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The bus has been cleaned for the last two weeks and we cannot go ahead and go to the hospital right now.

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The police soldiers and officers head shall depart after a few days, the authorities will stay for just two days.

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Do the same.

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Bird is a good job.

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It doesn't match well.

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We have quarrel, so we are ready to begin the special open session to hear public

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comments before close session.

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Broke call please.

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Council Member Bada.

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Here.

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Klaus Session, a council will discuss the following items.

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Item C1 conference will legal council existing litigation, Washington versus City

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Richmond, Guzzalinco versus City of Richmond at all, item C2 conference will

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labor negotiators, agency representatives, around Taylor, Jack Hude, and Lisa

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Sharber-Nay. Employees organizations include SCIU, local 1, 10, 21, full

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time and part-time units, IFPTE, local 21, mid-level management and executive

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management units, Richmond Police Officers Association, Richmond Police

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Management Association, IFF, local 188, and Richmond Fire Management

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Association. We have one request to address the council under public comment.

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You will have two minutes to address the council on items on the

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close session agenda.

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Thank you.

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So, good afternoon, Mayor Martinez, council.

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Court of Handle, I'm a Richmond resident.

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So, I'll get right to the point.

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The unions have done a lot of good for Richmond.

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So, when you go back in there, think about all the ways that they have contributed

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to make Richmond a work and play.

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So, think about that and I'll just leave it at that.

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Is there anyone online that would like to address the council under open floor?

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There are no additional speakers.

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All right. In that case, public comment session is closed and we will now adjourn

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I hope my family is happy.

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I hope my family is happy.

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To start the regular meeting of the Richmond City Council, so if you can take your seats, we

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will begin. We will begin with the pledge of allegiance.

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Ready? Our next item is Roe Call. Councilmember Brown.

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Here. Councilmember Huminus.

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Councilmember Wilson. Vice Mayor Robinson.

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Here. Councilmember Zapata. Here. Mayor Martinez.

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Here. Councilmember Bonna is here, but she is absent from Roe Call.

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Our next item is Statement of Conflict Ventures.

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And I do not have any request.

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I would like to rearrange the study and action session.

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I would like to have P5 heard first.

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I would like P3 and 4 to be combined and heard secondly.

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I would like P2 to be third and P1 to be last.

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That was item P5 is first. Correct.

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Item P3 and P4 combined.

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And then P2 is third and P1 is last.

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And for the record, councilmember Bonna is present.

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Our next item is report from the City Attorney final decisions made during closed session.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council.

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There were three items discussed during closed session to litigation matters.

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The next item is report from the City Manager.

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Please display the presentation.

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Good evening, Mayor Martinez.

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City Council.

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The City Manager, as a reminder, all of these items can be found in the City Manager's week report or by calling the City Manager's office at 506206512.

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Next slide please. Next slide.

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On Monday, January 19th, we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The volunteers came together for a day of service focused on improving neighborhood spaces.

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Activities included trimming vegetation, spreading maltaining up trash and illegal dumping from nearby streets and completing community painting projects.

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The day concluded with a concert celebration, local musicians highlighting community talent and reinforcing Dr. King's message of service unity and collective pride.

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The slide you're viewing right now are of the activities that took place at Partchester Park on MLK Day. Next slide.

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And here are some additional images of the great activities that took place on at Unity Park.

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That included a number of our local community-based organization partners including Urban Tills and many others.

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We'd like to thank all the staff that came out to participate in volunteering and tabling and for all of the community support to always make MLK Day of service.

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And event that everyone in our community can be proud of. So thank you everyone who participated in all the residents and all the city staff that help prepare as well as the community-based organizations.

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Next slide please.

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Applications for the Black Resiliency Projects Community Advisory Committee are now open.

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The Community Advisory Committee will help guide the development of the State of Black Richmond Report and inform the design of the Black Resiliency Fund.

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For more information you can scan this QR code on the screen or contact management analyst.

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Yana Williamson at 510-620-650-6574. Next slide.

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The Richmond Environmental Community Investment Agreement competitive grant program for fiscal year 2627 is now officially open and we encourage Richmond residents, community-based community-servient organizations to apply to support applicants.

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The city will host a virtual information session on February 4th at 2.30 pm.

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We're staff will review both the general grant program and many grants.

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In addition, please note that the Richmond Department of Children and Youth grant program will open this Friday, January 30th, providing another funding opportunity for organizations serving Richmond youth and families.

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For additional information or support.

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Court, applicants may contact Patrick Seals, F510-3078016. Next slide. I have been sending lots of text messages

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to members at the dias, and so I thought it would be important to try to aggregate them to show some of the

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great work that's happening in our community. In particular, I'd like to acknowledge the public works department,

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both staff here at City Hall and those staff that are in the operations of maintenance

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of maintenance division, and all the city departments that work collaboratively in internal services

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to support our public works department. The city is excited to share a construction

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as underway at three new multi-use sports fields designed to expand play opportunities

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improve field quality across Richmond. These fields will be striped for multi-purpose

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sports including soccer and designed as 12 and undersized fields. At Sheels Read Park,

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there's synthetic turf construction as 30% completed, projected construction completion

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is late spring early summer 2026, and so that is the park that you see at the very top.

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In the middle, as Wendell Park, that's natural turf construction as 5%

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complete construction preparation and ground breaking is scheduled, and then construction completion

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is expected in spring early summer 2026, and Bormann Park is natural turf construction as 20%

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complete, and the project completion is expected in 2026. There's also, we have a new term of art for Sheels Read

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and BTA, we're calling it the Richmond Community Services HGTV Richmond Edition, and so at those parks where we

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have it and where we've been able to reduce substantially part of the area. We're doing our best with

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our public works, operations, and maintenance staff to also pay the JSON to the sites to paint the buildings

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and to upgrade them as much as possible to ensure that when communities return to these faces that they look

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vibrant and ready for young people and all members of our community to enjoy. So just want to thank the city council

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for your ongoing support and illustrate that we're making substantial progress in our built environment. Thank you.

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Our next item under commendations, presentations and recommendations,

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is a proclamation recognizing the 2025 Richmond Women of the Year.

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We have three speakers in person, if there's anyone joining us online that would like to address a council

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on this item, please raise your hand at this time.

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If we can get the following honorees to join us up here as we read the

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proclamation, Anna Durand, Sherro Collier, Lequisha Mitchell Keith, Miriam Wong, Naomi Williams,

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Regina Whitney, Sarah Wally, Tiffany Harris, Trena Jackson, Lincoln.

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We're going to start off with reading here.

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City of Richmond Proclamation, honoring the city of Richmond's 2025 woman of the year.

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Women's History Month serves as a national observance recognizing and uplifting the countless contributions of women

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whose leadership, courage and service have threatened our communities, advance equity and shape the cultural civic and historical fabric of our nation.

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Whereas on cover first, 2025 Congressman John Garamendi recognized 55 extraordinary women in the California eighth

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congressional district as women of the year for their leadership service and dedication to improving the lives of others

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and strengthening community well-being and whereas

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Richmond is honored to acknowledge 10 of these distinguished honorees who represent Richmond organization,

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organizations and whose work reflects the city's values of resilience, unity, compassion and community empowerment.

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Whereas the Richmond honorees Anna Durand, Sherro Collier, Lequisha Mitchell Keith, Miriam Wong,

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Naomi Williams, Regina Whitney, Sarah Wally, Tiffany Harris, Trena Jackson, Lincoln, event Williams

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Billion of Spore have demonstrated outstanding dedication to service and leadership

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that enriches Richmond and the broader region and

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whereas their combined efforts reflect the highest ideals of civic stewardship and inspire future generations of women

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leaders throughout Richmond and Contra Costa County and

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whereas these honorees had made significant contributions across non-profit leadership,

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civic engagement, cultural preservation, community organizing, youth development,

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public health advocacy and social services initiatives, strengthening neighborhoods

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and improving quality of life and the last words.

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Where as their leadership has provided meaningful opportunities for residents, supported

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vulnerable populations and uplifted the social community fabric that defines Richmond as a strong and inclusive community.

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Now, therefore, be a result of the familiar and members of the Richmond City Council

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here by honor and commend that the 10 Richmond honorees recognized by a congressman

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John Guiramende as a 25 women of the year and extend heartfelt appreciation for their exemplary leadership,

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service and dedication to the Richmond community.

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Be a further result that the City of Richmond celebrates these extraordinary women for their achievements and

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contributions and recognizes them as an ongoing source of pride and inspiration for all residents.

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I don't know what they put me first.

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Maybe because I'm sitting down, so the rest of them should get chairs now.

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I just want to first before anything else happen.

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I want to introduce my family, which is sitting at the second rule.

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Will they please stand up please?

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Being able to have been behind me since day one, although they don't be at the meetings and all of the other things that I do,

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I love them.

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And I've tried to spend as much debt.

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So I'm here and they came to put me.

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So thank you guys.

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Thank you.

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I just want to say thank you so much.

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That's another to be.

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I love Richmond.

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And I believe that Richmond can change and have been changing.

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For the people who don't have hope for Richmond.

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I believe in this is the representation of the ladies and also for the gentleman that we work for a city.

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And Richmond is my city.

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And thank you so much for trusting me.

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Thank you for Richmond Police Department to my supervisor Michelle.

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And that's an honor to serve my comment.

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Thank you.

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First of all, give me honor to God because he is the head of my life.

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I just want to say that it's an honor and it's a blessing to be of use and to help.

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Our community.

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And it literally, when it came down to Steve's elementary school, it took the community.

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And so this is an amazing example of not just what we can do individually, but what we can do when we come together.

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And so I just hope that we continue to move forward together, recognizing that those who may not seem to have voices that there are individuals who will speak for them.

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And that will empower them to use their voice because we all deserve to have the best life they'll be possibly can.

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Good afternoon everyone.

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Yeah, I want a big cheer.

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Good afternoon.

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I am super really proud to be here today.

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I'm looking over at my son.

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And you guys, which you just stand up because everybody already know that they don't know I'm his mother.

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I am his mother.

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I brought him this far.

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And he's standing tall.

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So I want to say thank you to all of you.

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Glad to meet all these wonderful faces.

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You know, when time come that people are there with you, it means something.

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And I'm so happy to know about something.

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So anyway, I won't hold you long because I had a long day today, but we're going to stand together throughout the rest of our lives.

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Doing the best that we can do for all people.

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Okay.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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Thank you.

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Honored to be here.

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Honored to be with these women and everybody in the room.

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Thruld to be a part of Richmond to contribute to continue to put forth the efforts that we do for our community, our residents.

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How we listen and how we come together to celebrate them and uplift the city.

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Good evening everyone.

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I'm honored to be recipient of this award.

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I'm a Richmond native and have worked for the city of Richmond for decades now.

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So I love being able to give back to my community.

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The community that held and embraces me.

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So thank you.

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Good evening.

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I am also honored to be a recipient of this award.

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I am honored to be honored by the city council.

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I am honored to serve the residents of Richmond.

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I too am a native Richmond resident.

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I moved here when I was one years old.

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Been here many years, many decades.

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I also worked for the city of Richmond.

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I'm a proud public servant and I am just honored to stand amongst this group of distinguished women.

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Who can say that we have poured out into this city and will continue to serve and the best capacity possible to uplift and to help.

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Just further the values of this city that as people roll into the city of Richmond all they will see is pride and purpose.

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And that we will just know that there is nothing but love here in the city of Richmond.

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We have a community that bands together.

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No matter what we weather every storm and we will continue to do this as time goes on.

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So thank you very much.

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Hi.

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I'm Tiffany Harris and again thanks sincere thanks for doing this.

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I was just on a Bible study group before this.

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And one of the questions when God puts us in places.

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And we've just feel like we're under serving and and Laura why are you having me here?

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Because I'm a month soon really really great women in Richmond.

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I'm just like what is my purpose?

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And so it just shows me like so I run the Bay Area Girls Club last week.

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I was honored to see one of my girls receive the Katrakasa Humanitarian Award.

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So just things like that.

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Seeing my fellow Richmond natives here.

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I'm born and raised here.

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I have my rotary folks rich in a rowdy folks raise your hand.

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Try again.

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My coanness folks which with your son is the coanness with me.

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And then of course my sisters and solidity are here.

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And then my best friend for my sister she's my sister for over 35 years came.

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And so it's just so wonderful and I just thank you all.

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Love you city council.

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Thank you city Richmond.

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Thank you.

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So thank you all for honoring us.

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Your work.

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Does that go on scene? You guys uplift our community. You guys help create and make it even better. There was a little bit of challenge putting this

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Proclamation together because the people, the person that usually helps us, she was receiving one. So we had to get somebody else to help us out. So thank you so much. And I also want to acknowledge two other individuals that might not live within the city of Richmond, but they're close enough. We want to also acknowledge them.

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Marie Corayani and Tanya Jacobs of the unincorporated side of Richmond and Elsa Brante, but they also got acknowledged by the Congress things that we want to acknowledge them as well.

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We're job break done. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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And I just want to say thanks to all of you. It feels great to be in the presence of so many extraordinary women.

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And Trina, I can't thank you enough for supporting the council the way that you do. And Naomi, you, you are the first one to give me to give me my marching papers.

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So, so I remember coming to the city of Richmond and running for council and she was the first one who says, hey, come here. I got some information that you need.

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And so since then, we have done a selfie every time we get together. So I have to do that now.

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Thank you very much.

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Good for us.

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All right, we'll squeeze in. And that's how many more tickets for me.

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Thank you.

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We have three speakers.

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We have three speakers for this item.

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We have three speakers. Can we, uh,

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same the noise down so we can hear the speakers.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So, um, so good evening Mayor Martinez, uh, council audience.

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Can you please quieten it down so we can hear the speakers.

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Please take your conversations outside of the council chambers so we can hear the speakers.

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Okay.

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So, good evening again. Mayor Martinez, uh, council for the record.

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Good. I'll handle it. I'm a proud original resident. So, I do want to thank council members to pay for this

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Proclamation. So, what could I say about these extraordinary women? They have done a lot for Richmond.

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So, congratulations.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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As you pointed out, Mayor Martinez, she was the first one to like, you know, say,

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Come here, come here. And I'm like, this woman is extraordinary. She has, she was the vice chair of the commission on aging,

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president of her neighbor council and I consider her my dear friend.

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Naomi, you have done a lot for Richmond. So, you better keep on keeping on.

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So, I, with that answer, it's all yours.

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And to on court.

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And to on court, Richmond resident.

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I always share that I'm a product of strong women.

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And 20 years ago, when I came to this council, he was my mother's nail me to set me down and told me how to act.

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Because I was rough.

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I was kind of hard on y'all.

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But she taught me some things.

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But not just teaching me things, but teaching me how to be a leader.

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Teaching me how to be president in our community, whereas with some time, people are not present.

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Right? You don't, you know, y'all give proclamation on paper, but the paper don't mean nothing.

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But it's what they do for me and hard for the people that mean.

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That people that show up in the sacrifices that we make from my family.

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So, thank y'all, family for sharing your mother with me.

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Since, you know, y'all share your mother with me.

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You know what I mean? And so, you know, just to treat her in this work for y'all, even got it.

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So, it's a treat to hold it down.

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Well, you just could walk up in that office, thinking you was going to meet me with anybody.

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So, treat a pussy.

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So, treat a pussy and check what you're doing.

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Did you see the email?

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Mother's up here. She went to the council.

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There's a lot of these women that I know that I work with, but you got to understand with.

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We know that with our community suffers from and lack of.

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And we try to feel those gaps with our heart.

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It's not the titles that we carry. It's the heart for our community.

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I'm a rich bit resident. I'm from the south side.

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I'm from the north side. I'm from Central. I'm from Richmond.

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I tell you, it's a part of this town.

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So, and so, you know, Miss Naomi would jump to.

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It's her stuff. That's where she really pours out to the community.

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She tried to educate our community about our history in Richmond as black communities.

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And I just thank her for being a pillar.

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I'm telling y'all a pillar of this community for so long.

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Thank you for letting me share.

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Hi, please send you.

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Hi, please send you.

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I'm from the City of Richmond. Good evening, Mayor.

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City Council. And on our guests, and most important, our honorees.

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I bring warm greetings on behalf of Congressman John Geremendi.

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Who, regress, say, can I be here in person.

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But ask me convey, his deepest congratulations and appreciation.

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Tonight, the City of Richmond.

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Honore's ten extraordinary women as the twenty twenty five women of the year.

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What makes his moment, especially, meaningful is that these very same women,

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were also recognized by the Congress from Garmendi as a congressional women of the year

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for the California 8th Congressional District.

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And that recognition will be kept in the Library of Congress for perpetuity.

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That share recognition speaks volume.

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Not only about the individual's achievement, but about the profound impact that they have made across our community,

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our district, and beyond.

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And one of our previous women of the year, of course, was very resuscant just two years ago.

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These women represent the very best of rich leadership, rooted in strength, rounded in compassion,

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wishing guided by commitment to justice, equality and opportunity.

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Whether in education, public service, health care, business advocacy, or community organization.

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Each one of you have helped lift others, quite often, without expectation and all recognition.

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Congressman Garmendi firmly believes that when women lead communities thrive,

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your work strengthens families, empowers neighborhoods, and inspires the next generation of women and men to

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believe that their voices matter and that dreams are within reach.

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So let me have a Congressman Garmendi.

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Thank you for your dedication.

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You're unwavering commitment and making Richmond a stronger, more inclusive city.

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Congratulations on a well-deserved honor.

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And thank you and continue the good work as we say women with pride and purpose.

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Thank you.

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That was our last speaker.

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Our next item is open for.

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An open form is an opportunity to address accounts on items that remain on the consent calendar,

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or items that are not on the agenda.

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During open form dialogue between the council and the speaker's prohibited,

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tonight we have five in-person speakers.

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Anyone join in us online that wishes to address the council.

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Please raise your hand at this time.

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We'll start with the in-person speakers and then move to the online speakers.

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When your name is called, please come forward and line up behind the speaker podium.

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When you are called to address the council, state your name, and your city of residence is optional.

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Please terminate your address to the council when your time expires.

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Each speaker, she'll be allowed up to two minutes to address the council.

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City of Richmond, welcome to your comments and request a two presidential remarks.

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In a respectful and appropriate manner within the established two-minute time limit.

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Our speakers are Don Gosny, Cordell Henler, Antoine Claude, Mark Wasberg,

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and our last-in-person speaker.

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Rephasa Ayad.

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Don Gosny?

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Good evening.

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This is one of those times when we have to remove our rose-colored glasses and admit to ourselves that we live in the real world.

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For several many years we've seen members of our city council and even the council as a whole.

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Take action that have divided the community and prompted numerous negative articles and segments and newspapers and new sites around the world.

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Right now we see reprehensible actions by our president and his boot looking ditto heads that make these United States look bad all over the world.

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And even though this is the result of actions by a very small number of megalominal maniacal,

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mentally dysfunctional crack pots, the rest of us are saddled with a blame for allowing these actions to take place.

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Same goes for the people who live in Richmond when our elected and community leaders go off the reservation.

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A great many people around the world have taken notice of actions by our Richmond leaders and look at us with disgust,

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revulsion, and even fear.

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Because we live in the real world, we know that it doesn't matter what the truth is, what reality is, is what the people's beliefs to be the truth and reality.

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And the world we live in perception becomes reality.

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Read your history books about the Nazi Party's actions when they first took power and made wild accusations against the Jews.

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They told the lie often enough that in the minds of the people it was the truth.

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Perception became reality.

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Is this the case we're seeing here in Richmond?

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Last week this council voted implement programs and actions to try to convince everyone that they are not anti-Semitic.

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The problem is that after their statements and actions, these past couple of years, why would anyone believe a word they say?

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Why would anyone believe that they are sincere and try to tell us that we should ignore everything they've said and done these past couple of years?

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And believe the PR they're trying to sell us now.

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Reminds me so much of that birth mother of mine that routinely beat me telling me how sorry she was as you'll never do it again.

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Until she got close to her boards and sticks, she used to beat me with and with it.

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The same old story repeating itself.

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Please don't waste your time insulting us into thinking that your anti-Semitism revisionism is sincere.

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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it's a duck.

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Cordiel Hitler?

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01:43:01,000 --> 01:43:03,000
How do I top the hat?

461
01:43:03,000 --> 01:43:04,000
Good evening again.

462
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:05,000
Mayor Martinez.

463
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:06,000
Council.

464
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:10,000
Cordiel Hitler and I am a very upset resident.

465
01:43:10,000 --> 01:43:18,000
I was watching the video last Tuesday and I was appalled because I was looking at it and I'm thinking like,

466
01:43:18,000 --> 01:43:23,000
People do feel the support for mayor martins because you have done a lot of good things for Richmond.

467
01:43:23,000 --> 01:43:27,000
So I do want to put that on record so that's one.

468
01:43:27,000 --> 01:43:33,000
The second thing is like I had to go back to the video of June 2024 and if you remember when

469
01:43:33,000 --> 01:43:37,000
Rap tell us presented to us about the workforce analysis.

470
01:43:37,000 --> 01:43:43,000
One of the things that kind of stood out is that we need more police because they keep our streets safe.

471
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:49,000
In order to do that, we have to figure out how are we going to pay our officers because they work a lot of overtime.

472
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:57,000
So we need to figure out how we can like strategically plan on how we're going to keep our officers.

473
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:04,000
Because if you look at other cities around us, they pay their officers a $10,000 bonus just to become an officer.

474
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:06,000
We need to do better than that.

475
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:07,000
So that's two.

476
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:17,000
And then the final thing is for a future agenda is I had spoken with the principle as a solution called preparatory and it would be great if they would be acknowledged.

477
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:22,000
Because if you remember when I had submitted an article from the rich in standard.

478
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:25,000
These young people have done a service day in the spring.

479
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:30,000
And so I'm requesting that this needs to be a agenda in late February.

480
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:31,000
That's it.

481
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:32,000
And to on court.

482
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:40,000
And to on court.

483
01:44:40,000 --> 01:44:42,000
That's one court risk of a resident.

484
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:48,000
You know, I've been sitting down for about two months.

485
01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:56,000
Putting everything together in the city and where we was and where we had and where we trying to go.

486
01:44:56,000 --> 01:44:59,000
And when you look at our file department.

487
01:44:59,000 --> 01:45:00,000
And I'll please department.

488
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:24,000
We are 10 years behind in quality, equipment, quality. I ain't just talking about the machines. I'm talking about quality people, training, resources. I find a apartment is the lowest to me. When you look at some Pablo's flat apartment, else the reals find a apartment, and then you look at our trainings center. It looks like a garbage can.

489
01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:34,000
But everybody uses that training center. Everybody from Con air and all the other regions use that training center.

490
01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:44,000
But if you go up in there, you'd be ready to run a body there. If you really look at how old it is, how behind times it is.

491
01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:59,000
And Pablo have a state-of-art corner and fire department there. Why don't we have a state-of-art, a state-of-art, not behind-the-scenes, but in front of the scenes, fire department training center.

492
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:02,000
Have you ever been to that training center lately?

493
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:06,000
This is for real, for real. I don't think you have.

494
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:10,000
Oh, the south side. Oh, excuse you.

495
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:17,000
But I'm saying this to say, if we're going to represent our community, let us represent our community with quality.

496
01:46:17,000 --> 01:46:20,000
So we know what the future looks like.

497
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:30,000
They know, can't count somebody else to fix us. We have to better our own sales by knowing what is going to take for us to have a better future and a safe community and a safe environment.

498
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:32,000
Thank you, Phil. Let me share.

499
01:46:32,000 --> 01:46:34,000
Mark Wasserver.

500
01:46:42,000 --> 01:46:56,000
You got two people are dead. When people lost this finger, lost her finger. When person lost his eye, you got several people that's going to be in a federal prison for the next four or five years.

501
01:46:56,000 --> 01:47:06,000
Losing everything they have. Now you have Tom Holman going to Minnesota to give the governor an offer.

502
01:47:06,000 --> 01:47:14,000
He can't refuse. He's talking all nice to President Trump, because Trump told him, let's keep on doing what you're doing. We're going to end it.

503
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:16,000
It wants them for all.

504
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:26,000
And I don't see how you people could be so stupid to go out there and support a bunch of criminals who don't even care about nobody else.

505
01:47:26,000 --> 01:47:34,000
Now you've got to see the council, you've got the Richmond PD, the police chief stood there and said, we responsible sanctuary with cities.

506
01:47:34,000 --> 01:47:38,000
We ate in the bed in crumbles from the law.

507
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:44,000
I mean, you really people that stupid, you think you're going to fight the federal government?

508
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:48,000
It's not going to happen.

509
01:47:48,000 --> 01:47:53,000
Starting February 1st, Trump's cutting off the money to all sanctuary cities.

510
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:58,000
And you people are going to be hurting. Don't blame Trump. You blame yourselves.

511
01:47:58,000 --> 01:48:03,000
You think it's funny. Trump's going to lower down the hammer.

512
01:48:03,000 --> 01:48:11,000
I said, Minnesota is going to try to do the same thing that George Wallace did when he called out the National Guard to stop the black people from going to school.

513
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:19,000
So Eisenhower filled the lies of the National Guard. Then he sent the 100 first airborne in and took care of it.

514
01:48:19,000 --> 01:48:26,000
And he's going to do the exact same thing to Minnesota. Now they're moving over to Maine.

515
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:34,000
I mean, you just being stupid. You think you're going to stop the feds from enforcing constitutional law.

516
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:38,000
And this clown's over there. He's things that it's all a joke.

517
01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:43,000
Wait until I really comes down here to Richmond. He ain't going to be laughing.

518
01:48:43,000 --> 01:48:46,000
Faisal, ayad.

519
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:02,000
Salam Alaikum everyone. My name is Faisal. I live in Altsarito.

520
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:06,000
I just want to thank you.

521
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:26,000
Mr. Martinez for all your support and all your effort and standing up and say the right stand up and be strong against all the odds around you.

522
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:36,000
And I know for some people they don't like to see the the flag of Palestine standing up on in Richmond.

523
01:49:36,000 --> 01:49:40,000
Maybe they want to see something else.

524
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:44,000
God knows, but thank you for doing that.

525
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:54,000
And also I want to thank you all of you for doing a good job in Richmond.

526
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:58,000
I know a lot of people there on you can't fix everything.

527
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:05,000
And people need to unite together and work together.

528
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:10,000
This division and I say it before is going to get worse.

529
01:50:10,000 --> 01:50:17,000
And if we didn't know if we didn't pay attention to what's going on in the world.

530
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:19,000
Again, it's going to get worse.

531
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:25,000
We need to work together and I say it before you guys need to work together.

532
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:34,000
And that's the only solution. The vision is a disaster.

533
01:50:34,000 --> 01:50:43,000
And if you look around you in the Middle East all over the world that's what they did.

534
01:50:43,000 --> 01:50:45,000
And that's what they want.

535
01:50:45,000 --> 01:50:49,000
And you need to look at yourself. You need to look at your history.

536
01:50:49,000 --> 01:50:54,000
And we need to learn from our history.

537
01:50:54,000 --> 01:50:58,000
People they don't read and they don't know what's going on.

538
01:50:58,000 --> 01:51:01,000
They think it's okay to do all these things.

539
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,000
All these divisions.

540
01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:04,000
Time has expired.

541
01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:06,000
Thank you.

542
01:51:06,000 --> 01:51:08,000
That was our last in person speaker.

543
01:51:08,000 --> 01:51:11,000
I was actually going to speak.

544
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:12,000
I'm speaking.

545
01:51:12,000 --> 01:51:13,000
Okay.

546
01:51:13,000 --> 01:51:23,000
Thank you.

547
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:26,000
Thank you.

548
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:31,000
Thank you.

549
01:51:31,000 --> 01:51:57,000
I'm going to get down to the business party.

550
01:51:57,000 --> 01:52:03,000
Well, I'm going to get down to the business party of the first.

551
01:52:03,000 --> 01:52:09,000
We have had a snowball scholarship fund for many, many years.

552
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:12,000
It started in 1952.

553
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:17,000
And it continues thanks to the Hurlbutts who keep it going.

554
01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:22,000
This year they need more funds to make sure that it continues.

555
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:26,000
I have donated $1,000 to this fund.

556
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:31,000
And I'm asking everyone who can afford to to do the same.

557
01:52:31,000 --> 01:52:36,000
So if you can't, then do what you can.

558
01:52:36,000 --> 01:52:46,000
There should be a copy of the poster, which is showing that it has a place you can send to check to.

559
01:52:46,000 --> 01:53:00,000
It has a website address and it has a QR QR L code that you can use to send money by.

560
01:53:00,000 --> 01:53:05,000
So we do have many, many heroes in our city.

561
01:53:05,000 --> 01:53:11,000
Many of them work quietly without fanfare, lifting up our communities year after year.

562
01:53:11,000 --> 01:53:17,000
Merin Hurlbutt is one of these heroes who has carried on the snowball scholarship fund year after year.

563
01:53:17,000 --> 01:53:25,000
Since its inception in 1952, the city of Richmond Community Services Department has sponsored an annual snowball.

564
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:33,000
Event to bring together high school students from the West Culture Class Unified School District to celebrate a formal prom.

565
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:37,000
Since 2020 the ball portion has not been able to continue.

566
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:40,000
However, they still do the scholarship.

567
01:53:40,000 --> 01:53:48,000
So I hope that we can make sure that this continues.

568
01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:56,000
It's a very, very important feature that the Hurlbutts give to the city of Richmond.

569
01:53:56,000 --> 01:54:03,000
So let's make sure that we give from our hearts to the best of our abilities.

570
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:06,000
I hope that you can match me.

571
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:09,000
Thank you.

572
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:13,000
That was our last in person speaker. Now we'll move to the online speakers.

573
01:54:13,000 --> 01:54:15,000
We have two speakers.

574
01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:19,000
And those speakers are Janis Halgen and Benjamin Terio.

575
01:54:19,000 --> 01:54:25,000
Janis, please unmute yourself and you may begin.

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01:54:25,000 --> 01:54:26,000
Janis.

577
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:27,000
Good evening.

578
01:54:27,000 --> 01:54:28,000
Good evening.

579
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:30,000
Mayor and city council members.

580
01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:33,000
I'm Janis Halgen, a Richmond resident.

581
01:54:33,000 --> 01:54:38,000
I'm a member of local and state groups working to stop the use of illegal fireworks.

582
01:54:38,000 --> 01:54:44,000
I have a couple of ideas for moving away from the legal fireworks culture here.

583
01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:48,000
The city app has a background photo of fireworks.

584
01:54:48,000 --> 01:54:53,000
It's seen every time a resident opens it and it's been there for a while.

585
01:54:53,000 --> 01:55:00,000
The annual legal fireworks show which many residents love and the city staff works hard to organize.

586
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:02,000
And I appreciate that.

587
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:06,000
It only lasts for 20 minutes out of the entire year.

588
01:55:06,000 --> 01:55:12,000
So when I change the photo to a different one that represents Richmond year round,

589
01:55:12,000 --> 01:55:19,000
there could be a Richmond Pride photo contest which would be fun and get local photographers involved.

590
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:27,000
Another idea is for the council to make a proclamation that the city has zero tolerance for illegal fireworks.

591
01:55:27,000 --> 01:55:31,000
I'd be happy to help with other of these projects.

592
01:55:31,000 --> 01:55:33,000
Thank you so much for listening.

593
01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:34,000
Good night.

594
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:35,000
Thank you.

595
01:55:35,000 --> 01:55:37,000
The next speaker is Bintario.

596
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:42,000
Please unmute yourself and you may begin.

597
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:43,000
Hi, can you hear me?

598
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:44,000
Yes.

599
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:45,000
Yes.

600
01:55:45,000 --> 01:55:46,000
Good evening.

601
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:48,000
Good evening, city council.

602
01:55:48,000 --> 01:55:51,000
Bintario president of the Richmond police officers association.

603
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:58,000
Speaking tonight to address the issue to again about the leave status of administrative

604
01:55:58,000 --> 01:56:01,000
status as the officer's remic and stalking.

605
01:56:01,000 --> 01:56:05,000
I spoke to some of you privately on this issue.

606
01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:09,000
But I'm asking now to formally take some type of action.

607
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:13,000
The POA is going to send a demand letter in the coming days.

608
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:19,000
And then you're going to see us do more things outright in person and on zoom.

609
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:26,000
But the city manager is continual insistence that we wait for the district attorney for the California Department of Justice

610
01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:27,000
before returning officers.

611
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:33,000
Remic and stalking the duty is not only unjustified, but is an outlier practice that no other city

612
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:38,000
in contra cost of county or the state of California follows.

613
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:43,000
There is no statute, regulation, post requirement, or case law that conditions and employers

614
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:50,000
personnel decisions on the completion of a DA or DOJ review, which often take over a year.

615
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:51,000
None.

616
01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:55,000
This is a policy invented enrichment to avoid accountability.

617
01:56:55,000 --> 01:57:00,000
A cross California officer is routinely returned to duty with modified or administrative assignments

618
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:02,000
where external reviews proceed.

619
01:57:02,000 --> 01:57:05,000
Cities do not do this because they understand the law.

620
01:57:05,000 --> 01:57:08,000
Prosecutors decide criminal liability, not employment status.

621
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:14,000
The city manager approach improperly conflates prosecutual discretion within employer authority.

622
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:18,000
And streets outside agencies that defact those supervisors.

623
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:22,000
Something a lot is not permit in the DA and DOJ have no employment jurisdiction.

