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Order get started so if you have a seat we would like to have me take a seat. And not
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be. Do dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe do well good afternoon
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everybody good afternoon good afternoon it is so nice to see the chambers so crowded
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with a happy thing today though I am so glad we kid that I have a good day today
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because we're all here because we love us and our auburn so that's that but am
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I going to be a bad guy here for a little bit in late you know that we do have some
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restrictions on how many people can be in the room right as we do have a code so
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folks who are probably in line right now he don't have a seat and they're outside
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they probably won't be able to come in I think al teaser they're managing that. Okay
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um and I think don was saying folks can or cannot stand on the walls is what are we
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doing this not at the well here's the uk have to move off so well there that's what
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we call that area if we could get you just have to move off and you all can party
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afterward that's not it does not a problem so it isn't council meeting after all so
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it's relatively boring up but not this part right now. This hurt so ellen well oh
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everybody welcome to the city of riverside city council meeting for august twenty
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fifth street twenty five and it's also dale roberts day the uh the uh uh uh uh sorry
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it on their sorry it's twenty six to his bq thank you so what I would do a mere
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pictures like dawson and I mean a call or meeting to order today and we was start
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with the invocation. Are you able to do it for us to the counsel of a south county
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boys a good catholic school boy that I am in was I'm happy to wing I'm happy doing
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our prayer and vocation everyone please join me in prayer lord god we gather
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here today because we are thankful for the blessing of mr. Del roberts someone who
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has given his whole life in service to our community to the betterment of riverside
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and just doing good stuff to doing your good will we ask that you give him a special
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blessing on this ninetieth birthday and for many more years of blessings and
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community and fellowship together. We ask that you bless upon the city council
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with your wisdom as we make difficult decisions both today and always caring
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without carrying with us the needs of all those that we represent and doing so
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with the heart for justice heart of charity we ask all this to your blessed name
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amen amen are right and if you are able please stand with us to say our pledge
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allegiance to the eye but uh twenty nation and the indivisible the rate we
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will open air meeting now with comment as we always do this is to comment on our
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consent calendar closed session in any matters within the jurisdiction of the city
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the agenda right thank you at first I have ruben greg soto mr. Soto here. The mayor
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city council room here. A murray little bit from you know ivan k color churches
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and and ah mm. The badger them a chio right doesn't make you write the bad give
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you authority the badge make you corrupt badge makes you a liar. The badge makes you a
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sinner. I never been proven guilty of any so called crime he always make me make me
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force me take that deal you think me with prison time for years in state prison so
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course I might take that lacking get out and but when you don't do their job. We
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all know that we got money get a lawyer you're done and so you go in due time. I
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always do they ever prove me guilty. Now I take to deal to make to make me alive. You
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make me sign something that isn't true but I come out like for another day for my
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justice and truth might wish you two for my money everywhere said the impulse
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to falsify any good job of that government nice day to make good use a system that's
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a federal offense isn't that what they say is innocent till proven guilty. I have
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never been proven guilty only thing I've ever done wrong with god of the ui
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would match every church job and every christian church tells me be more like jesus
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allowed to I want to be like these. Jesus was a drunk jesus made water into wine
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I want to be that group. I want to be a jesus or christian fold. Ok now
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christian church to kick me out be mean and I'm going to do the rest of my being me
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and ella. I don't go to church I'm a christian I'm catholic. Ok great catholic
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christians alike as to not hire if you're a first responder should be ashamed
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or sell. No you're not but you should move to your religion first amendment
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freedom of religion freedom of speech. Thank you ma'am thank you mr. Santo up next I
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have eric awesome it's uh yeah can I use the overhead projector. You guys I haven't
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seen in awhile and I want to make some comments to you today. Now california
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records requests act requires you to provide information to the. Now I've been asking for
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almost two years for the city of riverside to put all of the money they've been
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stealing from the taxpayers through nonprofits to through vendors through llc is
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through private businesses to purchase cards I've asked you in writing you guys have give
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me the middle finger so he flipped the second page. Ok I have records going back a
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purchase orders to two thousand and fourteen. I have records from the city. I
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just want to show you the two thousand and fourteen. Can you go to the third page
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thank you very much now. I asked back in twenty twenty four for vendors liz from
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the city of rivers. Now carmen provided this to me is sixty eight pages long thirty
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eight billion dollars. Now I've asked many of times for you guys to put this on your
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website. So everybody can see it. I have it I haven't but it's your right it up to you
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to put it on the website so that taxpayers can see which are stealing. Can you put
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the page. Now this go ahead thank you emma got three minutes on an easel freeman's
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now this is I see mark a little bit down with them or think. Now this is I see mark
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this is a pension retirement fund provided by the city for more pension retirement money
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money laundered money to you guys own retirement. Now this was forty nine million
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dollars is your record you guys your records not mine your records. Now these are
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wire transfers delivery deliberately dealt with icy mark which is a non profit
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for pensions forty nine million dollars. No accountability here with
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funds. Can you flip the next page. Thank you very much now I want to talk to about
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blue zones o k blue zones are made of zones or whatever it is to money launder money now
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going for the other page because I got twenty seconds thanks. Now this was provided
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to me by the city clerk two hundred thousand dollars a I g p now I I don't know what
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happened either ten million dollars you guys we have a law and lot of problems here
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so I'm only nine seconds right I could be up for months gone through all
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the records that I have but we need some accountability from our city council. Thank
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you very much next year. Very very smart are you in my year ok here comes doctor murray
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welcomed us from thinking their members the city council could afternoon high
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del happy birthday we love you right eye. Amy actually here to comment on height and
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forty two. We understand that there is a letter to the jpa on your closed session item
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will be very brief interview very busy grace morning chief executive officer for
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the march jpa my ship is he ever say I have been long term partners over thirty
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years they were very proud of that partnership love working with their staff and my
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request is simple. This item that's before the council in closed session is going into
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closed session for the jp commission tomorrow with several other communications
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that did not make your packet that we will discuss in closed session with
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the commission so we are just asking very respectfully to please allow the jpa to
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handle this matter as the lead agency and our legal counsel was happy to
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coordinate additional information with their legal counsel thank you thank you
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doctor martin writes I I have the riverside county chamber health and wellness who's
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here for that there's no name on this back chamber. And yes home. Hi good afternoon. I
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know patricia I was going to be speaking but what it is one that gets right here on
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uh kay. Here he comes to stamina but that clock is ticking down the utp behalf
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of all the riverside county black chamber of commerce. I want to thank bill robins for
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all the work done in the community for years they the eye. We're honored to
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have them in the presence and we just thank god for denied the years they hear that we
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we hope that he has many many more to follow the on the issue that I wrote on
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the car just this they can grow and I am with covered california we've been
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navigators since the beginning in the when obama wrote the law covered
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california still going strong but is being very challenge than strangling people that
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are of the dhaka so I wanted to talk to you guys about riverside because we got to
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be doing a big movement trying to make sure luis luis all of us can get together
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work for those who are doctor related. Thank you thank you both thank you very much
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the rh next I have juan serrano belief or item thirty five welcome mr. Serrano
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though even there one but it was throttled I'm with the laborers international
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north america begin on the wcha read it so I just endured you before you today
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expressed unwavering support for west coast harbors a contractor that has
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consistently demonstrated commitment to excellence and responsible with our
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community riverside about ten year west the west coast our recess can t exceeded
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expectations with the quality of the were said in a standard of excellence that
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reflects positively on our city. The dedication of holding the highs the new
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standards and is evident through their quarterly trainings ensuring that every
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member of their team is not only skilled but also certified to perform their
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duties with precision and see what truly sets out what schools are this apart is
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the investment community with approximately two hundred other employees call
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riverside home. It is a clear that they are deeply rooted in our city. Wolf you to
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really figure to really and literally this level of local employment speaks volumes
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about their commitment to contrary to economic and social fabric of riverside in
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the lead of the explorer exemplary track record and significant contributions to
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our community I urge the council to extend the support west coast our
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risk by doing so we affirm that we are recognition of the valuable presence in
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riverside and ensure that they can continue their outstanding work for
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the betterment of our city so I thank you so much and has much to think that I may or
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may I just for my colleagues there's there's a boatload of iona members outside they
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just couldn't make it into the chamber but I just went there. They're all are a so I
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doctor tiffany tate are you here. Did you come back tiffany take going once
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going twice you not hear him and move on ok we have eighty mm color. Let's take a caller
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please. Hello hey go ahead hello everyone in riverside if you're not aware. City
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officials in this city are trying to sell you on this climate change policy that
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they're bringing in this global plan coming from the united nations and their
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agenda. Twenty thirty means google that and look at look at their version of it
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because they're trying to tell you that this is about having clean water clean air
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all of that that's not true we've got fluoride and chlorine in our waters. If
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you're not filtering our water you're really putting dangerous and your body part
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in the air spraying the air every single day. Look up and buy new cds can trail are
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taught. There's a brand that you have to research that information and the city
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officials. I know the mayor she is very strong with this climate change policy whether
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she is not where who's behind it or it just fits her her political agenda to her korea
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I mean they get they get state funds by implementing these programs and federal
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funds though. But in the bottom line you guys are the ones that are going to be
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suffering because you're going to be happen to credit for every carbon footprint
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your carbon footprint. Anyway on another note and twenty six years ago I was part of
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protesters were protesting the tyson miller shooting. If you remember that whole saga
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was pretty sad and how the city responded to that well there were certain
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black members in the community that refused to speak out and gail roberts
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was one of those that is when he was not to be seen because if he spoke out about that we
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would not be getting the praise from the city that she is getting today I was
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there to those people who wear their helicopters did not speak out on the shooting
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of tyson miller. There were other people that came forward of a lot of church
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members a lot of pastors local pastors including reverend mike byrd anyway
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just thought I'd share. Thank you. Let's have our next caller please my money's
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christine c man I just graduated with a masters in policy from uc riverside have
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questions about the flock cameras and they'll pee ours that are around the city. I'm
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curious if you all know probably not the top of the head but if there's a way
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for me to get information on how much the city of riverside is paying for those
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cameras are on like more information about the contracts and you see are
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saying they they do not own the cameras that are on campus but the city does and
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I'm wondering if that's correct that's all right thank you that ever next
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caller please. Good afternoon our full council city staff mrs. Padgett morning I want
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to first off say congratulations on the amazing turnout. I tried
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my hardest to get in but there is a huge line so congratulations to mr. Dale
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roberts on your ninetieth birthday and all you've done for riverside thank you from
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the bomb heart so many people and citizens from riverside your incredible and thank you
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for what you've done and just by that turn out you can see all the love in a room of how
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many people appreciate what you've done for riverside so from a patchwork of local
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residents flooded which are amazing on a side note I just wanna say thank you again to
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everybody who comes down to city council I know that there can be people that are
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a little bit over the top but they are passionate about their town so we got to get
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some people that we don't agree with people who agree with and always very happy
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that people call in or show up and once again thank you for my part to mr. Joe
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roberts for everything you're doing for riverside and last but not least you will see
