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