624
01:57:22,000 --> 01:57:27,000
No disciplinary authority, and no role in determining whether an officer work.

625
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:33,000
Being a practice that no peer agency uses, the city is exposing itself to significant legal liability,

626
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:38,000
and definitely removal from duty without cause, timelines or objective standards,

627
01:57:38,000 --> 01:57:41,000
violates the fundamental principles of due process,

628
01:57:41,000 --> 01:57:44,000
something that unions care a lot about.

629
01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:46,000
And just fair employment in California law.

630
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:49,000
Return them to work immediately.

631
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:57,000
Thank you. Your time has expired. That was our last speaker.

632
01:57:57,000 --> 01:58:03,000
Okay. Our next item is approval of the consent calendar.

633
01:58:03,000 --> 01:58:07,000
Do I have a motion to move?

634
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:09,000
I'm a DA.

635
01:58:09,000 --> 01:58:12,000
That's second.

636
01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:14,000
Councilmember Burrell.

637
01:58:14,000 --> 01:58:15,000
Yes.

638
01:58:15,000 --> 01:58:16,000
Councilmember Bada.

639
01:58:16,000 --> 01:58:17,000
Yes.

640
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:18,000
Councilmember Heminus.

641
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,000
Yes.

642
01:58:19,000 --> 01:58:20,000
Councilmember Wilson.

643
01:58:20,000 --> 01:58:21,000
Yes.

644
01:58:21,000 --> 01:58:22,000
Councilmember Zapeta.

645
01:58:22,000 --> 01:58:23,000
Yes.

646
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:24,000
Vice Mayor Robinson.

647
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:25,000
Yes.

648
01:58:25,000 --> 01:58:26,000
Mayor Martinez.

649
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:28,000
Yes.

650
01:58:28,000 --> 01:58:29,000
The vote is unanimous.

651
01:58:29,000 --> 01:58:31,000
Our next item is item P5.

652
01:58:31,000 --> 01:58:32,000
Under.

653
01:58:32,000 --> 01:58:37,000
Study and action session.

654
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:39,000
What's the second?

655
01:58:39,000 --> 01:58:40,000
We are members of the council.

656
01:58:40,000 --> 01:58:41,000
Well staff is coming forward.

657
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:46,000
I want to just in particular thank Chief Osario and members of his leadership team,

658
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:52,000
as well as director coms director of finance and associated personnel and finance that

659
01:58:52,000 --> 01:58:56,000
assisted with the preparation of this report.

660
01:58:56,000 --> 01:58:58,000
The information you have a PowerPoint there.

661
01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:02,000
I'd like the dias for you to refer to and hard copy.

662
01:59:02,000 --> 01:59:06,000
And a great deal of time and preparation was put into preparing this report.

663
01:59:06,000 --> 01:59:08,000
And I hope that you all find it useful.

664
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:12,000
And let me read the item into the record.

665
01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:16,000
To receive an update on the advanced life support.

666
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:18,000
First responder services.

667
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:20,000
Fire station upgrades and replacements.

668
01:59:20,000 --> 01:59:23,000
And associated five year financial forecasts.

669
01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:26,000
And direct the city manager to develop revenue enhancement.

670
01:59:26,000 --> 01:59:29,000
And financing recommendations for the city council.

671
01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:30,000
Consideration.

672
01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:32,000
We have one in person speaker.

673
01:59:32,000 --> 01:59:36,000
There's anyone joining us online that would like to address the council on this item.

674
01:59:36,000 --> 01:59:37,000
Please raise your hand at the time.

675
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:48,000
And at this time.

676
01:59:48,000 --> 01:59:49,000
Sorry about that.

677
01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:51,000
I'm going to give you to Mayor Martinez and members of the council.

678
01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:52,000
She's for the record.

679
01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:55,000
It's Aaron Osario, Fire Chief, the Richmond Fire Department.

680
01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:59,000
Tonight I'm joined by Emily Cones, the director of finance.

681
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:11,000
We'll be in Cotter. Sorry, I'm being not on your total title. The right hand of the director of finance and my deputy fire chief, Rick O'Rinkon.

682
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:21,000
So all of us contributed to this presentation tonight in different forms. This really was a team effort to come together because there's so many facets to this program.

683
02:00:21,000 --> 02:00:29,000
As I shared the first time, we reviewed this. It's a very complex program in it touches so many different aspects of the city.

684
02:00:29,000 --> 02:00:39,000
So many different departments. Tonight, what we'll be re-reeling is providing a six month update to the original plan that was approved.

685
02:00:39,000 --> 02:00:51,000
As requested by the council, we also be discussing fire station upgrades and replacements that are linked to the ALS program.

686
02:00:51,000 --> 02:01:02,000
And review in a five year financial forecast, we related to the program and other city needs that are impacting this program.

687
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:17,000
At the end of this presentation, the recommended action is going to be to direct city manager curl to develop a revenue enhancement and financing recommendations for the city council to consider at a later meeting.

688
02:01:18,000 --> 02:01:21,000
The brief overview of what we're going to cover.

689
02:01:21,000 --> 02:01:30,000
I will go over what the action the council has already taken at the previous meeting. We will review what this deployment model was that was recommended at that meeting.

690
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:36,000
Give you a summary of the accomplishments we've achieved already.

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And then we will go over some of the financial estimates in five year financial forecasting, including station improvements, station replacements, apparatus purchases,

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and costs directly related to the ALS program, which includes staffing.

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We also review the recruitment timeline and what are next steps we're going to be taking in the next six months hopefully and answer questions.

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We do want to remind the council that this program, there are some synergistic policies that align with this program with the wishes and direction of the council.

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First would be the health and all policies in 2014. The council adopted health and all policies.

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The goal was to reduce the health disparities and improve health outcomes for our community.

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Most of these, the policy relates to living, working, playing, and educational environments within the city.

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But there is intervention areas six, which directly relates to the quality and accessible health and home services.

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So this program does align well with that goal and policy adopted by the council.

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Especially since in West County, we only have access to one emergency room in the county. This is Kaiser Richmond.

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Kaiser Richmond is the only authorized receiving facility for an ambulance in West County.

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Clinics are not allowed to receive 911 ambulance transports. So I leave this with one option in West County.

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And if that is full or unavailable, that pushes everybody into Alameda County or into Central County to go to Johnmear or Kaiser Won the Creek.

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So it's an important aspect to the health of our community.

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And there are the alliance with the goals and priorities that the council adopted in fall of 2023.

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That the council adopted the strategic goals and priorities.

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And these were supposed to be measurable citywide goals with measurable outcomes.

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Specifically strategic goal number of area four refers to improving public safety.

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So this program aligns with that and goal area five five point one ensuring that there's the right staffing level and experience to meet the service schools of each department.

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So I just wanted to make sure that, you know, we keep that in the forefront that this program is in alignment with the direction and the wishes of the.

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City Council.

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As a reminder, on May 27th, we presented the ALS proposal or implementation program.

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We reviewed the feasibility study that was produced by the matrix consulting group.

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On that at that meeting, the council received a report and directed staff to pursue next steps for implementing the recommended service model.

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At that same meeting, you requested a six month update as far as what we had accomplished.

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There's slightly beyond six months. The goal was to do is before the closure, but we didn't get to that goal.

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So we're coming now.

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As a review of the deployment model, I presented three different models.

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And the recommended model was we we called the hybrid model.

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And it was a model where we would initially in three years time deploy three single role paramedics squads with the goal of rolling them out or going live and during the fiscal year 2728.

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And then over the following two years through hiring and onboarding of existing firefighters at the paramedics school, we would implement or phase in.

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Ingent companies and truck companies so that by the fiscal year of 2930, we would have all eight fire companies that we currently have in the city would become an ALS provider for the city.

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We recommended and the consultant recommended this model for a few reasons.

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One of them would be that it is more realistic expectation of implementing such a technical and a complex program.

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And so if we divided into two more attainable goals, it was just more realistic for our staffing and what the capacity we had.

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It also would allow us to better manage recruitment and onboarding challenges.

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There is a very difficult time right now in recruiting paramedics and paramedic firefighters.

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There is an onboarding period and to stagger this allows us to spread that over a few years where it becomes much more manageable for both the fire department for the training aspects.

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And for HR to handle that onboarding and to get through the accreditation and process we have to do at the paramedic level.

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It also allows us to shorten the implementation period for our first step, which allows us to provide paramedic service sooner to the community.

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It allows us to do it in three years ideally versus having to wait five years to try to get every company in the city to a paramedic level.

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Some of the things that we've been able to accomplish in the last six months, I'll break them down here and give just a brief summary of what they are.

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In a chronological order from starting from right after the council gave direction.

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So, in June, on June 14th, the 25th we presented this model and the program presentation to the Contra Costa County Executive Fire Chief Association.

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They are in full support of us moving forward in this direction.

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It will streamline and allow us all to provide the same services across the county.

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This is very important to the executive chiefs because we have a very robust auto aid agreement within our county.

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We are regularly in other jurisdictions providing service and they are regularly in our jurisdiction assisting us with service.

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And they here are staffed with a paramedics. This will make sure that we are providing equal services no matter what side of the border or city limits we are in.

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They offer us assistance with accreditation and training.

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Some of these organizations provide ambulance transport service, which will allow them to be able to assist us in accrediting our paramedics once they have finished the schooling and have to go through a county accreditation where they have to complete so many hours and contacts with patients.

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They also, the Comfire requested us to consider moving over to dispatch centers just to streamline the ALS services.

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This is a whole other topic that will have to come back to counsel about there's a lot of different considerations.

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But the benefit related to the ALS program is now if we were to go there all paramedic and ALS services.

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And this dispatch and fire dispatch would fall under one center which could decrease ambulance response times into the city.

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So it's something we need to look into more deeply there was no commitment made it was just a request to consider it by chief for shard.

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In June we also held discussions with AMR and Con fire.

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What's called the Alliance. They are the ambulance provider for the county.

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Conch across the county for every area in the county other than San Ramone and Maragurinda.

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They are in full support of the program also.

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They also offered us assistance with accreditation and training.

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And more importantly part of their contractual agreement as the ambulance provider for the county when they were awarded that bid.

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They have to have a pass through purchasing program for fire agencies in the county to purchase medical equipment for paramedic service at a reduced rate or at their rate.

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Since they purchased in such large amounts because they are part of a nationwide company GMR.

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And so we have the ability to purchase some of this equipment we need for our program through them.

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So they wanted to make sure I was aware of that process and we were ready to go down the road to purchasing that we will have more discussions with them.

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On July 7th of 2025 we held our initial discussion meeting and presentation to the Conch across the county health EMS agency.

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This meeting consisted of the medical director for the county EMS agency Marshall Bennett and members of a staff along with members of my command staff.

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We made the full presentation that we made to the council to them.

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They are in support of us going ALS. They've always wanted us to go ALS.

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It will make it easier to deploy resources and manage resources throughout the county and make policy that is countywide versus special policy.

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They have to currently make in the city of Richmond because we have a different service level.

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We reviewed a California code of regulations title 22 which outlines all of the main parts of a ALS program that any paramedic provider has to have in the state of California.

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And that's basically going to be the benchmarks we have to hit and be audited against when we say we are ready.

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We notify the EMS agency and they will validate that we meet all the state requirements.

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Throughout this period we have completed initial classification drafts of classification specifications for the personnel.

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Particularly for the positions of EMS division chief EMS clinical care manager single parametric and firefighter parametric.

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These class classification specifications or job descriptions basically.

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Like I said, these are initial drafts they are being reviewed by human resources currently.

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We anticipate there's going to be multiple versions of this and edits before they're ready to be shared.

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But those at least those are are done.

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On October 9th to 2025 presented the program to the medical director for the concert cost of county fire agencies Dr. Malcolm Johnson.

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Dr. Johnson provides clinical and EMS support and advice for all fire agencies in in contrast to county.

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We were able to discuss some recruitment recommendations for clinical care manager and discuss different aspects recommendations he had for developing the program.

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It's very important Dr. Johnson he intended to tonight just to be in support of this program because he believes strongly in us having parametric service here in enrichment.

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Lastly we held scoping meeting with the potential consultant firm because this is such a big lift and pretty complex and I'm down at chief officer right now.

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We felt that we might want to see whether or not this is something we need to have the assistance of a consultant firm with.

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We're just in the stage of seeing if they actually can meet the scope of what we need.

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No decision has been made about that.

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But we are simultaneously also meeting with other organizations who have recently implemented parametric programs.

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And maybe able to get some of the same insights and assistance from those organizations.

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Most recently we spoke with the City of Load I fire department who implemented a parametric program a year ago and shared a lot of what they did in the documentation with us.

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I'm going to turn it over to next slide is going to be presented by Emily.

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Thank you. So this slide summarizes the projection cost for implementing the ALS program over the next five years.

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So these figures include staffing costs which you can see there in red for new positions and equipment cost which is vehicles supplies and training which are in black.

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So these are the operational costs.

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So that these do not include facility upgrade and replacement costs as the chief will go over those in a couple of slides.

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The five year total for the ALS program implementation is approximately 20.46 million.

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I'm personally being the largest component totally about 14.34 million over five years.

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So this includes salary and benefits for 19 single rural paramedics starting in 2728.

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The MS division chief in clinical care manager the fall in 2627 and an associate administrative analyst in 2627.

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And I do want to say that these are estimates based on current assumptions and maybe refine as we finalize.

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Specifications negotiate agreements and confirm equipment pricing.

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Besides just a program there's obviously infrastructure and support we need for the program it's not just simply hiring paramedics and hiring and purchasing.

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One of the most is we've broken down the facility upgrades into two different facilities and the two different categories.

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This slide is discussing the upgrades we would need to implement a squad program. These locations are based on the locations that the consultant recommended.

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There are based on a number of factors just to remind you one is call volume one is a geographical location in the city trying to spread these services initially out so they can access all parts of the city and also based on population density.

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So the first slide is fire station 62. This is our North Richmond station at the corner 7th and Hensley 10657 Street.

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The station would need some improvements made to the dorm to be able to handle additional personnel sleeping and living in the quarters.

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We would have to have upgrades for vehicle storage at the facility and also have more storage installed in some fashion at the station to handle enhanced amount of medical equipment and medical supplies.

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There was a high and low, this was done walk through with the consultant, this is just a rough order magnitude, what they estimated what cost to do is upgrades.

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We're looking somewhere between 330 and 440,000 for that station.

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Second station was the hilltop station at 29.04 hilltop corner Robert H. Miller and hilltop drive. That one also needed the dorm to be remodeled so that I can handle two more personnel in the sleeping quarters.

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That one needed a little bit more substantial vehicle storage upgrades so that we can store another apparatus there because we're at capacity at that firehouse and that estimate was somewhere between 440 and 550,000.

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The training center site was actually not the original location the consultant picked, they picked fire station 64 in Crescent Park.

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Problem is the fire station 64 is at capacity, it houses two crews and a chief officer, a has met a truck, a rescue and spare apparatus.

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We are bursting at the seams as station 64 and there's no way to fit another apparatus when we went and looked at other possible locations that are in close proximity, the training tower site is in the actual response zone of station 64.

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So we were keeping it basically in the same geographical area, the consultant recommended, but we would have to look at putting in a temporary fire station there, which is not uncommon for departments to do when you're building a new fire station, you may have to relocate to a temporary one.

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A modular style fire station, but there comes with associated costs with that because the utilities, communications, other things that make a firehouse function have to be present even though it's temporary.

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And the estimate for that is somewhere between 1.9 and 2.4 for a temporary firehouse.

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So that's the breakdown of the upgrades needed to put the squads in service.

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The other facet of this is the long-term five years out.

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We have some stations that are in dire need of replacement and have implications into the paramedic program because they are also at a capacity and have to have upgrades to be able to house equipment and apparatus and potentially an additional fire fighter.

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These all of these, these three stations were also included on the CIP, five year CIP.

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They're not, it's not going to be the first time you've probably seen these because we did presentations at that time about them.

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But fire station 63 is the line in on value view.

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That one has significant foundation issues, repairs that are needed.

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These are rough order magnitude numbers that were done by a consultant after a walkthrough and assessment of the properties.

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We have fire station 66, 41st in Clinton, oldest fire station in the city, early 1940s has been a fire station ever since.

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Does not serve appropriately served the needs of the department so that we can provide services the way we should.

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Does not reflect modern day workforce in how it's built.

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So the replacement for that was estimated at 30 million dollars.

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And the fire station 67 is the one on 1131 cutting.

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That's also a full replacement that was a temporary fire house built in approximately 1947.

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It was meant to be shut down after the shipyard and the war was over, but nobody left and the state opened as a firehouse.

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And so we continue to work out of the temporary fire house that's located there on cutting.

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And so that station also we've gotten to the point where both 66 and 67 that the cost to keep them functioning.

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I think is in out of bounds with what it would take long term to replace them.

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So that totals that all the facility replacement needs or major projects with total 90, 98 million or 98.4 million.

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This map is just to help you understand the locations of the fire stations.

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I know none of you knows what the numbers station numbers are.

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The bolded circles are the proposed locations for the first paramedics quads.

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So 68 62 and the training center on cutting.

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We've also in light the districts for the council districts in here.

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We're trying to show you that even though it's phase one, we are trying to do our best to provide services across all corners of the city.

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Until we can get all the companies up into a paramedic level of service and then every red circle you see on this map will become paramedic.

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This map just kind of shows geographically.

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They are pretty well balanced as far as distance from each other.

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There is density, you know, issues differences between all the sites.

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But for the most part, they're pretty equally distributed across the city in order to try to equitably cover the city initially until we can get all our aless companies up and running.

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One of the biggest changes was the apparatus costing estimates from when the consultant did it.

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As I shared with you before, the cost of fire apparatus has increased tremendously over the last five years.

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And so what was initially a $800,000 estimate on apparatus for squads has risen to anywhere from a 1.5 to 1.8 for those same exact squads.

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Originally we were looking at about 200,000 per vehicle and it's gone up to about 450,000 per vehicle.

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They also, the original consultant didn't include a staff or a command vehicle for the division chief position, which was needed for that role to be able to respond around the city.

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They will be a chief officer that will be responding to incidents, just like any other member of my command staff has to have the ability to do.

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And then the EMS equipment storage, there's an figure there because we're not really sure what that upgrade looks like, but just to summarize what that means is every fire station or fire engine we currently have in the fleet and every fire apparatus actually we currently have in the fleet.

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That has a potential to need EMS equipment related to the parametric program must have a certain level of storage, a certain level of security.

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And a lock box for controlled substances, there has to be a lot of securing of medications and there has to be a proper device on each apparatus to dispose of wasted controlled substances, so they're not diverted inappropriately in any fashion.

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These are all regulated and are all mandated by the California Code of Regulations for parametric providers.

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And so we're not sure exactly what this will cost because they're multiple components that would meet that requirement.

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We have to see what fits best in our apparatus, but that's kind of an open-ended item right now where we weren't able to furnish an estimate on what that would cost, but there will be an assumption of a few thousand dollars per apparatus in the fleet.

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And that's 15 apparatus, the potential that have to have upgrades to be able to hold all the equipment and the controlled substances and the medications that we have to carry.

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So this scenario.

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This scenario reflects our updated general fund forecast is to be no interest earnings from the settlement funds or limited term revenue, which we'll see on the next slide or the next scenario.

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Incorporates the cost of our negotiated MOUs as well as estimated costs for MOUs that are currently under negotiation.

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So under this baseline scenario, the general fund absorbs the full impact of rising personnel and operational costs, including ALS implementation.

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So this scenario demonstrates our structural challenge.

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Without additional revenue streams, the city faces increased pressure on the general fund.

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This is a conservative outlook and highlights importance of identifying sustainable funding strategies.

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It's also important to note that these forecasts both this scenario and the one I'm going to present on the following slide do include on that lower third of the table.

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estimated costs related to our CIP shortfall are funded CIP needs the MLK community center in park which we do expect to need a bond measure for.

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And fire station upgrades for ALS implementation that we were just talking about earlier.

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However, they do not include any assumptions related to point malady or point rate pavilion as those costs remain uncertain at this time.

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So I just want to draw attention to the net deficit that you see in that in 2930 because this will change on the following slide do it's about negative 55 million.

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On this scenario, too, and this does assume interest earnings on the settlement funds at approximately 4% so you can see up there on the revenues.

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There's a second line there and that's where you can see those interest earnings.

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And you can see that it provides a significant offset to our rising costs.

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These earnings will help fund incremental costs associated with ALS implementation as well as some of our other obligations.

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So while this scenario improves their position compared to scenario one is still requires careful planning to manage long term financial sustainability.

871
02:26:28,000 --> 02:26:40,000
So interest earnings as we all know are not guaranteed if narrow largely dependent on market conditions so the scenario could be viewed as optimistic but possible.

872
02:26:40,000 --> 02:26:55,000
So this comparison with scenario one illustrates how leveraging those interest earnings on the settlement funds strategically can help bridge the gap as we implement ALS and be our other financial commitments.

873
02:26:55,000 --> 02:27:05,000
I just wanted to review the recruitment timeline for the personnel that we need.

874
02:27:05,000 --> 02:27:14,000
We are and this is actually in the order that we anticipate onboarding and recruiting.

875
02:27:14,000 --> 02:27:22,000
So the one EMS division chief we are that's the job specification we're trying to get done.

876
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:34,000
The soonest we would like to open recruitment for that position at late in this fiscal year with the hopes of onboarding that person in the 2627 fiscal year.

877
02:27:34,000 --> 02:27:37,000
That in that whatever fills that role.

878
02:27:37,000 --> 02:27:51,000
The goals to have the clinical care manager job spec finalized and approved so that that person can assist in the recruitment and the hiring of the clinical care manager because they will be working closely together.

879
02:27:51,000 --> 02:28:00,000
The clinical care manager is a person that will be did mentioning all the training and administering our quality continuous quality improvement program reviewing medical care.

880
02:28:00,000 --> 02:28:07,000
Reviewing the adherence to field treatment guidelines and county health policies.

881
02:28:07,000 --> 02:28:14,000
The administrative associate administrative analyst that one position that needs to support the division.

882
02:28:14,000 --> 02:28:19,000
We're looking to recruit that late in the 2627 fiscal year.

883
02:28:19,000 --> 02:28:27,000
And then the 19 single role paramedics would be in fiscal year 2728.

884
02:28:27,000 --> 02:28:31,000
And just so that you understand the number the total.

885
02:28:31,000 --> 02:28:37,000
The 19 comes from if we had two paramedic squads per shift we have three shifts.

886
02:28:37,000 --> 02:28:40,000
That's 18 personnel total.

887
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:49,000
And then we only accounted for one we'll recall a floater if somebody's on leave somebody's on injured someone's sick.

888
02:28:49,000 --> 02:29:00,000
We need to have some cushion there and one is not going to be enough probably but we fill that along with.

889
02:29:00,000 --> 02:29:14,000
Some other creative program program aspects that we look to we want to look into will be able to cover all our staffing needs.

890
02:29:14,000 --> 02:29:20,000
There's some of the key items left that we human resources will need to assist us with.

891
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:24,000
There is the personnel board process once the.

892
02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:31,000
Also I just want to point out that these are in no specific order so they're just a list of items and some are going to come before others most likely.

893
02:29:31,000 --> 02:29:38,000
But the we have to still go to the personnel board with the for the new job classifications.

894
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:45,000
We need to be review of the duties and working conditions of each of these positions update all the job specifications.

895
02:29:45,000 --> 02:29:52,000
We have to determine pay and benefits for these new positions there's a meeting confer aspect with all the impacted bargaining units.

896
02:29:52,000 --> 02:30:00,000
We have to go through a unit determination for each of the new positions which is the single paramedics the division chief.

897
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:08,140
I'm a clinical care manager, excuse me. And then there's going to be, you know, some meetings that

898
02:30:08,140 --> 02:30:17,360
have to happen with human resources and LCW labor capacity with more on MOU updates after meeting

899
02:30:17,360 --> 02:30:25,960
and conferring with the unions. This is actually the same exact timeline I shared with you in the

900
02:30:25,960 --> 02:30:33,600
first presentation. I wanted to remind you of kind of the timeline we're looking at and trying to keep. So far,

901
02:30:33,600 --> 02:30:40,100
we are still on this timeline. I think it's absent flows. We make a lot of progress and then we kind

902
02:30:40,100 --> 02:30:43,980
of stall out a little bit just because we're waiting for some things here and there. But for the most part,

903
02:30:43,980 --> 02:30:52,220
we are still on track on this timeline. The next steps that need to happen will be the meeting confer

904
02:30:52,220 --> 02:30:58,020
with the impacted bargaining units. We are going to come to determination whether or not we do need

905
02:30:58,020 --> 02:31:04,860
to want to seek assistance from a consultant. We'll finalize the job classifications and unit

906
02:31:04,860 --> 02:31:10,780
designations and seek approval by the personnel board for those positions. We will need to look

907
02:31:10,780 --> 02:31:19,260
at placing an order for our apparatus, our squads, soon because of extended delivery times. It will

908
02:31:19,260 --> 02:31:24,740
most likely take a minimum of one year to take delivery of these vehicles to have them built from

909
02:31:24,740 --> 02:31:30,780
the time we actually sign and agree to get into contract. And then we will begin the recruitment

910
02:31:30,780 --> 02:31:34,540
and onboarding the division chief and then the recruiting and onboarding of the clinical care

911
02:31:34,540 --> 02:31:46,260
manager. As a reminder, we're looking for tonight as far as recommended action is that the city manager

912
02:31:46,260 --> 02:31:52,260
to develop revenue enhancement and financing recommendations for the city council to consider

913
02:31:52,260 --> 02:32:00,180
at a later meeting. That concludes my presentation. I'm more than happy to answer some questions.

914
02:32:00,180 --> 02:32:11,180
Thank you. Do we have speakers? We have one in-person speaker. There's anyone joining us online. I would

915
02:32:11,180 --> 02:32:14,380
like to address the council on this item. Raise your hand at this time. Our speaker is

916
02:32:14,380 --> 02:32:35,180
Antoine Claude. Antoine Claude. Press the button, please.

917
02:32:35,180 --> 02:32:43,340
Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah, I know I never met a mic. I didn't like it. But as I was

918
02:32:43,340 --> 02:32:49,500
sharing with you, I mean, we know that chief was even presenting this. And so when I saw it, I had to

919
02:32:49,500 --> 02:32:55,420
give you some further synopsis of that fire station. In a reason why I paid such an integral part,

920
02:32:55,420 --> 02:33:01,980
if you ever sit down and just watch the training that goes on in that facility, the strategic

921
02:33:01,980 --> 02:33:08,380
netto practices that they repatitiously do that you don't know how a brain work when fire providers

922
02:33:08,380 --> 02:33:13,180
go out to a scene and a wall for you to fall to how they frame a wall real quick. Right before that

923
02:33:13,180 --> 02:33:17,580
build them all fall down. You know what I mean? So it's certain training that these firefighters

924
02:33:17,580 --> 02:33:25,740
got to continuously do. We had a youth academy that that's here. Our future looks bright. But I build

925
02:33:25,740 --> 02:33:33,340
in Zayrite. Oh, I said I sound good in. I feel just bright, but I build in Zayrite. And I say it

926
02:33:33,340 --> 02:33:40,620
because if you go to move forward, you're going to have quality equipment. The age of AI is real. And

927
02:33:40,620 --> 02:33:47,100
everything can get trained as a firefighter on the AI because this physical work is very physical work.

928
02:33:47,100 --> 02:33:53,100
What I can try to carry one in firehold is the way they do it. Just try it. Do you give them

929
02:33:53,100 --> 02:33:58,780
any money? That's just really how simple it is. Because if you want them, you know, in another

930
02:33:58,780 --> 02:34:05,820
thing that did she say that the training that they need need to be more elevated to really save

931
02:34:05,820 --> 02:34:10,540
and lies in our fire department because we don't have a hospital ladies and gentlemen, if something really

932
02:34:10,540 --> 02:34:15,900
goes down with you city council members, okay, where you live at, you ain't going to make a

933
02:34:15,900 --> 02:34:21,820
little damn house, because cars to get only have nine beds for emergency. If you're going to

934
02:34:21,820 --> 02:34:27,020
have a cop to the land in front of your house, you can kiss the baby. And that's the statistic. Just

935
02:34:27,020 --> 02:34:34,060
look at the statistics. I mean, people died from here to getting past 80. Martinists, depends on how

936
02:34:34,060 --> 02:34:40,860
the freeway is. You may not never make it. So this be realistic. We need to put money in our firefighter

937
02:34:40,860 --> 02:34:45,820
training to make sure that people can stay alive until they can get to the hospital. Thank you for

938
02:34:45,820 --> 02:34:55,100
letting me share. Okay, we do have an online speaker, one online speaker. And that speaker is Kevin Tisto,

939
02:34:55,100 --> 02:35:02,380
please don't get yourself and you may begin Kevin. Thank you Kevin Tisto, President SCIU,

940
02:35:03,260 --> 02:35:10,540
just want to thank the Chief and his presentation. I want to bring light to

941
02:35:11,100 --> 02:35:18,860
I think one critical area that's missed in the presentation. The underfunding or the lack of resources

942
02:35:18,860 --> 02:35:24,220
in the maintenance divisions of departments. So if we're adding sufficient number of units,

943
02:35:24,220 --> 02:35:29,500
I think either 19 units, we also need to look at the staffing and the upkeep of the managed shop

944
02:35:29,500 --> 02:35:37,900
and the employees there because they're already, you know, overworked services go longer to get

945
02:35:37,900 --> 02:35:43,580
done. So adding new equipment now is nice. But again, keeping the equipment up and maintaining

946
02:35:43,580 --> 02:35:52,620
the equipment is a goal. And so again, we just want to put light into that as well. Thank you. And I

947
02:35:52,620 --> 02:36:01,980
believe that was our last speaker. Thank you, comments questions from the council. Vice Mayor.

948
02:36:05,260 --> 02:36:12,300
So first off, I just wanted to say thank you. This is a ton of work and will be a ton of work

949
02:36:12,300 --> 02:36:19,900
for the next five years. I had just a couple of questions about just clarifying question first.

950
02:36:20,300 --> 02:36:25,420
The first three ALS sites that are proposed are the upgrade locations. Is that correct?

951
02:36:26,860 --> 02:36:32,460
That's where you would be able to have people at? Yes, those are put on that list because they would

952
02:36:32,460 --> 02:36:39,020
house those initial three squads, which means two more personnel every single day and another vehicle.

953
02:36:39,020 --> 02:36:45,740
That's currently not there. Right. And then the next question I had was, you know, these these

954
02:36:45,820 --> 02:36:50,780
the numbers are always intense when you take on under taking like this. And I just wonder if

955
02:36:50,780 --> 02:36:57,980
there are any kind of state or federal grants. I know federal is hard right now. But are there

956
02:36:57,980 --> 02:37:08,620
grant opportunities for this kind of an upgrade or no? So I mentioned that I had we just had a meeting yesterday

957
02:37:08,620 --> 02:37:15,180
actually with load a fire to fire chief and their EMS chief. And, you know, they were fortunate

958
02:37:15,180 --> 02:37:23,580
when they started this in 2021. There's called AFG assistance for fire grants. And this was a grant

959
02:37:23,580 --> 02:37:31,900
area that they were willing to fund back then. I will say that the grant opportunities related to ALS

960
02:37:32,700 --> 02:37:43,180
have almost all gone away. It's really focusing on cybersecurity. They tend to move focuses depending

961
02:37:43,180 --> 02:37:48,780
on what's the newest thing in the fire service or in the public safety sector. I have not seen any

962
02:37:48,780 --> 02:37:57,820
that will fund implementation of a new paramedic program. Definitely I'm looking for them but I have

963
02:37:57,820 --> 02:38:03,900
not come across any at this time. There's been some staffing grants but they're not related. They

964
02:38:03,900 --> 02:38:09,740
would be related to whatever you're normal staffing recruitment is not a enhancement or improvement

965
02:38:09,740 --> 02:38:15,580
of your services such as this. And then I had another question, you know, when I did the tour of the

966
02:38:15,580 --> 02:38:22,220
fire stations and found out the crazy condition that some of them were in, you know, how desperately

967
02:38:22,220 --> 02:38:28,780
we really do need to address this with or without the ALS program. We looked at the training center and

968
02:38:29,980 --> 02:38:34,860
did I remember remembering correctly that there is a historic fire station at that site that's not

969
02:38:34,860 --> 02:38:43,260
operable right now. It's got all kinds of problems. So there is a fire station as part of that site.

970
02:38:43,260 --> 02:38:51,340
It's a portion of the building that the youth academy currently uses. Half of the building they use,

971
02:38:51,420 --> 02:38:54,940
the other half actually they can't use because it's in such poor condition right now.

972
02:38:56,300 --> 02:39:03,420
But it has a certain level of historical status. Not the type that will prohibit us from doing a

973
02:39:03,420 --> 02:39:10,700
project on that site. It does require us to restore the exterior to what the original structure

974
02:39:10,700 --> 02:39:16,380
look like when it was a functioning firehouse. But everything else around it, it's just a very small portion

975
02:39:16,460 --> 02:39:24,140
once more section of the building. Everything else can be added on, renovated, remodeled, replaced.

976
02:39:25,340 --> 02:39:31,900
There we talked a little bit about how there may be, maybe there's still some other jurisdictions that

977
02:39:31,900 --> 02:39:40,060
might be interested in kind of contributing to an effort to improve upgrade the training center site.