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much self promotion tonight ariel get the highway to more background is my riverside
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open mike. I am back at the hideaway and if you're in here this weekend are many we
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can solve your mc so I took this year other than to shut up now and once again
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congratulations mr. Dale roberts. Happy birthday patrick and all the people in
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riverside that can call and so have a great day and think thank you. Ok I have
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the tiffany tate if you're here tiffany this the last kevin mccall you come on down
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thank you in after that I have doctor regina patents tell um thank you for being
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patient with me as I was running around all over his eye. I just want to say that
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I'm happy to congratulate dough robbers. I've had the privilege of being one of
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his speakers for his activities uplifting young women girls in the community
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and I am so privileged and honored to wish him happy birthday and to kick off his
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dale roberts day from him uplifting young women and girls and bringing that black
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history day parade to riverside county and from him bein a security guard and is
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moving forward in being a mover and shaker so it is a true honor to lift him up
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because it is important to give people flowers while they are still with us so
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thank you for recognizing him in giving him his flowers while he is still alive. So
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thank you for recognizing him and congratulations. Thank you dr take the current
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doctor doctor patton still ok I got soo good to see you walk them. Well good
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afternoon. I am so excited I have to tell you that I did not write the resolution I'm
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here representing the roof and ran to the naacp he we are on or all of us to be
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celebrating we call him uncle dale. I think you guys to lisa wrote this whole thing
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has not been is a book to highlight a resolution thank you to least use here with
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actually framed copy national association for the advancement of colored
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people was fat in ecp range recognition of a lifetime of service leadership and
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commitment to riverside its youth and community and in commemoration of his birthday
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this is a couple re as I go with resetting naacp branch and fifty nine probably
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recognizes individuals whose lives exemplify the principles of service
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advocacy leadership opportunity and commitment to the advancement of the whole
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community. Adrian dale roberts lifelong river said community leader graduate of
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poly high school nineteen fifty five. These distinguished himself as an
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athlete swimming football attract he's dedicated himself to positively
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touching and transforming the lab's river says you through his work. The city of
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parks or rex to the school district to go on and on. He served as a assistant
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principal football coach go on. He established the black student union to paly high
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school in riverside area subsequently serving as an adviser to the nine black
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students in california. So after as returning or retiring from the district
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following thirty years of service mr. Roberts continued his commitment to students
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and families and adults in need. He still does it today there's several we were as
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is a couple of them means on mr. Roberts' commitment and expanding the horizons of
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young people has provided service at youth with opportunities to experience
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places the possibilities beyond their immediate surroundings trips to
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the snow the beach in conferences to dedicate this decade the service has this
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man down reckon as through numerous honors to go through he's received the spirit of
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city awards am gonna skip a couple or as is now therefore be it resolved that the river
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sat in a c p branch ten fifty nine here by honors and celebrates adrian del roberts
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for life the extraordinary service leadership mentorship advocacy and commitment. Be
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it further resolved that the branch proudly joins with the community today and
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celebrate this man's birthday is an occasion to recognize remarkable life. Dieters down
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here not the right right that was our last requests to speak so will close commoner
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in a move on or agenda and the mayor and council members have communications now so
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we'll start with ward one councilmember factory. Thank you mayor. In keeping with
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the theme on the thirty we haven't met a couple weeks on the thirteenth of august we
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celebrated the topping out ceremony of dale dale roberts gymnasium at its board will
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park which is the final uh in that ceremony of which my colleagues council members
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are on to three million the mayor there is the final upward construction for
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the building looking forward to that completion the other thing I'll share about says
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start a town hall tour all across ward one and we have quite a few coming up but on
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the thirty first will be here in the city council chambers for a town hall for all folks
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in ward one that may be owned historic properties or storehouse is a need to know
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what are some tax credits and other ways to save some money when repairing or fixing up
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houses their houses on september first will be our senior citizen townhall
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aboard will park stratton center at eleven thirty a m I hope to see a lot of folks
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there and a series of others from businesses to a general town hall a student at home
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will share all that online interest of time mayor but a lot happen a lot of ways to
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get involved in more one thank you mayor thank you council member I can servers
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to write this thinking here ppp brief but I was happy as well to attend the topping
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ceremony is what with the ad portal parker advisory group are luther king senior group
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many other members of our community. Just a privilege in a moment of pride when I
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think my colleagues of that will be theirs while those who couldn't say no sometimes
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it's hard during the weekday but just very exciting time in the side there are so many
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incredible developments taking place right now throughout the site community
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whether it be these elementary school patterson park says a chas community
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center board of park gymnasium. We're very proud of all the developments are
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taking place but I want to especially thank carmen dell robert simon all of
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the members many of them are here in the chamber partners who were part of the advisory
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group that helped to champion that effort. It's beautiful to see it coming to life and
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we cannot wait for groundbreaking will learn groundbreaking but we cannot
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wait for grand opening day so thank you thank you in any other updates will pose a
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social media for ways to be involved much coming up in the month of september and
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october that I have now the khmer think answers on tests for a council member
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board that you aired last week at the opportunity to introduce our new city
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attorney james johnson again more in riverside was great to welcome him as well as our
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interim city manager at the same meeting of all so we had a recently held another
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worth repeating conversations meeting at the airport we had a really really great turn
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out to that and this reminder that our next meeting will be on november fifth from five
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thirty to seven p m at church on the hill and also last week we had a chance to visit
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gg our labs in ward two as part of the car development rice sees the series and is a
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great meeting with the team seen their operation first hand and seen this forty year
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old business which is not to be passed on to its employees is going to be an employee
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owned business which is a fantastic thing and it's happy right here city and
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that's all for me thank you you can sever condors maybe get more important things to
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do here but one quick thing saturday november twelve is coming up in the fifty first
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annual military affairs banquet picnic up in march will we see five thousand
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family members and military members. If you do want to volunteer for that with
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the use of volunteers contact our office will get in touch with the security personnel
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to be there but it's a great event again five thousand people to see that day and
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thank them for our country thank you ever know but you marry and to doctor tate made
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a comment about while those still here. Del at ninety looks better than most of us
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appeared and so I go lor he's going so he go be around alot longer to I can
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assure you that k had a lot like going on since we were last together got to go along
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with the city manager went on ride along with the code for seventeen and I got to tell
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you that's a tough job knocking on folks' front door and told them that they have
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issues at their home so so much respect for for our code enforcement officers who are
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out on the front lines trying to prove the community in our neighborhoods every day. My
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team and I also went out to the sunshine haven animal rescue a hospital out in it's
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actually in ward four. But it's a it's a it's a non profit agency here in the sea
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that it helps with the with the animals that have been wild animals that have been
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injured and whatnot. What an amazing what an amazing facility that the folks there
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put together and then this morning was out at cpu cpu always doing something in
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this morning we had the groundbreaking of the new dental hygiene building at cv
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you again doctor ron else is always at the forefront of of of where the job market's
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going to be and we need dental hi janice so see you now will be offering degrees
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in dental hygiene with a groundbreaking out there this morning some upcoming events
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on thursday for the mobile home park in ward five. We will be having a town hall
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for the residents of that mobile home park on september seven which is labor day my
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office is very happy to help along with the elon empire labor council to bring
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the very first labor day parade to riverside. We have a labor day parade and then a
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little bbq and fun over at white park afterwards so hope hope the community comes out
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to celebrate with that on september twelve and biggest part we're going have to be a
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good spark boxing club show begins early in the morning goes all day you want to see
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some impressive young young men and women come on out and check out the boxing show at
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peters park that saw him he can swim workouts member on and on august nineteenth I
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was invited to me was born members and staff of the river site community
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health foundation. This was an informative mean that highlighted
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the organization's history and evaluation with illustration which
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illustrated their investment and expansion in providing health services and
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preventive educational programs. One of them being the mosque program we headed
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to the bus and muscle up and salute led by ward six residents. Ellie a comin' and
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comin' on august twenty second tt I had the honor of attending the ribbon cutting
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ceremony for the la sierra high school's brand new football stadium a huge win
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for last year's students who can now compete right on their own campus and as an
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added bonus the last year eagles celebrated a win that night so that was awesome
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updates coming events and meetings the transformative climate communities grant
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input meeting on thursday september third held at the isle and the community
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center at six p m this is a community engagement meeting where residents will receive
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information and have the opportunity to provide feedback on the available
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state grant that the city of riverside is applying for that aims to provide
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investment in under served communities to mitigate effect of the effects of
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climate change and that's it man. Thank you cancer. This comes from heaven I think
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you're just two quick things on days like this where it's cool outside we wonder my
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folks if they prefer cooler we have cooling centers throughout the city if you're
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on the westside in ward seven those cooling centers are at the last year library unless
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you're a senior center please no calls or resource for you on if needed to stay
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cool. Also on wednesday september night my office will be collaborating with
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comfort in his office to host a meeting I will hear presentations from our works
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team in the vision zero project and then will give some updates again this
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wednesday september ninth at last year's senior center from six to seven pm and we
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hope to see their thank you mayor thank you concerning I just quick couple things for
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me last week I had the honor of leading the big city mayors coalition of thirty
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largest cities in california I let these mayors to sacramento to meet with some
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legislators and I have a press conference o's really well attended that was great
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and are we bringing them here to riverside in october for a convening. I also I was able
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to go dance in awe of this last weekend to celebrate our fiftieth anniversary with
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their sister city their fiftieth their second oldest sister city so in sonata in
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and ask are celebrating her fiftieth anniversary this year zach got to meet
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the mayor down there and I just wanted to think latino network for being able to be
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available at letting me speak with them last week and giving them an update on all
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the things we have going on in the city and for all their work helping us with the at
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cesar chavez center and the cesar chavez statue renaming so appreciate that
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we have a cup bowl and just one committee meeting coming up. I think we have are
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housing and homeless as many as at three thirty p m on monday august thirty first
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here in chambers are eight. I am now going ask our act interim city manager tom
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hatch if he has any updates he would like to thank you madam air no report. Okay
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great thank you council any declaration of conflicts of interest anybody x per tick
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medications no knocking great wonderful alright I suppose thinking ok well we're now at
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item fi if y'all don't have the agenda for you. Item five reads mayor like dawson to
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recognize a tree and our roberts on his ninetieth birthday on august twenty
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third as dale roberts standing uh uh I uh I uh uh and we have a number of folks
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who want to speak and presents them some certificates but first I just
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wanna think mary welch who's here in the crowd very revealing and the when mary
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reached out to me and said you do something for del I said well let me think about
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it. Yes though I was not a hard decision to make bread thank you mary appreciated
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and that we we're really pleased to recognize dell for his service or community and
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also proclaim this day in his honor. So we have a couple of things I think what I would
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like to do is all save the city's proclamation for the end m and then I will but
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I work on a few people I know I've caught counselors are on tenses up on the list here
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you wanna go first well there are so many things I could be sad I will say in my
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five years of being on the council. I have never seen the line wrapped around
