ability to come back

[1:18:39] can ask to place on the future agenda. So it's the priority to go to the county.

[1:18:46] Well, if that doesn't sound like this, we'll work down. Should we just go ahead and put it on the agenda, sir?

[1:18:51] We're on the agenda tonight.

[1:18:59] Meeting with the public, anybody on the phone?

[1:19:01] No, sir, I'm sorry.

[1:19:02] Okay, we're going to recess the closed session after Sophie reads what closed session is,

[1:19:09] and then you could comment on any of that, even though you won't know much about it.

[1:19:12] It's okay.

[1:19:13] Thank you Mr. Mayor. We do have two items for closed session tonight. The first one

[1:19:22] is a closed session regarding labor negotiations with the city negotiators

[1:19:26] Mayor Clay Parker and human resources administrator Dr. Garrison. This is the

[1:19:32] red love fire bid management association and then we also have a closed

[1:19:36] session item that I probably will not be participating in at this time which is

[1:19:41] city attorney contract negotiations. My contract is up in November.

[1:19:48] Anyone want to comment on that? I didn't think so.

[1:19:51] So we will recess in the closed session at

[1:20:07] 741

[1:20:07] and we have reportable actions for closed sessions. So if you need to turn on your audio

[1:20:12] can you say that again, Clay? Is your audio on? I need

[1:20:16] that. Okay, go ahead and place that. Okay, reconvene the

[1:20:20] city council meeting at 741 and we will now have reportable

[1:20:24] actions for closed session. So thank you Mr. Mayor. The first item was the

[1:20:28] negotiations. Information was received in direction was given to staff and the

[1:20:33] second item was the city attorney contract negotiation. Information was

[1:20:36] received. Direction was given to staff. A new contract will be presented in open

[1:20:41] session at a future council meeting. Perfect. We are adjourned at 742.

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