978
02:39:40,060 --> 02:39:44,220
Is that something that's being considered as a part of this or we're just thinking about short-term

979
02:39:45,020 --> 02:39:52,060
mobile only? No, I mean that was more about a vision was for a regional training facility

980
02:39:53,100 --> 02:39:56,860
and one of the key partners was going to be the Berkeley Fire Department.

981
02:39:59,420 --> 02:40:04,940
We were not a position to move forward with that project the way we envisioned and they needed to move forward

982
02:40:04,940 --> 02:40:11,180
with a training site for themselves. That's my understanding that they have located a site somewhere in

983
02:40:11,180 --> 02:40:15,660
Berkeley. I think they're Gilman. So I would anticipate, even though I'm going to talk to Chief Spray

984
02:40:15,660 --> 02:40:21,100
about it lately, I would anticipate that they probably are not willing to partner in the same fashion

985
02:40:21,100 --> 02:40:28,620
they were before. That did not include any sort of station aspect. It was strictly training facility that we

986
02:40:28,620 --> 02:40:35,900
would share. I do know that City of El Serito, Confire, all of them that function in the county,

987
02:40:35,900 --> 02:40:40,380
would still like to have a role in that if we could ever get that off the ground. But it wouldn't

988
02:40:40,380 --> 02:40:50,380
include a firehouse. That was just feels like a huge opportunity. You know that site is really

989
02:40:50,380 --> 02:41:00,220
underused and it could be something really great there. And then finally, I see here in the budgets,

990
02:41:00,220 --> 02:41:08,700
it seems like there's a assumption that the settlement funds will be used to pay for these things and

991
02:41:08,700 --> 02:41:16,700
I wonder if there's a way forward without depending upon the settlement funds. Maybe I'm misunderstanding

992
02:41:16,700 --> 02:41:25,660
what's in the financial projections, but can you address that? Certainly. So the reason we,

993
02:41:27,660 --> 02:41:33,980
both of the scenarios are just meant to be illustrative representations of the fiscal impact and

994
02:41:33,980 --> 02:41:41,500
some of the assumptions. The recommended action is requesting that the City Council essentially

995
02:41:42,620 --> 02:41:51,820
authorizes and direct me to work on developing financing plan and revenue enhancements for the City

996
02:41:51,820 --> 02:41:59,180
Council's consideration. I think in order to be successful in developing an implementing this program,

997
02:41:59,180 --> 02:42:04,140
we need to really sort of put all the cards on the table in terms of looking at what is the complete

998
02:42:04,140 --> 02:42:13,740
landscape that the Council community stakeholders, labor, how can we work together to put together

999
02:42:13,740 --> 02:42:20,060
something that the Council may be amenable to moving forward with because it's a significant lift. And so

1000
02:42:20,060 --> 02:42:26,540
what we're suggesting is that we can either try to work within the confines of the existing revenue

1001
02:42:26,540 --> 02:42:34,380
streams that have been identified that isn't enough. And so we are suggesting that the City Council

1002
02:42:34,380 --> 02:42:41,980
authorizes me and staff to sharpen our pencils and come back with a list of recommendations

1003
02:42:43,020 --> 02:42:50,620
in collaboration with key stakeholders for the City Council's consideration. And so that could include

1004
02:42:50,620 --> 02:42:56,380
a myriad of options and just want to make it clear that for something of this magnitude, I think it's

1005
02:42:56,380 --> 02:43:04,300
important that the Council explicitly make that direction to the City Manager to ensure that

1006
02:43:04,300 --> 02:43:11,820
the Council is behind coming up with revenue enhancements. So one final question that has to do with that

1007
02:43:11,820 --> 02:43:18,380
it would be possible if we if there's will to move this that recommendation tonight could we

1008
02:43:18,780 --> 02:43:24,540
make sure that the recommendations include something that does not assume the settlement funds so that we can

1009
02:43:26,940 --> 02:43:35,340
that as there's a whole anyway is that possible? Yeah, a version of point of clarification

1010
02:43:36,220 --> 02:43:42,540
the settlement funds are part of the general funds and to think of them as separate

1011
02:43:44,140 --> 02:43:51,980
would be looking at them as separate as special funds. So if we're going to refer to the settlement

1012
02:43:51,980 --> 02:44:00,860
funds, then before you get my vote, I need to hear funds equal to the settlement funds.

1013
02:44:00,860 --> 02:44:06,140
Okay, which is not the same. A general funds equal to the settlement funds, which is not the same

1014
02:44:06,140 --> 02:44:13,020
as the settlement funds. Okay, so could we have a version that has a proposal that

1015
02:44:15,020 --> 02:44:19,980
offers a way forward that includes funds that are equal to the settlement funds.

1016
02:44:20,460 --> 02:44:27,020
And that possible? And I'd also like to say that but it is actually up to us to decide

1017
02:44:28,060 --> 02:44:33,740
how much? Well, I just actually want to know from the perspective of the person who's going to be trying to

1018
02:44:33,740 --> 02:44:40,380
figure out how to move a pretty substantial lift in terms of financial lift if she believes there may be a

1019
02:44:40,380 --> 02:44:45,100
way forward without depending upon that pot. That's what I'm trying to ask the question.

1020
02:44:45,100 --> 02:44:52,700
But without using a sum equal, without using general funds equal to. Yes. I think staff can definitely

1021
02:44:52,700 --> 02:45:00,380
develop options. I also think it depends on the stakeholder support.

1022
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:10,000
Right, so usually when we look at revenue enhancements, it's dependent upon having stakeholder support and seeing what the appetite is for that.

1023
02:45:10,000 --> 02:45:22,000
So I try to meet quarterly with our bargaining units and I think if this is something that and other key stakeholders, whether that's the Chamber of Commerce or I

1024
02:45:22,000 --> 02:45:28,000
I have essentially have an open door policy, right? Anyone who wants to meet with me, I try to do my best to make myself available.

1025
02:45:28,000 --> 02:45:42,000
So I think if the city council is interested in having us develop revenue enhancements, we can do that pretty broadly and then I would suggest that we come back within 60 days

1026
02:45:42,000 --> 02:45:52,000
with a myriad of different recommendations and that could certainly include options that do not include the settlement funds.

1027
02:45:52,000 --> 02:46:02,000
And then if we can provide an update on if it appears as though there's an appetite for folks to work collectively on revenue enhancements.

1028
02:46:02,000 --> 02:46:08,000
I can see that it's very problematic to not say settlement funds, which you just did.

1029
02:46:08,000 --> 02:46:16,000
I'm trying to, I'm trying to throw the needle here so it's a little tough where.

1030
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:19,000
I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody for your work on this.

1031
02:46:19,000 --> 02:46:25,000
Just it really is important. We don't have a hostel and this can save lots of lives.

1032
02:46:25,000 --> 02:46:35,000
So yeah, I mean from a staff perspective, I hope that the council can see that we everyone has worked really hard on this presentation and it's it's really important and everyone here,

1033
02:46:35,000 --> 02:46:45,000
you know, even Darren from public works who's in charge of fleet is here like everyone knows that this is really important for our community and we definitely want to if the city council.

1034
02:46:45,000 --> 02:47:00,000
Continues to provide an affirmative direction forward. We definitely are up for the challenge. I do want to note that there will be significant impacts right that all departments HR finance public works.

1035
02:47:00,000 --> 02:47:06,000
City attorneys office, many departments will be involved with this lift.

1036
02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:12,000
And but I think that we can certainly we're up for getting the getting it done.

1037
02:47:12,000 --> 02:47:14,000
Don't remember him and us.

1038
02:47:14,000 --> 02:47:29,000
Yeah, thank you for all the work that has been putting in these and I think like it's great because as council member Robinson say this will save a lot of life and it's important.

1039
02:47:30,000 --> 02:47:43,000
The issue here is that that if this is a undertaking in terms of the financing and we need to be clear about that.

1040
02:47:43,000 --> 02:47:57,000
So I glad that we are looking into different scenarios for how we will fund that because and I have a question because in the forecast.

1041
02:47:57,000 --> 02:48:12,000
But these programs in the five year will be an and let me know if I end really need that correctly, but after is implemented from then.

1042
02:48:12,000 --> 02:48:34,000
From from 29 30 to future is going to be a point of approximately 8.5 million dollar on top of the current like all the budget like it's 8.5 million dollar that this program will cause year after year.

1043
02:48:34,000 --> 02:48:46,000
And and I am not saying that we should not do it, but but I just want to make sure that the community knows that when we are talking about project programs like these that are really key and important.

1044
02:48:46,000 --> 02:48:49,000
It will cause some money.

1045
02:48:49,000 --> 02:49:05,000
So I will I also tend to have kind of like various ways of how this is going to be implemented I think less let's be honest.

1046
02:49:05,000 --> 02:49:28,000
There is a lot of competing interests around the settlement funds that around around the settlement funds that we have the settlement fund and we got the additional funds that we got in the general fund from the.

1047
02:49:28,000 --> 02:49:46,000
May polluted space that is what it is is is no it is not different and isn't the general fund and I don't say that is not in the general fund, but this didn't come from the out of air, it came because there was a certain amount of agreement that we did so.

1048
02:49:46,000 --> 02:50:01,000
The general fund and it is in the general fund, but like people like they are son a lot of what what also we are talking and we will be talking and in the other.

1049
02:50:01,000 --> 02:50:12,000
I don't that we are putting here is that we have this tremendous opportunity with this additional money in the general fund in these 10 years.

1050
02:50:13,000 --> 02:50:29,000
To have a transformation in the city and move us the dependency that we have in the first of your industry to agree in a economy and this is part of that right.

1051
02:50:29,000 --> 02:50:45,000
But we will need to look at as a whole as well, so we we know where are the competing interests of what we want to see in the city happening during this 10 years with this additional fund in the general fund that we have right.

1052
02:50:45,000 --> 02:50:56,000
So I applied that this is coming to the vision and I applied that we are putting a lot of effort.

1053
02:50:56,000 --> 02:51:08,000
And we need to really make like chart the pencils and the calculators and all like all the financial.

1054
02:51:08,000 --> 02:51:23,000
Opportunities to do that also to make sure that like we are in a still in negotiations with son of the bargaining units to see that.

1055
02:51:23,000 --> 02:51:32,000
We are not only thinking about giving good races to those staff.

1056
02:51:32,000 --> 02:51:50,000
Personal but also to see and overall improvement in the services and in programs like these in our community because at the end of the day a program like these will save life.

1057
02:51:50,000 --> 02:51:59,000
So it will be interesting to see you mentioned like here that.

1058
02:51:59,000 --> 02:52:15,000
That it will be a bond I would like to know more about what that entails how much is the interest rate because at the beginning was like bonds right now with interest rates so high will be that is how much money we will have to pay.

1059
02:52:15,000 --> 02:52:36,000
And what is the benefit because benefit of getting the bond and paying what we need to pay in the interest rate so there is a lot of these things that are coming up but I would like to see these in the overall plan that we want so that we.

1060
02:52:36,000 --> 02:52:46,000
In these same years the city in the direction of no being that dependent on the fossil fuel industry and be more sustainable as a city.

1061
02:52:46,000 --> 02:52:48,000
Thank you.

1062
02:52:48,000 --> 02:52:50,000
Council member Wilson.

1063
02:52:50,000 --> 02:53:02,000
Thank you for the presentation I'll start off by saying I agree with my colleagues that I do support the city investing in advanced life support program you know through our fire department.

1064
02:53:02,000 --> 02:53:12,000
But I do want to focus my questions on slides 19 and 20 which are the scenario scenario scenario scenario one scenario two budget so I think it's probably mostly.

1065
02:53:12,000 --> 02:53:34,000
So one of the things I don't understand about looking at slide 19 under expenditures so we can just start with 20 year budget year 2526 you listed expenditures at 258 million and some odd.

1066
02:53:34,000 --> 02:53:52,000
And then you have one two three four five six seven eight nine ten ten lines below where you broke out below that are those also expenditures.

1067
02:53:52,000 --> 02:53:56,000
Yes, so that's why at the bottom the blue line says total expenditures.

1068
02:53:56,000 --> 02:54:04,000
Okay, so my first question is why did you set these expenditures separate from the expenditures.

1069
02:54:04,000 --> 02:54:17,000
From what why are these broken out because we're currently in MOU negotiations and we wanted to make sure it's clear that we are anticipating increases in costs during the current.

1070
02:54:17,000 --> 02:54:21,000
But I mean we were anticipating.

1071
02:54:21,000 --> 02:54:25,000
Increases in cost and everything like if you look at the expenditures line.

1072
02:54:25,000 --> 02:54:40,000
And the first year the budget it's 258 million the next year it's two hundred and ninety million the next year so separate from these staffing costs increases everything we're paying for is going up over these.

1073
02:54:40,000 --> 02:54:44,000
I think labor makes up most of our cost for our budget.

1074
02:54:44,000 --> 02:54:48,000
I mean looking just again looking at this very quickly.

1075
02:54:48,000 --> 02:54:50,000
The expenditures.

1076
02:54:50,000 --> 02:54:53,000
Yeah, between the total cost this is just an incremental increase.

1077
02:54:53,000 --> 02:55:06,000
So under the expenditures line you have from 2526 to 2627 it's going up about 32 million and then if I'm eyeballing these staff things like what is us two three four five.

1078
02:55:06,000 --> 02:55:08,000
Let's just say that's about 10 million more.

1079
02:55:08,000 --> 02:55:18,000
So I just want to sort of like call attention to the fact that if we're doing a presentation on scenarios about the cost of fire advanced life support.

1080
02:55:18,000 --> 02:55:26,000
To me it makes sense to have a line calling out like doing this new program is going to create these additional expenses.

1081
02:55:26,000 --> 02:55:36,000
But I don't appreciate having the costs of our staffing raises in units that have nothing to do with firefighting being sort of teased out here.

1082
02:55:36,000 --> 02:55:48,000
Because to me what it is is this inviting scrutiny sort of saying oh are we over paying local 21 and why did 10 21 get this raise by the way things that I've already been decided and agreed upon.

1083
02:55:48,000 --> 02:55:57,000
And so you know if you're not going to also tease apart sort of like why did the budget go up for computers or paper or you know everything else that it went up for.

1084
02:55:57,000 --> 02:56:05,000
I just don't think this is the place to sort of sing a lot labor as as something that we need to like double down our concern over.

1085
02:56:06,000 --> 02:56:21,000
So so again framing things like that for me is really important is to not you know I'm glad that that our staff members across the board are getting raises and I think we have to sort of none you know figure out how to make the rest of the budget work.

1086
02:56:21,000 --> 02:56:23,000
Second thing.

1087
02:56:23,000 --> 02:56:26,000
Looking at the can I respond to you please go ahead.

1088
02:56:26,000 --> 02:56:41,000
So the and during my tenure here in Richmond the way that we've been able to accomplish a lot of things is with having positive working relationships with our bargaining units and what we want to show right is that.

1089
02:56:41,000 --> 02:56:52,000
We want to improve some or still negotiation and if there are going to be revenue enhancements right we want there to be a willingness to consider.

1090
02:56:52,000 --> 02:56:57,000
If these are things that they're interested in because we all have a vested interest in the.

1091
02:56:57,000 --> 02:57:05,000
I'm going to continue to provide high level service to the community so it wasn't meant to be disparaging any way or to be divisive in any way.

1092
02:57:05,000 --> 02:57:13,000
We really want to be in collaboration with both community based organizations and labor to move for a trip forward so that wasn't the I just want to clarify in terms of attention.

1093
02:57:13,000 --> 02:57:15,000
Yeah and and but your points are well.

1094
02:57:15,000 --> 02:57:22,000
Okay thank you yeah that that again if I'm getting a presentation on the advanced life support that's sort of what I want to see what that.

1095
02:57:22,000 --> 02:57:30,000
I'm giving that project what does it add and and I can see that there but then I get all this other information that just makes my hackles go up.

1096
02:57:30,000 --> 02:57:47,000
And looking at this like basically looking at scenario one and scenario two that according to the and again like I'm sure we'll have more time for me to understand like why is it that you project that the revenues are only going up a little bit.

1097
02:57:47,000 --> 02:58:01,000
The expenditures even separate from the labor expenditures are going up much faster than the project the revenue so again I'm sure we'll have a future time where where you can give your evidence for why why you're anticipating that.

1098
02:58:01,000 --> 02:58:13,000
But what what what you're modeling here for just for folks who might not have this in front of them what what staff is modeling here is in the next five years every single year we will be.

1099
02:58:13,000 --> 02:58:22,000
But our over budget running a deficit between six point two and fifty five million dollars per year.

1100
02:58:22,000 --> 02:58:34,000
So it's it's not like what you're projecting here is not just that we can support advanced life support we can support lots of things you know that under under what I think I'm understanding to be this modeling.

1101
02:58:34,000 --> 02:58:45,000
That's totally separate from what you're modeling for the capital I won't even get into the capital projects because that's hundreds and millions of dollars more that you're modeling and deficits and so my question is is like.

1102
02:58:45,000 --> 02:59:03,000
If I'm understanding it right I'm supposed to just sort of take a breath and relax and then authorize staff to go look at some revenue in revenue enhancements and that's when we get down to the real deal of can we afford to have an ALS program is that.

1103
02:59:03,000 --> 02:59:12,000
I'm sort of like yes okay okay so then yeah and in years past right this this council has really had the privilege of being the exception right.

1104
02:59:12,000 --> 02:59:22,000
But historically right every budget season we would start with a huge deficit and what we've been doing every year is we provide a balanced budget to the city council.

1105
02:59:22,000 --> 02:59:31,000
But I think if everyone had everything that everyone wanted right we unfortunately would have a deficit so what we're saying is is that.

1106
02:59:31,000 --> 02:59:38,000
We can go back and sharpen our pencils but we are going to have to modify the current trajectory.

1107
02:59:38,000 --> 02:59:47,000
If this is something the city council wants to do and that has to include revenue enhancements okay and I appreciate that and one thing I want to sort of call out is one of the reasons why this is.

1108
02:59:47,000 --> 02:59:57,000
And frankly alarmings we so much is that in my short tenure year I've been impressed and also in the paying attention years past of what a great job the council and staff have done in delivering.

1109
02:59:57,000 --> 03:00:01,000
Not just a balanced budget but one that tends to have some surplus.

1110
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:11,000
So I want to acknowledge that it's we're all doing a great job and I'm hoping that this is not some prediction that we've found off the rails in some way. I'll stop there.

1111
03:00:11,000 --> 03:00:15,000
Council member Bonna.

1112
03:00:15,000 --> 03:00:27,000
Thank you for the presentation. I'm very happy it's coming actually into utilization in three years rather than five years. I have some very primitive questions.

1113
03:00:27,000 --> 03:00:36,000
It's about details, not the big picture. So I wonder A and R is a private company, right?

1114
03:00:36,000 --> 03:00:37,000
Correct.

1115
03:00:37,000 --> 03:00:41,000
And what is the role of the county currently?

1116
03:00:41,000 --> 03:00:46,000
When it comes to ambulance service, it's called the Alliance.

1117
03:00:46,000 --> 03:00:53,000
What it is is a partnership with a private company and a public agency.

1118
03:00:53,000 --> 03:00:57,000
Confires a public agency in the equation.

1119
03:00:57,000 --> 03:01:03,000
If you want to provide ambulance service in Contra Costa County and almost every other county in California,

1120
03:01:03,000 --> 03:01:11,000
if you hadn't been doing it already before and I don't know the exact year, but there's rights that are associated.

1121
03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:24,000
Just hypothetically, if you were providing ambulance transport service before 1990, you have rights that you exercise and you get to keep.

1122
03:01:24,000 --> 03:01:34,000
Everybody after that date, if you want to provide ambulance service in the county, you must competitively bid that service in order to provide that service.

1123
03:01:34,000 --> 03:01:40,000
And the county health department, the MS agency, is the one that awards that contract.

1124
03:01:40,000 --> 03:01:48,000
So every five years, wherever the cycle is, A and R, when they used to be the provider by themselves,

1125
03:01:48,000 --> 03:01:54,000
would bid it against other companies such as Falk or Paramedics Plus.

1126
03:01:54,000 --> 03:01:59,000
There's a number of ambulance companies that provide 911 ALS service.

1127
03:01:59,000 --> 03:02:03,000
AMR has been awarded the contract numerous times.

1128
03:02:03,000 --> 03:02:10,000
Confire and AMR decided to bid it together as a joint agency as an Alliance,

1129
03:02:10,000 --> 03:02:19,000
which allowed them as a public agency to access some funding sources that are only available to public agencies.

1130
03:02:19,000 --> 03:02:28,000
And the infrastructure and the institutional knowledge and historic ability of doing the service comes from AMR.

1131
03:02:28,000 --> 03:02:36,000
So jointly, they were able to basically, what they felt was they have a provide a better level of service potentially.

1132
03:02:36,000 --> 03:02:48,000
Provide a model that allows for more revenue or funds to stream into the ambulance services that are provided.

1133
03:02:48,000 --> 03:02:51,000
It just has to do with how they can access money.

1134
03:02:51,000 --> 03:02:59,000
It's a model, a confire and AMR, in Contracosa County, one of the first agencies to get into that Alliance agreement.

1135
03:02:59,000 --> 03:03:03,000
But that has been modeled in Sonoma County currently with Medic Ambulance.

1136
03:03:03,000 --> 03:03:11,000
And there's a number of models in Southern California that are following it because if it works the way it's supposed to.

1137
03:03:11,000 --> 03:03:18,000
It can keep us from having to get a new company every five years to provide new ambulance service as a figure at how to do it,

1138
03:03:18,000 --> 03:03:24,000
how to work in the county, but relationships with fire agencies, it provides more consistency.

1139
03:03:24,000 --> 03:03:33,000
Thank you. And raise their budget coming from and what is the role of the city of Richmond in providing that service to residents currently.

1140
03:03:33,000 --> 03:03:34,000
The budget for.

1141
03:03:34,000 --> 03:03:36,000
For the ambulance service.

1142
03:03:36,000 --> 03:03:38,000
Well, that's all controlled through the Board of Supervisors.

1143
03:03:38,000 --> 03:03:46,000
And then I guess there is funds through different health care acts that help confire us at the costs to that.

1144
03:03:46,000 --> 03:03:51,000
There's billing that happens by a private ambulance company for certain services that are provided.

1145
03:03:51,000 --> 03:03:56,000
There's a number of places that they get there funding from.

1146
03:03:56,000 --> 03:04:01,000
I have never dive deep into their budget because I have to know what to worry about with my budget.

1147
03:04:01,000 --> 03:04:04,000
So that's exactly why I'm asking.

1148
03:04:04,000 --> 03:04:06,000
So if you're going to have our own ambulance.

1149
03:04:06,000 --> 03:04:12,000
We're not having our own ambulance. This is a non-transport ALS system.

1150
03:04:12,000 --> 03:04:15,000
We are not getting into the ambulance business.

1151
03:04:15,000 --> 03:04:22,000
We are getting into our enhancing our level of EMS care that we provide on-scene.

1152
03:04:22,000 --> 03:04:31,000
Because right now you can get a Richmond fire engine to your house when you call 911 typically around four minutes.

1153
03:04:31,000 --> 03:04:35,000
If you live on the outskirts, maybe it's somewhere between four and six minutes.

1154
03:04:35,000 --> 03:04:46,000
Contractually the ambulance company will be meeting their contractual obligation if they get to 90% of their calls in nine minutes or under.

1155
03:04:46,000 --> 03:04:54,000
We have regularly encountered instances where we wait for ambulances over 10 minutes.

1156
03:04:54,000 --> 03:05:00,000
There are times we may for ambulances to come from Martinez to come from John Mirawana Creek.

1157
03:05:00,000 --> 03:05:04,000
It's not not going to say that it's all the time, but it happens.

1158
03:05:04,000 --> 03:05:14,000
And the advanced level of care that our community members need in certain instances such as CPR, a stroke, a severe trauma incident,

1159
03:05:14,000 --> 03:05:20,000
are delayed because we can't give those services because we are not an ALS fire department.

1160
03:05:20,000 --> 03:05:26,000
We can provide that advanced care when we get there, which is that four minute average.

1161
03:05:26,000 --> 03:05:31,000
We will get life-saving care there sooner and that's the benefit of this program.

1162
03:05:31,000 --> 03:05:36,000
We will still be turning over this patient to the same ambulance company we currently do.

1163
03:05:36,000 --> 03:05:44,000
But the goal is that by the time the ambulance gets there, they're ready to go and load them up and get them to the hospital where they can get definitive care in the ED.

1164
03:05:44,000 --> 03:05:46,000
And there is still a live, which is great.

1165
03:05:46,000 --> 03:05:54,000
But my question is probably we reduce the number of calls they receive, so do we get any budget from the county?

1166
03:05:54,000 --> 03:06:00,000
We will not reduce the number of calls they receive because we are still responding to the same call.

1167
03:06:00,000 --> 03:06:02,000
We are not in lieu of them.

1168
03:06:02,000 --> 03:06:05,000
We are improving what we do on seeing.

1169
03:06:05,000 --> 03:06:10,000
They still contractually are obligated to transport patients within the county.

1170
03:06:10,000 --> 03:06:13,000
We are not being allowed to transport patients.

1171
03:06:13,000 --> 03:06:19,000
So this program has no bearing on whether or not AMR gets more calls or less calls.

1172
03:06:19,000 --> 03:06:22,000
They still have to respond to the same calls regardless.

1173
03:06:22,000 --> 03:06:26,000
We just get to provide a higher level of care to our residents.

1174
03:06:26,000 --> 03:06:32,000
It will be on our own, no billing, insurance says or nothing is just a service to provide.

1175
03:06:32,000 --> 03:06:36,000
Well, that is direction that we will need to come from this council.

1176
03:06:36,000 --> 03:06:39,000
It is very common to charge for certain services.

1177
03:06:39,000 --> 03:06:44,000
There are fire fees that some organizations do such as sounds they fire,

1178
03:06:44,000 --> 03:06:51,000
Napa City, Valeo, their numerous agencies who have different models to try to recoup some costs.

1179
03:06:51,000 --> 03:06:57,000
Some only bill insurance companies, but will not bill actual individual.

1180
03:06:57,000 --> 03:07:08,000
So there is no one funding or a billing model that will recoup and cover the cost of this program.

1181
03:07:08,000 --> 03:07:14,000
All of those models just offset what it costs to provide this service.

1182
03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:17,000
And those decisions ultimately will be brought.

1183
03:07:17,000 --> 03:07:22,000
I'm assuming to the council to make a decision on which type of funding.

1184
03:07:22,000 --> 03:07:30,000
Which type of cost recouping measures you feel comfortable in directing us to implement.

1185
03:07:30,000 --> 03:07:31,000
Thank you.

1186
03:07:31,000 --> 03:07:34,000
My second question is about paramedics.

1187
03:07:34,000 --> 03:07:42,000
Are they going to be always separate from firefighters or eventually firefighters will be paramedics too?

1188
03:07:42,000 --> 03:07:47,000
The goal is that eventually we will just have all firefighter paramedics.

1189
03:07:47,000 --> 03:07:50,000
We face them in.

1190
03:07:50,000 --> 03:07:55,000
And we are in the beginning phases of figuring this out.

1191
03:07:55,000 --> 03:08:00,000
The more we learn, the more we meet with agencies, the more we come up with.

1192
03:08:00,000 --> 03:08:04,000
We adjust this model that we wanted to use to deploy.

1193
03:08:04,000 --> 03:08:09,000
Ultimately, the goal is that the current fire department that you have now.

1194
03:08:09,000 --> 03:08:17,000
The only difference will be that they have a higher level of training, but we will reset to what we have now.

1195
03:08:17,000 --> 03:08:22,000
Or what we need based on any sort of population increase we have.

1196
03:08:22,000 --> 03:08:27,000
But that we will eventually all have ALS fire engines and truck companies.

1197
03:08:27,000 --> 03:08:30,000
And the firefighters like you see them now show up to your house.

1198
03:08:30,000 --> 03:08:34,000
We'll be the same number of firefighters on the same fire engine.

1199
03:08:34,000 --> 03:08:37,000
They will just be trained to a paramedic level.

1200
03:08:37,000 --> 03:08:40,000
That's the ultimate goal at the full implementation.

1201
03:08:40,000 --> 03:08:45,000
We don't want to have rely on a squad model indefinitely.

1202
03:08:45,000 --> 03:08:50,000
So what happens to the vehicle you purchase now for paramedics?

1203
03:08:50,000 --> 03:08:52,000
We always use vehicle.

1204
03:08:52,000 --> 03:08:54,000
These are just these are squads.

1205
03:08:54,000 --> 03:08:59,000
They are a forward F550 chassis with a buildup on it.

1206
03:08:59,000 --> 03:09:06,000
We can repurpose those for rescue vehicles for towing a boat for marine program for our rescue.

1207
03:09:06,000 --> 03:09:09,000
We have numerous trailers that we use for rescue.

1208
03:09:09,000 --> 03:09:11,000
Shoring, structural collapse.

1209
03:09:11,000 --> 03:09:13,000
These vehicles will be repurposed.

1210
03:09:13,000 --> 03:09:15,000
We don't have enough vehicles currently.

1211
03:09:15,000 --> 03:09:20,000
So we will not have a problem repurposing these vehicles for a legitimate use.

1212
03:09:20,000 --> 03:09:21,000
Thank you.

1213
03:09:21,000 --> 03:09:30,000
And last question is about the role of EMS division chief and clinical care manager.

1214
03:09:30,000 --> 03:09:35,000
Are they firefighters or just clinical who will they be?

1215
03:09:35,000 --> 03:09:38,000
So the EMS division chief will be a chief officer.

1216
03:09:38,000 --> 03:09:46,000
It will be the I think what's a comparable position that you can look at is the fire marshal.

1217
03:09:46,000 --> 03:09:49,000
Fire marshal is a sworn chief officer of my command staff.

1218
03:09:49,000 --> 03:09:51,000
This will be a division.

1219
03:09:51,000 --> 03:09:52,000
He runs a division.

1220
03:09:52,000 --> 03:09:53,000
Chief wirely joins a division.

1221
03:09:53,000 --> 03:09:55,000
He runs a fire prevention division.

1222
03:09:55,000 --> 03:09:57,000
We just call him the fire marshal.

1223
03:09:57,000 --> 03:10:02,000
But a division chief was assigned to oversee an entire division of the fire department.

1224
03:10:02,000 --> 03:10:08,000
And so this chief officer would oversee strictly the EMS function of the fire department.

1225
03:10:08,000 --> 03:10:18,000
That duty currently is covered by the training chief who asked the double duty and do training in overseeing EMS training.

1226
03:10:18,000 --> 03:10:21,000
And also infection control which is related to EMS.

1227
03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:36,000
So we will be able to separate those two because that it's not feasible to run an ALS program with one chief officer that also oversees fire suppression training and special operations training such as extrication structural collapse.

1228
03:10:36,000 --> 03:10:38,000
Robescue confined space.

1229
03:10:38,000 --> 03:10:40,000
There's so many aspects in training.

1230
03:10:40,000 --> 03:10:42,000
EMS has to be its own.

1231
03:10:42,000 --> 03:10:45,000
It's highly specialized and it's also highly regulated.

1232
03:10:45,000 --> 03:10:54,000
And there's a lot at risk because of field treatment guidelines and policies and the contract that we have with the county health department.

1233
03:10:54,000 --> 03:10:57,000
We get reimbursed a small amount of money every year.

1234
03:10:57,000 --> 03:11:06,000
But we have to abide by a number of reporting and performance thresholds that has to be monitored and there has to be a continuous quality improvement program in place.

1235
03:11:06,000 --> 03:11:10,000
That has to be managed by someone that focuses solely on EMS.

1236
03:11:10,000 --> 03:11:17,000
The clinical care manager will fall into that system because the chief officer will run the overall EMS division.

1237
03:11:17,000 --> 03:11:29,000
But there has to be someone specialized in training EMS skills, refreshing skills, addressing performance issues when it comes to field treatment and outcomes of patients.

1238
03:11:29,000 --> 03:11:39,000
And be able to train for any new scope of practice that we as rolled out to us by the county that we choose to implement.

1239
03:11:39,000 --> 03:11:49,000
Imagine a lot of times this position is filled by someone that's an experienced paramedic from an ambulance and in some organizations that's an actually a nurse role.

1240
03:11:49,000 --> 03:12:00,000
They're specifically trained in or specifically qualified to train EMS related skills and curriculum.

1241
03:12:00,000 --> 03:12:02,000
Thank you very much.

1242
03:12:02,000 --> 03:12:06,000
If I may, I have one post last question for you.

1243
03:12:06,000 --> 03:12:14,000
So when ambulance people come, they're usually in communication with the hospital where they're going to transfer the patient.

1244
03:12:14,000 --> 03:12:20,000
When ASL comes, are they in touch with the hospital too or are the ambulance?

1245
03:12:20,000 --> 03:12:25,000
There will be certain treatments that require in the field.

1246
03:12:25,000 --> 03:12:30,000
With dictates who calls the hospital is the treatment being administered in the field often times.

1247
03:12:30,000 --> 03:12:38,000
There are certain protocols that are standing protocols and there are certain protocols that before you can do a certain procedure or administer a certain medication.

1248
03:12:38,000 --> 03:12:42,000
Require what's called base contact, which means they will have to contact.

1249
03:12:42,000 --> 03:12:50,000
John Mir, hospital the ED to get authorization to do certain treatments.