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city hall for someone to be recognized on their birthdays and I had to text a lot of
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people at the council's ears are packed I'm very sorry if you're trying to get in
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the dell. It's a testament to the community. You've touched here in riverside you know
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for me personally I can explain and put into words the impact you've had in my
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life in the lives I've been able to see you impact in the east side and beyond is
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truly something to be proud of and I hope that you are able to I wanna say rest in
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knowing how well that you're taking care of his community but we all know dale
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robertson he doesn't stop the marais area but I think that that's also what
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motivates so many of us to keep fighting to keep going to keep showing up and I as I
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shared at the toppings are many but I'll share here with the community on never forget
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sitting down with del and I was running for city council and asking for his support
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because if you're writing for war to office you want to have dale roberts standing by
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you and I'll never forget even carmen as well cuz when I went to talk to people
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adores I kid you not there were times or they look at say all I need to know and
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see is that del carmen are with you and I'm with you but I know that for me that that
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was a testament to you again to what you have done as a couple as a community and
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with everyone behind you but your legacy is truly to me a reflection of your heart and
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your soul and for what you have given to us here in riverside and so I just wanna
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say wish you the happiest birthday I hope you are able to take in all the love that
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you truly are worthy of receiving and I hope that you just never forget that
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the impact you made on so many lives reaches beyond even the borders of the city
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riverside. We have a limp the athletes we have so many students youth who got
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incredible colleges space is higher education leaders in different parts of the world
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and some other stories are too high to you and so I just want you to know that your
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legacy is going to live on and so many different ways but we're so proud to be able
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to say here at the city riverside that we could celebrate you today and that
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your name will be on the building for the del roberts gymnasium that is
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coming to the side uh the uh with the idea of a certificate from the office
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of war two is your councilmember curt curt health member now how we get
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to share with you a camera coney but just know that I anything I could ever deal a
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phone call away and as we all say when dale roberts calls you answer thankyou thankyou
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counselors or front is our right and I hope he brought a wagon del cuz I got quite a
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few things to give you our eight. Next up is your friend and mine supervisor jose
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medina welcome supervisor with the well it certainly is excited to be here to
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celebrate dull robertson ideas birthday and l roberts day here in the chamber of
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riverside city council. So thank you to the mayor thank you to the city council
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members I first had the opportunity to meet dao over thirty years ago when I
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was a brand new teacher at poly high school and I feel like though maybe took me
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under his wing but we certainly became great friends and we remain great
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friends when iowa's elected to the legislature. I happen to me then senator holly
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mitchell now lee county supervisor holly mitchell holly mitchell shared a story
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with me she said she had never been to sacramento ever before which she was a
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student at riverside poly high school and it was dull robbers who took her and
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the bsu members and I think ali was the president of bsu at the time window roberts to
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holly mitchell to sacramento and I can tell you this having served with holly
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mitchell in sacramento. She is a force she remains a force on the lee county board
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of supervisors. It is really an honor for me to call dial a friend and he really is a
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friend and the history of riverside and the history of dull robbers are so much
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inner woven you can't talk about the history of riverside without talking
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about the history of del roberts is vast and it is good and if you have been
[45:19]
fortunate to hear his stories you know what I'm talking about or if you're fortunate
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like I have been over the years to be able to share a breakfast at one of our
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favorite restaurants socket that his cafe. He's been known to go there once or
[45:42]
twice so it really is an honor to be here on behalf of the riverside county board of
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supervisors honored all robbers for all the accomplishments. There
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are so many that I will really start to try the name of but let me mention one
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because just one. You know many of it was dull roberts who while he was at riverside
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poly started the multi cultural council and the multicultural counts of I
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understand well brought students from different ethnic groups different
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racial groups together. It was very important. It still is so important right and
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that is part of the work the dough roberts has done over the years again an honor
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to be here with all of you to celebrate though roberts and roberts day his ninetieth
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birthday and let me just lift up the proclamation the neighboring from
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riverside county board of supervisors that he can add to his wagon to make you sick
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or resin the uh the uh the uh the you are right what they are taking photos. I am going
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to call it chief larry king's allah as podium. I know he is going to make some comments
[47:18]
if you can get in their teeth I had on highly unlikely to make it to the podium. Thank
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you jose. Thanks for being here chief. Happy birthday uncle bill. I guess it is I
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the you know I would tease him because he does get so many awards I'm surprise not
[47:48]
getting like the del roberts award joe roberts tonight did I do get that many awards or
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something but I'm glad you're here still and ninety home in all seriousness I think
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you'll hear over and over the theme with l roberts is the same words here over
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community leader he's a leader he's a coach a mentor and to most of us in here a
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friend I would be remiss if I didn't talk about dale roberts effect on committee
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relations with the riverside please. I was I couldn't wait to talk first of all sippy
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with but after heard the comment come in I said I can't wait to talk now
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because I don't know what was but um to get us through our darkest days and even our
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good days in our darkest days again. That man was there from the beginning I don't
[48:41]
know what meetings back I was at but the meetings I was at bill roberts spoke out and
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he's been instrumental to not only his favorite keeping me but the past she's uh five
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chiefs ago he's been of all views on chief's advisory board during this time and to
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build those relationships has taken us a long time and that man's if not the biggest
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party huge part probably the biggest part of that to build those relationships I
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know he's somebody I can always count on him he's going to shoot me straight in
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to tell me the truth but as a friend I always know that he has my back unless I'm wrong
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maybe not but he's always been there is a friend just quickly so I was sitting on
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the interview panel last week for you see are and um couple police chiefs on their couple
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highly hire education folks on there for position there and one of the questions were
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they were going over was community involvement home port that is for use or to
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reach out to the community when the panel member says why was mentored by the best
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I was mentored by dale roberts was mentor by the simply chic was in here
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said was mentored by john roberts. So it was it was great to see what a shadow he
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casts across this city and I'm proud to call my friend a blessing to his nice you know
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my position I get phone calls all day long texts all day long the start of a you good
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how are you and it'll come in what can you do this to take care of this have you looked
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into that ordeal will call me regularly to say how you doing you're right there's no
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question behind it there's no just to see how I'm doing and I can't say much I
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appreciate that and his friendship relation of years and and I know it will be
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many more years I have that relationship to rely on but I'm thankful that he's always
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here for us in building those salacious when the police department and the tree
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because if we lose security we lose the police department and we need that so great you
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cheat. I uh I got the ai ai ai ai. Intel. I have a very nice surprise for you. So let
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me ask the folks in back if they can play the video for her for her only I gotta go
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liao I got to go on about the record that today I got to go by. Yes deal that was
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leah newell tell me what the thing in the video greetings riverside where
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love doesn't take you so much for this opportunity to share from my perspective in my
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delight and thank you and riverside city council for your brilliant idea of
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declaring adrian dale roberts today across the city of riverside. I joined with
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polly bears all across the land including those who now call l a county home in
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congratulating you dale. In honoring you dale for your decades of dedication and
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service to earth as your student forever to the school system across riverside
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unified and the ether I and the riverside ca as a whole you have no idea how often
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we'll talk about the role you played in our individual lives and the example youth
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that in what civic engagement look flight with civic engagement feels like and
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what every individual person can do to make their own community a better place for
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generations to come. That's how we experience you throughout the course of our
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lives and I'm so thrilled that your fellow riverside residents acknowledge it as
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well. So even though you're riverside boy you do have family and friends and former
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students who caught l a county home. So here in the holiday administration l
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a county. I want to bring congratulations to you from all of us on dale roberts day
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in the city of riverside congratulate uh uh uh the dell you're probably
[53:17]
wondering about that but um so I sit on the south coast air quality and you just are
[53:24]
to poly so we're colleagues and I mentioned to her that we're doing this and she said
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let me do a video interview she had like very little time cuz she's traveling right now
[53:32]
she was unable to make it she sends her regrets for that but I so she managed to get
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that inning given to the wire because it was so important to her like it is important
[53:43]
to all of us so we wanted to make sure she got her video in so okay um counter kinder
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I've got their proclamation to do was speak before we go okay so I'm going to read
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that proclamation that declares this deja roberts day and then we're going to
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do them and let you know we have a number of other certificates and truck and
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dime or recognitions from various folks and then we can have him in with carmen will
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take a picture with council fat okay with you does that work right so there are a lot
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of whereas europe whereas kinda guy the worry of adrian del roberts has dedicated his
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life to serving the city of riverside through unwavering leadership mentorship and
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community service leaving any measurable impact on generations of residents
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whereas dale roberts graduated from poly high in nineteen fifty five where he
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lettered in swimming football and track demonstrating the dedication and teamwork
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that would become hallmarks of his lifelong service whereas while attending rcc
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dell began his career working at butcher boy foods and later joined the city of
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riverside parks and recreation department at lincoln park beginning a
[55:07]
lifelong commitment to serving the youth of our community and were as dell
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has generously served in leadership roles with numerous civic organizations
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including rcc foundation board word well park advisory committee salvation army
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youth service center riverside police chief's advisory committee mission
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inn foundation while directing community parades for black history month since
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nineteen eighty and numerous other historic community celebrations and bras are
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countless youth trips educational experiences and mentorship opportunities dell
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has broadened the horizons of riverside young people giving many their first experiences
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beyond their neighborhoods and inspiring them to pursue their dreams whereas dells
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enduring legacy is strengthened by the love and support of his beautiful wife
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carmen their four sons adrian clan. Craig and terence and their shared commitment to
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faith service and there's my community through park avenue baptist church. Now therefore
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I just liked us and near the city of riverside do here I can graduate adrian del
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roberts on the celebration of his ninetieth birthday and express our deepest gratitude
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for his extraordinary life time of service and proudly proclaim august twenty fifth
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as dell robert today in the city the aye aye aye aye aye aye the unit we encourage
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all residents to join in recognizing and celebrating dal and just follow his
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example that all you have to do in our world be a better place. So I know that but so
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I've got a certificate of recognition from assembly member which is you can steal
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here I have he says to clear recognition from doctor corey jackson assembly member and I
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told you need a wagon yet something about the people in a beautiful resolution from
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the california state senate from senator sabrina savant is quite uh I uh I am not
[57:36]
reading all those were the heirs to many of those but before we take a picture
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of the cancer connor has something he would like to say the deal would like you
[57:46]
to come up to the mike if you would want a repeat would have said but when I first
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came a thought dale I walked up to and I think he'll how did ninety years happen
[57:54]
because it's been twenty years since I met him but he is he is amazing god has put
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him in carmen in our world and ninety years I just I just came in to fort scott a
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friend it's just it's just crazy. God's going to give you more. Keep working. We
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need your voice out there working today he called home for the uh I I I I know d o n
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e year when the man himself the you think you might come on up and say few words del
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and I meet a few words down hoo boy I think the less I see the better uh uh uh uh uh
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uh uh uh uh uh uh uh. I don't believe it the a b sure. Yes I know some of you know
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that's hard for me to be sure to give a special show them a wave carmen who puts the eye
[59:54]
eye eye every time I get an award to me she has work to do the but I want to thank
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everybody in the bottle might hurt a bit in riverside eighty one years and came
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here when I was nine years old and I can truly say unlike some others I've never
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wanted to be any other place I love the city I love the school system delivered
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thing about it not to say that this system is perfect by any means but it's a lot
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better than some other systems. So I'm proud to be your own proud to be a member
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thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou god bless you uh uh uh I uh uh uh food. In
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the gym. What is she doing reasons to get the best live in the role of the word with
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it. These are end of the eye of uh the eye of. The on the night with the help I
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have a future cy was reminded to get in there er new leaders the key on the way
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the first year at the time to donate the u p I and the new me and the world. The hit
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the good the most thus I thus how the use of the route her into the woods. And thus and
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thus the to the council and really take a five minute break so the came her skin
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clear. So ya'll can go party and so we will come back and resume are meeting I dyed for
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twelve four fifteen summer in there. Thank you. Dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe
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dhe dhe dhe dhe dhe and believe it or not we have another few proclamations
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year we did have a request to speak by somebody that was outside not opening the phone
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lines again but because this person was outside and couldn't get in. I'm a go
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ahead and let her come in and speak to item thirty three is maria driver here maria
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driver the I know I'm sorry mine down so we're going to let miss drivers speak
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because she was not able to get in during comment driving last week about tao
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although it's wonderful to see such support. I do also offer my support for item
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thirty three which is that the rebate plan for battery backup available to riverside
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residents. I think this is a great idea we need to improve our energy grid and the way
[1:20:16]
we can do that individually you know our own inner own homes with solar panels
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electric cars battery backup is a way to take the strain off the city utilities help
[1:20:29]
them so we don't have brown outs for other people. I just want to offer my support and
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also philip thank you for your idea of a moratorium on yeti data center the best
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data said the riverside is our libraries. I love it thank you thank you all
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right thank you ms driver or a dress rehearsal for our library system. Yes she is
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and if I can ask folks to step out of the doorway so the door can close so it's
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it's quite loud in here please. We just need the doorway to close so I'm
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cool or next or sell her a tank you so I didn't ever six underage and that is a
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proclamation recognizing national nonprofit day on august seventeen and we have
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the lighthouse of hope foundation here to receive the proclamation one of our
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partners in our california volunteers effort so happy to see you here but I'm to let
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em councilmember mil has a proclamation you very much hair thank you guys for her
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to hang out. This is a this is a great honor to get on or one of our nonprofits are
[1:22:05]
there so many nonprofits throughout riverside in the mayor's office reached
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out to me and asked yard you have a non profit in your your ward that we could honor
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this year and we have a lot and first one to cater my mind was whether folks from
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from the lighthouse of hope foundation. They're right there on jackson in
[1:22:26]
california. If they just too amazing amazing work in the community helping those
[1:22:34]
in need. It's heartwarming to see the work that you guys too so I'm very blessed
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we're going on are you as as part of our celebration of national nonprofit day so I
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read a few the whereas is that we have here today whereas august seventeen
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designated as national nonprofit day a day to honor and celebrate the vital
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contributions of nonprofit organizations throughout our city. And whereas non profits
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are essential to the fabric of our communities providing support resources and
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services that positively impact the lives of countless individuals and families at
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something you most certainly do every single day. And whereas the dedication and
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commitment of nonprofit staff volunteers advocates are critical to driving change
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and improving our community and whereas by recognizing national nonprofit be. We aim
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to increase awareness of the important role nonprofits play in riverside encourage
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all residents to support these organizations in their missions and whereas the city
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of riverside is proud to celebrate the innovative work of our local nonprofits to
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encourage community involvement and support for these indispensable and he's
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now therefore I patricia lock dawson her yet by a council member sean new mayor
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the city riverside california do hereby proclaim august seventeen as national
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nonprofit de mer wishes the marin all the council was to encourage all residents of
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the city riverside to support nonprofit organizations that are richer our community
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whether by volunteering donating or simply sharing their mission. Every act of
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support makes a meaningful difference and it was stated this day the seventeenth of
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august twenty twenty six signed by our mere patricia lock dawson weaken the eye. I
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feel like I need to put more time let you know we can applaud know donna he called
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on to consumers but the folks from lighthouse hope also are simply member leticia cantu
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you also have a certificate of recognition for lighthouse of hope foundation in honor
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of national nonprofit day on behalf of the california state assembly so so cute
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congratulations on all the thank you for all the great work you do in in
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in my ward and for the people of riverside. It's a blessing to to get to go out and just
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hang out with you why your home folks so please share a little bit about what you
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guys to fill and yes ?I'm honored to be here today thank you so much for
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acknowledging the work that we do in the community already know that I'm gonna
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sell tea the founder and ceo for lighthouse of hope and we get to do so many amazing
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things not only with food but help me with food insecurity as was the clothing and shoes
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and diapers and wipes and whatever we can do that without my amazing team who
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sits with me and walks with me but my my last minute pop ups were all over the city
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doing things late nights early mornings whatever we can do to continue to make
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sure that the community knows that we're there for them and I wanna give a huge shout out
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to you at the q mare as well but thank you so much for coming out to my community
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for distribution it means so much they have the support of the city had not just so much
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is like we need to be seen but just knowing that there is work going on behind
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the scenes and we we do from a heart on the blacktop in three thousand degrees
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whether we're out there doing a mighty work for our community and we decided to
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be here today thank you so much for acknowledging that the work that we do thank you
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for blessing our community not only are they in ward five they also have a
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location in ward three are on on brockton right. Yes tipped a bit street yes I'm finally
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back with a lover chris fennell of yes men. Yes thank you thelma brown I will be
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the one in there. We see it but me. We are. I think you can smell I couldn't think of
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a better representative to recognize non profit a key we are now item number seven
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number seven is our next presentation and this is a proclamation recognizing
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september as national preparedness month and we have mark amis from our
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emergency operation center here too except be the proclamation and I'll
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just read a few whereas out here and will go through the whole thing but just so
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folks know or as emergencies and disasters can occur unexpectedly whereas the city
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of riverside office of emergency management and partner agencies from
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organizations and the fed also volunteer level dedicate countless hours were as this
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month is national emergency management awareness month raise next month national
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preparedness month creates an opportunity for ever in the city of riverside to
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prepare for any type of emergency including those due to natural hazards such as
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earthquakes wildfires and now extreme heat technological hazards and industrial
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accidents whereas emergency preparedness is the responsibility of all
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people in the city of riverside in each resident is encouraged to help build
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prepared ness and whereas people can find local emergency preparedness
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information resources including classes through the record ready riverside
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program at ready riverside dot org now therefore I pitchers like tossing me
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the city riverside do hereby proclaim september twenty twenty six as national
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preparedness month in the city of riverside and with that I would like to
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invite mr. Anis pleased to confer didn't give us some remarks about thank you mayor
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and council for recognizing national emergency management month and national
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preparedness month. Our office emerged as one team server side everyday with
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planning and building capability strengthening policy according to long term
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recovery after disaster we have many dedicated oem staff here today reps in our office
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and our work in response recovery grants and preparedness community
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preparedness is how we build a resilient nation and more importantly how we build a
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resilient riverside. We need residents to prepare and plan for various hazards that we
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may face whether that's an earthquake wildfire flood or extreme heat we would love to
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discuss with residents what they can do to prepare themselves family
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neighborhoods and their businesses they can reach out to schedule a presentation on
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already riverside or webpage which is also linked on the city's main website
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riverside ca dot gov. We are also excited to continue our partnership with the galleria
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at tyler shopping mall with are ready riverside safety expo and coming next month
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september twenty six from twelve pm to three p m residents can come out to me
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first responders pickup checklists and get their parents' questions answered
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as I mentioned our website it offers simple steps to get residents ready to build a
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kit make a plan. Stay informed and get involved get involved can mean creamer to
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response team training which is a twenty hour program we've got to those coming up
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one next month in late september and another in early november. We also have
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leased training which means ready we can take an eight hour course and get get
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residents ready for disasters that may come our way we also can get involved by just
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using the three one one at or call into one one we see storm drain in need of
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cleaning. So whether it's we're facing this week's extreme heat. Hopefully not
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next weeks or the winner el nino rains getting prepared now helps protect our
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families and our neighborhoods. Thank you for the support and we appreciate
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this emphasis on preparedness thank you mr. Anis and I give her proclamation if you
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like to come into the well we can take a photo. We are. If the uh uh the uh oh. Well I
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can work under one thing I like to say everytime we talk about this issue was if you
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have to leave your house leave a fast one of the things you need to get
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make sure his medications. So one thing I advise people to do was go to home depot or
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lowe's get the parts box small parts box and put a week's worth of medications
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in that box and put it somewhere preferably toward like the fun of the garage
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were you know if the house collapses you can get to if you have to run about every
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ninety days change those out because in a disaster situation and you need
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the medications you might be able to get him so make sure you have that backup plan for
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yourself take care of yourself to carry health just a little parts box to box
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will pay for itself and in health or think you can serve or hunger and I'm sure that
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in many more tips are available on the ready riverside website so we are
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now at our item every two nd periodic leah to hear from our city departments and I
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get to do an overview tell us what they're up to an employee recognition and
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today we are here to hear from george scully all that director innovation and
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technology department mr kali o good afternoon america council members and
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colleagues. My name is george will your chief innovation officer. And it's my pleasure
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to present before you today the overview of our departments. Our mission all
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skip reading all of it but were essentially the glue that connects all departments
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we work in the back and we make sure that staff have the resources the tools and
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software up to be able to serve our community were structured under three
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strategic decisions we have an innovation team under purcell holly's leadership
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really the research and development of a leader at business process
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transformation data analytics product management gis in the nation inclined services
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as well as awards and recognition to make sure that will bring positive attention
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to the good work of the city our strategic initiatives under matthew burrows saw he
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leads our enterprise application team database infrastructure data center
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networking operations video cameras and web application development and
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administration under chris garcia he leads our budget procurement policy purchasing
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and special projects arm a little bit of an overview we are supporting the complexity
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of the city of riverside is as broad. We have seventy two locations that were
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connecting we have more than nine thousand connected devices and last year we had
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thirty six thousand support tickets to serve all of our city employees and with that
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volume just to put that in context we have a support ticket coming in every three
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point eight minutes for accounting for business hours just to put the work load and
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volume love chickens for presentations from going to use similar parallels hundred
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and forty service requests coming in thai tea per day and that's not counting
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projects maintenance and things that we have to maintain and that he has done
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that and were able to achieve ninety five percent customer satisfaction rating or big
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believers in performance management and we measure all of our every service requests
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followed by a satisfaction survey. We have thirty seven projects from system upgrades
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from permitting system enhancements to financial system upgrades et-cetera as
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well as defending the city some of our major accomplishments we had a lot
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of a lot of you have seen ready rei agent that we haven't or websites also
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integrated with our phone system on it supported in excess of five thousand
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conversations in the lasts in the last year and it's doing about ten percent of the call
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volume right now coming into our three one one call center and achieving a fairly high
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satisfactory ninety plus percent on generational change project were trying to
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transform the city so we have a chat bot is available twenty four seven will
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continue to enhance that we're leveraging and I we deploy microsoft co pilot to
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enhance productivity and support all of our departments were also
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leveraging data driven decision making or merrill was encouraged us to we
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launched the dash the dash is accessible to all leadership for monitoring how their
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performance employee overtime analytics et-cetera we also launch or gis roadmap to be