1250
03:12:50,000 --> 03:12:58,000
That's separate from the ambulance that we'll call ahead if they're calling the receiving facility with a patient is being transported to.

1251
03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:07,000
So yes, there will be times our firefighters will want to administer certain treatments in the field and it may require base contact to do that.

1252
03:13:07,000 --> 03:13:09,000
Thank you very much for thorough answers.

1253
03:13:09,000 --> 03:13:11,000
I have a much clearer picture now.

1254
03:13:11,000 --> 03:13:14,000
I really appreciate it.

1255
03:13:14,000 --> 03:13:16,000
Comments members who paid up.

1256
03:13:16,000 --> 03:13:17,000
Thank you.

1257
03:13:17,000 --> 03:13:19,000
Thank you for the presentation.

1258
03:13:19,000 --> 03:13:23,000
Great follow up to the first presentation we had on this.

1259
03:13:23,000 --> 03:13:25,000
Think a year ago two years ago.

1260
03:13:25,000 --> 03:13:27,000
Forget the timing now, but great six months.

1261
03:13:27,000 --> 03:13:28,000
Six months.

1262
03:13:28,000 --> 03:13:29,000
Oh, Jesus.

1263
03:13:29,000 --> 03:13:33,000
It feels like it was forever, but I'm glad that we're moving forward in the conversation.

1264
03:13:33,000 --> 03:13:36,000
This has a lot more content in a lack of the numbers.

1265
03:13:36,000 --> 03:13:38,000
I do have a couple of questions.

1266
03:13:38,000 --> 03:13:46,000
The temporary fire station on slide 14 that we're just discussing on there.

1267
03:13:46,000 --> 03:13:51,000
What does temporary mean in distance?

1268
03:13:51,000 --> 03:13:54,000
So a temporary fire station.

1269
03:13:54,000 --> 03:14:05,000
They're more commonly used when you are rebuilding a fire station and you have to temporarily relocate a fire station so that you can demolish on the

1270
03:14:05,000 --> 03:14:09,000
site you have because you don't have a new site.

1271
03:14:09,000 --> 03:14:19,000
So oftentimes a fire department will purchase or lease a temporary fire house which is typically a modular structure.

1272
03:14:19,000 --> 03:14:23,000
If you envision like the modular classrooms you see at a lot of schools.

1273
03:14:23,000 --> 03:14:24,000
Same building.

1274
03:14:24,000 --> 03:14:30,000
Just the internal layout of it is made to resemble a fire house, sleeping quarters, kitchen,

1275
03:14:30,000 --> 03:14:34,000
day room, you know, all of those types of things.

1276
03:14:34,000 --> 03:14:39,000
And it's meant to be temporary, but you have to bring in all the utilities.

1277
03:14:39,000 --> 03:14:48,000
You have to bring in the communications, which allows for communication from the dispatch center for dispatching purposes.

1278
03:14:48,000 --> 03:14:54,000
Everything you would have in a functioning fire house has to be there just in the temporary fashion.

1279
03:14:54,000 --> 03:15:00,000
And when you're done with it you typically either sell it or like I said it's a lot.

1280
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:05,800
Police and the company will come back and remove it off of the grounds that you put it on.

1281
03:15:05,800 --> 03:15:11,600
And then I was trying to follow what you were saying earlier, so that because we're looking

1282
03:15:11,600 --> 03:15:19,000
at station 62 and 68 to potentially be the ones that would be have some kind of upgrades

1283
03:15:19,000 --> 03:15:22,000
in that temporary fire station, will be for those two?

1284
03:15:22,000 --> 03:15:28,520
No, so with the slide 14 is trying to show, is that fire station 62 and 68 for the most

1285
03:15:28,520 --> 03:15:37,520
part could, with minor modifications could accommodate additional personnel and apparatus.

1286
03:15:37,520 --> 03:15:45,520
The consultant based on population density, call volume and geographical location,

1287
03:15:45,520 --> 03:15:51,520
recommended fire station 64 at Bayview and Carlson to be at the third site first squad,

1288
03:15:51,520 --> 03:15:56,520
but that's not feasible due to the number of personnel we already have at that fire station.

1289
03:15:56,520 --> 03:15:58,520
You can't fit anybody else in there.

1290
03:15:58,520 --> 03:16:02,520
Sorry, so that's, because you mentioned that, I want to make sure that I'm getting.

1291
03:16:02,520 --> 03:16:04,520
So that way you don't repeat what you just said.

1292
03:16:04,520 --> 03:16:09,520
So what is the temporary fire station going to be for, for which station that would be in place

1293
03:16:09,520 --> 03:16:15,520
of having something at station 64, we would put a temporary fire house to house the squad

1294
03:16:15,520 --> 03:16:21,520
at the training center, which is also in station 64's first due district.

1295
03:16:21,520 --> 03:16:25,520
Your option would be to put a temporary fire house in the back parking lot of station 64,

1296
03:16:25,520 --> 03:16:31,520
but that is, there's a lot of equipment stored back there currently in conics boxes

1297
03:16:31,520 --> 03:16:37,520
and it's the consultant that did the walkthrough on the facilities.

1298
03:16:37,520 --> 03:16:39,520
Didn't recommend that as a first choice.

1299
03:16:39,520 --> 03:16:46,520
They felt that the site at the training center will provide for a very similar geographical location,

1300
03:16:46,520 --> 03:16:50,520
but would be much easier to put in a temporary fire house

1301
03:16:50,520 --> 03:16:56,520
because we have already installed modular classrooms to teach cert and EMS maybe about 10 years ago.

1302
03:16:56,520 --> 03:17:00,520
So it was much easier project to bring the utilities over.

1303
03:17:00,520 --> 03:17:04,520
So that's kind of, while we're doing something on station 64.

1304
03:17:04,520 --> 03:17:11,520
No, this would be, well, this would be contingent upon us transitioning to ALS engine companies

1305
03:17:11,520 --> 03:17:16,520
so that the engine company at 64 would eventually be staffed with paramedic firefighters

1306
03:17:16,520 --> 03:17:20,520
and you wouldn't have to have the squad at the tower anymore.

1307
03:17:20,520 --> 03:17:24,520
Yeah, chief, if I may, so I think it would be helpful just for clarification.

1308
03:17:24,520 --> 03:17:32,520
So in terms of clarifying that the squad would be at the training center.

1309
03:17:32,520 --> 03:17:33,520
Yeah.

1310
03:17:33,520 --> 03:17:36,520
And the other thing that this, I mean, this is such a complex thing,

1311
03:17:36,520 --> 03:17:42,520
but the other aspect of why the consultant for the stations recommended this is that

1312
03:17:43,520 --> 03:17:49,520
there is the potential that station 67 or N66 need to be rebuilt.

1313
03:17:49,520 --> 03:17:55,520
Station 66 is an example of a station that there is no other place to put station 66 temporarily

1314
03:17:55,520 --> 03:18:04,520
and still serve the north and east other than moving them to a temporary station that might be at the training tower.

1315
03:18:04,520 --> 03:18:11,520
So the idea is that you could potentially invest this, you know, 1.9 to 2.5 million for a temporary fire house

1316
03:18:11,520 --> 03:18:16,520
and initially you can use it to house a squad until you transition to ALS engines

1317
03:18:16,520 --> 03:18:22,520
and then you could also house station 66 is crew there temporarily while we rebuild station 66

1318
03:18:22,520 --> 03:18:28,520
so you actually get dual use out of that initial investment instead of just using it for a squad

1319
03:18:28,520 --> 03:18:33,520
and then we don't know how this is going to work with station 67's replacement

1320
03:18:33,520 --> 03:18:39,520
but there is the potential to have to move 67 out of their quarters to a temporary fire house to rebuild that fire station

1321
03:18:39,520 --> 03:18:44,520
you might be able to use that for that purpose also and get a third use

1322
03:18:44,520 --> 03:18:50,520
although that's not ideal because it's on the other side of the train tracks which could pose delays to responses into the south side

1323
03:18:50,520 --> 03:18:55,520
but it just gives us options to repurpose that station and at least it for longer

1324
03:18:55,520 --> 03:19:01,520
so that the initial investment isn't just for a squad but it's for station rebuilds also

1325
03:19:01,520 --> 03:19:07,520
because that is a factor into all station rebuilds is where does the current crew go while you rebuild this fire house

1326
03:19:07,520 --> 03:19:13,520
and how do you move them and have the least amount of impact on response times and operations?

1327
03:19:13,520 --> 03:19:21,520
Perfect thank you and maybe in the future we'll have to see what it will cost to instead of a temporary do a new one there

1328
03:19:21,520 --> 03:19:26,520
because we're only building more housing around the area so we're going to need another fire station anyway

1329
03:19:26,520 --> 03:19:31,520
so we might as well look to see if we invest so with that with the future so thank you

1330
03:19:31,520 --> 03:19:43,520
next question station let me see my notes here station so slide 15 if you can so

1331
03:19:43,520 --> 03:19:52,520
station 6667 for station replacement is about station 67 is 30 million for station 63

1332
03:19:52,520 --> 03:19:58,520
it's also 30 million but it looks like we're not replacing we're just fixing the foundation

1333
03:19:58,520 --> 03:20:03,520
what to figure out why the cost is the same to replace them to do some fixes

1334
03:20:03,520 --> 03:20:13,520
that is a worst case scenario estimate about that it is going to require more analysis

1335
03:20:13,520 --> 03:20:20,520
that fire station has a foundation issue that may be linked to grading they suspect

1336
03:20:20,520 --> 03:20:29,520
and it could be as minor as fixing the foundation and doing piles under the foundation

1337
03:20:29,520 --> 03:20:34,520
or could be as severe as having to demolish that fire station and rebuild it we don't know yet

1338
03:20:34,520 --> 03:20:42,520
so the consulting gave this number as more of a worst case scenario estimate if you had to do a significant tear down

1339
03:20:42,520 --> 03:20:48,520
and rebuild that fire house but we don't know what that's going to cost yet this is just the best guess right now

1340
03:20:48,520 --> 03:20:54,520
based on a consultant got it thank you because that note there's this foundation repair and grading so it's

1341
03:20:54,520 --> 03:21:03,520
foundation repair and grading all the way to repair and the number could be anywhere between 30 million to less than

1342
03:21:03,520 --> 03:21:13,520
that's what it's supposedly all right thank you and then the on slide

1343
03:21:13,520 --> 03:21:20,520
19 and 20 so that the positions and this might be a question for the city manager so I see that the positions I want to

1344
03:21:20,520 --> 03:21:25,520
make sure that I'm seeing this correctly and it might be because of the budget as we are as we're

1345
03:21:25,520 --> 03:21:33,520
potentially having expenditures that are higher than revenues but the total of 40 positions are going down

1346
03:21:33,520 --> 03:21:39,520
so both of these budgets have positions going down between

1347
03:21:39,520 --> 03:21:45,520
92 to 127 positions is that my reading that correctly?

1348
03:21:45,520 --> 03:21:53,520
Yes you are reading that correctly so ideas so what you see the total afforded positions on the bottom there

1349
03:21:53,520 --> 03:22:01,520
so as our deficit increases we're saying that the amount of positions allocated positions current

1350
03:22:01,520 --> 03:22:11,520
allocators which is the 800 we're saying that if we had to close that gap of you know in the

1351
03:22:11,520 --> 03:22:20,520
in fiscal year 2930 of 55.3 million we could only afford 5063 positions so it's again it's a little

1352
03:22:20,520 --> 03:22:26,520
straight up okay thank you I just want to make sure it goes up seeing it go lower so we have to plan for that as

1353
03:22:26,520 --> 03:22:32,520
well right no other questions for now thank you so much thank you so much thank you so much

1354
03:22:32,520 --> 03:22:36,520
thank you so much for the update and the presentation I appreciate it I just wanted to know

1355
03:22:36,520 --> 03:22:46,520
so on the CIP list we have a lot of fire stations listed concerning upgrades and repairs

1356
03:22:46,520 --> 03:22:52,520
but since the first three stations listed in the presentation are now the priority locations I'm

1357
03:22:52,520 --> 03:23:00,520
wondering is that reflected also as a priority on the CIP list or is that included in the CIP

1358
03:23:00,520 --> 03:23:08,520
shortfall that's on the projections there does need to be there was a specific methodology that the city council

1359
03:23:08,520 --> 03:23:16,520
approved for prioritizing projects and so I would say that at midyear we need to what we frequently refer

1360
03:23:16,520 --> 03:23:22,520
to as we need to have a true up so there needs to be an alignment of the will have more refined

1361
03:23:22,520 --> 03:23:28,520
numbers from public works on what they anticipate the facility upgrades will cost as well as the

1362
03:23:28,520 --> 03:23:35,520
new stations and then we will need to work with the city council to align the council priorities around

1363
03:23:35,520 --> 03:23:42,520
the methodology for the CIP projects to bring these things into alignment so that that needs to be done staff

1364
03:23:42,520 --> 03:23:50,520
have begun to work on it but we will have that information for midyear okay fantastic also

1365
03:23:50,520 --> 03:23:56,520
I just want to be realistic because my hopes are getting like up and so like with our expectations

1366
03:23:56,520 --> 03:24:02,520
and then like with the potential three year roll out like would we be able to actually implement this

1367
03:24:02,520 --> 03:24:08,520
ALS program without the usage of the additional funds awarded in the general fund

1368
03:24:08,520 --> 03:24:22,520
I think that we will need to think about revenue enhancements and what is the city council

1369
03:24:22,520 --> 03:24:30,520
comfortable with and what are stakeholders comfortable with proceeding with and so I think it's possible

1370
03:24:30,520 --> 03:24:38,520
but it depends on you know what ultimately what the city council's policy direction is and so you know we're trying to balance these things

1371
03:24:38,520 --> 03:24:44,520
Yeah I mean the numbers are astronomical so I'm just like wanting to be realistic like with ourselves and with the public like

1372
03:24:44,520 --> 03:24:55,520
is this a lift that we could do without depending on that especially since this is a program that's going to impact the city of Richmond

1373
03:24:55,520 --> 03:25:03,520
and not any one in particular or any district in particular but so can't wait to hear that part

1374
03:25:03,520 --> 03:25:15,520
Also lastly I just wanted to ask about the improved emergency response times in preparedness so

1375
03:25:15,520 --> 03:25:27,520
how would staff be able to identify or ensure I know ensures probably like a reach but that ALS services improvements are equitable across the districts

1376
03:25:27,520 --> 03:25:35,520
because of the limited station usage or that will be staffed with ALS

1377
03:25:35,520 --> 03:25:38,520
Are we talking at three years or five years?

1378
03:25:38,520 --> 03:25:48,520
That's good either I just make sure that we that something that really spells out like what that looks like

1379
03:25:48,520 --> 03:25:54,520
So I mean that was a point in sharing the maps with you was that

1380
03:25:54,520 --> 03:26:14,520
I think this one yeah so we apologize that there was a there's a

1381
03:26:14,520 --> 03:26:26,520
That's why I want to make sure that is equitable so public works Mark Mark will work with him on on these slides

1382
03:26:26,520 --> 03:26:38,520
But for the purposes of the initial rollout which is slide 17 which is the next slide this is sort of the initial strategy and I think

1383
03:26:38,520 --> 03:26:44,520
Chief do you want to talk about the the deployments strategy here and why this is your recommendation?

1384
03:26:44,520 --> 03:26:50,520
Yes, so this is one of the reasons why the consulting recommended squads in the beginning

1385
03:26:50,520 --> 03:27:01,520
Because it squads not the only answer right we could do three ALS engineering companies but then we are saying okay well where do we put them if we follow the

1386
03:27:01,520 --> 03:27:05,520
Consultants model

1387
03:27:05,520 --> 03:27:12,520
Yeah, they're spread out throughout the city but you got to remember our fire fire engines our company

1388
03:27:12,520 --> 03:27:17,520
Each station has a district it responds in it's considered like it's a primary response area

1389
03:27:17,520 --> 03:27:24,520
We call it the first do area and so but squad can mimic like an ambulance does where it

1390
03:27:24,520 --> 03:27:31,520
We are basically breaking up the city into three sections that the squad can roam anywhere and that third of the city

1391
03:27:31,520 --> 03:27:33,520
It respond to a call

1392
03:27:33,520 --> 03:27:39,520
The fact that what you get currently get let's just use an example as a medical incident

1393
03:27:39,520 --> 03:27:46,520
You currently get a fire engine or a fire truck and an ambulance responds to your house when you call that one one

1394
03:27:46,520 --> 03:27:51,520
The only thing that would change is the squad would respond in addition to that

1395
03:27:51,520 --> 03:27:53,520
So that they would get ALS service there

1396
03:27:53,520 --> 03:28:00,520
I will say that if it was in ALS engines it would be and I wanted to do three of them initially

1397
03:28:00,520 --> 03:28:02,520
That would be a much easier lift

1398
03:28:02,520 --> 03:28:07,520
But I would struggle being able to equitably provide that service around the city

1399
03:28:07,520 --> 03:28:12,520
It would be limited to their district and if they are not busy

1400
03:28:12,520 --> 03:28:18,520
We might be able to add them to a neighboring district but now we're creating coverage gaps in their primary district

1401
03:28:18,520 --> 03:28:25,520
And so that was the reason why the squad is recommended because everybody in the community gets to initially benefit

1402
03:28:25,520 --> 03:28:33,520
If we have a additional roaming medical unit that can provide ALS versus fire engine with fire fighter medics

1403
03:28:33,520 --> 03:28:40,520
That stays in a pretty determined district so you know these were fire engines only hilltop would get medic service

1404
03:28:40,520 --> 03:28:47,520
And only North Richmond and only you know, Chris and Park area annex would get paramedics service

1405
03:28:47,520 --> 03:28:54,520
And we can't promise that that would be able to those engines would be able to respond outside their first due district

1406
03:28:54,520 --> 03:29:01,520
They currently only do that for things such as structure fires or vehicle accidents that require multiple units in their response

1407
03:29:01,520 --> 03:29:06,520
So this was an attempt to try to be equitable in this service improvement

1408
03:29:06,520 --> 03:29:13,520
Until we can get to a full five year where every fire engine and every fire station and your neighborhood has a paramedic on there

1409
03:29:13,520 --> 03:29:20,520
It would be much easier though if I just implemented three fire engines at a time until I got to eight

1410
03:29:20,520 --> 03:29:27,520
But I don't want to get into which will, how did you pick them over us over here?

1411
03:29:27,520 --> 03:29:34,520
No, I thought it, thank you so much for that and thank you all for all that you do, appreciate it

1412
03:29:35,520 --> 03:29:37,520
Councilmember Bonna

1413
03:29:37,520 --> 03:29:41,520
Quick question about that this slide 17, how long is going to be like that?

1414
03:29:41,520 --> 03:29:49,520
I don't complain you know why there is nothing in district for I understand your danger best and for practical purposes

1415
03:29:49,520 --> 03:29:54,520
But how temporary is this situation? Two years one year

1416
03:29:54,520 --> 03:30:00,520
Well that's part of the five year plan the goal is that between year three and your five

1417
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:09,000
We will be implementing ALS engine companies. So eventually, station 63 on value view will be an ALS engine company.

1418
03:30:09,000 --> 03:30:12,000
So it's maximum two years that we'll have this situation.

1419
03:30:12,000 --> 03:30:20,000
That's the goal. The goal is that everybody within the two years following the initial squad implementation will be ALS.

1420
03:30:20,000 --> 03:30:30,000
There will, as we decide who, which stations be get implemented first, there's a lot of things we have to consider such as call volume and your district.

1421
03:30:30,000 --> 03:30:35,000
We are looking at distance away from other paramedic resources.

1422
03:30:35,000 --> 03:30:43,000
We don't have a methodology for that yet. We also need to see what our staffing looks like and how many medics we onboard and what rank they are.

1423
03:30:43,000 --> 03:30:51,000
There's a lot of factors going into it. So we're going to try to come up with when we get down into the weeds of the plan for implementation.

1424
03:30:51,000 --> 03:31:01,000
Have a hierarchy of which stations first, second, third, all the way through most likely the truck company would be the last station last crew to get a paramedic.

1425
03:31:01,000 --> 03:31:05,000
Since their primary duties has met and structure fire response.

1426
03:31:05,000 --> 03:31:14,000
So we have to figure that out and that's something that we will figure out, you know, internally in the fire department based on a number of factors.

1427
03:31:14,000 --> 03:31:22,000
Thank you. So I hope you do consider some priority for district four for being so far away from.

1428
03:31:22,000 --> 03:31:27,000
Thanks. Five year, you're right.

1429
03:31:27,000 --> 03:31:31,000
So are any other questions?

1430
03:31:31,000 --> 03:31:42,000
If not, I would like to make a motion to receive the it's update on the advanced life support first responder services.

1431
03:31:42,000 --> 03:31:54,000
Fire station upgrades and replacements and associate five year financial forecast and direct the city manager to develop revenue enhancement and financing recommendations for the city council consideration.

1432
03:31:54,000 --> 03:32:10,000
Also, to consider how we think of the general fund in order to ensure that.

1433
03:32:10,000 --> 03:32:16,000
That that the.

1434
03:32:16,000 --> 03:32:29,000
That the general funds, which were expanded because of the settlement fund can be looked at in a totality with with the needs of the city.

1435
03:32:29,000 --> 03:32:34,000
I speak into the right. Second.

1436
03:32:34,000 --> 03:32:38,000
Second. Second.

1437
03:32:38,000 --> 03:32:41,000
Councilmember Brown. Yes.

1438
03:32:41,000 --> 03:32:42,000
Councilmember Vana.

1439
03:32:42,000 --> 03:32:46,000
Very excited. Yes. Thank you. Councilmember him.

1440
03:32:46,000 --> 03:32:47,000
Yes.

1441
03:32:47,000 --> 03:32:49,000
Councilmember Wilson. Yes.

1442
03:32:49,000 --> 03:32:51,000
Councilmember Zapater. Yes.

1443
03:32:51,000 --> 03:32:53,000
Vice Mayor Robinson. Yes.

1444
03:32:53,000 --> 03:32:55,000
And Mayor Martinez. Yes.

1445
03:32:55,000 --> 03:32:57,000
The voters unanimously.

1446
03:32:58,000 --> 03:33:00,000
Thank you.

1447
03:33:00,000 --> 03:33:04,000
Thank you.

1448
03:33:05,000 --> 03:33:12,000
Our next item is to combine.

1449
03:33:12,000 --> 03:33:15,000
Item P3 and P4.

1450
03:33:15,000 --> 03:33:33,000
P3 is to direct the city manager to engage in assault and to collaborate with city staff and city council and community stakeholders to conduct community engagement and gather input on a framework for the expenditure of new general fund revenues generated by the polluters pay settlement.

1451
03:33:33,000 --> 03:33:39,000
With a consultant reporting back to the city council by May 26 of 2026.

1452
03:33:39,000 --> 03:33:59,000
Item P4 is to direct the city manager or their designated to schedule and lead a minimum of six community meetings each year all around the city in each district together input from the community on how to spend the community money Chevron settlement funds prior to the annual budget meeting.

1453
03:33:59,000 --> 03:34:03,000
We have a total of 17 in person speakers.

1454
03:34:03,000 --> 03:34:20,000
And if there's anyone joining us online that would like to address the council on item P3 and P4 please raise your hand at this time.

1455
03:34:21,000 --> 03:34:24,000
So do we have.

1456
03:34:26,000 --> 03:34:28,000
Yeah. Thank you.

1457
03:34:28,000 --> 03:34:35,000
So I and I think I'm going to present with council member Robinson P3.

1458
03:34:35,000 --> 03:34:49,000
We have been in collaboration with many community organizations and will staff to have like this need for getting input from the community.

1459
03:34:49,000 --> 03:35:01,000
Community around what we can do and what the community vision is around these new.

1460
03:35:01,000 --> 03:35:07,000
A man is in the general fund from these.

1461
03:35:08,000 --> 03:35:22,000
A settlement agreement that we have and that many community organizations make a happen among city council.

1462
03:35:22,000 --> 03:35:32,000
So in that sense the idea is to we know that capacity and the staff is limited.

1463
03:35:32,000 --> 03:35:38,000
We want to make sure that we are capacity. This is why we are.

1464
03:35:38,000 --> 03:35:44,000
Recommending that a consultant could be part of of that.

1465
03:35:44,000 --> 03:35:51,000
Capacity are in so that we can have a robust community engagement.

1466
03:35:51,000 --> 03:35:58,000
The idea is that we had this tremendous opportunity as I said before in these 10 years.

1467
03:35:58,000 --> 03:36:05,000
With 550 million dollars adding to the general fund every year.

1468
03:36:05,000 --> 03:36:12,000
The first a year 50 million dollars and then after that 60 million dollars.

1469
03:36:12,000 --> 03:36:17,000
We have to do some.

1470
03:36:17,000 --> 03:36:30,000
It's smart investment that can allow us to move the needle in that dependency that we have from chairman.

1471
03:36:30,000 --> 03:36:41,000
As he says in one of the articles in the newspaper we have a 20% of our general fund revenue.

1472
03:36:41,000 --> 03:36:44,000
You can't from one industry.

1473
03:36:44,000 --> 03:36:52,000
And if we and an industry that as we are seeing is sharing operations.

1474
03:36:52,000 --> 03:36:59,000
Even in this in this in this county like Venisha marathon and others here.

1475
03:36:59,000 --> 03:37:09,000
So I think what we need is to be prepared to start diversifying that revenue.

1476
03:37:09,000 --> 03:37:22,000
And these are really key question like how much can we decrease that dependency in this same years and what kind of investment.

1477
03:37:22,000 --> 03:37:36,000
But also recognizing that this community has an investment that there is a lot of different maintenance that there is a lot of things that the community would like to see to improve the quality of life.

1478
03:37:36,000 --> 03:37:45,000
So recognizing that there is a framework that we are proposing that maybe I will live councilmember Robinson to present.

1479
03:37:45,000 --> 03:37:51,000
But it's also around so it's two things is one is.

1480
03:37:51,000 --> 03:38:03,000
The financial strategies that we can have to make sure that maybe this money makes more money and is extended the period of time that we.

1481
03:38:03,000 --> 03:38:09,000
We had these these extra funds that we are seeing today.

1482
03:38:09,000 --> 03:38:18,000
So what is this Martin to say we brought an island several months ago about.

1483
03:38:18,000 --> 03:38:25,000
Is is a smart to pay the and fund the liability the UAL.

1484
03:38:25,000 --> 03:38:32,000
The and fund their actual liability that we have to pension obligation.

1485
03:38:32,000 --> 03:38:35,000
Is that this Martin to do.

1486
03:38:35,000 --> 03:38:42,000
Or maybe not or what are the things that we can do to really make sure that.

1487
03:38:42,000 --> 03:38:47,000
We sustain the life of these these funds.

1488
03:38:47,000 --> 03:39:01,000
What are the investments that we have in terms of a economic development and just transition that brings job, but at being a source of revenue that also is that feeling.

1489
03:39:01,000 --> 03:39:07,000
Or diversifying that they and adding more a new revenue.

1490
03:39:07,000 --> 03:39:10,000
So we are being prepared.

1491
03:39:10,000 --> 03:39:21,000
So I think we had been thinking a lot we had been working a lot in terms of not only just said to the community.

1492
03:39:21,000 --> 03:39:26,000
What do you want to see with this is from funds.

1493
03:39:26,000 --> 03:39:34,000
But also provide a framework so all conversations are beyond just.

1494
03:39:34,000 --> 03:39:42,000
These sires but also be strategic about where and what to put the money on.

1495
03:39:42,000 --> 03:39:49,000
So with that I will pass it to council member Robinson to.

1496
03:39:49,000 --> 03:39:52,000
Okay.

1497
03:39:52,000 --> 03:39:55,000
Okay.

1498
03:39:55,000 --> 03:39:57,000
Okay.

1499
03:39:57,000 --> 03:40:04,000
So just want to add a couple of things that I think are really important.

1500
03:40:04,000 --> 03:40:16,000
One of those things is that this is a really huge opportunity for the city to have this scale of additional general funds coming into the city.

1501
03:40:16,000 --> 03:40:20,000
For only this period of time.

1502
03:40:20,000 --> 03:40:23,000
That we know about.

1503
03:40:23,000 --> 03:40:28,000
I think we're at a moment where we can make some really bad decisions.

1504
03:40:28,000 --> 03:40:39,000
We could, you know, move forward and spend it all every year and not really know when we look back on it what happened.

1505
03:40:39,000 --> 03:40:42,000
What did we spend it on again, but where did it go?

1506
03:40:42,000 --> 03:40:48,000
I think that this is a moment where we need to really think about what is our strategy.

1507
03:40:48,000 --> 03:40:56,000
Is there a way to extend these funds through investments so that it lasts longer than 10 years.

1508
03:40:56,000 --> 03:41:05,000
Also, we need to ask ourselves, are we under certain conditions now that we need to address?

1509
03:41:05,000 --> 03:41:11,000
I think council member Jimenez mentioned our unfunded liabilities.

1510
03:41:11,000 --> 03:41:18,000
Is that something that we need to address in this moment with this, you know, kind of once in a generation opportunity?

1511
03:41:18,000 --> 03:41:20,000
I'm not sure.

1512
03:41:20,000 --> 03:41:29,000
But it's something that definitely with over $300 million in unfunded liabilities, something that we might want to think about when we want to consider.

1513
03:41:29,000 --> 03:41:43,000
Also, thinking about the examples of Benisha and the refinery closing there and creating an enormous impact on that city.

1514
03:41:43,000 --> 03:41:45,000
They were not ready for it.

1515
03:41:45,000 --> 03:41:48,000
They did not have the plans in place.

1516
03:41:48,000 --> 03:41:57,000
They did not have any alternative revenue sources and now they are hurting and they are trying to figure out how they're going to keep their city alive.

1517
03:41:57,000 --> 03:42:01,000
Does Richmond want to be in that position?

1518
03:42:01,000 --> 03:42:08,000
Even we know there are massive changes happening in the petroleum industry that are market changes.

1519
03:42:08,000 --> 03:42:10,000
Changes that are beyond our control.

1520
03:42:10,000 --> 03:42:22,000
Changes that happen to the coal industry and devastated coal country when those changes came down and coal mines shut down devastated those cities and towns.

1521
03:42:22,000 --> 03:42:26,000
We can look at Detroit changes in the auto industry.

1522
03:42:26,000 --> 03:42:29,000
It was market changes devastated Detroit.

1523
03:42:29,000 --> 03:42:31,000
It was literally a ghost town.

1524
03:42:31,000 --> 03:42:38,000
For decades, they are still trying to build themselves back up because they had no plan.

1525
03:42:38,000 --> 03:42:50,000
For these massive market changes and their over-dependence for general fund from one sector, from one industry.

1526
03:42:50,000 --> 03:42:53,000
We are in a moment where we can see that clearly.

1527
03:42:53,000 --> 03:43:01,000
Richmond is over-dependent for our general fund on one industry.

1528
03:43:01,000 --> 03:43:18,000
We have an opportunity in this moment to actually use this short term, but funds to attract other industries to invest in our economy and build up some other revenue streams.

1529
03:43:19,000 --> 03:43:23,000
So I feel like we're in on this moment where we have this opportunity.

1530
03:43:23,000 --> 03:43:29,000
And we could go on a spinning spree, getting all the things that we've won it for all these times.

1531
03:43:29,000 --> 03:43:31,000
Or we could do something different.

1532
03:43:31,000 --> 03:43:33,000
We could do a combination of the two.

1533
03:43:33,000 --> 03:43:47,000
I think that it really needs to be a conversation that we have well with community, facilitated by a non-partial facilitator of a facilitator that doesn't have a dog in the race.

1534
03:43:47,000 --> 03:43:54,000
And can actually help people sustain these ideas and weigh in on what they believe.

1535
03:43:54,000 --> 03:44:07,000
What I am advocating through this item is to bring in that non-biased facilitator to help facilitate a conversation with community members in every district.

1536
03:44:07,000 --> 03:44:12,000
And actually go through this landscape of opportunities.

1537
03:44:12,000 --> 03:44:18,000
Talk about what is the strategy that we want to use as this money is entering into our general fund.

1538
03:44:18,000 --> 03:44:21,000
Do we want to do some kind of an investment strategy?

1539
03:44:21,000 --> 03:44:26,000
Do we want to do some kind of, you know, prioritize spending.

1540
03:44:26,000 --> 03:44:35,000
But have the community weigh in on it before we make the decisions for everyone behind closed doors.

1541
03:44:35,000 --> 03:44:39,000
It definitely won't happen behind closed doors.

1542
03:44:39,000 --> 03:44:43,000
So I'm still talking, I'm finishing up here.

1543
03:44:43,000 --> 03:44:44,000
It's long pause.

1544
03:44:44,000 --> 03:44:45,000
Yeah.

1545
03:44:45,000 --> 03:44:52,000
And so I think that what I've heard over and over and over again when I'm out in community at neighborhood council meetings,

1546
03:44:52,000 --> 03:44:56,000
out talking to people, people want an opportunity to chime in.

1547
03:44:56,000 --> 03:45:00,000
They don't want it to happen without their voices being heard.

1548
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:14,000
For what it's worth, they know ultimately that decision will be with Council and other folks, but I think that it is, it behooves us and it is good public policy to actually have a non-biased

1549
03:45:14,000 --> 03:45:22,000
consultants and come in and conduct this community process so we can have that information and the community can be fully informed.

1550
03:45:22,000 --> 03:45:28,000
And then we know where they stand and we can move forward accordingly. Thank you.