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able to leverage a lot of real time decision making and dashboard and capabilities as
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ry has and much much more there is infrastructure upgrades enhancements
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maintenance and replacement of outdated infrastructure some of our goals were
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continue to defend the city and just to give you context or were under constant
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barrage of this not just the attacks. I wanted to also mention the productivity
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enhancements we had twenty seven million e mails that was the liver to the city in
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the last twelve months twenty one million of those were filtered out from buyer
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cybersecurity systems. If we just put ten seconds per e mail that staff would have to
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read that is in excess of three million dollars of labor. About fifty plus
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employee full time employee year long by just having to offset that volume of e mail
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coming through. So not only are we dealing with protecting the infrastructure
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world's increasing productivity for little comment about eighteen
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thousand of those were advanced malware attacks ran somewhere but sixty four
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thousand were fishing e mails about four thousand were fraudulent wire transfer
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times trying to exploit the city. We also lean with homelessness we built up
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through our gis supporting field staff to be able to do surveys outreach surveys and
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supporting our hs team as well as optimizing infrastructure replacing and
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the wife cameras through the investments we have three measures e baseline
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operations we've seen year over year about eighteen percent increase we had about
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thirty thousand service requests thirty one thousand service request and thirty
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seven thousand this year and it's by eighteen percent increase year over year
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the department is not just recognize were recognized nationally we've turned
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the twenty twenty five municipal information system excellence awards digital
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cities award saw and were a national contender on the recognitions little
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personal matrix and I thought that's helpful as all departments look for
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efficiencies of how can we do better and faster work we rely more on technology are
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staffing level has been fairly static. We have some vacancies right now but as
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you can see our work work volume is year over year says exponentially increasing as
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well turn over. We have roughly eleven vacant positions were recruiting it
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does take us a little bit longer. The level of access we have requires getting
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peace security clearance that takes a little but the time but it also means that we're
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able to have cross coverage with our police departments with about nine point five
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percent turnover were fairly diverse group we have a really close knit team we
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work hard. We also like having all that fun and it's the age distribution as well
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we're all over the place and we have tremendous amount of knowledge and experience in
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the team promotions we've been investing into developing the team and
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the team has been investing into developing themselves through competitive or care
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for the recruitment swede had plenty of promotions and every single one of them has
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been very well deserved. Some of our new hires we have a new client services manager
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bernie and chris our new admin serves as manager that just joined us we are a lot
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of the promotions has occurred has been a progression with the client
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services team so we're leveraging some time services and we're grateful for
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the staff that are helping us keep to the operations going well we recruit we also been
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leveraging in turns. We've had really good luck with our interns being able to take
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the experience they learned in the department to be able to have your full time job in
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the city or outsides and with that our employee of the year twenty twenty five employee
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of the years eric uranium eric has recently been promoted to our principal I t
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analysts. He is more or less or are one man team for cybersecurity all that
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wonderful things we're hearing eric is handling a lot of this and he has a very
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positive attitude can do attitudes getting to a yes and trying to find the best
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way of supporting our business partners in protecting the city. We wish
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she was here today he was expecting a baby he's no longer expecting as of this
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morning so he's getting two recognitions of the same day I so not only inherently
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rarely does happiness and with that. We recommend the council receive and file
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overview of the department and happy to answer any questions you have great
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thank you george think un can you have your team stand up so we can recognize all of
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them here and I always I always say to dirty every time acm people don't
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appreciate the trains running on time until they don't so we don't know what goes on
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behind the scenes but we very much appreciate it we know how hard you all work so
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thank you so much and well deserved recognition. Thank you thank you thank your
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patience today to the all right council. We are now at our consent calendar a buoy
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and I will ask are sitting in danger if you have any items you wish to pull pass
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the word one but mayor thank you mayor I'm going to abstain on item thirteen pass
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on the rest are ain't I were to number thirteen and passing the rest were three
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pass word for word five boys and thirty four game were six I would like to pull item
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number eleven memphis three were seven pass and move to prove the bell so that isn't
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so you think you these votes mostly cajun animals as minty so we have I also have eleven
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thirteen and thirty four is that correct. Eleven thirteen thirty four so we were open
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comment for those items right now. Comment is now open for this item available in both
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english and spanish call nine five one eight two six eight six eight six and follow
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the prompts to access the meeting in either language to request to speak
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pressed our nine. You can also join the air zoom the meeting id for both
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languages can be found on the agenda. Ok thank you and I believe that scouts member
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hernandez he wished to speak to this did you have a question or kanye council
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member I would actually like to make a motion to approve a substitution between
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councilmember role r and myself on the housing and homelessness standing
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committee for special meeting on monday august thirty first as item number two
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the proposed acquisition and conversion of hotel six days in into affordable senior
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housing units specifically in my ward and just for just for that item the second twenties
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to appoint myself to stay neat standing committees previously held by former
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council member perry on the mobility and infrastructure committee
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governmental process committee and youth safety and wellness committee as
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they think it's incredibly important that it seeks be represented on each of these
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committees to have a second ok. Council members around okay I don't come in first
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or come back to counter that well let me let me go ahead and hear comment revelation
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second thoughts or comments go ahead the price if you're a new drink you can go ahead
[1:46:03]
and start speaking arate eye color we are not hearing you not see a new so we will
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close comment and come back to council considers front yes thank you and I just
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want a convocation and I I do support a knife and cut a record topping on two of her
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committee meeting next week and there is an item in ward six I just I don't know if we
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can or clerk were able to include that in this because it's related to committees or
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if there's another action we can take to see if today the council can vote to make
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sure customer hernandez can join us for the meeting next week what our options
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regarding that first part of the motion. Thank you for the question madam pro tem of
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the matter before you is to discuss the I'm standing committees and regional
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organization assignments which my understanding from consulting with legal that is
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a proper motion. Ok wonderful thank you so that's the case and I'll actually come from
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or other potentially repair funds and they have another common for the second portion
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right thank you cancer road work. Yes me in the customer has discussed this earlier
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for the special meeting that decided to have bills to committee for the number two
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bearcats never okay think you can surf the county could separate the two motions of
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pos wiv no issue with the first one the second one though I do have an issue
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with because that is reworking the whole way that we do seniority in a certain
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committees that I know myself come a ruler cancer male wanted to be on and that
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would be a violation of our seniority rules sometime in the first portion of
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the motion of the second portion would not support because I would not like
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senior members to be their seniority be usurped. Ok so that was the substitute
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motion for just taking it really ought to be to separate them anyway. A
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separate separate killings early on for effect and I heard a second from
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councilmember kinder for the substitute council member mildred you were king I just
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had a quick question yes we did the agenda. I mean is that is it is this
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the correct time to be bringing up the substitution of on the committee cairo
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problem sitting in but I don't know under the rules we have it that was an agenda I
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don't know if this is the proper under this particular item I don't know
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if it is or is it so the matter before you today is to discuss a standing
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committee appointments now what that looks like in terms of a substitution an
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appointment that all income is standing committee appointments so that batters
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before you that what we have on the agenda is a recommendation that was
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brought forth by the mayor's nominee screening committee was certainly assure pleasure
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to deviate from that recommendation should I just love that it was that we had
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to attend eyes when we do such a substitution that is how we have done in the heart
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was always in the past and I have no note no problem with it but I just think it's just
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that. Are we following proper procedures and I mean you know folks folks we have
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rules for reason and meaning so and are under under normal circumstances if this item
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was not a jin dies and the plan was to the standing committee you are correct we
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would bring you forth on the consent calendar with the substitution requests but
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because the matter is already again dies as appointments it is a proper motion by
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ward six to request the substitution. Ok so I think why in the past it's
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been past practice because it hasn't been the overall appointments but it's been
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some special circumstance I think that's richer thinking so but it sounds like it's
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okay for this right. Cancer hernandez will be going back to you know addressing
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the separation of the two motion says. I don't understand how it's usurp in
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any of the seniority of the in any of the other council members. It's merely
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are you know allowing me to sit on the heartache the previous council members
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place on those committees until the next election where the council members will then
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have ability to choose their committees. It's not usurping the other council members are
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ready on committees and this will leave a vacancy on those committees and ward six won't
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be represented on any of these committees is to a cancer survivor to us if we
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could I I do have some comments on the second portion as well. Of or can we
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vote on the first one for the substitution I would recommend that up so I would
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follow counter for clooney's comments and I will make the motion to move forward
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with the first piece which is substituting count from hernandez to join is only for
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item two for housing homelessness next week that you hadn't made them pay. I
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had ward one and word for it was a second sale on the paralysis going burden
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that the queue and if I could buy or build on for the second most thinkers
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unanimous think you and for the second item I I would also like to say here counts
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and hernandez I guess my car got my question is to the city clerk. Given
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the recommendation from the mayor's nominees green committee that we keep what's
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in place and we have comes member hernandez it's now in ward six with that not
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automatically then have him become the member that is holding the positions of
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health member perry my understanding is that once the vacancy occur in an
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action would have to read and actually need to be taken by the city council to make an
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appointment of a new council member for your rules and so if there's not an action for
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him to be to take those what the charter says that each of us has to serve as a chair
[1:52:22]
vice chair and a member. So what process does he have to be able to occupy to fulfill
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a charter as an elected member of this council this I think I can clarify with
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the mares nominee and screening committee discussion was that that
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would be taken up when because there has to be the whole shockley you know
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this counter surround has or has yes whole shuffling we are given on
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the recommendations ask and so then there's seniority and I think that's there are not
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and that was in taking in account for these particular spot so I think that's where
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the issue but that's where mike so then what is going to happen in the interim account
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number hernandez to be able to fill to fill open positions I think it was to
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hold those steady and leave them open until november or december. That was the motion
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at the nominee is green one and so I will share that of the third ranking senior
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member here now on this council. I personally if we're going to talk about
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seniority. There are some other positions I have been sought after put my
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recommendations and so for myself I've personally believe more so though that
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it is not in the interests of our residents of our community at large. And if I
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can look for city attorney and to the cork once again though it's my understanding
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that it says very clearly in the charter that we each are to have a role as the chair
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vice chair member after having a cafe so I'm confused does the proposed list not
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have been and is in seats know what I'm looking at here it shows propose listing
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that has was there not to propose this but then were voting on so he would have
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you would have a seat on the finance committee would have a seat on the housing
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homelessness committee he would have a seat on at least what I'm reading isn't that
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what the committee voted when they come I may delete seniority in the in the usurp
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sian comment I made is that for example counselor perry had the most seniority of all
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members of p are there certain committees that comes from perry was on it now that
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once he vacated the seat have people in the sand but mayor your list of the once once
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counter perry vacated that's eat their words are highly sought after seat he vacated
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particular the sea on the mobility infrastructure committee is highly sought
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after and there was other members that wanted that seat and so because their cert
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members have more seniority than customer hernandez we would then get axis that seat
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before counselor and as with similar leaders cousin restaurant has more seniority
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than I do if she wanted that seat she would have access to sea before I could have acted
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to think and I agree and and so the three quick things one I think at some point
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the government a process kit committee could look at. We only do this every two years
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not if someone wins outright in june. I think that should come forward just a side note
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number two I think we're talking about two separate things what you're talking
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about seniority of how the shuffle happens but I think l hernandez talking was
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thinking that he's not going to be able to serve on any committees but I'm saying
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the proposed list has him serving on three committees and think there might be some
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confusion what we would be approved today would have him in fact fulfilling
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the charter obligations serving on three committees with me that the city clerk
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respond to that. Thank you to propose so let's start from the beginning so the mares
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the main screening committee that received the presentation from
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the city clark related to the our preferences our provide provided by every
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council member. The proposed list that you see is part of your packet was the lists
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provided to that committee at the time that could meet. I decided unanimously to leave
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the appointment the status quo not consider the posts lists but to leave everything
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as status quo and those appointments where perry sat will remain vacant until this
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matter were to come up again in december when the new two council members from wards
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two and four when those seats are are sore knee and in so I've provided the proposed
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list to you today just for a fact of information just in case you decided on a
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different direction you had work of what information was provided to the mayor's
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nominees queenie committee so I had mis read than I thought it was we're going to proof
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this does seem that we would have a cult or not serving on the committee so so yummy
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the mayor's nominee and screen committee vote on that and then council member at
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the kearney me that motion to just not feel anything and just leave it open right now
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because they are and have two other people come in then there would be another
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massive re shuffling so I think that their work recommended to me is knowing
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screening committee my concern is this I said that when I came on the city
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council and issuers can insert me into customer edwards former seats and I
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her committees. I don't care for any of her committee that she was on and so I said why
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would I go there for few months just to be reassigned a few months later so we
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could do is this mayor's committee could meet again that if your if your pleasure
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so see that fit mayor to look at that but I what I wouldn't be supportive of just
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plugging in cancerous tumor cancer perry was because again it goes back to what
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I'm sane is that that means other senior members in the sty is to not get to be
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in concert they want to be on weekend that the list I think that is they are that perhaps
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has that seniority folded into that security that a vote on that list every day
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if I'm not the least today it was just the it was just the recommendation of a
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committee to hold it but that list is there you can make a motion to vote on the five by
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may then I would recommend that we move with the proposed assignments
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because I believe the cork was actually able to get with this and what majority in
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every once and already was asking for it which by the clerk of court thank you
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that it's very challenging to deal and I think what maybe we could hold off as
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the regional assignments being paused until we have a new council. There's many of
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us that serve in those capacities in the three alternates and I think that
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could occupy any absences so my motion would be as we move forward with the proposed
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assignments and hold on any regional assignments second ari question a second counter
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rove learned ignore that I was discussing which is okay great for its revelation is
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second to make appointments as working in may the city clerk to the city council
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response of clarification what does this take effect. I think it would be immediate
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but so in that would not include regional boards and so those would be things like
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the jpa and so then it was just a clarification. It took over immediately with
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the first motion that we needed that we took is irrelevant because he would
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already be serving on the housing and this committee so it's irrelevant
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so if that's the route we're going to go now you vote on it saying you probably have
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to reconsider guessing or test so that portion to buy just says for the record with
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and we kids would make a motion that we though we'd remove the substitution
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request for house number hernandez that the council initially voted on. Ok super
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aren't so now we have a motion the second met me at them. May I verify the most
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it is for the as they get a little confusing and so the motion on the floor is to
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adopt the proposed list that was recommended to the mayor's nominee and
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screen committee and to withdraw the substitution request and the propose this
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is just for the city council for the standing committee stating they helpful or even
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get ari yes. Just because in fact right now there may be scheduling conflicts in
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everything because people's schedules were reflecting old committee assignments are
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done I get on the very joyful cries yes yes you will be a very pretty clear right thank
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you ari thinks everybody vote thanks for that discussion most chic asian and perfect
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your work and a team cancer that's right we are item thirteen was pulled as well
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so we open comment for eight of thirteen comment is now open for this item available
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languages can be found on the agenda and council member bill wanted to hear sorry
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from tess. Thank you and that I was so wonderful to be able to make a comment and then
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that I think we have available think amanda for being here head of
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development for a potential questions but um this for clarification for the know
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there was concern that this was on her agenda about two weeks ago truth weeks ago now
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which had phase one phase two tie to this item. Looking ahead and for me personally
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while we are always excited to create opportunities for veterans and for those in our
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community with workforce training of their still language in here that
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references ai and I know that there are still concerns around what that piece is
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going to look like. So I will say my why I think there's parts of this that are
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exciting that could be very helpful to what we're looking to do in the community I
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going to personally abstain until we could see what other future items that we have
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coming from some council members around data centers and how that could impact
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riverside and our constituents but I just wanted to I guess since we
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have your peer director could you please speak to some of the adjustments that were
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made to this report as it related to language originally that's a data
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center and I understand it was removed but just given that things are always ever
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changing. I wasn't sure if that something could emerge again in the future depending
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on how this program could unfold. Yes absolutely thank you so much good good
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afternoon america dozen members of the city council randy evans kenny an
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economic element tractor before you today. This is in response to this mou that was
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last heard in for the economic development committee last month at
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the june meeting. This is with the institute for veterans and emerging
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technology skills also known as I vets which works out very well and stem works and
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so really what we're looking at to address the mayor pro tem comments are how can we
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encourage and focus on workforce development as it relates to skilling re
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skilling for veteran and that includes emerging technology and so part of that is caught
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is quantum computing. Yes mayor pro tem you're absolutely correct on ai and
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we also have language learning models included in that robotics and
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semiconductors also considering infrastructure and training and job
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readiness around veterans in the area and also defense and aerospace as we're continuing
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to build out that thriving cluster that we have in riverside as well so that
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includes drones tunnel systems and advanced manufacturing. So in response
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to comments received and the discussion after the june eighteen twenty twenty six
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economic development committee conversation staff did go back and revise
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the mou to remove that phase two is you had mentioned which could consider we
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didn't have any binding language but it would consider the potential of
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exploring a data center so that part was completely removed in terms of the staff
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report presentation and the mou itself it is all non binding and entering into
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this and though you really is a workforce development tool and authorizes mare locked us
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in her doesn't need to be able to make any minor changes to that as well so as
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we're waiting for the cut the conversation coming in september the land use
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committee surrounding data center's staff out of respect for that remove that
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completely. We also have a representative today from the institute for veterans
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and emerging technology mr. Robert nava who might want to speak to that announcement
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missional context as well so that we ensure all of your questions or just appreciate
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that and I think just for myself knowing that there are still layers that would need
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to be worked out a future as a release two more so the defense and aerospace
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references drones autonomous systems advanced manufacturing the drug
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the time systems for me are still little bit of a point that I am there's there's
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been a lot emerging in those sectors some of which are very concerning whether
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that's through our labor workforce. You know with labor unions with the time
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the systems or even drones through some of you know alice a lot for some agencies
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and other groups you know and how they are being utilized at this time right now and
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communities and so I still have apprehensions with some of the pieces but I was
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really I wanna say I appreciate the sling which being removed. Regarding
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the data center and also one of the celts memorable art. I know is you know working on
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the site connecting communicating with your team as you know he had worked
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helping this economic development committee and so just today I still think I'd
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be more information before I could feel comfortable confident moving forward but
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wanted to make those quick comments for the as to why personally will be abstaining
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but again loving the emerging tech component the infrastructure and I
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think there's some really great pieces to this but again think there's still
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some work we have to do some other areas before I could feel comfortable taking a
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formal vote on it but thank you for being here today for giving us some insight to
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cancer thank you doctor evans eye to eye to cancer road to sp for asking the eye I see
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we have no cars would close comment will come back to counsel kids will think you
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are just were quickly you know her savant is a cancer him they were on
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the committee when it came to four s proposal and a couple clarification points. It is
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an mou this with combining about this is just a framework of saying hey
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there's an organization or community that wants to do this could work this try to
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help and do good work that there's nothing details beyond that the phase two
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portion of it had the bad nasty word of data center and heard r r I t team we had a
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son hears it all we did a sitter approach every office building in riverside
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the server room on that's the equivalent of what we were talking about here. Ah
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mm. So nevertheless we're going move on from the data center pieces and and focus
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on the phase one part of this which is workforce training it's not just veterans
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although they are the target audience is expanded for on the riverside or they can
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they can participate in this training and look for to the future and I think you
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know we have a ton of the shuttle's upper inner city were the first city in
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the united states to have a government contract for transportation authority
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these are all things that are already happening in our city and I think when we look at
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our economic conditions that were in there are winners and losers in the ones who are
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not participating and not moving for losers and this technology what's happening
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today the hundreds of different tomorrow. It's it's you think about ten years
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from now look at pc from ten years ago it's when you know an ancient machine compared
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to what we have today and so I think we'll wait for the data center conversation
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a later date but I think this mou as a stand which is phase one is it's it's not open
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the door to anything that scariest just getting people that work force training that
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they need and a changing economy and denied access to our own residence to
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the skytrain I think is going to hurt us economically but most leave it there
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the emotion out of the motion passes think you have a motion word three
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second by ward four councilmember felt phony thank you mayor I don't get
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the top of data centers will be discussed at land use but does one explain my of my
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abstaining vote because I have something in the works that this item spurred that
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report that's why I'm abstaining is just there's too many things happening
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simultaneously think it's bad timing on this. Thank you understood our counsel we
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have a nation is second on the site and please vote and it's okay to be reset. Okay
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pictures. So for her. We appreciate if you didn't know who she wanted to call us to
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recall it would all roll call vote we're going to abstain or to abstain or three. Yes
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ward four or five yes would six or seven. Motion carries with four affirmative votes
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three of stitches word one two and six right thank you now or enter last item that
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was pulled from consent. This is item number thirty four now I think that would never
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tell them the open comment for item number thirty for comment is now open for this
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see burma which is like to ask a question or would you want to solder together a