1551
03:45:28,000 --> 03:45:36,000
And in total agreement with what was said by the Vice Mayor and the Council member Hamenis.

1552
03:45:36,000 --> 03:45:48,000
And to frame this, the city council before we received the extra income from Chevron, past goals and objectives.

1553
03:45:48,000 --> 03:45:57,000
And those goals and objectives had many, many interest in greeting the economy here in the city of Richmond.

1554
03:45:57,000 --> 03:46:13,000
And so whether or not we had gotten that money from Chevron, the city of Richmond still would have spent money on greeting the economy because that was our goals and objectives which we decided upon.

1555
03:46:13,000 --> 03:46:34,000
But, now that we have extra funds in general funds, we need to think about how we want to spend them, not just the 50 million but the entire general fund.

1556
03:46:34,000 --> 03:46:44,000
You know, it's, we need to decide as a community how that money best addresses the needs of the city.

1557
03:46:44,000 --> 03:46:58,000
So I would, I would suggest that we not just consider the 50 million but we consider the entire general fund in our explorations of how to move the city forward.

1558
03:46:58,000 --> 03:47:05,000
Now, we can, in part of our mind, keep that 50 million separate.

1559
03:47:05,000 --> 03:47:18,000
But, you know, I think, I think we're capable of seeing how that 50 million needs to be coordinated with the rest of the general funds.

1560
03:47:19,000 --> 03:47:31,000
Thank you for combining these two because they're, they're think the intent of everyone here is to figure out how do we better communicate and get gather the feedback from the community.

1561
03:47:31,000 --> 03:47:36,000
I have been trying to work with different organizations to try to get that feedback.

1562
03:47:37,000 --> 03:47:43,000
I started doing my strategy meetings and my district since I was first elected.

1563
03:47:43,000 --> 03:47:48,000
And there I always ask and this is before the 50 million or the Chevron money or whatever.

1564
03:47:48,000 --> 03:47:59,000
I was asking my community, what do we do? What is, what is it that you need when you open the front door, what do you need because you know exactly your needs when you open that front door.

1565
03:47:59,000 --> 03:48:04,000
I know district wide, I know different issues, we all know city wide.

1566
03:48:04,000 --> 03:48:10,000
But I wanted to hear from those members when they opened the front door wall was their issues.

1567
03:48:10,000 --> 03:48:21,000
Then late last year after trying to work with different individuals to help potentially put these meetings together that we promise that we would do that I can 2024.

1568
03:48:21,000 --> 03:48:28,000
We sat here I know was a slightly different council but we still promised that we would go out and get that feedback from the community.

1569
03:48:28,000 --> 03:48:42,000
And we got busy whatever might be but I want them to make sure and even though we heard from various community groups come out and say hey you told us you were going to do this and you haven't done it and you told us you were going to do this and meeting after meeting we were here it.

1570
03:48:42,000 --> 03:48:46,000
And I felt that's why I reached that and said okay we said we were going to do this.

1571
03:48:46,000 --> 03:48:54,000
Let's do this together people got busy whatever might be then I took the initiative to try to go out and try to gather that feedback.

1572
03:48:54,000 --> 03:49:00,000
So that's how I kind of ended it with trying to do these together.

1573
03:49:00,000 --> 03:49:02,000
And I was opening them up for everyone.

1574
03:49:02,000 --> 03:49:08,000
The first one that I did was in district one it just happened to be one is the first number.

1575
03:49:08,000 --> 03:49:16,000
There was no particular order then that we're just going to go down the list and then try to figure out what community centers were available.

1576
03:49:16,000 --> 03:49:28,000
My item doesn't go with a consultant because I believe that our staff is more than capable of being able to do this on our behalf.

1577
03:49:28,000 --> 03:49:38,000
The staff already goes out there and does some of the financing meetings right before our budget they've been doing this for years.

1578
03:49:38,000 --> 03:49:47,000
We can add this and give it a little more structure. I appreciate the structure that my colleagues put in on their item and I'm in P3 that's a great structure.

1579
03:49:47,000 --> 03:49:51,000
All right, I didn't put in any structure because one to make sure that this is collaborative.

1580
03:49:51,000 --> 03:49:57,000
But the goal should be to get the input from the community.

1581
03:49:57,000 --> 03:50:07,000
Now something that the city council has that regular individuals and residents and rich remind not have is we get close session information.

1582
03:50:07,000 --> 03:50:19,000
Right, that sometimes will help us shape where we need to put the money and we might not always be able to share it in public until we finish whatever is in in close session.

1583
03:50:19,000 --> 03:50:26,000
We might know of other projects coming or leaving or whatever might be so we know sort of high level what's going on in the city.

1584
03:50:26,000 --> 03:50:32,000
But asking the community again is really important so that we can try to balance that.

1585
03:50:32,000 --> 03:50:38,000
Because we're never going to know what every corner of our community needs unless we ask them.

1586
03:50:38,000 --> 03:50:45,000
That's why in my item I was saying to at least do six because we have six districts.

1587
03:50:45,000 --> 03:50:55,000
But making sure that we touch as many corners and what I would love to see as well is that we don't just do them on one particular day at one particular time.

1588
03:50:55,000 --> 03:51:05,000
But that we do them throughout the weekdays weekends mornings evenings because our people are residents of Richmond work.

1589
03:51:05,000 --> 03:51:07,000
Some of them have two three jobs.

1590
03:51:07,000 --> 03:51:11,000
So how do we make sure that they have the ability to make it to these meetings.

1591
03:51:11,000 --> 03:51:13,000
So I want to make sure that we keep that in equity as well.

1592
03:51:13,000 --> 03:51:18,000
Making sure that we meet them at the time and place that they can make it.

1593
03:51:18,000 --> 03:51:26,000
Some individuals some days might not work. Let's make sure we have some unsaturates. Let's make sure we have some unsundates for those that can't make Saturdays et cetera.

1594
03:51:26,000 --> 03:51:28,000
So making sure that we're equitable there.

1595
03:51:28,000 --> 03:51:44,000
And then I go and I will have to ask the city manager right as we when we were to move forward with any of these items that staff would have the potential capacity because also looking at the cost of having another consultant.

1596
03:51:44,000 --> 03:52:02,000
It's $300,000 the item that we just heard $300,000 can get us the dorm capacity at fire station 62 fire station 68 can get us the new chief set we need.

1597
03:52:02,000 --> 03:52:12,000
Right their first year budget is about 300,000 the EMS manager 135,000 division chief 261,000.

1598
03:52:12,000 --> 03:52:24,000
So as we're looking to spend money right because it's asking the community how do we spend it we also want to make sure that we are aware of where can we put the money to last us a little bit longer.

1599
03:52:24,000 --> 03:52:32,000
And then also going and letting the community know that if we save some of it we can use some of that money for long term.

1600
03:52:32,000 --> 03:52:39,000
Where do we invest it how do we invest it but both investing it in the bank potentially but investing in our community.

1601
03:52:39,000 --> 03:52:47,000
Because our community of Richmond for a very very very very very very long time has not had the services that they deserve.

1602
03:52:47,000 --> 03:53:00,000
How many pot holes how many lights are out how many services have they been lacking in the past couple of years we've been investing more in parks we've been investing more in our infrastructure so we definitely have been turning around.

1603
03:53:00,000 --> 03:53:11,000
But let's continue asking for those services district four doesn't have bathrooms in the parks up there right so the services are going to be different parts yesterday is flooding.

1604
03:53:11,000 --> 03:53:16,000
I've been there for the past couple of weeks and the infrastructure is so broken.

1605
03:53:16,000 --> 03:53:26,000
We have so much more investing to do so let's make sure that we're asking the community we're leading always with what the community is looking for us to do for them.

1606
03:53:26,000 --> 03:53:35,000
Is it a manager to back to my question what staff even have the capacity.

1607
03:53:35,000 --> 03:53:48,000
If through the mayor as a chair I think it might be helpful for finance staff to assist in answering this question because they I want to be thoughtful around what they what their capacity is.

1608
03:53:48,000 --> 03:53:55,000
Staff who work on the budget if they want to come forward.

1609
03:53:56,000 --> 03:54:18,000
Good evening this is moving the deputy director finance chief was are you so the answer to your question about the capacity.

1610
03:54:19,000 --> 03:54:29,000
I just want to be honest with you guys like this with the council and the mayor that the time and that's been given and the task that is being discussed right now.

1611
03:54:29,000 --> 03:54:52,000
Is going to be literally core budget departments task and budget department budget division actually is overwhelmed and going to be further overwhelmed for next several months starting tomorrow as we kick off the fiscal year 26 27 year budget development process which is already a very comprehensive and engaged process.

1612
03:54:52,000 --> 03:55:02,000
Given the fact that the city of Richmond is a quite large city and it requires a lot of effort to develop its budget.

1613
03:55:03,000 --> 03:55:14,000
So the staff will be extremely busy and really stretched through June basically and I'm really being honest with the.

1614
03:55:14,000 --> 03:55:25,000
Perfect just want to make sure that as we move forward that we don't give you direction to add a decent work if you're not able to do that additional work then a consultant is what then you're saying.

1615
03:55:25,000 --> 03:55:34,000
Working with the consultant is a task with the major we can't just leave a consultant out there.

1616
03:55:34,000 --> 03:55:45,000
Working on their own so bringing a consultant on board is quite the major left we have to be very equitable and fair throughout the process which requires a lot of attention to detail.

1617
03:55:45,000 --> 03:55:59,000
And continues monitoring given that we are the stewards of the community funds so we have to make sure that you know we are bringing that accountability and we're fair and equitable and transparent which is a task of its own and it does not take away.

1618
03:56:00,000 --> 03:56:10,000
The fact that it does demand hard work and a lot of attention on top of the budget development which is really a major left.

1619
03:56:10,000 --> 03:56:19,000
So the timeline doesn't work so is it a timeline or the time commitment so we give you more time could staff do it or do we still need the consultant.

1620
03:56:19,000 --> 03:56:30,000
At the end of the day like we are really reporting to city manager and the council and we are supposed to follow the direction it's so that the task is there if that's what the council is going to decide.

1621
03:56:30,000 --> 03:56:38,000
So the time will be the ask that you know we can ask right now we can request right now turn it is more time that you need then.

1622
03:56:38,000 --> 03:56:45,000
I'm just trying to get what will be the other specific request pertaining to time and 45 to 60 additional days.

1623
03:56:45,000 --> 03:56:48,000
Okay perfect so with that.

1624
03:56:48,000 --> 03:57:01,000
Plus the consultant or definitely consultant because we have to be scientific it's not just like you know collecting asking questions and collecting information.

1625
03:57:01,000 --> 03:57:11,000
I believe the council wanted to be like a proper comprehensive scientific survey not just run of the mail like.

1626
03:57:11,000 --> 03:57:14,000
Just because we'll be in thought so survey.

1627
03:57:15,000 --> 03:57:17,000
It's whatever moving sides.

1628
03:57:18,000 --> 03:57:30,000
We have we have to I believe it needs to be a scientific qualitative and quantitative survey which there are social scientists who are there to do the job.

1629
03:57:30,000 --> 03:57:31,000
Okay.

1630
03:57:31,000 --> 03:57:32,000
Perfect.

1631
03:57:32,000 --> 03:57:33,000
Thank you.

1632
03:57:33,000 --> 03:57:34,000
Miss Rolling.

1633
03:57:34,000 --> 03:57:43,000
I appreciate staff being willing to be transparent because I know sometimes these conversations are hard and and so I just want to thank them for all being here this evening and for.

1634
03:57:43,000 --> 03:57:53,000
And I want to make sure you set additional 45 days and I think both of our proposals have a slightly different day so.

1635
03:57:53,000 --> 03:57:56,000
Instead of 45 days which month.

1636
03:57:56,000 --> 03:58:11,000
That would be July sometime I would say okay so in July or late July okay so in July to start the process or to be done with the process.

1637
03:58:11,000 --> 03:58:22,000
I would say like it would be really ideal if we start the process at the time with that again at the same time like the council council really makes that decision.

1638
03:58:22,000 --> 03:58:23,000
Yeah.

1639
03:58:23,000 --> 03:58:26,000
Because that will be after the budget.

1640
03:58:26,000 --> 03:58:36,000
So we're trying to see if we can start figuring out how to incorporate the communities thoughts and ideas before the budget.

1641
03:58:37,000 --> 03:58:49,000
Maybe what would be helpful is that the city council can continue to provide input this evening and staff can return with an updated and a draft timeline for consideration by the council and 45 to 60 days.

1642
03:58:49,000 --> 03:58:56,000
Because then that will provide an opportunity for the staff to to look at what's being requested.

1643
03:58:56,000 --> 03:58:57,000
Thank you.

1644
03:58:57,000 --> 03:59:10,000
I also like to bring attention that the the consultant when we bring them on will have their own timeline we can't really impose the timeline that we think the speed that they will be working on.

1645
03:59:10,000 --> 03:59:15,000
So there's only limited amount of factors that we can control that staff.

1646
03:59:15,000 --> 03:59:20,000
I I'd also like to say that this that this timeline.

1647
03:59:20,000 --> 03:59:24,000
Is it a county for the work that you already have to do.

1648
03:59:24,000 --> 03:59:34,000
You know I think I think you're already overburdened and to keep more work upon you would be doing the city of this service.

1649
03:59:34,000 --> 03:59:41,000
I know that when I have to do more work than I'm capable of all the workers outshoddy.

1650
03:59:41,000 --> 03:59:45,000
So was that the council member Brown.

1651
03:59:45,000 --> 03:59:50,000
Are we doing comments now we're going to call it sir.

1652
03:59:50,000 --> 03:59:51,000
All right.

1653
03:59:51,000 --> 03:59:52,000
Sorry.

1654
03:59:52,000 --> 03:59:53,000
Yeah.

1655
03:59:53,000 --> 03:59:56,000
Because I wasn't given my comment I'm just opening up for my eyes.

1656
03:59:56,000 --> 03:59:57,000
Okay.

1657
03:59:57,000 --> 03:59:58,000
All right.

1658
03:59:58,000 --> 04:00:00,000
Then we'll go to public comment and then.

1659
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:15,000
And we'll return to the comments. I'm sorry. We're not doing question, Chair.

1660
04:00:15,000 --> 04:00:23,000
Okay, we have 17 in-person speakers. And if you're joining us online, and we'd like to address a council.

1661
04:00:23,000 --> 04:00:28,000
And I'm going to speak 2 in P3 and P4. Please raise your hand at this time.

1662
04:00:29,000 --> 04:00:32,000
Speaker's our courtele handler. It's a native Gomez.

1663
04:00:32,000 --> 04:00:38,000
So I'm a Mindy. Alma Gutierrez. Danielle Militee.

1664
04:00:38,000 --> 04:00:51,000
Melvin Willis, Alejandro, Savala, Evette Blenden, Emma I, Hansen A, Marilyn M. Abdullah A, Michelle Chan, Ryan,

1665
04:00:51,000 --> 04:00:57,000
Casin, Antoine Claude, Mark Wasper, and Jamie Perceo will be our last speaker.

1666
04:00:57,000 --> 04:00:59,000
Cordale Hitler. Thank you.

1667
04:00:59,000 --> 04:01:02,000
So good evening, Mayor Martinez. Councilor.

1668
04:01:02,000 --> 04:01:07,000
Cordale Hitler, I'm a rich resident. So I do want to thank the sponsors for this item.

1669
04:01:07,000 --> 04:01:13,000
So I do have my own vision to see the Chevron's money. So picture this.

1670
04:01:13,000 --> 04:01:17,000
A lively downtown Richmond, vibrant.

1671
04:01:17,000 --> 04:01:24,000
And what's missing is retail because I was in a zoom call recently, and if you look at cities like

1672
04:01:24,000 --> 04:01:30,000
Wano Creek, San Jose, Antino, all of them have retail and economic development.

1673
04:01:30,000 --> 04:01:36,000
So I'm thinking like if those cities cannot have revenue, so can Richmond.

1674
04:01:36,000 --> 04:01:40,000
That's one vision. But also picture this.

1675
04:01:40,000 --> 04:01:45,000
I'm not just stepping because as I stated doing my open forum comment, if you remember what Rob

1676
04:01:45,000 --> 04:01:52,000
Tell us said regarding the workforce analysis, we need more staffing because they're the ones that

1677
04:01:52,000 --> 04:02:01,000
Dry economic development. So especially regarding the port. So let me say that again, the port also generates money.

1678
04:02:01,000 --> 04:02:09,000
So I'm thinking like having a console on board is ideal because we want to get input from the community,

1679
04:02:09,000 --> 04:02:15,000
which is that's me and the rest of us. So I think having a console on board would be very beneficial.

1680
04:02:15,000 --> 04:02:21,000
And as far as like you know, hosting the community meetings and all that stuff, I think they need to have.

1681
04:02:21,000 --> 04:02:30,000
They need to also include like the older adults because if they can't make it to a meeting on any evening, let them you come to them.

1682
04:02:30,000 --> 04:02:35,000
Because here for what they have, here what they have to say, look at our streets.

1683
04:02:35,000 --> 04:02:42,000
That's what I have been advocating for for a long time better streets because if you come down like coming to Richmond.

1684
04:02:42,000 --> 04:02:48,000
Look at our streets. Streets have seen better days. So we need to improve that.

1685
04:02:48,000 --> 04:02:53,000
So I guarantee you here from the community, whether it's streets or anything.

1686
04:02:53,000 --> 04:03:02,000
I just want to see these streets to be paved because I'm tired of seeing look at our streets because I live in Richmond and I want to

1687
04:03:02,000 --> 04:03:09,000
be inspired to make a go-mance.

1688
04:03:33,000 --> 04:03:38,000
And I hear to support the item B3.

1689
04:03:38,000 --> 04:03:43,000
Excuse me, we have a dual translation on the screen.

1690
04:03:43,000 --> 04:03:49,000
So it's not given necessary.

1691
04:03:49,000 --> 04:03:55,000
But at the end of the 1550 millions of dollars from each of the people in the present,

1692
04:03:55,000 --> 04:03:58,000
I don't have a little bit of money to do that.

1693
04:03:58,000 --> 04:04:03,000
But it's not necessary to do that.

1694
04:04:03,000 --> 04:04:10,000
Please translate, I was just informed that this is not available at home.

1695
04:04:10,000 --> 04:04:14,000
So people listening at home will need the translation.

1696
04:04:14,000 --> 04:04:16,000
Okay, can we start over?

1697
04:04:16,000 --> 04:04:17,000
Okay.

1698
04:04:17,000 --> 04:04:20,000
Yeah, let's start over with what we're going to meet with friends.

1699
04:04:20,000 --> 04:04:21,000
We're going to set the clock.

1700
04:04:21,000 --> 04:04:24,000
Well, that means, that means we're going to get here.

1701
04:04:24,000 --> 04:04:25,000
Okay.

1702
04:04:25,000 --> 04:04:26,000
Okay.

1703
04:04:26,000 --> 04:04:27,000
Okay.

1704
04:04:27,000 --> 04:04:31,000
In the 1550 millions of dollars from each of the people in the present,

1705
04:04:31,000 --> 04:04:34,000
I don't have a little bit of money to do that.

1706
04:04:34,000 --> 04:04:37,000
To raise money to the people in the present,

1707
04:04:37,000 --> 04:04:40,000
to the people in the present, to the people in the present,

1708
04:04:40,000 --> 04:04:44,000
to the people in the present, to the people in the present,

1709
04:04:44,000 --> 04:04:51,000
which everyone is huge opportunity for reason to meet people every day in the past,

1710
04:04:51,000 --> 04:04:57,000
and plan ahead for the closure or transition of several refinery.

1711
04:04:57,000 --> 04:04:58,000
Okay.

1712
04:04:58,000 --> 04:05:05,000
Conestant of our resources, raise money for the financial services,

1713
04:05:05,000 --> 04:05:10,000
the infrastructure, the essential, as well as the companies,

1714
04:05:10,000 --> 04:05:14,000
the security and transitibles,

1715
04:05:14,000 --> 04:05:20,000
to the people in the present, to the people in the present,

1716
04:05:20,000 --> 04:05:25,000
to the people in the present, to the people in the present,

1717
04:05:25,000 --> 04:05:28,000
to the people in the present.

1718
04:05:28,000 --> 04:05:29,000
Okay.

1719
04:05:29,000 --> 04:05:32,000
We can invite our community to the place,

1720
04:05:32,000 --> 04:05:36,000
to reduce our dependence on the government,

1721
04:05:37,000 --> 04:05:43,000
and let us be careful with the local employees.

1722
04:05:43,000 --> 04:05:47,000
Concentration is important.

1723
04:05:47,000 --> 04:05:52,000
With these new resources, raise money, and financial services,

1724
04:05:52,000 --> 04:05:59,000
in its infrastructure, like say, working a street,

1725
04:05:59,000 --> 04:06:10,760
Bikes for lines, pooling hospitals, and never hood parks, we can invest in a local economy,

1726
04:06:10,760 --> 04:06:19,400
reduce our dependents from Chiron, and plan for just transition, including family support

1727
04:06:19,400 --> 04:06:21,760
local union jobs.

1728
04:06:52,760 --> 04:07:02,760
And we have the chance to build a rich man of future, a city with our children and grandchildren,

1729
04:07:02,760 --> 04:07:10,760
the serve, a city where anyone can breathe clean air, relieve and assave affordable homes,

1730
04:07:10,760 --> 04:07:17,760
and have access to good jobs, and resources needed to drive.

1731
04:07:17,760 --> 04:07:24,760
I don't know what to do.

1732
04:07:24,760 --> 04:07:27,760
I don't know what to do.

1733
04:07:27,760 --> 04:07:33,760
I don't know what to do.

1734
04:07:33,760 --> 04:07:42,760
I was 24 years old, living here in Tismoni, I was in my experience with the air,

1735
04:07:42,760 --> 04:07:49,760
and I was married, as a...

1736
04:07:50,760 --> 04:07:53,480
with the colonel of the colonel.

1737
04:07:53,480 --> 04:07:56,200
tell young people that I know,

1738
04:07:56,200 --> 04:07:58,920
that this is called a teacher.

1739
04:07:58,920 --> 04:08:01,960
I'll ask you.

1740
04:08:03,240 --> 04:08:05,080
I'll ask you in these two years leaving here in Israel,

1741
04:08:05,080 --> 04:08:08,160
I can tell you the back experience that I have

1742
04:08:08,160 --> 04:08:10,440
living in not clean air,

1743
04:08:10,440 --> 04:08:14,480
and the children experience self-employment from asthma.

1744
04:08:15,680 --> 04:08:17,920
Thank you.

1745
04:08:19,760 --> 04:08:28,760
I'll speak her as a leader. Go, man.

1746
04:08:28,760 --> 04:08:33,760
Is a leader.

1747
04:08:33,760 --> 04:08:44,760
Okay, I'm sorry. Alma, good chairs.

1748
04:08:44,760 --> 04:08:51,760
Good evening. Good evening.

1749
04:08:51,760 --> 04:08:54,760
Good evening.

1750
04:08:54,760 --> 04:08:57,760
Good evening.

1751
04:08:57,760 --> 04:09:00,760
Good evening, member of Ace.

1752
04:09:01,760 --> 04:09:04,760
I'm going to put in the first three three.

1753
04:09:04,760 --> 04:09:06,760
Okay.

1754
04:09:06,760 --> 04:09:09,760
I'm here to support.

1755
04:09:09,760 --> 04:09:15,760
The 1550 million dollars with chevron represent a big opportunity to reach the rich one.

1756
04:09:15,760 --> 04:09:19,760
Satisfired to the necessary areas of the territories,

1757
04:09:19,760 --> 04:09:24,760
and plans and plans of the other.

1758
04:09:24,760 --> 04:09:32,180
This is the $515 million chevron represents the grand opportunity for

1759
04:09:32,180 --> 04:09:41,920
recent to cover the daily necessities of the people and make plans for the

1760
04:09:41,920 --> 04:09:44,720
transition to close this chevron.

1761
04:09:45,400 --> 04:09:47,940
With the resources,

1762
04:09:48,180 --> 04:09:53,680
rich man can be integrated into cultural and social as a

1763
04:09:53,680 --> 04:10:04,200
revenue goal.

1764
04:10:04,200 --> 04:10:10,560
These, the research of the region can find essential services and infrastructure, like

1765
04:10:10,560 --> 04:10:17,640
Save, Waco, and Streets, by clients' public of hospitals and their hoods parks.

1766
04:10:17,640 --> 04:10:19,840
We can invest for our local economy.

1767
04:10:19,840 --> 04:10:20,840
Okay.

1768
04:10:20,840 --> 04:10:22,840
Okay.

1769
04:10:22,840 --> 04:10:23,840
Okay.

1770
04:10:23,840 --> 04:10:44,840
We have the opportunity to have a future, a city, an enrichment where our children and grandchildren deserve

1771
04:10:45,400 --> 04:10:48,200
in a city where everyone can breathe clean air.

1772
04:10:57,520 --> 04:11:05,840
Excuse me, before she begins, I just heard from tech that the translation gets confused

1773
04:11:05,840 --> 04:11:10,520
when it switches back from English to Spanish, English to Spanish, and they would like

1774
04:11:10,520 --> 04:11:14,320
to see if the translations can improve if they just hear it in Spanish.

1775
04:11:14,840 --> 04:11:15,840
Okay.

1776
04:11:15,840 --> 04:11:16,840
Thank you.

1777
04:11:16,840 --> 04:11:17,840
Thank you.

1778
04:11:17,840 --> 04:11:18,840
Thank you.

1779
04:11:18,840 --> 04:11:20,840
Thank you.

1780
04:11:20,840 --> 04:11:21,840
Oh.

1781
04:11:21,840 --> 04:11:28,840
Thank you.

1782
04:11:51,840 --> 04:11:52,840
Thank you.

1783
04:11:52,840 --> 04:11:53,840
Okay.

1784
04:12:21,840 --> 04:12:23,840
Thank you.

1785
04:12:23,840 --> 04:12:24,840
Thank you.

1786
04:12:24,840 --> 04:12:25,840
Thank you.

1787
04:12:25,840 --> 04:12:27,840
Thank you.

1788
04:12:27,840 --> 04:12:28,840
Thank you.

1789
04:12:28,840 --> 04:12:29,840
Thank you.

1790
04:12:29,840 --> 04:12:36,840
So the translation is didn't prove.

1791
04:12:36,840 --> 04:12:43,840
Daniel Merritti.

1792
04:12:43,840 --> 04:12:44,840
Can you guys hear me?

1793
04:12:44,840 --> 04:12:45,840
Yes.

1794
04:12:45,840 --> 04:12:47,840
Speak right in my.

1795
04:12:47,840 --> 04:12:48,840
Go ahead.

1796
04:12:49,840 --> 04:12:53,840
This settlement is because Richmond residents live for decades with pollution, health,

1797
04:12:53,840 --> 04:12:55,340
impacts and economic harm.

1798
04:12:55,340 --> 04:12:59,720
This is repair money and should be directly benefit our families, youth, neighbors, and public

1799
04:12:59,720 --> 04:13:01,440
safety, where the money goes.

1800
04:13:01,440 --> 04:13:07,240
Twenty-two percent to go to workforce pathways, which include Buddha and Shabra, independent local

1801
04:13:07,240 --> 04:13:12,840
economy, which includes poor and logistic workforce, non-oil, city-owned energy, and utilities

1802
04:13:12,840 --> 04:13:18,400
career, housing production and construction trades, small manufacturing, circular economy,

1803
04:13:18,400 --> 04:13:23,400
large media, culinary, and creative economic economy programs, career, pipelines with

1804
04:13:23,400 --> 04:13:27,400
two-coup trades, green jobs, health care, and public service.

1805
04:13:27,400 --> 04:13:32,400
And twenty-five percent to go to affordable housing, anti-displacement, keeping Richmond's housed

1806
04:13:32,400 --> 04:13:37,400
and safe, affordable housing, development, preservation, and protecting protection, and emergency,

1807
04:13:37,400 --> 04:13:41,400
your rental assistance, home repairs, and grants for safety, and city-owned apartments, and

1808
04:13:41,400 --> 04:13:43,400
family housing, which can create revenue.

1809
04:13:43,400 --> 04:13:48,400
Eighteen percent to go to small businesses in local wealth, keeping money, circulating locally,

1810
04:13:48,400 --> 04:13:53,400
grants and zero-interest loans, protects the legacy businesses, and commercial corridor, and

1811
04:13:53,400 --> 04:13:57,400
store-front improvements, health, and clean air, and neighborhood improvement, which would be

1812
04:13:57,400 --> 04:13:58,400
13 percent.

1813
04:13:58,400 --> 04:14:04,400
Repairing long-term health harm, asthma chronic disease provision, home, and school air filtration

1814
04:14:04,400 --> 04:14:10,400
parks, lighting, and safer neighborhoods, 14 percent to go to rich and police department, and

1815
04:14:10,400 --> 04:14:16,400
safe staffing, faster response, stronger accountability, hiring officers from approved

1816
04:14:16,400 --> 04:14:21,400
response time, and seven percent to go to city stability, which is the pension that

1817
04:14:21,400 --> 04:14:25,400
reduction, one percent to go to community oversight and voice.

1818
04:14:25,400 --> 04:14:30,400
And two public safety means housing, opportunity, and health, and well-staff accountability

1819
04:14:30,400 --> 04:14:33,400
and working together, and that's all.

1820
04:14:33,400 --> 04:14:38,400
I can say this in email too.

1821
04:14:38,400 --> 04:14:43,400
Melvin Willis.

1822
04:14:43,400 --> 04:14:49,400
Good evening, Mayor.

1823
04:14:49,400 --> 04:14:51,400
Members of the council.

1824
04:14:51,400 --> 04:14:57,400
Melvin Willis here with the Richmond Progressive Alliance, and also Ace, encouraging you to support

1825
04:14:57,400 --> 04:14:59,400
these items unanimously.

1826
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:23,000
A lot of community groups who have been, even before the polluter space settlement came forward. I've been talking to frontline community members about what they need, what is their experience living in a refinery town, especially for those that are living close to the fence line in our iron triangle, north richman, parchester village, everybody who that's down when from the refinery.

1827
04:15:23,000 --> 04:15:50,000
And yeah, it's been said multiple times today, and even before we reach this day, there's a lot of community concerns about the city's overall alliance on the revenue that comes from Chevron in general and the fact that we're in a climate crisis, and we need to be figuring out what kind of other opportunities are out there and framework opportunities are out there that can make richmen more dependent, up more independent, as if opposed to being dependent on one industry.

1828
04:15:50,000 --> 04:16:10,000
We're also in the climate crisis, like I said, a lot of folks have been having those conversations about sea level rise and how are we as a region getting ready for that, and you know, we don't want to be like, but nation, those other cities where, you know, all of a sudden refinery left and you have a bunch of workers that are out of work now in a big mess that needs to be cleaned up.

1829
04:16:10,000 --> 04:16:22,000
So having a framework and a plan on how this money can actually build investment for the city's long term and longevity on top of coming up with the potential cleanup plan because refineries are not going to be forever.

1830
04:16:22,000 --> 04:16:39,000
It's a finite thing that's going to take time, but eventually we are going to have to start living in a world where fossil fuels are just obsolete, and we're going to have to clean up the contamination that we already have, rather than be stuck with contamination like some of our areas in marine debate have been dealing with for years.

1831
04:16:39,000 --> 04:16:45,000
So please support this item. It's a good first step then. Let's actually get some benefits out there for Richmond residents. Thanks so much.

1832
04:17:09,000 --> 04:17:16,000
So I'm going to make a decision for the government, but I'm not going to do it because I'm not going to repeat the same thing that I've already made my company, that I've already made my company.

1833
04:17:16,000 --> 04:17:38,000
Well, as number one, I'm not a city in Richmond, but I think I'm going to be a city that I'm from Richmond because when I come here, I get to see how it was in Richmond and before and then how it's now, I'm going to be, and by that I'm going to be putting the petition number, I think it's going to be better to do it.

1834
04:17:38,000 --> 04:17:53,000
I'm going to do it from Richmond, a better city, not depending on a single, a manual, a manual, but it has a lot of wealth to depend on other things.

1835
04:18:08,000 --> 04:18:20,000
Good evening, Mayor Martinez and city council members. My name is Emma Ishi and I'm a local policy coordinator at APN or Asian Pacific Environmental Network, Karen Richmond.

1836
04:18:20,000 --> 04:18:28,000
And I'm here today to support the item brought by council member, Jimenez Robinson and Mayor Martinez.

1837
04:18:29,000 --> 04:18:31,000
Why does this matter?

1838
04:18:31,000 --> 04:18:48,000
For generations, the Richmond community has been impacted by the Chevron refinery and their day to day lives, as many people were saying before battling asthma attacks at home and having to risk the repeated 2012 disaster always in the back of their minds.

1839
04:18:48,000 --> 04:19:11,000
Alongside our members, a few of whom you'll hear from today, we support this proposal because the additional and hard won $550 million is a chance for Richmond to both fully fund the crucial improvements in the neighborhoods and help build that just economy independent of the fossil fuel industry.

1840
04:19:11,000 --> 04:19:30,000
What we see in item P3 is a thoughtful framework that outlines categories of spending that match needs of our community and really specifically aligns a clear path for the city together that accessible community input, prioritizing voices often left it out of planning conversations.

1841
04:19:30,000 --> 04:19:39,000
For my conversations with our membership and from talking to people at tableing events like at you new park for MLK day.