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team can create a what I wear get I got like six questions for you okay. Really you know
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it is about you I support you no response water conservation but what I don't
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support a sacramento passing yet another mandate sending it down to us here at
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the local government and expect our residents or businesses and major ways to
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pick up the bill and that's what that's what I see this is another unfunded mandate
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from sacramento. So I have have some questions in the report stated that there
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be no fiscal impact to the city so my first question two would be how can
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the report states there is no fiscal impact when the city will have responsibility for
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outreach administration inspections and enforcement so we do there's no no in
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fiscal impact with the ordinance in and of itself though we will have
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the fiscal year are right we will have that fiscal impact for any of the complaints any
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code violations that do go into effect just like we would with any other code a
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code requirement. The other and we do have other requirements under this
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particular legislation as well as other legislation that plath passed around
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the same time to do to do outreach to customers and other items but that is cost
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impacts that we we saw from the regulation as opposed to from this but you are correct
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there would be an impact on our enforcement news so far from a lay person and I'm at
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home you know reading council reports. It says there's no fiscal impact it's misleading
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to say that there's no fiscal impact when they're in fact is a fiscal impact it will
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cost the taxpayers of riverside something. My next question is how many
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riverside is is it your ways and other properties will actually be affected by this
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ordinance. Do we know. I don't have that number right off the top of my head I'm
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right here but we have been reaching out to all of our customers over the last
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several years and since this legislation passed and we have done several
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presentations to the chamber of commerce two different chamber of commerce to
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different neighborhood groups and we are reaching out we have done the assessment to
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look at which ones needed to be contacted but I just don't have that number right in
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front of me question what is he an estimated cost to property owners to comply
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have you as a staff calculated that it is highly dependent on the land area
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and the veggie the landscaping that they choose to replace that with
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this can be a small amount for for a small space and then depending on what is it
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can be very expensive for them. Fourth question how much rebate or other
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financial system is currently available and what happens when that funding runs out
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so am. Last summer it was there was a rebate that was available from
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the metropolitan water district for seven dollars per square foot every
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placement and those rebates were very large they rapidly ran out of money in that
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program is currently set at four dollars and per square foot and rp use funding but
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that is pretty much fully subscribed. Rp use additional funding that adds on to that
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and adds air supports that four dollars is also fully subscribed at this point for
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our commercial rebates my fifth question what hardship protections will be provided
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before issuing citations to businesses already are ways that cannot afford these
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conversions. So the support that we can provide on that and this is part of the part
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of the legislation that was passed was a delay in the implementation and if
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they are facing hardship or are in a disadvantaged community area they do have
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until twenty thirty one for compliance to save up for the money. Hopefully we would
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also get some more funding available for additional rebates but we can also
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assist those customers in applying for a hard ship with the department with the state
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department located at I apologise for not letting you know no that's fine. Not my
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questions on the diligence and for sticking up for what I think our businesses or
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agencies were being taken advantage of our friends in sacramento. Yet again I'm not
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apologizing for that I'm apologize that I didn't give you a heads up ahead of time
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so my next question what happens legally if the council senses back and
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asks to get those answers that I have my bike I know you were prepared has
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unfortunately I my my bad for not giving you the heads up on the questions ahead of
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time so you have those answers but what happens to us if we send this back and
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wait you have those answers so I can feel comfortable voting yes some of
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the questions some of the answers we can develop ourselves and I can
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definitely get those answers for you for example on the square footage the number
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of customers that will be impacted but this week and we can get that number for
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the as some of the other questions that you hide related to funding I am not
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even sure that the state will have an answer to that if there's going to be funding
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made available and some of it is for example would have been the water conservation
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surcharge that we no longer have here at the city of riverside. That was what was
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providing our remaining funding for our programs here and we're now pretty much
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we're going to be bringing for tonight and pretty soon to let you know that that
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money as you directed from a council to have that money spent down in four years we
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will be done with that probably this year so this really early though we can we
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can add you. We don't have to we don't have to move on this today we have plenty of time
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to move on that as long as we get this adopted before the end of the year we would
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not face any penalties. So we can bring this back at the next at another meeting
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with the additional information that you have requested here but we do have
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if we do not. If the council does not approve this by the end of the year. There is
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the potential for penalties on from the state if we are because we would be found in
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noncompliance. So I have other comments and I have a motion want to make but if
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you want to see if there's any comment that if there's a comment for this item are
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eight will close comment will go to cancer and cancers of I go again this is yet
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another impose to mandate from sacramento in our city and I want to be clear that
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we needed accounting of what it's going to cost us what's going to house that this is
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what it's going to ca I need to know what's going to cost the taxpayers because again
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this report says there's not modify a shot that clearly there's going to be a fine
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ship. I want to know what the impacts going to be like to know what the financial
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impact would be on on on the business is the age of ways and the folks that are
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are being required to pay for this you know what kind of financial assistance is going
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to be available I think it's important you know times are tough right now we're turn on
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the news businesses are struggling. This is yet another another hit to
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the pocketbook for businesses small businesses and I want to know what we're going to
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do to protect those that are in your facing economic hardship. I think you know
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times are tough right now and this is yet another sacramento mandate that they
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give to us to impose on our residents or businesses folks I just don't think
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it's fair. So how about a promotion but I like to make I like to move that we
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continue this item and direct staff to return with additional information
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addressing the fiscal and administrative impacts of implementation enforcement
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the number of riverside business is it your ways and other properties affected
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estimated cost to property owners the availability and adequacy of rebates or other
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financial assistance hardship protections clear standards for determining functional
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versus non functional turf and confirmation that the ordinances not impose
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requirements beyond those mandated by ab fifteen seventy two as much a login
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and that the latest week a comeback is in november so we will actually have a report
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done in about sixty days to date at adam. We may actually be him. I'm sorry pretty so
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so we need to come back in november to you so the ninety days. Yet ninety two election
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are yet to come back sooner then refine it a guide for ninety days or sooner if you
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or if it's the information rights of emotion a second skelter savant else think you
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I think for myself and just a little confused when we actually think about water
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conservation and the cost it's quite expensive and to actually have to pay to make
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and the justification for this is the non functional turf with little water house
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no longer considered reasonable or sustainable use of underwater state policy
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so I am actually in the other side where I think this is going to save people
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money by not having not paying into just you know which I know that there's all
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different opinions on unification when it comes to green landscaping and I will
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say that though my on the other flip side I actually wonder how much are
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we say being right means in a row some residents but the clear layout of those
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who'd be impacted. It says here more so common errors each ways common interest
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developments. See I d's kami service organizations it does reference local government
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can seize this was unanimously approved by the are you bored I guess I
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if if this item does come back I first lay don't be voting today to move to
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extend a knot in the pa's like never in the favour of us wanting to be penalties
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come down from the state to not be compliant but I guess I'm kind of curious on if you
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can speak to right now when this was brought to our pew board was presented in terms
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of how this would actually have a fiscal impact positively for the for those
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folks and I understand why they might have to make a slight investment in a switch
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of potentially desert landscape for some alternatives if they want to
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still have their view the properties be unified but with this not actually
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ultimately save h away and other folks' money down the line it does have
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the potential the year is the upfront cost in the case said it's very dependent on
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individual properties what they already have in place because it depends on what
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their irrigation system is unfair for a place out that irrigation system that's
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where cost is but that isn't upfront cost but you're absolutely correct in that
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the customers will be saving money in the long term and by not watering and they won't
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have as high of a water bill or at least not as high as it would have been how they have
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turf in there in their yard or in their long their landscaping because this
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doesn't impact single family homes in anyway and this is this is purely commercial
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industrial and institutional we did not present those costs to the board on which
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is way did not have that do not have that but we'll include that as well in
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the subsequent report that we bring for it right can sever him in rain and maybe just
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for information that might come back as well do it is riverside in a unique space
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where I was so we have our own pub utility. We have certain water rights. I've
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heard things in the past about use it or lose it in all the different things. Are
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we uniquely position that would set us a little bit apart from others that we
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might need to consider how these impact differently if we don't have a chance for
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that maybe at some we come back with as well. We can weaken we can address that in
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the report but I do I riverside is not uniquely positioned in in relative to
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the rest of the state in this in this space are we do have our own water one hundred
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percent of our own water here but as far as the state law goes they did not separate
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out any in any type of differentiation between what you have your own water
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supply or you're depending on for example the state water project is that is not
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separated but having our own water supply and use it or lose it does not impact us in
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the weeks we do have a lot of growth and development from additional but we also have
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requirements to reduce per capita water usage and report on that and meet those
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standards as well having this ordinance in place actually helps us meet those
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requirements is well those were under the making conservation a california way
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of life which is another piece of legislation that we're working on implementing
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right now and then just as I was reading it it does say common areas of hoa hum had
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questions from our hoa is certainly to ease our space where they have big green
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patches of common grass in the middle where they have picnics and movie nights are
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with those be included in that space. Those are excluded because those are
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active turf touch areas so anything that is used actively where somebody is
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whether it's picnicking or it's it's used for outdoor activities. Those are
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excluded so parks and cemeteries are excluded from from the requirements other
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types of uses h two a areas that are used are definitely excluded from this process
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and they have to self certify and the hoa will be able to self certify they would be
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able to define that that is used for their for their area and that may have answered
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when my last question here with said it's mainly for all these larger commercial
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although it does say larger property owners with more than five thousand square
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feet. I'm guessing it will jump in the ward five but with the greenbelt area. I'm
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guessing there are some that have lots of trees and for no sorry it got re thinks that
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that would be a single property owner not necessarily commercial on
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some level but would they be affected maybe just a private home or to has over you know
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know am it again in only and only applies to commercial industrial so large that
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somebody who has their own single property is not used for business is not it is
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exempt from this things they're not required to comply. I'm not great and by
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real person so thankful for the fakes and counter are not to believe this point again
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frustrated by the sky mandates share the frustrations that sean
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has but you do that cost analysis I would suggest a couple like two or three
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specific examples properties get the quotes on them so helps us visualize
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the impacts are not just us but the community impacts because yes upfront costs
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versus down the road cos I anticipated to be a lot of grass around our city for a
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long time because people in the front cost but that's it that's it that's a different
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you have those. I'm sorry didn't mean to talk of eid we do have examples because we
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have had several of our customers have already done their conversions are in