1842
04:19:39,000 --> 04:19:52,000
I know that the community has a clear vision of Richmond's future with clean air with spaces for celebrations, sports for small businesses, job training for youth and affordable housing.

1843
04:19:52,000 --> 04:19:59,000
And it's really up to the city to keep gathering that feedback and figuring out how to make those visions a reality.

1844
04:19:59,000 --> 04:20:08,000
I urge the council to get started on the work so the city can begin funding the communities immediate needs and move towards diversifying our economy.

1845
04:20:08,000 --> 04:20:13,000
Together we can create the shared vision with community health.

1846
04:20:13,000 --> 04:20:14,000
John is expired.

1847
04:20:14,000 --> 04:20:16,000
Okay, thank you.

1848
04:20:16,000 --> 04:20:22,000
Hassan A.

1849
04:20:23,000 --> 04:20:24,000
Hello, city council.

1850
04:20:24,000 --> 04:20:26,000
My name is Hassan and I'm a ninth grade.

1851
04:20:26,000 --> 04:20:31,000
I go to school in Richmond and I'm a youth leader with Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

1852
04:20:31,000 --> 04:20:39,000
As I grow older I realize how important it is that Richmond plans ahead for a closure or transition away from the Chevron refinery.

1853
04:20:39,000 --> 04:20:46,000
This $550 million settlement gives Richmond a great opportunity to meet every day of our residents.

1854
04:20:47,000 --> 04:20:58,000
As a young person I've been part of the after school programs where there wasn't enough staff or activities that has negatively impacted my opportunity to grow my interest or skills.

1855
04:20:58,000 --> 04:21:05,000
I've also noticed my library being underfunded and they struggled with getting things like books and enough copies.

1856
04:21:05,000 --> 04:21:13,000
If we take the time to invest in the well being of our youth and overall community I believe we deserve better.

1857
04:21:13,000 --> 04:21:19,000
I would like to see Richmond where we invest in our local economy and plan for a just transition.

1858
04:21:19,000 --> 04:21:21,000
Including jobs.

1859
04:21:21,000 --> 04:21:24,000
Including jobs as support families.

1860
04:21:24,000 --> 04:21:29,000
And programs that spaces that benefit youth and the cleanup of toxic polluted sites.

1861
04:21:29,000 --> 04:21:34,000
City Council I urge you to please vote yes today night on P.C.

1862
04:21:34,000 --> 04:21:35,000
A3.

1863
04:21:35,000 --> 04:21:36,000
Thank you.

1864
04:21:36,000 --> 04:21:38,000
Maryland.

1865
04:21:38,000 --> 04:21:42,000
Maryland.

1866
04:21:42,000 --> 04:21:46,000
Maryland.

1867
04:21:46,000 --> 04:21:49,000
Okay.

1868
04:21:49,000 --> 04:21:50,000
Great.

1869
04:21:50,000 --> 04:21:54,000
Hi my name is Maryland and I'm a youth leader with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

1870
04:21:54,000 --> 04:21:57,000
I'm in 10th grade and I'm a student at D.N.S. High School.

1871
04:21:57,000 --> 04:22:01,000
When I walk outside of my door every day I have a clear view of the Chevron refinery.

1872
04:22:01,000 --> 04:22:06,000
My family came here to Richmond as immigrants and refugees while other working families have been here for generations.

1873
04:22:06,000 --> 04:22:12,000
I believe that the $550 million settlement with Chevron is a huge opportunity for Richmond to meet people's day-to-day needs.

1874
04:22:12,000 --> 04:22:17,000
While planning ahead for what comes next if the refinery were to close or transition.

1875
04:22:17,000 --> 04:22:28,000
With these additional resources Richmond can invest in critical services and infrastructure such as safe walkable streets, bike lanes, public hospitals and neighborhood parks.

1876
04:22:28,000 --> 04:22:33,000
While strengthening the economy reducing reliance on Chevron and planning for a just transition.

1877
04:22:33,000 --> 04:22:38,000
That includes good union jobs and the cleanup of contaminated sites.

1878
04:22:38,000 --> 04:22:44,000
These funds must be reinvested to the community to reflect the needs and priorities of Richmond residents.

1879
04:22:44,000 --> 04:22:48,000
I support I don't feed three tonight and I encourage you to vote yes.

1880
04:22:48,000 --> 04:22:54,000
It is time for the Richmond community to voice how we want these funds to be spent.

1881
04:22:54,000 --> 04:22:55,000
Thank you.

1882
04:22:55,000 --> 04:22:56,000
Okay.

1883
04:22:56,000 --> 04:23:00,000
Our next speaker is Abdullah A. Follow by Michelle Chen.

1884
04:23:04,000 --> 04:23:06,000
Abdullah?

1885
04:23:10,000 --> 04:23:18,000
Good evening council members. My name is Abdullah. I am a youth leader with Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

1886
04:23:18,000 --> 04:23:22,000
I am an eighth grade in I go to school and making music academy.

1887
04:23:22,000 --> 04:23:30,000
Just like my friends and neighbors, I come up from a family of hardworking immigrants who call Richmond home.

1888
04:23:31,000 --> 04:23:37,000
We have all been affected by Chevron's pollution and deserve a voice in deciding how these 550 million dollars.

1889
04:23:37,000 --> 04:23:40,000
Some of my friends should be spent.

1890
04:23:40,000 --> 04:23:47,000
With these new resources, I would like to see this money go towards essential services and infrastructure,

1891
04:23:47,000 --> 04:23:53,000
which has more community events, youth programs and even hospitals.

1892
04:23:53,000 --> 04:24:01,000
I would also like to see a go towards immediate needs such as safer roads and less bubbles on the ground.

1893
04:24:01,000 --> 04:24:11,000
It is very important to me that these funds get invested back into the community to benefit the people of Richmond.

1894
04:24:11,000 --> 04:24:16,000
I support I don't feed three tonight and I urge you to vote yes. Thank you.

1895
04:24:17,000 --> 04:24:22,000
Michelle Chen.

1896
04:24:22,000 --> 04:24:31,000
Good evening. You know, things are pretty rough out here in our world and in our country.

1897
04:24:31,000 --> 04:24:33,000
And it's hard sometimes even read the news.

1898
04:24:33,000 --> 04:24:42,000
But there is a bright spot for me personally and that is here in Richmond, both for the amazing youth that we have as well as the settlement money,

1899
04:24:42,000 --> 04:24:50,000
which is generational historic and can provide a down payment towards a just transition to a fossil free future.

1900
04:24:50,000 --> 04:25:00,000
Towards a clean environment, thriving where everybody is a part of it and where we have a healthy community where people are secure and this is the city we deserve.

1901
04:25:00,000 --> 04:25:08,000
So thank you so much, Mayor Martinez and Councilmember and then as in Robinson for bringing forward P3.

1902
04:25:08,000 --> 04:25:12,000
And let's not forget how we got to this point to this opportunity, right?

1903
04:25:12,000 --> 04:25:20,000
It was that it was a grassroots coalition of residents that went door to door and were able to under the polluters pay initiative,

1904
04:25:20,000 --> 04:25:22,000
bring Chevron to the table.

1905
04:25:22,000 --> 04:25:28,000
And so I think it's only fitting that the community also should be deeply involved in how this money should be spent.

1906
04:25:28,000 --> 04:25:33,000
And so I strongly support the framework that has been sketched out in P3.

1907
04:25:33,000 --> 04:25:49,000
There's an incredible idea for a mechanism to provide residents with some kind of way to propose ideas that they have for how Richmond can create jobs for how we can produce income and revenue,

1908
04:25:49,000 --> 04:25:53,000
how we can enhance the city, how we can become more resilient to the climate chaos.

1909
04:25:53,000 --> 04:26:00,000
And I also really appreciate how the framework makes room for a big picture of really visionary economic development.

1910
04:26:00,000 --> 04:26:06,000
Big things may be like poured improvements as imagined through the green blue new deal,

1911
04:26:06,000 --> 04:26:14,000
or maybe even helping to bring hospital to Richmond to not only save lives but to serve as an anchor economic institution.

1912
04:26:14,000 --> 04:26:27,000
So I think this framework provides a great balance and we should get to work with engaging the community to really come up with a smart strategy for us now and for the future.

1913
04:26:27,000 --> 04:26:29,000
Thank you.

1914
04:26:29,000 --> 04:26:30,000
Ryan Kasing.

1915
04:26:30,000 --> 04:26:33,000
Paula by Antoine Stewart.

1916
04:26:33,000 --> 04:26:36,000
Ryan.

1917
04:26:36,000 --> 04:26:37,000
Hi there council.

1918
04:26:37,000 --> 04:26:41,000
Hello there everybody else.

1919
04:26:41,000 --> 04:26:45,000
So I've come here wearing many hats tonight, of course.

1920
04:26:45,000 --> 04:26:46,000
There we go.

1921
04:26:46,000 --> 04:26:48,000
I've come here wearing many hats tonight.

1922
04:26:48,000 --> 04:26:49,000
I am an RPA member.

1923
04:26:49,000 --> 04:26:54,000
I am a member of ACE and as well as the Democratic Socialists of America.

1924
04:26:54,000 --> 04:26:58,000
And I live in work here in Richmond.

1925
04:26:58,000 --> 04:27:09,000
I work with youth in particular through my organization teaching communication skills with the goal of advancing equity and uplifting marginalized voices.

1926
04:27:09,000 --> 04:27:16,000
And so this settlement fund provides I think a very important opportunity.

1927
04:27:16,000 --> 04:27:24,000
I think it absolutely makes sense that we should invest this money so that we can build independence from Chevron.

1928
04:27:24,000 --> 04:27:27,000
But also when we talk about the people that this could benefit.

1929
04:27:27,000 --> 04:27:33,000
I haven't really heard mention of, at least not directly, our unhoused community.

1930
04:27:34,000 --> 04:27:41,000
I spend a fair amount of my spare time hanging out and helping the unhoused community in my neighborhood.

1931
04:27:41,000 --> 04:27:44,000
I live in the iron triangle.

1932
04:27:44,000 --> 04:27:55,000
And the things is these people, even if we have these district meetings as are being proposed, they would not be at the table because that's just not their reality.

1933
04:27:55,000 --> 04:28:02,000
And so I hope that when this consultant comes that they go to the encampments that they talk to the unhoused people in our community.

1934
04:28:02,000 --> 04:28:07,000
The majority of whom who I speak to are elders, black elders.

1935
04:28:07,000 --> 04:28:10,000
We have abandoned this community.

1936
04:28:10,000 --> 04:28:17,000
And the thing is is you say that this is a once in a generation opportunity, vice mayor Robinson and I agree.

1937
04:28:17,000 --> 04:28:21,000
That means we need to pass once in a generation policies.

1938
04:28:21,000 --> 04:28:30,000
Guaranteed basic income, social housing, things that go beyond just creating jobs, things that no matter who or what part of a working family you are.

1939
04:28:30,000 --> 04:28:35,000
If you fall on hard times, you have a safety net that is guaranteed.

1940
04:28:35,000 --> 04:28:37,000
Thank you.

1941
04:28:37,000 --> 04:28:45,000
Antoine Claude, followed by Mark Westberg, and our last speaker will be Janet Perselle in person speaker.

1942
04:28:45,000 --> 04:28:48,000
All I got to say is money, man.

1943
04:28:48,000 --> 04:28:51,000
Long time Mr. President, y'all missed everything they talked about.

1944
04:28:51,000 --> 04:28:58,000
That's why you two guys said it because how this city is going to give somebody to come here to regulate this money.

1945
04:28:58,000 --> 04:28:59,000
They say they can do it.

1946
04:28:59,000 --> 04:29:02,000
And to do it, they go get king do it because he ain't from rich men.

1947
04:29:02,000 --> 04:29:07,000
If you don't want to history this town, you can't tell us how to get out.

1948
04:29:07,000 --> 04:29:13,000
You can't tell me, me, somebody can material me from Berkeley, helping you out of rich men for the last 50 years.

1949
04:29:13,000 --> 04:29:16,000
And how they affected my community a little bit out of our factory.

1950
04:29:16,000 --> 04:29:17,000
Right.

1951
04:29:17,000 --> 04:29:18,000
You know why I know?

1952
04:29:18,000 --> 04:29:20,000
I'm going to inhale right now.

1953
04:29:20,000 --> 04:29:21,000
Not yesterday.

1954
04:29:21,000 --> 04:29:22,000
Right now.

1955
04:29:22,000 --> 04:29:23,000
I'll keep it in my pot.

1956
04:29:23,000 --> 04:29:24,000
Get a good fight.

1957
04:29:24,000 --> 04:29:25,000
Right now.

1958
04:29:25,000 --> 04:29:26,000
Right now.

1959
04:29:26,000 --> 04:29:27,000
I got bronchitis.

1960
04:29:27,000 --> 04:29:29,000
I got bronchitis asthma.

1961
04:29:29,000 --> 04:29:30,000
And I got CPOD.

1962
04:29:30,000 --> 04:29:31,000
Right now.

1963
04:29:31,000 --> 04:29:33,000
You can't tell me that.

1964
04:29:33,000 --> 04:29:36,000
But people are going to tell you how to spend that money.

1965
04:29:36,000 --> 04:29:37,000
The people who live here.

1966
04:29:37,000 --> 04:29:39,000
Look at our education system.

1967
04:29:39,000 --> 04:29:43,000
We got to lower education system in history in this town.

1968
04:29:43,000 --> 04:29:48,000
When we had to hire this rate in the 60s and 70s and 80s, had the most professional athletes

1969
04:29:48,000 --> 04:29:50,000
come out of the rich men you ever seen.

1970
04:29:50,000 --> 04:29:53,000
Now, our whole education system in class and burn.

1971
04:29:53,000 --> 04:29:56,000
Because this town, so never supported these kids.

1972
04:29:56,000 --> 04:30:00,000
When Johnny Holmes was acting you for money to take them track stars.

1973
04:30:00,000 --> 04:30:06,500
That he come out of his track team to different places. When you're rich, we state us coming in, begging for money, and you get from Chrome.

1974
04:30:06,500 --> 04:30:14,000
But you'll bust your neck to put up with them a soccer field, but you won't support the community as a whole.

1975
04:30:14,000 --> 04:30:19,000
Richmond is a diverse community. We have a whole hand, do any community you want to talk about.

1976
04:30:19,000 --> 04:30:24,000
That's here. That do all the businesses here. I mean, I'm just giving it one on it.

1977
04:30:24,000 --> 04:30:31,000
So when you just do come here, just consult in person, you're going to get three hundred thousand dollars to walk in my community.

1978
04:30:31,000 --> 04:30:36,000
He ain't going to go to the hood. Oh, he ain't coming to St. John's. He ain't going to the question park.

1979
04:30:36,000 --> 04:30:45,000
He ain't going to the keys. He ain't going to the, he ain't going to the manner where the black folks who've been here all their lives.

1980
04:30:45,000 --> 04:30:49,000
And get their input because you go on him to come somewhere. They can't come as expired.

1981
04:30:49,000 --> 04:30:52,000
What a lies in Richmond. You can't close.

1982
04:30:52,000 --> 04:30:55,000
So Mark Washberg.

1983
04:30:58,000 --> 04:31:00,000
Jamie first.

1984
04:31:15,000 --> 04:31:25,000
I was going to be harder to follow than if it was Mark.

1985
04:31:25,000 --> 04:31:31,000
All I would, I think actually a lot of the community has really spoken about what the things that they're really interested in,

1986
04:31:31,000 --> 04:31:37,000
but I think that we need to make sure that we are going to hear all of the act all and I mean all all of the community.

1987
04:31:37,000 --> 04:31:42,000
We have done many, many surveys. We've done many, many bits of outreach.

1988
04:31:42,000 --> 04:31:47,000
We usually end up with our surveys having what about 350 responses, unfortunately.

1989
04:31:47,000 --> 04:31:50,000
And it's just because we are not going and meeting them or they're at.

1990
04:31:50,000 --> 04:32:01,000
I do think that we need to take our time. I think we need to give the time for them to do a really detailed analysis of if we spend all this money or if we,

1991
04:32:01,000 --> 04:32:07,000
how we can best invest it to make sure that we can become financially independent of Chevron.

1992
04:32:07,000 --> 04:32:14,000
The Norway sovereignty fund is very similar to sort of very similar to this.

1993
04:32:14,000 --> 04:32:19,000
It was taking oil money and investing it now. They waited like 40 years.

1994
04:32:19,000 --> 04:32:23,000
But they cover their entire budget in just the funds from that now.

1995
04:32:23,000 --> 04:32:25,000
I'm not saying that we should do that.

1996
04:32:25,000 --> 04:32:33,000
But I am saying that there is a way to be able to try and have as a backup when we have the Evesen flows of economy,

1997
04:32:33,000 --> 04:32:38,000
to be able to have a safety net for the city because if we offer only services,

1998
04:32:38,000 --> 04:32:41,000
we will have to pull those services when the money runs out.

1999
04:32:41,000 --> 04:32:48,000
If we offer only infrastructure, we're not going to address the needs of the people that are hurting.

2000
04:32:48,000 --> 04:32:53,000
And it's probably going to be hurting more and with at least within the next couple of years.

2001
04:32:53,000 --> 04:33:00,000
So I do, I have no problem with, and I know I'm speaking from a place of privilege.

2002
04:33:00,000 --> 04:33:04,000
I really do have a no problem with trying to make sure we get it right.

2003
04:33:04,000 --> 04:33:13,000
So that way then we don't feel like we're hurt because we have spent two to freely and we end up with nothing.

2004
04:33:13,000 --> 04:33:15,000
Can't kill the Golden Goose.

2005
04:33:15,000 --> 04:33:21,000
We got to get those eggs under the nest and try to make more yeast.

2006
04:33:21,000 --> 04:33:25,000
That was our last in-person speaker. Now we're moved to the online speakers.

2007
04:33:25,000 --> 04:33:28,000
We have seven speakers.

2008
04:33:28,000 --> 04:33:32,000
And those seven speakers are Francisco Ortiz, followed by Sean Stahlbaum,

2009
04:33:32,000 --> 04:33:40,000
Brianna Sydney, Kevin Titzdale, Maricel Cantu, Erica Sial, and Arto Rintila will be our last speaker.

2010
04:33:40,000 --> 04:33:46,000
Francisco, please unmute yourself. You'll have two minutes and you may begin.

2011
04:33:46,000 --> 04:33:49,000
Did you hear me mayor and council members? My name is Francisco Ortiz.

2012
04:33:49,000 --> 04:33:55,000
I'm president of the United Teachers of Richmond representing over 1,500 educators across West Contraposterian,

2013
04:33:56,000 --> 04:34:01,000
I'm a graduate of Richmond, public schools and a parent of a TK student attending schools here in Richmond.

2014
04:34:01,000 --> 04:34:05,000
UTR was proud to actually support the Polarist Pay initiative.

2015
04:34:05,000 --> 04:34:10,000
And tonight we stand a solidarity with eight-bent communities for our better environment and ACEs

2016
04:34:10,000 --> 04:34:15,000
and the many community groups organized for years to bring this historic victory to Richmond.

2017
04:34:15,000 --> 04:34:23,000
The $550 million settlement with Chevron is a once in a generation opportunity as highly as other community members

2018
04:34:23,000 --> 04:34:27,000
and council member Robinson.

2019
04:34:27,000 --> 04:34:35,000
If the chance to repair harm, meet people's everyday needs and plan responsibility for our future beyond refinery dependence.

2020
04:34:35,000 --> 04:34:41,000
For our students and families, this means investing in the conditions that allow young people to thrive,

2021
04:34:41,000 --> 04:34:49,000
safe routes to school, clean air, neighborhood parks, health services, and stable family supporting union jobs.

2022
04:34:49,000 --> 04:34:54,000
I want to speak directly to the opportunity in front of us around community schools.

2023
04:34:54,000 --> 04:34:59,000
Most of the community schools in West Contraposter are located right here in Richmond.

2024
04:34:59,000 --> 04:35:07,000
These schools are hubs, providing mental health supports, family engagement, food access, and wraparound services that address the real world years

2025
04:35:07,000 --> 04:35:09,000
students face outside the classroom.

2026
04:35:09,000 --> 04:35:17,000
Our neighbors and some public support every community school within its boundaries and Richmond can and should play a stronger role as well.

2027
04:35:17,000 --> 04:35:25,000
With these funds, the city has the opportunity to partner more deeply with schools to expand services, stabilize programs,

2028
04:35:25,000 --> 04:35:32,000
and improve outcomes for students and families with more in the greatest possible pollution and disinvestment.

2029
04:35:32,000 --> 04:35:42,000
Most importantly, the family workers, youth and elders, most impacted by Chevron's pollution, must have a real voice and how these funds are spent.

2030
04:35:43,000 --> 04:35:46,000
I strongly support on P3 and urge a yes vote tonight.

2031
04:35:46,000 --> 04:35:49,000
Let's ensure that the resource are invested back into the community.

2032
04:35:49,000 --> 04:35:51,000
Thank you. Your time is expired.

2033
04:35:51,000 --> 04:35:54,000
The next speaker is Sean Stahlbaum, please unmute yourself.

2034
04:35:54,000 --> 04:35:57,000
You'll be continued.

2035
04:35:57,000 --> 04:35:59,000
Good evening, city council members.

2036
04:35:59,000 --> 04:36:07,000
Sean Stahlbaum with IFPTE, local 21, representing more than 160 mid managers and executives of the city of Richmond.

2037
04:36:08,000 --> 04:36:22,000
Workers and Richmond stand in solidarity with CBE, ACE, APEN and so many other community organizations who worked to dip the polluter's pay initiative to the ballot.

2038
04:36:22,000 --> 04:36:33,000
And we are in support of the plans submitted by council members Jimenez and Robinson and Mayor Martinez for consultant engagement and community input regarding the polluter's pay settlement funds.

2039
04:36:33,000 --> 04:36:39,000
Specifically, we stand in support of item P3 but in opposition to item P4.

2040
04:36:39,000 --> 04:36:50,000
We support item P3 because it calls for collaboration with city staff who we represent as well as the city council and community stakeholders to conduct the needed community engagement.

2041
04:36:50,000 --> 04:37:00,000
Additionally, the P3 plan contemplates a necessary framework for the expenditure of these new general fund revenues to include many areas of need throughout the city.

2042
04:37:00,000 --> 04:37:07,000
Including city staffing, adjust transition and healing harmed communities.

2043
04:37:07,000 --> 04:37:14,000
It's a fair comprehensive approach that includes the city workers who deliver city services.

2044
04:37:14,000 --> 04:37:24,000
P4 on the other hand is narrowly focused only on community meetings and it is redundant in that P3 includes conducting community engagement already.

2045
04:37:24,000 --> 04:37:34,000
Also, P4 lacks context for these discussions with the community treating the polluter's pay settlement funds is a free for all part of money, which they are not.

2046
04:37:34,000 --> 04:37:44,000
P3 is the more comprehensive approach that involves all stakeholders including city staff and community groups.

2047
04:37:44,000 --> 04:37:49,000
We strongly recommend the framework in P3 is the better more comprehensive approach.

2048
04:37:49,000 --> 04:37:50,000
Thank you.

2049
04:37:50,000 --> 04:37:58,000
The next speaker is Brianna Sydney, please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2050
04:37:58,000 --> 04:37:59,000
Good evening.

2051
04:37:59,000 --> 04:38:04,000
I am Brianna Sydney director of the rich for our powerful coalition and cooperation management.

2052
04:38:04,000 --> 04:38:07,000
This 515 million dollar settlement was shared.

2053
04:38:07,000 --> 04:38:10,000
As a huge opportunity for a richment to meet their residents needs.

2054
04:38:10,000 --> 04:38:17,000
The community has to live the effects of living in a refinery city and these funds can't be from the hard work of these same residents.

2055
04:38:17,000 --> 04:38:21,000
They must be included in this conversation about how these funds will be spent.

2056
04:38:21,000 --> 04:38:22,000
A lot of the people to be heard.

2057
04:38:22,000 --> 04:38:27,000
I strongly support item P3 and I urge our council members to vote yes.

2058
04:38:27,000 --> 04:38:30,000
Thank you.

2059
04:38:30,000 --> 04:38:36,000
The next speaker is Kevin Tissil. Please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2060
04:38:36,000 --> 04:38:40,000
Thank you. Kevin Tissil represent SCIU.

2061
04:38:40,000 --> 04:38:44,000
We stand in solidarity with the various community groups in P3.

2062
04:38:44,000 --> 04:38:46,000
We need an equitable solution.

2063
04:38:46,000 --> 04:38:56,000
One that intentionally reviews the many viewpoints of the diverse community from their diverse viewpoints and diverse methods to truly come with an unbiased approach.

2064
04:38:56,000 --> 04:38:58,000
This is not about spending money recklessly.

2065
04:38:58,000 --> 04:39:00,000
It's about investing it wisely.

2066
04:39:00,000 --> 04:39:04,000
When we're discussing the stewardship of over $550 million plus interest.

2067
04:39:04,000 --> 04:39:10,000
Allowing up to $300,000 for proper leverage and to protect those funds.

2068
04:39:10,000 --> 04:39:14,000
So again, it is so it's not excessively wasted.

2069
04:39:14,000 --> 04:39:16,000
It's responsible.

2070
04:39:16,000 --> 04:39:18,000
I call for equity for the real risk.

2071
04:39:18,000 --> 04:39:22,000
That includes input from community members across various districts.

2072
04:39:22,000 --> 04:39:24,000
Community representatives, nonprofits, business districts.

2073
04:39:24,000 --> 04:39:28,000
And the city service members who live work and play here.

2074
04:39:28,000 --> 04:39:32,000
The deputy director of finance at a very clearly many staff.

2075
04:39:32,000 --> 04:39:36,000
Many departments are already overwhelmed and understood.

2076
04:39:36,000 --> 04:39:44,000
Without what staffing we can't provide the service that the city so desperately needs in the various departments to finance building code,

2077
04:39:44,000 --> 04:39:48,000
non-swarm PD and maintenance divisions.

2078
04:39:48,000 --> 04:39:52,000
Which we so desperately need to do.

2079
04:39:52,000 --> 04:39:56,000
Personal, you know, living enrichment, going up near eighth and paying in part gesture.

2080
04:39:56,000 --> 04:40:00,000
This is really a once in a lifetime opportunity.

2081
04:40:00,000 --> 04:40:04,000
And again, we should take the time, apply the energy necessary.

2082
04:40:04,000 --> 04:40:08,000
Do engage a proper consultant to vet the communities, historical needs,

2083
04:40:08,000 --> 04:40:10,000
career realities, and future priorities.

2084
04:40:10,000 --> 04:40:11,000
Thank you.

2085
04:40:11,000 --> 04:40:12,000
Thank you.

2086
04:40:12,000 --> 04:40:15,000
Our next speaker is Marisol Cantu.

2087
04:40:15,000 --> 04:40:17,000
Please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2088
04:40:23,000 --> 04:40:24,000
Hey, can you hear me?

2089
04:40:24,000 --> 04:40:25,000
Yes.

2090
04:40:25,000 --> 04:40:26,000
Oh, there we go.

2091
04:40:26,000 --> 04:40:27,000
Hi.

2092
04:40:27,000 --> 04:40:28,000
Hi, I'm Marisol Cantu.

2093
04:40:28,000 --> 04:40:30,000
District six.

2094
04:40:30,000 --> 04:40:32,000
Resident, third generation district six,

2095
04:40:32,000 --> 04:40:35,000
dreaded in and also a member of the different progressive alliance.

2096
04:40:35,000 --> 04:40:39,000
RPA stands in solidarity with CBE, A Pen A,

2097
04:40:39,000 --> 04:40:41,000
since so many others.

2098
04:40:41,000 --> 04:40:45,000
To vote yes on P3 and not on P4.

2099
04:40:45,000 --> 04:40:50,000
Looking at the RFP, there's things that I want to highlight.

2100
04:40:50,000 --> 04:40:55,000
In particular, that the timeline is quite outdated now because we're already at the end of February.

2101
04:40:55,000 --> 04:41:04,000
So updating that to reflect, we're already at the end of January to reflect a consultant coming in in February.

2102
04:41:04,000 --> 04:41:08,000
Also, the RFP was missing language accessibility.

2103
04:41:08,000 --> 04:41:14,000
It didn't mention surveys, but there's a lot of languages that are not written in Richmond,

2104
04:41:14,000 --> 04:41:20,000
including different dialects in the AI community indigenous language languages like mum.

2105
04:41:20,000 --> 04:41:23,000
And the RFP is lacking in that.

2106
04:41:23,000 --> 04:41:32,000
Also, it doesn't mention anything about hybrid opportunities for both working class people to join.

2107
04:41:32,000 --> 04:41:38,000
And I didn't see a communications or outreach plan that was really thorough.

2108
04:41:38,000 --> 04:41:42,000
That would be co-developed with CBE, with CBOs.

2109
04:41:42,000 --> 04:41:45,000
And I think that we're really missing the mark.

2110
04:41:45,000 --> 04:41:57,000
If we don't send mailers out to all of our community members to encourage them to attend these community sessions to help inform this process.

2111
04:41:57,000 --> 04:42:03,000
I also think that an outreach and community engagement plan for the unhoused residents,

2112
04:42:03,000 --> 04:42:07,000
formerly incarcerated residents and undocumented residents,

2113
04:42:08,000 --> 04:42:11,000
needs to be included in this.

2114
04:42:11,000 --> 04:42:18,000
And I would love to see our displaced residents or the have been gentrified out being included.

2115
04:42:18,000 --> 04:42:20,000
So they have a right to return.

2116
04:42:20,000 --> 04:42:21,000
Thank you so much.

2117
04:42:21,000 --> 04:42:22,000
Thank you.

2118
04:42:22,000 --> 04:42:24,000
The next speaker is Eric Askel.

2119
04:42:24,000 --> 04:42:26,000
Please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2120
04:42:26,000 --> 04:42:27,000
Hi, everyone.

2121
04:42:27,000 --> 04:42:28,000
My name is Ericron.

2122
04:42:28,000 --> 04:42:32,000
I'm here representing communities for a better environment or CBE.

2123
04:42:32,000 --> 04:42:36,000
I would like to urge you all to vote yes on these items.

2124
04:42:36,000 --> 04:42:41,000
As they will further a decades long effort to make move the city away from fossil fuels.

2125
04:42:41,000 --> 04:42:45,000
These items that are start to putting our money where our mouth is.

2126
04:42:45,000 --> 04:42:50,000
Directing the hard earned money from Chevron towards building a clean and equitable enrichment for all.

2127
04:42:50,000 --> 04:42:58,000
A vote for these items is a vote for public process and community participation and a vote for a vision of Richmond that's designed by and for residents.

2128
04:42:58,000 --> 04:43:01,000
It's a vote towards shaping the future of our city.

2129
04:43:01,000 --> 04:43:05,000
And I know that CBE members are excited and ready for this future.

2130
04:43:05,000 --> 04:43:11,000
If today's comments say anything it's that Richmond residents are also ready for this new future.

2131
04:43:11,000 --> 04:43:16,000
I understand that the city has limited staff time to dedicate to this process.

2132
04:43:16,000 --> 04:43:23,000
But I urge you all to move as fast as possible on this so that residents can actually see the benefits of the money that they fought so hard for.

2133
04:43:23,000 --> 04:43:29,000
And start to ameliorate the devastating effects of a refinery that's been here for over a century.

2134
04:43:29,000 --> 04:43:39,000
I would also like to echo some of the comments by previous speakers to make a point to reach residents whose voices otherwise would not be heard including the on-house community.

2135
04:43:39,000 --> 04:43:41,000
And our black elders.

2136
04:43:41,000 --> 04:43:42,000
Thank you.

2137
04:43:42,000 --> 04:43:43,000
Thank you.

2138
04:43:43,000 --> 04:43:46,000
And our last speaker will be our two Ventila.

2139
04:43:46,000 --> 04:43:49,000
Please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2140
04:43:49,000 --> 04:43:51,000
Good evening mayor and city council.

2141
04:43:51,000 --> 04:43:52,000
My name is Arno Rintila.

2142
04:43:52,000 --> 04:43:57,000
I'm calling from the Fair Mead Hill top neighborhood council or the Fair Mead Hill top neighborhood area.

2143
04:43:57,000 --> 04:44:05,000
I'd like to remind the city council in the mayor that the city of Richmond is 52 square miles.

2144
04:44:05,000 --> 04:44:09,000
It's got 33 neighborhoods.

2145
04:44:09,000 --> 04:44:13,000
And 120 over 120 thousand residents.

2146
04:44:13,000 --> 04:44:24,000
I would hope that the neighborhood councils and other community stakeholders are involved in conversations while I lean towards P3 and agree with all the speakers before me.

2147
04:44:24,000 --> 04:44:28,000
I urge you to be fiscally responsible.

2148
04:44:28,000 --> 04:44:34,000
Knowing that this is a sanctuary city and that sanctuary city could city funding could be pulled.

2149
04:44:34,000 --> 04:44:39,000
I asked that you're smart and methodical in spending your money.

2150
04:44:39,000 --> 04:44:47,000
We really need you to be smart because you are elected officials in your health to a higher standard.

2151
04:44:47,000 --> 04:44:52,000
And you're fiscally responsible for taxpayers money.

2152
04:44:52,000 --> 04:44:55,000
And you should be health to that regard.

2153
04:44:55,000 --> 04:44:57,000
I appreciate the time. Thank you.

2154
04:44:57,000 --> 04:45:00,000
Thank you and that was our last speaker.

2155
04:45:00,000 --> 04:45:21,000
Thank you. Public comments are closed, and now we'll go to questions and the comments by the council. Council member Brown, had her hand up first.

2156
04:45:21,000 --> 04:45:50,000
Thank you, Mayor Martinez. So I have, like, my short time on council, I just recognize that most reports that we've come across have not been implemented, like we get these extensive reports and they're just that reports that sits in our database, if someone chooses to read them they do, but I haven't seen them actually work.

2157
04:45:50,000 --> 04:46:16,000
So I'm concerned that this would be just another report. This item seems and sounds like to me from what I've heard from residents, callers and the agenda item that it seems to be set up to be spent on adjust transition, which I'm not opposed to, but it's not what the community speaks about.

2158
04:46:16,000 --> 04:46:25,000
Especially why I serve district serving the city of Richmond, but in particularly in my district district one being one of the most impacted communities.

2159
04:46:25,000 --> 04:46:31,000
No one speaks too much about like if you go up and say what are like the top three concerns that you have.

2160
04:46:31,000 --> 04:46:49,000
Air quality is not going to come out of most of the residents mouth. They speak about safety. They speak about clean streets, options for youth, etc. So I really want us to get real about our relationship with Chevron.

2161
04:46:49,000 --> 04:47:02,000
It's like a person that we say we don't want to be with, but we're constantly accepting gifts and money from. So it's like on one hand, it's like we want this just transition, we want to move so far away from Chevron.

2162
04:47:02,000 --> 04:47:30,000
But we're constantly in tango with Chevron time, it's time again, just from being a fourth generation Richmond resident. Also it has been said that we want to non bias consultant, but the agenda report explicitly states that the consultant would would work, particularly with community based organizations that are a part of the make polluters pay campaign.

2163
04:47:30,000 --> 04:47:52,000
So while those groups are amazing stakeholders, I see many of you here, they are not the entirety of Richmond and community engagement that process to me should not be centered on one coalition, but one coalition or advocacy campaign but Richmond overall.

2164
04:47:52,000 --> 04:48:10,000
And so my question is how can staff ensure that the prioritization of one coalition doesn't speak for the entire city because it stated that the that the consulting would be working with the polluters pay coalition.

2165
04:48:10,000 --> 04:48:38,000
Okay, maybe they'll answer that later. Also I want to acknowledge that little over a year ago council member Bonna proposed a $100,000 for a consultant for community input just similar to what we're discussing tonight, and it was overly criticized, given it's intent. So now we're here asking to approve of to $300,000.

2166
04:48:38,000 --> 04:48:46,000
For essentially the same functions. So I was kind of confused about that.

2167
04:48:46,000 --> 04:49:15,000
And I just want to ask probably staff can community since P3 talks about that they'll have community engagement and gathering input. So can community engagement and gathering the input be accomplished through staff over time, which would be significantly lower costs than an actual consultant, who would require staff support anyways.

2168
04:49:15,000 --> 04:49:44,000
The matter goes beyond the over time or the staff timing it's the matter of like designing the survey also as you raised a very valid question like how do you make sure that every segment of the community is incorporated in a survey so like for some reason that goes beyond the capacity or the skills of the finance department staff were not trying to design a qualitative surveys which would you know.

2169
04:49:44,000 --> 04:49:52,000
I identify and assure that it's a fair and comprehensive and valid scientific survey.

2170
04:49:52,000 --> 04:49:56,000
We should present the society community that we're dealing with.

2171
04:49:56,000 --> 04:50:03,000
So that is one reason why we're leaning towards having a third party expert.

2172
04:50:03,000 --> 04:50:11,000
So throughout all of our departments there's no qualified staff to conduct such.

2173
04:50:11,000 --> 04:50:21,000
I don't believe if there is a job is I'm not aware of the job description that would exist that would require one to have like.

2174
04:50:21,000 --> 04:50:25,000
A skill set to design qualitative surveys.

2175
04:50:25,000 --> 04:50:38,000
You're making a good point we it would be helpful and this is something that I have discussed with with human resources around having more support around data analytics.

2176
04:50:38,000 --> 04:50:50,000
The quantitative analysis for you know looking at short term and longitudinal data that is something that we do need to to work towards.

2177
04:50:50,000 --> 04:51:02,000
I think the opportunity here is it depends on what level of engagement the council wants right like if if the council wants a scientific survey.

2178
04:51:02,000 --> 04:51:14,000
And then it would be helpful for us to have a consultant that's what we normally do right now for a longitudinal data that asks residents around how you know they perceive the community how they perceive services things of that nature.

2179
04:51:14,000 --> 04:51:21,000
If the council wants to have it to be more specific and more of a defined process that.

2180
04:51:21,000 --> 04:51:29,000
And as potential that is not a scientific study or in asking.

2181
04:51:29,000 --> 04:51:36,000
Questions in a matter that would be easy to replicate for in the future to measure progress.

2182
04:51:36,000 --> 04:51:47,000
That's that's different so it's really up to the city council in terms of what so that's why I was suggesting based on the feedback this evening right whatever the council policy direction is.

2183
04:51:47,000 --> 04:51:58,000
I have a moment to go back regroup give 45 to 60 days to then come up with a plan based on the feedback that's given this evening because I think it's it's pretty hard.

2184
04:51:58,000 --> 04:52:02,000
At this hour for everyone to think through.

2185
04:52:02,000 --> 04:52:16,000
What would be required and to put something together that we feel like would be responsive to the council's policy direction okay and just also wanting to know because I mean up to 300,000 dollars to me seems like crazy.

2186
04:52:16,000 --> 04:52:20,000
Especially when they're being told that they have to work with certain groups.

2187
04:52:20,000 --> 04:52:27,000
So it already seems skewed to me. So I'm wondering if we can implement a cap on the consulting amount.

2188
04:52:27,000 --> 04:52:30,000
What if I may what I would.

2189
04:52:30,000 --> 04:52:42,000
What I generally suggest to to counsel is that if there's as that we develop an RFP we issue the RFP and then we come back with the art with the respondents.

2190
04:52:42,000 --> 04:52:58,000
And then with a proposed contract and a dollar amount that we don't say in the RFP up to X or up to Y because you know it could be 150,000 it could be 350 we don't know where the market is at for this type of work you know.

2191
04:52:58,000 --> 04:53:01,000
Right, but I'm asking can we hold the line as a council.

2192
04:53:01,000 --> 04:53:11,000
But maybe you want to do that once you have the rankings right like maybe I'm making this up right maybe three firms respond maybe seven firms respond right and then the council.

2193
04:53:11,000 --> 04:53:34,000
That would staff would evaluate them right and we would prevent entry with the information so then you could see sort of what the scopes were for the different firms and then receive a staff recommendation on why they're suggesting X versus Y firm right and so then you would have that context to inform the decision making because it could be higher or it could be much lower we don't know.

2194
04:53:34,000 --> 04:53:37,000
Thank you for now.

2195
04:53:37,000 --> 04:53:39,000
Councilmember Bana.

2196
04:53:39,000 --> 04:53:41,000
Thank you.

2197
04:53:41,000 --> 04:53:49,000
I would like to start by saying that I agree with everything that was said by everyone who brought up the item.

2198
04:53:49,000 --> 04:53:57,000
I believe the intentions are great but the language and methodology is not there.

2199
04:53:57,000 --> 04:54:06,000
It's lacking. For example councilmember Jimenez talks about new investment diversify revenue.

2200
04:54:06,000 --> 04:54:15,000
Financial strategy to invest this money to generate more money and extend the life of funds.

2201
04:54:15,000 --> 04:54:30,000
But then the item reads direct city manager to engage a consultant to collaborate with the city itself city council and community stakeholders to conduct community engagement and this is the heart of it.

2202
04:54:30,000 --> 04:54:39,000
The other input on a framework for the expenditure of new general fund revenues generated by the polluter space settlement.

2203
04:54:39,000 --> 04:54:42,000
Do we just want to gather input?

2204
04:54:42,000 --> 04:54:48,000
To me the heart should be the framework for the expenditure.

2205
04:54:48,000 --> 04:55:07,000
Then economic expert to tell us, for example, how much of it should go into items that could save us money like infrastructure upgrade or paying unfunded liabilities.

2206
04:55:07,000 --> 04:55:12,000
How much of it should go into investment to generate revenue?

2207
04:55:12,000 --> 04:55:17,000
What if there is a recession? What would be the impact?

2208
04:55:17,000 --> 04:55:25,000
Should we spend money on cleaning contaminations and affordable housing, the homeless?

2209
04:55:25,000 --> 04:55:41,000
I mean economic development would be one component of it and then next to it will have quality of life issues that would require the input from the community.

2210
04:55:41,000 --> 04:55:50,000
Do the community want to give us advice on how to invest for the future?

2211
04:55:50,000 --> 04:55:52,000
Is that what we want to do?

2212
04:55:52,000 --> 04:56:00,000
It's just a big part of ideas that is stirred together and doesn't make much sense to me.

2213
04:56:00,000 --> 04:56:09,000
We need an expert who can tell us, for example, 70% of the money should go into generating investment.

2214
04:56:09,000 --> 04:56:20,000
To be very subtle about it, for example, some quality of life investments will increase property taxes, which is a sort of bringing more revenue to the city.

2215
04:56:20,000 --> 04:56:27,000
But how much is it? Is it minimal, is it large or improving parks and things like that?

2216
04:56:27,000 --> 04:56:31,000
So I'm proposing to clean the language.

2217
04:56:31,000 --> 04:56:44,000
I hope the city manager understands what the heart of the issue is and bring the RFP back in a way that is clear about what the expectation is.

2218
04:56:44,000 --> 04:57:11,000
Because to me, if what we are asking for is a very high level vision to see how much of it should go into generating revenue investment for the future and cost reduction versus quality of life issues, where we can get input from the community.

2219
04:57:11,000 --> 04:57:25,000
And the community should not be misled on it. If we decide that to win from fuel industry, we can only spend 5% of the money on what the community wants.

2220
04:57:25,000 --> 04:57:35,000
We shouldn't lie to them. We shouldn't start getting input with their assumption of $550 million over 10 years. That is not true.

2221
04:57:35,000 --> 04:57:43,000
We may not be able to afford spending $0 and quality of life issues that the community wants.

2222
04:57:43,000 --> 04:58:01,000
So first there should be a very high level study about how much can we generate with this. How long can it go? How can we save on the expenses, for example, if you upgrade the infrastructure, it's going to save us a lot of money.

2223
04:58:01,000 --> 04:58:17,000
If you pay on funded liabilities or this or that. And then what it takes over the 10 years, the very general big picture outline.

2224
04:58:17,000 --> 04:58:34,000
And then a little more specific maybe for the first two, three years. I don't think having said all of that, I don't think we should make a decision for a city council like three terms after us.

2225
04:58:34,000 --> 04:58:52,000
But we should have a very good start. A study what needs to be done and move on from there. So my suggestion is to either reward this.

2226
04:58:52,000 --> 04:59:00,000
Eliminate the community engagement and input at this point, because we don't want to give any false promises to anyone.

2227
04:59:00,000 --> 04:59:14,000
We want to win from the fuel industry and even $550 million may not be sufficient. We don't know what the economic capability of this investment is.

2228
04:59:14,000 --> 04:59:30,000
So let's be honest with ourselves and with the community, not deceive anyone. Let's have a very high level study of what the outline of our approach should be and take it from there.

2229
04:59:30,000 --> 04:59:41,000
Thank you. I think it's time to extend the meeting. It's almost 10 o'clock.

2230
04:59:41,000 --> 04:59:45,000
We can extend it now or we can wait until 10.

2231
04:59:45,000 --> 04:59:51,000
Well, I think we'll be here longer than than six minutes.

2232
04:59:51,000 --> 04:59:59,000
So what are we? Is there a motion of then? What items do we want to?

2233
05:00:00,000 --> 05:00:08,000
Can I ask a question on P1? Are we going to, that was pooled as the person still around that pooled it so they can tell us why the pooled it?

2234
05:00:08,000 --> 05:00:15,000
I was going to propose that we just approved P1 and P2. I don't know if we can jump in the middle of this item to do that.

2235
05:00:15,000 --> 05:00:23,000
I think these were pulled last time. I don't think the person who pulled, they were initially on the consent calendar. I was happy with, to approve them on consent.

2236
05:00:23,000 --> 05:00:42,000
And I don't think the person who pulled them is here. So if, unless there's someone here on council who wants to have a discussion of P1 and P2, I would recommend that maybe, I don't know if we can pause item P3 and P4 and vote on these.

2237
05:00:42,000 --> 05:00:52,000
Okay, well then what I'm going to suggest is that after between 10 and 11, P1 and P2 are on the agenda and I'm going to instantly yell out, I'm making a motion to approve two items.

2238
05:00:53,000 --> 05:00:59,000
All right. Thank you. Well, we still need a motion to extend. Okay, I'll make a motion to extend to 11.

2239
05:00:59,000 --> 05:01:02,000
Until the items are finished.

2240
05:01:02,000 --> 05:01:05,000
Hi, second.

2241
05:01:05,000 --> 05:01:07,000
To which one.

2242
05:01:07,000 --> 05:01:11,000
We finish this current item and then vote on P1 and P2.

2243
05:01:11,000 --> 05:01:12,000
Okay.

2244
05:01:12,000 --> 05:01:17,000
Which is, as late as 11, hopefully not really took place.

2245
05:01:18,000 --> 05:01:20,000
Councilmember Brow. Yes.

2246
05:01:20,000 --> 05:01:22,000
Councilmember Bonna. Yes.

2247
05:01:22,000 --> 05:01:24,000
Councilmember Humanis. Yes.

2248
05:01:24,000 --> 05:01:26,000
Councilmember Wilson. Yes.

2249
05:01:26,000 --> 05:01:28,000
Councilmember Zapater. Yes.

2250
05:01:28,000 --> 05:01:29,000
Vice Mayor Robinson. Yes.

2251
05:01:29,000 --> 05:01:31,000
And Mayor Martinez. Yes.

2252
05:01:31,000 --> 05:01:33,000
The vote is unanimous.

2253
05:01:33,000 --> 05:01:35,000
All right.

2254
05:01:35,000 --> 05:01:42,000
Back to P3, P4 and it is Vice Mayor Robinson.

2255
05:01:42,000 --> 05:01:45,000
Okay.

2256
05:01:45,000 --> 05:01:51,000
So I was sitting here listening to Councilmember Bonna.

2257
05:01:51,000 --> 05:01:55,000
And there's many things that I really agree on what you just said.

2258
05:01:55,000 --> 05:02:07,000
There's things that we need to know and we need to understand about how exactly to spend the money and what we would need to actually move the needle and the directions that we're all talking about, right?

2259
05:02:07,000 --> 05:02:10,000
We don't really need to have those answers today.

2260
05:02:10,000 --> 05:02:20,000
But I do think that what I've been hearing over and over again from people is that they want to play a role in these choices.

2261
05:02:20,000 --> 05:02:28,000
And so even at the broad level, we even having a process with a consultant that asks the broad question,

2262
05:02:28,000 --> 05:02:31,000
Do we want to spend this money as it comes in?

2263
05:02:31,000 --> 05:02:34,000
Or do we want to invest some of the money?

2264
05:02:34,000 --> 05:02:39,000
Do we want it as our goal of the money to make it last longer?

2265
05:02:39,000 --> 05:02:43,000
It's our goal of the money to reduce our dependency upon fossil fuels.

2266
05:02:43,000 --> 05:02:49,000
Even having that set of questions that we ask to all different kinds of community groups.

2267
05:02:49,000 --> 05:02:55,000
You know, folks in District 1, folks in the projects, folks in the hills, folks in whatever.

2268
05:02:55,000 --> 05:03:07,000
And actually get their feedback on these large questions so that we have some, so we have some feel about what community has palette for what they have by and for.

2269
05:03:07,000 --> 05:03:17,000
Because I honestly believe that we do actually need to make decisions that will impact councils in the future.

2270
05:03:17,000 --> 05:03:27,000
Because the biggest thing about getting this amount of money, this, you know, 50 million a year, is that the most impact you make is if you invest it.

2271
05:03:27,000 --> 05:03:32,000
And that takes time.

2272
05:03:32,000 --> 05:03:36,000
So if we don't think about it now, we lose that time.

2273
05:03:36,000 --> 05:03:42,000
And the time is the thing that actually gives us the opportunity to make it more than a half billion dollars.

2274
05:03:42,000 --> 05:03:48,000
It's time is the factor that would make it more than five billion, than half billion dollars.

2275
05:03:48,000 --> 05:03:56,000
And so if we don't take the courage now to get some help to help us frame these questions so we understand what kind of buy and we have.

2276
05:03:56,000 --> 05:04:00,000
So we make deep investments.

2277
05:04:00,000 --> 05:04:06,000
And then we're just going to be going like honest honest spending spray and maybe some things will have some long impact maybe not.

2278
05:04:06,000 --> 05:04:12,000
Maybe we'll build build things that we won't even have the like, we want to have the general fund infrastructure to support.

2279
05:04:12,000 --> 05:04:24,000
You know, maybe we'll build things that we can't even maintain because we didn't think about building a general fund that's more robust that could take care of all the parks that we're building.

2280
05:04:24,000 --> 05:04:38,000
I feel like we are in that moment, we're in that moment where we actually do have to be as careful and as as thoughtful as we can to make decisions for the future for future people who are coming after us.

2281
05:04:38,000 --> 05:04:40,000
And that's why I think we need a consultants.

2282
05:04:40,000 --> 05:04:48,000
That's why I think we need to have the community along with us so that everyone said that we bought into this people said that's what they wanted.

2283
05:04:48,000 --> 05:05:00,000
So we're on this train together, we're building, we're building this future ALS system or maybe we're you know whatever but we need to actually be bought in on it.

2284
05:05:00,000 --> 05:05:11,000
Because we are at that moment we're making a huge we're making a huge just a huge turning point for our city if we do it right or we could do it like you know people who win the lottery.

2285
05:05:11,000 --> 05:05:15,000
Go out and buy a bunch of fancy things and then be broke.

2286
05:05:15,000 --> 05:05:17,000
In 10 years.

2287
05:05:17,000 --> 05:05:27,000
So I really would like to figure out how to move this item where we're taking the most the kind of.

2288
05:05:27,000 --> 05:05:35,000
A thoughtful way of moving these things forward I think that there was a lot of thought put into the kind of categories we had.

2289
05:05:35,000 --> 05:05:43,000
I am I in P3 but I also hear this this desire to make sure that it's non bias.

2290
05:05:43,000 --> 05:05:45,000
I'm I'm a deep believer in that.

2291
05:05:45,000 --> 05:05:55,000
I'm I think that what I'd like to pass tonight is something where we create a community process.

2292
05:05:55,000 --> 05:06:07,000
Facilitated by a consultant who can help us move this forward and get community feedback.

2293
05:06:07,000 --> 05:06:22,000
And ultimately community buy in on a long term direction for the expenditure of these general fund funds so that it actually has a transformative impact in our city.

2294
05:06:23,000 --> 05:06:27,000
Are you safe on that.

2295
05:06:27,000 --> 05:06:39,000
There's been two council members who haven't spoken yet and I don't want this to become the bait where where council members.

2296
05:06:39,000 --> 05:06:49,000
Square often and do one point and then a counter point and then a counter point to that counter point I think we need to stay focused.

2297
05:06:49,000 --> 05:06:57,000
So that we can advance cohesion and togetherness so council member Wilson.

2298
05:06:57,000 --> 05:06:58,000
No pressure.

2299
05:06:58,000 --> 05:07:04,000
Okay in the spirit of cohesion and togetherness.

2300
05:07:04,000 --> 05:07:07,000
I think that.

2301
05:07:07,000 --> 05:07:16,000
I guess my main thing is there's a phrase like don't let her like perfect can be the enemy of the good and I just want to acknowledge that like tonight tonight.

2302
05:07:16,000 --> 05:07:24,000
This the item in front of us is not for this council to decide how we want the money to be spent.

2303
05:07:24,000 --> 05:07:36,000
It's for us just to decide whether we're willing to invest in a process to solicit more input from the community on how the money should be spent that those are different things.

2304
05:07:36,000 --> 05:07:53,000
I hear council member what council member bonus concerns I hear I hear council member grounds concerns too and one of the things I what I'm thinking about sort of is a way of addressing those which I'm going to I'm going to propose is that we.

2305
05:07:53,000 --> 05:08:10,000
We take on P3 but we modify the RFP so that we ask the whoever is chosen as the consultant to come back and present their plan before they go out and implement it.

2306
05:08:10,000 --> 05:08:16,000
If I understand the way it's written now we basically send them out into the world and we say come back and may with your results.

2307
05:08:16,000 --> 05:08:31,000
I'm hearing you know from both for people on the on the dias and from the community is that there's real concerns like will they you know will they have a process that includes the unhoused will they be able to reach people who's to communicate in the long language.

2308
05:08:31,000 --> 05:08:57,000
I don't think we're going to craft language for this RFP that reassures us that all of those bases will be covered but I would like to get in RFP out in the world and then ask that whoever gets chosen to come back and present a plan before they scheduled the meetings before they invite people before they start marketing.

2309
05:08:57,000 --> 05:09:10,000
I also I was surprised when councilmember Brown said that the language says to focus on particularly on the community groups who are part of the making polluter pay coalition.

2310
05:09:10,000 --> 05:09:20,000
But she's corrected and in the the RFP does not contain that language if you read the RFP it's very careful that we're reaching out to individual people and all community groups.

2311
05:09:20,000 --> 05:09:32,000
But it's true in the agenda summary it does say in particular reach out to community groups including those who were part of the make polluter pay and I would actually say if we.

2312
05:09:32,000 --> 05:09:47,000
I don't know if we can change the agenda report as a council action but I would like to change it to strike that because I agree with you that they're all all individuals and all community groups should be equally treated regardless of whether they.

2313
05:09:47,000 --> 05:10:08,000
I'm trying to sort of like I'm trying to bring together like I think there was a debate about whether it should be a consultant or the staff member or the staff doing the work I'm hearing consistently that the staff does not have the expertise to do this particular sort of work.

2314
05:10:08,000 --> 05:10:14,000
In order to have the capacity so for me that's a desire that we we do need to hire consultant even though I accept.

2315
05:10:14,000 --> 05:10:19,000
I appreciate that people are suspicious of hiring more consultants and spending more money on that.

2316
05:10:19,000 --> 05:10:29,000
I just don't see a way to avoid that given that we don't have staff members who can do this kind of quantitative or qualitative study and they don't have time to do it anyways because they have other jobs.

2317
05:10:29,000 --> 05:10:37,000
So for me I think that is it reaches my criteria of what we spent money and consultants for so I would encourage us to stick with the consultant.

2318
05:10:37,000 --> 05:10:43,000
One of the things that was a debate is whether that we should give extra time.

2319
05:10:43,000 --> 05:10:55,000
I think we should put out the RFP with the expectation that we have something in our hands by May 26 because then it'll actually be in time for us to possibly influence our larger budget conversations which.

2320
05:10:55,000 --> 05:11:01,000
Maybe what gets discovered has no impact on our other budget talks but I would still like to keep that door open.

2321
05:11:01,000 --> 05:11:10,000
So so I know it's an ambitious timeline and it's totally possible that staff will come back to us and say nobody agreed to that timeline and then we'll revisit it.

2322
05:11:10,000 --> 05:11:12,000
But I'd like to just try.

2323
05:11:12,000 --> 05:11:23,000
And then the third thing that was sort of debated is like you know whether these processes are inclusive enough and like I said I don't think we're going to.

2324
05:11:23,000 --> 05:11:40,000
The one amendment I would make to P3 is that we asked the consultants to come back and present their plan before they actually go out and execute it and that'll give an opportunity for us to all raise our substantial things of like why doesn't this reach a particular community or why doesn't ask a particular question.

2325
05:11:40,000 --> 05:11:53,000
Before it actually happens so that would be I don't know if I may so just council member Wilson to your your point about the RFP so the procurement process would necessitate that.

2326
05:11:53,000 --> 05:12:07,000
The council would approve the final form of the scope of work in the contract so you would have that opportunity to see it before you approved a contract.

2327
05:12:07,000 --> 05:12:28,000
And I would defer to staff pertaining to the to the timeline if I may add a couple of sentences so I do hear a lot of feedback from all the council members and mayor regarding what the the RFP should contain and what the plan should contain and the timeline and all that.

2328
05:12:28,000 --> 05:12:34,000
I'm wondering and also the concern regarding the timeline is very compact and we agree with that especially.

2329
05:12:34,000 --> 05:12:42,000
So how about like you know we do go towards a rock you know where the staff comes back in 45 days.

2330
05:12:42,000 --> 05:12:59,000
Having you know a proposed language and proposed a timeline on the RFQ sort of like getting the feedback on that which is inclusive of the feedback from the council members.

2331
05:13:00,000 --> 05:13:03,000
Like to as a first step.

2332
05:13:03,000 --> 05:13:24,000
If I don't know if it's on my turn but if we waited 45 days for the RFP there's I don't think there's any way we would have any answers by May 26 I'm just I know it's rushed but I would rather have the RFP work done very quickly so that we can get the the consultant on board more quickly than that.

2333
05:13:25,000 --> 05:13:27,000
Can I ask a question?

2334
05:13:27,000 --> 05:13:28,000
I'm sorry.

2335
05:13:28,000 --> 05:13:29,000
It's.

2336
05:13:29,000 --> 05:13:30,000
I think.

2337
05:13:30,000 --> 05:13:32,000
I think.

2338
05:13:32,000 --> 05:13:33,000
I think.

2339
05:13:33,000 --> 05:13:34,000
I think.

2340
05:13:34,000 --> 05:13:41,000
So what I would suggest is we can we can work towards that as you've heard from finance staff there stretch.

2341
05:13:41,000 --> 05:13:46,000
So I would need to potentially reassign other staff to support this.

2342
05:13:46,000 --> 05:13:58,000
So once we have a conversation tomorrow then I will have to we'll have to reprioritize other things to to make this the number one sort of organizational priority and that may impact some timelines for other things.

2343
05:13:58,000 --> 05:14:09,000
So it's like we're putting well we'll add this to the front of the queue and I'll get I'll get get back to the council on what does that mean for things that are currently in the queue.

2344
05:14:10,000 --> 05:14:13,000
Yeah well with that said I moved the I don't.

2345
05:14:13,000 --> 05:14:19,000
To the the city manager to engage a consultant to collaborate with city staff.

2346
05:14:19,000 --> 05:14:26,000
Council and community stakeholders to conduct community engagement and gather including a framework.

2347
05:14:26,000 --> 05:14:38,000
Of the expenditures of new general funds revenues generated by polluted space settlement with the consultant reporting back to the city by May 26

2348
05:14:39,000 --> 05:14:43,000
Can I offer friendly amendment to that.

2349
05:14:43,000 --> 05:14:48,000
And that is that I think that.

2350
05:14:48,000 --> 05:14:53,000
We should have the consultant look at not only.

2351
05:14:53,000 --> 05:15:00,000
What we're spending money on but the strategy of holding in releasing funds.

2352
05:15:00,000 --> 05:15:05,000
What strategies are possible?

2353
05:15:05,000 --> 05:15:09,000
And I have a point of work because we're not done debating yet.

2354
05:15:09,000 --> 05:15:13,000
Right, but we can continue to debate after motion is laid.

2355
05:15:13,000 --> 05:15:15,000
Then we'll only be debating on the motion.

2356
05:15:15,000 --> 05:15:19,000
Sorry, we'll only be debating on the motion and on the item.

2357
05:15:19,000 --> 05:15:22,000
So unless we're closing debate for the full item.

2358
05:15:22,000 --> 05:15:28,000
But there needs to be a second before comes soon.

2359
05:15:28,000 --> 05:15:30,000
So.

2360
05:15:30,000 --> 05:15:32,000
Yes, exactly.

2361
05:15:32,000 --> 05:15:34,000
In a second.

2362
05:15:34,000 --> 05:15:36,000
My point of order is still there.

2363
05:15:36,000 --> 05:15:43,000
So if we, if we do that way, then we could only debate on the motion that was given.

2364
05:15:43,000 --> 05:15:48,000
And we can no longer debate on the full item that's in front of us.

2365
05:15:48,000 --> 05:15:54,000
So if we want to end that, then we have to call the question to end the debate for everything else.

2366
05:15:54,000 --> 05:15:56,000
And then we could only focus on that.

2367
05:15:56,000 --> 05:15:58,000
I think we have two more questions, I think.

2368
05:15:58,000 --> 05:16:02,000
Councillor Bonna had a question and I had a question and then we can move on to the motion.

2369
05:16:02,000 --> 05:16:08,000
My first question is about this item, is what is the urgency of May 26?

2370
05:16:08,000 --> 05:16:14,000
Is it going to affect the spending of the budget proposed for the next fiscal year?

2371
05:16:14,000 --> 05:16:16,000
How is it connected to that?

2372
05:16:16,000 --> 05:16:17,000
Yes.

2373
05:16:17,000 --> 05:16:20,000
But it's a separate pool of money, isn't it?

2374
05:16:20,000 --> 05:16:22,000
It's Janette of Fine.

2375
05:16:22,000 --> 05:16:24,000
It's Janette of Fine.

2376
05:16:24,000 --> 05:16:25,000
General funds.

2377
05:16:25,000 --> 05:16:26,000
General funds.

2378
05:16:26,000 --> 05:16:27,000
Yes.

2379
05:16:27,000 --> 05:16:29,000
But we have an agreed on their amount.

2380
05:16:29,000 --> 05:16:30,000
So.

2381
05:16:30,000 --> 05:16:34,000
That's an obscure amount of general funds.

2382
05:16:34,000 --> 05:16:37,000
Well, it's general fund.

2383
05:16:37,000 --> 05:16:39,000
For me, it's general fund period.

2384
05:16:39,000 --> 05:16:40,000
Right.

2385
05:16:40,000 --> 05:16:43,000
But do we agree that it's $50 million of general funds?

2386
05:16:43,000 --> 05:16:45,000
Or it's more or less?

2387
05:16:45,000 --> 05:16:49,000
I think it needs to be counted into a tallity.

2388
05:16:49,000 --> 05:16:53,000
I mean, you can keep the 50 million in your head.

2389
05:16:53,000 --> 05:16:58,000
And you'll speak to that, or you can speak to the entire budget.

2390
05:16:58,000 --> 05:17:01,000
But I think the budget needs to work as a whole.

2391
05:17:01,000 --> 05:17:03,000
I mean, you can't just.

2392
05:17:03,000 --> 05:17:04,000
Thank you.

2393
05:17:04,000 --> 05:17:14,000
So my second question shall we specify for the RFP, RFQ, whatever, that the main goal is to increase cities

2394
05:17:14,000 --> 05:17:18,000
revenue from non-fuel industry sources.

2395
05:17:18,000 --> 05:17:20,000
Is that the main goal or not?

2396
05:17:21,000 --> 05:17:23,000
This is one of the goals in the RFP.

2397
05:17:23,000 --> 05:17:26,000
Did you read the RFP, one of the goals is that?

2398
05:17:26,000 --> 05:17:27,000
Okay.

2399
05:17:27,000 --> 05:17:28,000
That's the main goal.

2400
05:17:28,000 --> 05:17:29,000
Yeah.

2401
05:17:29,000 --> 05:17:30,000
Okay.

2402
05:17:30,000 --> 05:17:31,000
And.

2403
05:17:31,000 --> 05:17:32,000
Okay.

2404
05:17:32,000 --> 05:17:35,000
I'm not going to argue on that.

2405
05:17:35,000 --> 05:17:38,000
So that question was to the motion, but.

2406
05:17:38,000 --> 05:17:39,000
Yeah.

2407
05:17:39,000 --> 05:17:40,000
So that.

2408
05:17:40,000 --> 05:17:41,000
My question.

2409
05:17:41,000 --> 05:17:42,000
Yeah.

2410
05:17:42,000 --> 05:17:43,000
So my question mark to the city manager.

2411
05:17:43,000 --> 05:17:47,000
So you mentioned about a staff member that we need.

2412
05:17:47,000 --> 05:17:55,000
And it was to help us out with future things like this, quantifying qualifying things.

2413
05:17:55,000 --> 05:17:58,000
Data analytics and.

2414
05:17:58,000 --> 05:18:00,000
Other things of that nature.

2415
05:18:00,000 --> 05:18:03,000
Is that something that we have in the queue for.

2416
05:18:03,000 --> 05:18:10,000
Something like HR has a has a queue of positions that we need to upgrade and modify.

2417
05:18:10,000 --> 05:18:15,000
But they're also concurrently working through day to day operational matters that come up.

2418
05:18:15,000 --> 05:18:22,000
And there's something we're not going to be aware of.

2419
05:18:22,000 --> 05:18:25,000
A memo you negotiations as well as other meeting.

2420
05:18:25,000 --> 05:18:27,000
Comcontrolled.

2421
05:18:27,000 --> 05:18:31,000
And we're a masking is because you know we're potentially spending a couple of hundreds of thousands of

2422
05:18:31,000 --> 05:18:33,000
dollars on this year.

2423
05:18:33,000 --> 05:18:38,000
Do we shift it to a potentially a staff member that we can use for more than just this.

2424
05:18:38,000 --> 05:18:40,000
We can use them for years and years to come.

2425
05:18:40,000 --> 05:18:42,000
Cossing us for the first year.