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the process of doing out arate accounts or from pony mayor thank you trish has
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actually frozen to get to I actually disagree with sacramento won ninety five
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percent of everything that they do but in this particular case I think this
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is a wise wise law we have we've had several and I worked on some of my myself
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with landscape designer several projects and rebates have been amped have been
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available for ample time businesses have had time is a lot of churches in particular
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actually. In ward three and were five that did this work we did in a park space that
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was have an underutilized park space here in ward one and its paradigm because
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the rebates were available so there's been ample time to prepare for this I think and
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I just think we have to get out of this you know nineteenth century mindset of
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the turf it just sits past it has to be gone so I think that this is one thing that I
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can agree with out of sacramento and folks have had time to do it needs to be
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done to remove their turf think you can spare ammonia I dislike a follow up on a
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comment or question from a customer hemingway and we talked about the grass open
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space. Who determines who makes the determination where the turf is functional or non
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functional who makes the call so if as far as code enforcement comes and if it
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looks like it's active. It'll be at kind of leaving it open instead of rigidly defined
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gives some leeway in that determination but again each individual customer will self
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certify and they can make some of those determination it could enforcement is
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called we will we will have to come out with standards at that time but it may be
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beneficial to allow its better being so rigid. You might have that flexibility
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because something you may want him you know either to not enforce or to enforce
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based on the use that makes sense for that might be unique for that particular
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site and it could be excluded or included. If the definition is too strict
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which is why the state left it as open as they did the back are areas where we
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run into trouble because when we go after property a move in but not proper to be I
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think that's where we run into it leaves us open for potential lawsuits. I just
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want to say you know I believe you said that we don't have to to to have this
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passed until next year now and by the end of december so be sure to call him ask in
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force for more information so I would I would hope that my colleagues would be would
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indulge in the fact that we before we vote on things that we would have as much
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information as as possible before before we vote on things and all I'm asking for
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is is the opportunity to have all the information in front of me before I vote yes or no
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and I would hope that my my colleagues would indulge me and him being informed as to
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what we're voting on so I if we have until december thirty first. There's no need that
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we need to to to move forward with this today you can come back within ninety days with
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the information I want and I can make an informed decision I thought I would hope that I
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know my voter's my residents want me to be informed when I vote on things here and I
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would hope that my colleagues would would join me in wanting to be have all
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the information before we vote or survive tess one speaking to that I was going
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to ask a member I feel more comfortable if we could look at me sixty days just because
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a I feel like want to make sure we can get this before us and I can work with
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the mayor with sixty six e okay I I I'm I'm a little bit works in the sunshine
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ordinance with getting everything done and some of that and getting the postings
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out but as early but early as early as sixteen ninety. Ok I am most concerned about
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getting the responses back from the state so that is just making sure we have
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adequate time to get an answer for that they will fight by appealing to support
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the extension of time if we can work with you home when your team on the agenda
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setting conference whatnot on getting this back sooner as I'd love to be able to fully
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participate in it as well before the end of the year but I will say that for to
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wrap and then would my could also be is I don't know if we have the city are able to
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actually get across at the be a discount on turf. If you know if we have a program or
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something uh if we're able to say no you go through this program we go through a
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certain provider of other cities have done this but essentially if you were to go
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through the city and want to go through this turf abatement you know you'll get
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a discount for x amount of square footage but just even seeing if there could be some
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options like that brought forward for us to look at. I think that that's my thought
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on line is we'll have to have some potential show people so I was apprehensive on voting
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to speak stand this but I'm willing to vote yes but if we can work to get more to
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the sixty versus ninety I feel more comfortable and happy to work with the staff
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on the site in terms of that we bring this back to council thank you in just a note we
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have a motion second on the four councilor connor are equipped with everything has
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been said my colleague comes member mil is very eloquent in his words he's very
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passionate about this that's why I will support him on this one of my problems with
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sacramento on the way that they just met with these law they have no idea what
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riverside is those old saying that the camino just as long as laws are absolute even
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life itself than exception is a victim of exceptions I don't like. Again some of
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the stuff that's here but with that said I'll support him on it right thank you
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counsel you have a motion in a second. Much ink as unanimous right thank you and
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counsel or an item thirty eight now which is our discussion item the one we
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have today are in open element for item thirty eight comment is now open for this
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item available in both english and spanish call nine five one eight two six eight
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six eight six and follow the prompts to access the meeting in either
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language to request to speak pressed our nine. You can also join the a zoom
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the meeting id for both languages can be found on the agenda that to ask alex
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ramirez to give us a brief try to be quick I think you get a good evening to
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remember members of city council mare I'm here to present our next works
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project would include the fiscal year's twenty five twenty six sb one street
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maintenance and the downtown ballard and deletion a little background on sb one of
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the funding was passed in twenty seventeen by senate bill one and it actually
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create legislation to increase funding for our local streets and this is
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paid for through increase in gas taxes and registration fees these funds are
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distributed to local municipalities to the state of california road
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maintenance and rehabilitation accounts are known as rm or any part of
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the s b one local streets and roads program since it began we have actually received
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fifty nine million dollars from this program since twenty seventeen so it's
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actually been making a good dent in our paving needs each year the city council
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approves a resolution to accept list that will be funded for with these fines
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so for the twenty five twenty six sb one project lists was adopted by this
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council on august eight twenty twenty five work utilizes a combination of our
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pain management program and requests from residents and our council to develop our
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annual paving plan b one is just one part of our our pie for our poor funding we also
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receive revenues from other base gas tax from county measure a and from the city's
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measure z altogether we received roughly twenty four million dollars a year for pv
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this brought this project primarily uses sb one funds I say primarily because
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the main street dollars will be funded through measure a so diving into our project
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this project is going to rehabilitate some southbound the street from the sixty
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freeway to eucalyptus will be only half street the other half owned by moreno valley
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they already peeped their side of brockton avenue from and an arlington would grow
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from them into jfk la sierra avenue from grammar sea to cyprus washington street from
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indiana to victoria in it. In addition will resurface two point seven miles of minor
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streets within four neighborhoods altogether cover six point four miles of
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roadway with an average cost of one point two million dollars per mile not
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including the mullets this project will utilize recycled asphalt from wood road and
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we're going to use that at a segment on pp segments of harrington road and ferrari
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drive to reduce the dust and erosion control on using using a recycled asphalt
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known as rap is a new cost effective met that the public's been piloting to
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address a broad analysis logical soul will repair curbs gutters sidewalks and
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driveways a pre production ramps and upgrade sign a striking and makes a traffic
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signal modifications within the project limits if necessary. The project will
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implement curb extension pilot program with pavement markings and vertical d'alene
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eaters install twenty six actually stop sign seven solar speed back signs and
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finally onslaught hundred and thirty two dollars along main street to improve pedestrian
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safety and to protect spaces from unauthorized vehicles here is a location
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map of our street maintenance locations and here is the location map of the ball
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or locations along main street. Here's a couple pictures of how our street
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are looking now brockton avenue and washington street highlander drive and la
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sierra avenue they all work so staff recommendations today are the actions follow
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award a bit of it number two to one for the construction of fiscal year's twenty five
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twenty twenty six sb one street maintenance improvements and downtown
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boulder insulation with one hundred and thirty working days to onyx paving company
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of yorba linda california in the amount of seven millionsix hundred and
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seventy seven thousand authorized the city manager and issac need to execute
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the construction agreement with on expanding company including making non minor
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non subjective changes if budget allows. And finally with five affirmative votes
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up the rice the chief executive officer otis signee to recur re record a
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supplemental appropriation of seven hundred and fifty five thousand dollars in for
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the main street dollars using available measure a funds this concludes my
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presentation on here for any comments requests. Thank you mr. Ramirez let me see if we
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have any comment for item number thirty eight right. No collars in their requests in
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chambers will close comment and come back to council comes or refund can thank
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mayor have one quick question that I'll make a motion for the signage is there a way
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for us to require these contractors to do their signage the same quality in
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specs that we do in our sign shop because I can on the road way I can drive and
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I can tell which signs are made in house by the city of riverside because they're
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high quality and the really kind of crappy ones that are done by a lot of our
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contractors. How do we do how do we ensure our specs are the same there. Yeah got
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the look at tor specs and ceo you know what what are they doing to cut corners or say
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cos obviously the contractors are trying to go the cheapest way but some of the crack in
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fate so much faster god that we do. I don't assign freak but it's it's it's very busy
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so I know director mustafa may have something there to its member and make me stop
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of course irked or sometimes we've noticed that the graffiti coating or I'm
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sorry that the uv coating as well can be omitted from some of the science which can
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cause quicker damage and weave weave footwork in the past make sure that our
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inspectors have a closer eye on that if you notice any that were recently done
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please let us know because generally the contractors we have them with a warranty
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period so we knew back in quickly resolve that we can believe me our teams where
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the issue in the past and will be sure to inspect as per what are they still
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though doing this the same specs though because I think what's happening is they're
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living through their warranty phase which is maybe two years or something or year
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but we have some that you know if you're driving from the courtyard to city hall
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using using city streets on the freeway you can tell these are street signs like I
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think it's in the mix from ward five in or three brought a rise in the thing is
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watching a few others that you can tell that it is or not may buy or sign sean we
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should be or specifications should reflect the same three m material that we use in or
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sign shop but will double check that part of respects following this with at recess
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recommendation. Thank you mayor r and motion were one second my word for discussion
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these are the most chic asian amis great thank you and for folks in the to count
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as city councils going to adjourn to closed session now we have no evening session
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tonight so we will not be back out to have any further discussion or action items we
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will come back to adjourn & actor connor city attorney please tune out or closed
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session items. Thank you mayor for the close session items please take a look at
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the agenda and items are described there. However I do not provide some additional
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information for item thirty nine a conference of real property negotiators the name
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of the party negotiating with his g c s development llc that party's negotiators greg
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scott location of properties three seven hundred placentia lane jane described as a bee
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sports complex under negotiations will be the price in terms of payment
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and the city's negotiator be tom hatch interim city manager. Thank you thank you
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thank you everybo tone look at welcome back everybody the white right welcome back
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everybody. City council has just returned from closed session our please call inner
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city attorney hugh report out on or close session mayor there are no reported
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elections. Thank you ree. Ok I think you as city attorney council members any items for
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future jam this council member from home. Yes mayor a couple years ago we had a
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report on short term rentals and there was a motion that was made to have an annual
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review of that. It's been two years we haven't received a review I would like to
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revisit that short term rentals ordinance with the next ninety days please
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thank you aren't city managers got a yes. Ok anybody else. Ok all right
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walt thank you everybody and her next council meeting is tuesday september first we
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will see then