2426
05:18:42,000 --> 05:18:44,000
Roughly about the same amount, but then we have them.

2427
05:18:44,000 --> 05:18:54,000
I think ultimately based on the council discussion today, it's going to be a combination of things.

2428
05:18:54,000 --> 05:19:06,000
I want to be thoughtful and deferred to staff that they, this is extremely heavy lift, and that in terms of when we're having community meetings,

2429
05:19:06,000 --> 05:19:12,000
that sometimes, especially on conversations like this, that can be highly charged, right?

2430
05:19:12,000 --> 05:19:16,000
Sometimes it's good for there to be a third party to help facilitate the conversation.

2431
05:19:16,000 --> 05:19:20,000
It doesn't mean that staff won't review all of the information and help prepare.

2432
05:19:20,000 --> 05:19:23,000
Kind of like what you saw this evening with Chief Osario, right?

2433
05:19:23,000 --> 05:19:31,000
Like he started with a consultant that did a report, and now we're working interdepartmentally to operationalize it is what I would say.

2434
05:19:31,000 --> 05:19:38,000
So that might be a good example of how these things could, it will be both staff and potentially a third party.

2435
05:19:38,000 --> 05:19:47,000
And also, I think in the past, I do want to flag for the council, what absolutely endeavored to meet your timeline and request in terms of the deliverable.

2436
05:19:47,000 --> 05:19:54,000
But sometimes when we put out these aggressive timelines, right, that may mean we will get fewer respondents, right?

2437
05:19:54,000 --> 05:20:00,000
Because we don't know what, like, the experts in this arena, what is their current workload?

2438
05:20:00,000 --> 05:20:07,000
Like, usually if people are really highly skilled, they have a backlog of work or they have projects they're working on, so we might need to get in the queue.

2439
05:20:07,000 --> 05:20:17,000
And so that's why I was saying, oh, we want to come back to council and give you an update so that you can understand what the market is telling us in terms of availability.

2440
05:20:17,000 --> 05:20:28,000
So we're happy to move forward and we'll continue to update the council as we move forward on what we're finding because there's a lot of unknowns.

2441
05:20:28,000 --> 05:20:43,000
I just want to point out that if an RFP is put out not very thoughtfully, and if it's not, you know, described in a thoughtful manner,

2442
05:20:43,000 --> 05:20:55,000
you get like really bad response or little to no response or the bitter may not just be qualified and just may be fishing for contracts.

2443
05:20:55,000 --> 05:21:07,000
So it's very important for RFP to be very thoughtful and very accurate reflecting the scope and the work that is being done out in the market.

2444
05:21:07,000 --> 05:21:14,000
If we try to reinvent the wheel and the wheel may not be fully round, and we may not get a proper driver for that.

2445
05:21:14,000 --> 05:21:20,000
And then remind me earlier you said, by June, you can have something.

2446
05:21:20,000 --> 05:21:28,000
I was saying like, you know, by May, it's very compact and very aggressive.

2447
05:21:28,000 --> 05:21:38,000
I was saying like, what 45 to 60 days beyond that and we may, but then again, it's also dependent upon the contractors own timeline, which we don't know which is unknown.

2448
05:21:38,000 --> 05:21:44,000
They might have their own workflow and workload and speed and time that they may require.

2449
05:21:44,000 --> 05:21:54,000
So July is June, July is based on my very, one of my sugar's work work, what I'm hearing is.

2450
05:21:54,000 --> 05:22:04,000
Staff is very busy, so you can't do it, so we want to get a contractor, but then you're going to have to hurry up and do something because we need the contractor and you need to do it fast even though you have no time.

2451
05:22:04,000 --> 05:22:07,000
So you start to make sure that as we're.

2452
05:22:07,000 --> 05:22:19,000
If we do end up giving you the tool of a contractor that it also becomes a tool you can use and not one that just going to be shoved and then you're still not going to be able to do the right work.

2453
05:22:19,000 --> 05:22:48,000
It's, yeah, so dependent on depending on the quality of the RFP and then a property a time for bidding being it open and then a property a time to basically evaluate all those beds interviewing those vendors and then bringing that, you know, contract to the council for approval and we evaluate review the scope of work and the process of the vendor discuss being discussed at the council timbers.

2454
05:22:48,000 --> 05:22:58,000
And the agenda report also takes time. All right, it takes 20 days. So, you know, all that time, you know, adds to the weeks and number of days and months and then.

2455
05:22:58,000 --> 05:23:04,000
May 26, it's going to be really, I want to say, like for the lack of better term half cooked.

2456
05:23:04,000 --> 05:23:06,000
If it's even cooked.

2457
05:23:06,000 --> 05:23:08,000
Definitely don't want to raw stuff.

2458
05:23:08,000 --> 05:23:09,000
Absolutely.

2459
05:23:09,000 --> 05:23:11,000
Absolutely.

2460
05:23:11,000 --> 05:23:13,000
Unless it's, it's June July then.

2461
05:23:13,000 --> 05:23:15,000
She made with old fish though.

2462
05:23:15,000 --> 05:23:17,000
Gross.

2463
05:23:17,000 --> 05:23:20,000
So, June July.

2464
05:23:20,000 --> 05:23:22,000
June July, we get some really good sushi.

2465
05:23:22,000 --> 05:23:24,000
May 10 is not that better.

2466
05:23:24,000 --> 05:23:26,000
You run to the bathroom.

2467
05:23:26,000 --> 05:23:28,000
Odds are better.

2468
05:23:28,000 --> 05:23:29,000
Okay.

2469
05:23:29,000 --> 05:23:33,000
If we delay, but again, that's not exact time given that there is unknown.

2470
05:23:33,000 --> 05:23:40,000
We don't know what the, the contractors work load and time frame and their process would be.

2471
05:23:40,000 --> 05:23:42,000
We can't say it what that would be.

2472
05:23:42,000 --> 05:23:47,000
And then if we rush them to produce something in a hurry, again, bad sushi.

2473
05:23:47,000 --> 05:23:48,000
Okay.

2474
05:23:48,000 --> 05:23:57,000
So then June July is just to get us the best contractor that we can get based on very rough estimates this moment.

2475
05:23:57,000 --> 05:23:58,000
Yes.

2476
05:23:58,000 --> 05:24:00,000
Not necessarily community feedback just yet.

2477
05:24:00,000 --> 05:24:02,000
This is just the contractor.

2478
05:24:02,000 --> 05:24:05,000
And then from there, we have to go out and get community feedback.

2479
05:24:05,000 --> 05:24:09,000
So, when we're saying that we wanted it by May because we want the information for the budget.

2480
05:24:09,000 --> 05:24:18,000
That means you're going to have to contract their next week so that could start working in the community meetings to be on time for May.

2481
05:24:18,000 --> 05:24:22,000
If I made, there's always it even like so we're happy to proceed.

2482
05:24:22,000 --> 05:24:24,000
I want to reiterate that, right.

2483
05:24:24,000 --> 05:24:28,000
But there, the council always, we do quarterly updates for the budget, right.

2484
05:24:28,000 --> 05:24:31,000
You can always make adjustments to the budget.

2485
05:24:31,000 --> 05:24:36,000
It's not like the fiscal year budget is something that we do.

2486
05:24:36,000 --> 05:24:38,000
And we always talk about house and envelope and it's estimates.

2487
05:24:38,000 --> 05:24:43,000
So we can make this sync up for fiscal year 2627.

2488
05:24:43,000 --> 05:24:48,000
I think we have to figure out how best to do that.

2489
05:24:48,000 --> 05:24:50,000
But we can do that.

2490
05:24:50,000 --> 05:24:54,000
Council can always adjust the budget even during a fiscal year.

2491
05:24:54,000 --> 05:24:56,000
So like that's always there.

2492
05:24:56,000 --> 05:24:59,000
So there's no necessarily rush for the May timeframe.

2493
05:24:59,000 --> 05:25:00,000
I don't believe.

2494
05:25:00,000 --> 05:25:04,000
Because by May, we only still have 50 million dollars in the bank.

2495
05:25:04,000 --> 05:25:07,000
The next 50 doesn't come till the next till the last.

2496
05:25:07,000 --> 05:25:09,000
I can't remember.

2497
05:25:09,000 --> 05:25:12,000
You keep asking the same question over and over and over.

2498
05:25:12,000 --> 05:25:14,000
No, that was a different question.

2499
05:25:14,000 --> 05:25:17,000
But I don't think it was the same question just stated differently.

2500
05:25:17,000 --> 05:25:19,000
Anyway, we have a motion.

2501
05:25:19,000 --> 05:25:21,000
Do we have a second?

2502
05:25:21,000 --> 05:25:24,000
I want to make an adjustment to the motion.

2503
05:25:24,000 --> 05:25:26,000
There are friendly amendment and that is this.

2504
05:25:26,000 --> 05:25:30,000
I'm actually not exactly sure how we're holding the first 50 million dollars.

2505
05:25:30,000 --> 05:25:32,000
Can you clarify that really quickly?

2506
05:25:32,000 --> 05:25:37,000
Yes, we can send an email to City Council.

2507
05:25:37,000 --> 05:25:44,000
You've adopted policies, you know, investment policies and it's in line with what the investment policies are for the City Council.

2508
05:25:44,000 --> 05:25:57,000
So I would be and I think we would be amenable to adding to my motion that we use an appropriate timeline that gives us the right amount of time to have a good RFP and a good process.

2509
05:25:57,000 --> 05:26:16,000
But I would like to make that on the condition that the additional funds that are getting contributed from this short time source goes into an investment fund and is not added to the total general fund budget until we complete process.

2510
05:26:16,000 --> 05:26:18,000
That we can actually.

2511
05:26:18,000 --> 05:26:19,000
That's what's happening.

2512
05:26:19,000 --> 05:26:21,000
Yes, so we can earn some interest.

2513
05:26:21,000 --> 05:26:26,000
Yes, that's earn some more money on this money while we're going through this good process and not just having it.

2514
05:26:26,000 --> 05:26:29,000
You know, not do work for us.

2515
05:26:29,000 --> 05:26:31,000
Yes, it is currently earning interest.

2516
05:26:31,000 --> 05:26:36,000
Okay, if it is like that, I will say the friendly amendment.

2517
05:26:36,000 --> 05:26:39,000
I will second that.

2518
05:26:39,000 --> 05:26:41,000
Call the vote.

2519
05:26:41,000 --> 05:26:46,000
I'm sorry because someone told what we're voting on now.

2520
05:26:46,000 --> 05:26:52,000
I had a motion by council member, he minutes in a second by council member.

2521
05:26:53,000 --> 05:26:54,000
So we are.

2522
05:26:58,000 --> 05:27:00,000
So, can you do make two amendments, right?

2523
05:27:00,000 --> 05:27:02,000
No, can you do it?

2524
05:27:02,000 --> 05:27:04,000
My two minutes.

2525
05:27:04,000 --> 05:27:06,000
It was.

2526
05:27:06,000 --> 05:27:09,000
Council member, he minutes motion.

2527
05:27:09,000 --> 05:27:19,000
To move forward with the RFP community process comprehensive.

2528
05:27:19,000 --> 05:27:21,000
More open and inclusive.

2529
05:27:22,000 --> 05:27:36,000
The amendments that I added were that a part of what they what the consultants would work with would get feedback on from community is not only what types of things with the money like to what we like to spend the money on.

2530
05:27:36,000 --> 05:27:43,000
But what strategy for holding and releasing the money we'd like to use because that's two different things, right?

2531
05:27:44,000 --> 05:27:47,000
You, there's, there's different strategies you can use.

2532
05:27:47,000 --> 05:27:54,000
You can spend it all every year, you can put it in savings and only spend the, the, the interest.

2533
05:27:54,000 --> 05:28:01,000
You can pay off, you know, un, un, un, uncovered, unfunded liabilities.

2534
05:28:01,000 --> 05:28:08,000
There's strategies and I think we need feedback from community on which strategy they feel strongly about.

2535
05:28:08,000 --> 05:28:12,000
And second level is what are the kinds of things they would like to see money spent on.

2536
05:28:12,000 --> 05:28:15,000
That's two different levels of of decision making.

2537
05:28:15,000 --> 05:28:22,000
That was the first amendment is to add that strategies conversation to it so that we know we have buy in on what we're doing.

2538
05:28:22,000 --> 05:28:30,000
And then the second amendment was when I just made just now to say that if we're going to take the time that we need to do to do this right.

2539
05:28:30,000 --> 05:28:40,000
I would like to make sure that this influx of short term funds into the general fund are put into an investment count so that it is making money.

2540
05:28:40,000 --> 05:28:43,000
For us, making us more money.

2541
05:28:43,000 --> 05:28:50,000
While we go through this good process, so we have more money to work with at the end instead of less instead of the same amount or less.

2542
05:28:50,000 --> 05:29:02,000
And so that was my, my proposals that year one in year two money because we won't make that year two deadline going to an investment account and it we use it to make more money while we're going through this process.

2543
05:29:02,000 --> 05:29:12,000
So but but I would like to have a timeline because we are saying may 26 so what I am hearing is by July.

2544
05:29:12,000 --> 05:29:23,000
To have the results of to start the process and I think life by that is just too much too long to wait to start the community process.

2545
05:29:23,000 --> 05:29:26,000
So I just would like to.

2546
05:29:26,000 --> 05:29:36,000
I would say we can share the the recommendation or today is a food council action with the contractors see like if they whatever and whenever they are selected.

2547
05:29:36,000 --> 05:29:48,000
We will be happy to share the today's action like about the timeline with them and it will really be you know up to them like if they can meet that and produce results by that time or not.

2548
05:29:48,000 --> 05:30:00,000
I think what would be helpful is at the May 24th I mean excuse me at the March 24th City Council meeting which is essentially in in two months that that.

2549
05:30:00,000 --> 05:30:13,000
We provide an update at that time, because the more that I'm thinking about this, I think that this is, there's a lot of moving parts, right? So we had the item that you all just approved. So that's sort of, that's one sort of bucket.

2550
05:30:13,000 --> 05:30:23,000
We have, we already have right our financial advisors, right? We also would have potentially bond council and then there would also be a facilitator.

2551
05:30:23,000 --> 05:30:31,000
I'm not sure, right? And this is what we need to think about is, is there one firm that does all of these things, probably not, right?

2552
05:30:31,000 --> 05:30:38,000
So I think there will need to be an opportunity for us to staff to think through, like, how do we align these things and then like what are the different

2553
05:30:38,000 --> 05:30:50,000
Thought partners, right, and different consultants that we would work with, to develop a full strategy. And I think those might be, respectfully, people that have different skill sets.

2554
05:30:50,000 --> 05:31:05,000
Okay, so what about, if question to council, we made a motion, we had a second. And if we want to change that motion, we have to do, we have to do an alternate motion, right?

2555
05:31:05,000 --> 05:31:08,000
We can't, we can't change the motion once it's.

2556
05:31:09,000 --> 05:31:35,000
I am just going to add to, I am going to friendly amendment to have the timeline because I don't want to get these forever. So what I am going to add is that by March, this is that we come back with an out day where he also had the timeline for how these community processes going to roll out.

2557
05:31:36,000 --> 05:31:46,000
Yes, and I think, concurrently, right, we should be able to articulate, for example, if the other consultants that would need to be part of this process.

2558
05:31:46,000 --> 05:31:50,000
So I think there was a motion, there was a motion in a second, right?

2559
05:31:50,000 --> 05:31:52,000
I'd like to make a substitute motion.

2560
05:31:52,000 --> 05:31:53,000
Okay.

2561
05:31:53,000 --> 05:31:54,000
She can make a few seconds.

2562
05:31:54,000 --> 05:31:56,000
Second and three friendly amendments.

2563
05:31:56,000 --> 05:31:57,000
Okay.

2564
05:31:58,000 --> 05:32:20,000
So considering what the city manager is saying about the complexity of the motion, the way it is, my motion is to hire a consultant to provide a high level vision of different strategy options for spending the money.

2565
05:32:20,000 --> 05:32:25,000
And after that's done, then we can do the based on the result of that.

2566
05:32:25,000 --> 05:32:43,000
We can do the community input gathering and everything. So for the first step, let's just hire a consultant to discuss to provide different strategy options in terms of economic development,

2567
05:32:44,000 --> 05:32:46,000
we need from field industry, et cetera.

2568
05:32:50,000 --> 05:32:51,000
Do we have a second?

2569
05:32:55,000 --> 05:32:58,000
It dies with other community input.

2570
05:32:58,000 --> 05:33:06,000
I think it's our responsibility to provide information to the community before asking them for a strategy.

2571
05:33:06,000 --> 05:33:09,000
Why do we, excuse me, let me finish.

2572
05:33:09,000 --> 05:33:11,000
I think it's the second.

2573
05:33:13,000 --> 05:33:15,000
You've been a motion and now you're.

2574
05:33:15,000 --> 05:33:21,000
I'm I'm completing the meaning of the motion. I think it's very irresponsible.

2575
05:33:21,000 --> 05:33:26,000
We have a traditional responsibility, fiscal responsibility to the community.

2576
05:33:26,000 --> 05:33:38,000
It is irresponsible to ask the community members without much economic knowledge for a strategy options on how to spend $550 million.

2577
05:33:39,000 --> 05:33:49,000
First, we need to provide the information to them what the options are, what the consequences are, then go to them and get the community input.

2578
05:33:49,000 --> 05:33:59,000
So my motion is to first hired get RFP for a consultant to provide investment strategy options.

2579
05:33:59,000 --> 05:34:08,000
And then, at the second step, do the community input gathering.

2580
05:34:08,000 --> 05:34:10,000
Do we have a second?

2581
05:34:14,000 --> 05:34:17,000
No, it's not. The motion on the floor says.

2582
05:34:17,000 --> 05:34:23,000
Do this plus getting community input on a strategy.

2583
05:34:23,000 --> 05:34:28,000
So the consultant will ask the community for a strategy options.

2584
05:34:28,000 --> 05:34:31,000
That's incorrect in my view.

2585
05:34:32,000 --> 05:34:35,000
May we have time and energy and thank you, Mayor.

2586
05:34:35,000 --> 05:34:36,000
Okay.

2587
05:34:36,000 --> 05:34:39,000
We're having a bit of confusion here.

2588
05:34:39,000 --> 05:34:45,000
You made a motion and then you spoke to the motion and then you made another motion.

2589
05:34:45,000 --> 05:34:46,000
No.

2590
05:34:46,000 --> 05:34:47,000
No.

2591
05:34:47,000 --> 05:34:50,000
I made a more subsequent motion.

2592
05:34:50,000 --> 05:34:51,000
Okay.

2593
05:34:51,000 --> 05:34:55,000
And I asked for a second. I had not heard one.

2594
05:34:55,000 --> 05:34:58,000
So the motion dies from lack of a second.

2595
05:34:58,000 --> 05:34:59,000
Okay.

2596
05:35:00,000 --> 05:35:02,000
Mayor point of clarification.

2597
05:35:02,000 --> 05:35:06,000
I want to reiterate that that the funds are currently invested.

2598
05:35:06,000 --> 05:35:07,000
Right.

2599
05:35:07,000 --> 05:35:09,000
Okay. I just want to make sure.

2600
05:35:09,000 --> 05:35:12,000
And we had decided that.

2601
05:35:12,000 --> 05:35:14,000
Earlier.

2602
05:35:14,000 --> 05:35:15,000
Yes.

2603
05:35:15,000 --> 05:35:17,000
The council had decided that earlier.

2604
05:35:17,000 --> 05:35:20,000
So.

2605
05:35:20,000 --> 05:35:23,000
So we have a motion in a second on the floor.

2606
05:35:23,000 --> 05:35:26,000
Did you want to make a substitute motion?

2607
05:35:26,000 --> 05:35:29,000
I wanted to act if I can make a friendly amendment to the motion that's on the floor.

2608
05:35:29,000 --> 05:35:30,000
Okay.

2609
05:35:30,000 --> 05:35:31,000
Well, no.

2610
05:35:31,000 --> 05:35:32,000
You cannot because there's a second.

2611
05:35:32,000 --> 05:35:33,000
Okay.

2612
05:35:33,000 --> 05:35:34,000
There is.

2613
05:35:34,000 --> 05:35:35,000
You can make it.

2614
05:35:35,000 --> 05:35:36,000
Yes.

2615
05:35:36,000 --> 05:35:38,000
Then they have the vote accepted.

2616
05:35:38,000 --> 05:35:39,000
Okay.

2617
05:35:39,000 --> 05:35:40,000
Thank you.

2618
05:35:40,000 --> 05:35:47,000
I just wanted to ask if we could lower the maximum amount for the consultant.

2619
05:35:47,000 --> 05:35:51,000
The fee for the consultant like not up to 300,000, but to lower it.

2620
05:35:51,000 --> 05:35:55,000
I think that 300,000 to me is very.

2621
05:35:55,000 --> 05:35:57,000
So that's a.

2622
05:35:57,000 --> 05:35:59,000
Aspenomical for.

2623
05:35:59,000 --> 05:36:05,000
A consultant, especially if we're going to have the support of the staff and a lot of community involvement.

2624
05:36:05,000 --> 05:36:11,000
I think that the consultant is just going to really do the summarization or not.

2625
05:36:11,000 --> 05:36:13,000
A lot.

2626
05:36:13,000 --> 05:36:14,000
So.

2627
05:36:14,000 --> 05:36:20,000
No, because I think what we are hearing from city manager is that potentially is not just one.

2628
05:36:20,000 --> 05:36:22,000
But it's just.

2629
05:36:23,000 --> 05:36:30,000
So I want to have then to have the capacity to to have this act to is not like we are going to spend there.

2630
05:36:30,000 --> 05:36:36,000
Hopefully, no, but that they don't need to come back to us from Germany in March.

2631
05:36:36,000 --> 05:36:49,000
We can like I think like what what we are trying to do here is this is a really complicating thing and this is why we are in all these conversations together.

2632
05:36:50,000 --> 05:36:51,000
So.

2633
05:36:51,000 --> 05:36:54,000
In March with the outdated.

2634
05:36:54,000 --> 05:36:59,000
We can see how much potentially is going to be needed.

2635
05:36:59,000 --> 05:37:05,000
But I just want to make sure that we have the there is enough money.

2636
05:37:05,000 --> 05:37:14,000
So it doesn't constrain that they ability for the staff to think about maybe is not just one consultant because it's.

2637
05:37:15,000 --> 05:37:21,000
That's to 300,000 is that for multiple consultants because it says one a consultant generally.

2638
05:37:21,000 --> 05:37:23,000
If I make through the mayor's a chair.

2639
05:37:23,000 --> 05:37:27,000
Our preference for a staff is to not put a dollar amount.

2640
05:37:27,000 --> 05:37:32,000
So then when when when we when we come back and and their ranked.

2641
05:37:32,000 --> 05:37:38,000
Then the council would see like who were the respondents and how much did each of them essentially bid for the work.

2642
05:37:38,000 --> 05:37:41,000
And so and then at that time we would ask for an appropriations.

2643
05:37:41,000 --> 05:38:00,000
Okay, so you mentioned just a part of this one you mentioned that we may potentially meet need multiple consultants and so if we're saying up to 300,000 for one consultant that means that this could possibly exceed the 300,000 if we need multiple consultants.

2644
05:38:01,000 --> 05:38:14,000
If we for example, one of the things that I think we need to think about is a bond measure right and so that is going to be a different procurement process and cost.

2645
05:38:14,000 --> 05:38:23,000
So I think the 300,000 is a good starting point and then when we come back and March will will list out like for the different pathways forward.

2646
05:38:23,000 --> 05:38:36,000
For example, right like we have our we have a financial consultant we have bond advisors we have you know community engagement and we'll put together a presentation that outlines all of that.

2647
05:38:36,000 --> 05:38:43,000
Okay, so we'll so basically back when we come back for the update we have an opportunity to accept that or to decline it at that moment.

2648
05:38:43,000 --> 05:38:44,000
Okay, exactly.

2649
05:38:44,000 --> 05:38:45,000
Thank you.

2650
05:38:45,000 --> 05:38:50,000
So can we have the final version of what we're voting.

2651
05:38:50,000 --> 05:38:51,000
Okay, so is.

2652
05:38:54,000 --> 05:38:56,000
Is it.

2653
05:38:56,000 --> 05:38:57,000
You're not sure.

2654
05:38:57,000 --> 05:39:17,000
It is the city manager to engage with consultants to collaborate with city staff, city council and community stakeholders to conduct community engagement and get input into an strategy for holding or releasing the funds.

2655
05:39:17,000 --> 05:39:22,000
And.

2656
05:39:22,000 --> 05:39:37,000
And get input on our framework for the expenditure of the new general fund revenues generated by the polluters pay ceremony.

2657
05:39:37,000 --> 05:39:44,000
And come back with an update on the plan and timeline.

2658
05:39:44,000 --> 05:39:47,000
A much what they.

2659
05:39:47,000 --> 05:39:49,000
March 24th.

2660
05:39:49,000 --> 05:40:02,000
This is and then while while this process is going on including the community process that will hold the funds and an investment account so they can be earning more money.

2661
05:40:02,000 --> 05:40:07,000
That is the motion.

2662
05:40:08,000 --> 05:40:10,000
Council member Braille.

2663
05:40:10,000 --> 05:40:12,000
No.

2664
05:40:12,000 --> 05:40:14,000
Council member Bada.

2665
05:40:20,000 --> 05:40:21,000
Council member Bada.

2666
05:40:21,000 --> 05:40:23,000
I'm still confused about it.

2667
05:40:23,000 --> 05:40:25,000
Can I quickly ask that.

2668
05:40:25,000 --> 05:40:27,000
Right.

2669
05:40:27,000 --> 05:40:30,000
So what is your vote.

2670
05:40:30,000 --> 05:40:31,000
I'm.

2671
05:40:31,000 --> 05:40:32,000
I'm.

2672
05:40:32,000 --> 05:40:35,000
I'm confused about that.

2673
05:40:35,000 --> 05:40:36,000
Am I abstain.

2674
05:40:37,000 --> 05:40:38,000
Abstain.

2675
05:40:40,000 --> 05:40:42,000
Council member him minutes.

2676
05:40:42,000 --> 05:40:43,000
Yes.

2677
05:40:43,000 --> 05:40:45,000
Council member Wilson.

2678
05:40:45,000 --> 05:40:46,000
Yes.

2679
05:40:46,000 --> 05:40:47,000
Council members.

2680
05:40:47,000 --> 05:40:48,000
Yes.

2681
05:40:48,000 --> 05:40:50,000
Vice Mayor Robinson.

2682
05:40:50,000 --> 05:40:51,000
Yes.

2683
05:40:51,000 --> 05:40:52,000
And me on Martinez.

2684
05:40:52,000 --> 05:40:53,000
Yes.

2685
05:40:53,000 --> 05:40:54,000
The motion passes.

2686
05:40:54,000 --> 05:40:56,000
We can't remember Brown voting.

2687
05:40:56,000 --> 05:40:57,000
No.

2688
05:40:57,000 --> 05:40:58,000
Council member Bana.

2689
05:40:58,000 --> 05:41:00,000
Ex.

2690
05:41:00,000 --> 05:41:01,000
Abstain.

2691
05:41:01,000 --> 05:41:03,000
Sorry.

2692
05:41:04,000 --> 05:41:07,000
I would like to make a motion.

2693
05:41:07,000 --> 05:41:08,000
That we combine.

2694
05:41:08,000 --> 05:41:09,000
You won.

2695
05:41:09,000 --> 05:41:10,000
Yeah.

2696
05:41:10,000 --> 05:41:11,000
Hasn't open.

2697
05:41:11,000 --> 05:41:12,000
She hasn't opened the item.

2698
05:41:12,000 --> 05:41:13,000
I don't know.

2699
05:41:13,000 --> 05:41:15,000
Okay.

2700
05:41:15,000 --> 05:41:17,000
And we're moving to items.

2701
05:41:17,000 --> 05:41:18,000
P1 and P2.

2702
05:41:18,000 --> 05:41:19,000
Yeah.

2703
05:41:19,000 --> 05:41:20,000
Okay.

2704
05:41:20,000 --> 05:41:32,000
So I need to ask if there's anyone online that would like to speak on these items.

2705
05:41:32,000 --> 05:41:33,000
To raise their hand.

2706
05:41:33,000 --> 05:41:35,000
We don't have any in person speakers.

2707
05:41:35,000 --> 05:41:46,000
But item P1 is to direct the city clerk to work with the mayor's office to implement a two year council liaison appointment cycle for boards and commissions aligned with the council election cycle.

2708
05:41:46,000 --> 05:42:01,000
While maintaining the mayor's authority to appoint or remove liaisons at their discretion and direct that the current liaisons remain in effect through December 31 of 2026 with new appointments to be made in the first quarter.

2709
05:42:01,000 --> 05:42:17,000
In the first quarter of 2027 following the installation of the new city council item P2 was to doctor resolution and approve the issuance of task authorizations to viola water on behalf of the city to manage subcontractors with APB general engineering.

2710
05:42:18,000 --> 05:42:39,000
The W housing question engineers for additional sanitary sewer line replacement and rehabilitation work with a contract amendment amount of 4 million 30,385 dollars thereby increasing the total payment limit to 6,554,348 dollars including.

2711
05:42:40,000 --> 05:42:45,000
We do not have any speakers.

2712
05:42:45,000 --> 05:42:49,000
No speakers.

2713
05:42:49,000 --> 05:42:51,000
We have one speaker online.

2714
05:42:51,000 --> 05:42:52,000
Okay.

2715
05:42:52,000 --> 05:42:59,000
Just raised to say point of order then because then now the speaker says speaker speaking for one or two because we just read both of them in there.

2716
05:42:59,000 --> 05:43:01,000
So you have one bite at the apple.

2717
05:43:01,000 --> 05:43:03,000
Well there's two items.

2718
05:43:03,000 --> 05:43:06,000
I don't think the process allows just one bite.

2719
05:43:06,000 --> 05:43:13,000
And you got to speak in which I call to speaker please.

2720
05:43:13,000 --> 05:43:17,000
Haven't it still please unmute yourself and you may begin.

2721
05:43:17,000 --> 05:43:18,000
Thank you.

2722
05:43:18,000 --> 05:43:22,000
Just very briefly P1 support in additional time.

2723
05:43:22,000 --> 05:43:29,000
I think given a number of boards and commissions having additional time may draw additional participants to those boards.

2724
05:43:29,000 --> 05:43:30,000
Thank you.

2725
05:43:30,000 --> 05:43:31,000
Thank you.

2726
05:43:31,000 --> 05:43:33,000
And that was the last speaker.

2727
05:43:36,000 --> 05:43:43,000
Can I make a motion to approve item P1 and P2.

2728
05:43:43,000 --> 05:43:45,000
I second that motion.

2729
05:43:45,000 --> 05:43:47,000
Council member Brown.

2730
05:43:47,000 --> 05:43:48,000
Yes.

2731
05:43:48,000 --> 05:43:49,000
Council member Bana.

2732
05:43:49,000 --> 05:43:50,000
Yes.

2733
05:43:50,000 --> 05:43:51,000
Council member Jim Minnes.

2734
05:43:51,000 --> 05:43:52,000
Yes.

2735
05:43:52,000 --> 05:43:53,000
Council member Wilson.

2736
05:43:53,000 --> 05:43:54,000
Yes.

2737
05:43:54,000 --> 05:43:55,000
Council members the painter.

2738
05:43:55,000 --> 05:43:56,000
Yes.

2739
05:43:56,000 --> 05:43:59,000
Vice Mayor Robison is absent and Mayor Martinez.

2740
05:43:59,000 --> 05:44:00,000
Yes.

2741
05:44:01,000 --> 05:44:03,000
The motion passes.

2742
05:44:03,000 --> 05:44:06,000
Vice Mayor Robinson absent.

2743
05:44:06,000 --> 05:44:10,000
Are we voting for the second item?

2744
05:44:10,000 --> 05:44:13,000
Or is that enough for both?

2745
05:44:13,000 --> 05:44:15,000
We voted on both of them.

2746
05:44:15,000 --> 05:44:16,000
Okay.

2747
05:44:19,000 --> 05:44:20,000
That's it.

2748
05:44:20,000 --> 05:44:21,000
Okay.

2749
05:44:21,000 --> 05:44:25,000
So it's time for adjournment.

2750
05:44:25,000 --> 05:44:26,000
Do we have?

2751
05:44:26,000 --> 05:44:27,000
Oh no.

2752
05:44:28,000 --> 05:44:29,000
No.

2753
05:44:29,000 --> 05:44:31,000
Okay.

2754
05:44:31,000 --> 05:44:33,000
We still need to adjourn.

2755
05:44:33,000 --> 05:44:37,000
I mean we can't just leave with adjournment.

2756
05:44:37,000 --> 05:44:56,000
I would like to adjourn this meeting and the memory of thousands of people who are killed during protest and demonstrations in Iran brutally.

2757
05:44:57,000 --> 05:44:59,000
Most of them, young people.

2758
05:44:59,000 --> 05:45:00,000
All.

2759
05:45:00,000 --> 05:45:08,000
All they asked was, whether living condition and a better tomorrow.

2760
05:45:08,000 --> 05:45:13,000
In honor of those people, we adjourned this meeting. The meeting is adjourned.

2761
05:45:30,000 --> 05:45:32,000
Thank you.

2762
05:46:00,000 --> 05:46:02,000
Thank you.

2763
05:46:30,000 --> 05:46:32,000
Thank you.