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Good evening, and welcome to the City Council meeting for the City of Rolling Hills Estates,

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be calling, needing to order. First thing, of course, is our flag salute.

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We'd like it to have our county fire chief Kelsey here, so if you would like to lead us in the pledge, that would be wonderful.

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of

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the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God

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in the visible liberty and justice for all.

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Thank you, sir.

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Roll call, please.

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Council Member Stegra.

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Here.

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Council Member Schmitz.

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Here.

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Council Member Huff.

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Here.

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Mayor Prattemps.

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Shactor is absent.

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Mayor Zorunian.

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Yes.

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We have a quorum.

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Thank you.

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First item is ceremonial proclamation declaring September National Preparedness Month.

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I don't think it could come any time better than this as we are reminded about preparedness

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and calamities.

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Unfortunately, we've suffered many disasters in our area, thankfully not directly on the

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Palsbury's Peninsula by the fires throughout

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and some of the neighborhoods have been really disastrous.

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And preparation is everything.

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And thankfully, the residents of Rolling Hills Estates

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are certainly encouraged to participate

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in preparedness activity and ask to review

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important readiness resources, including Know Your Zone,

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which can be found on pvpready.gov or our website on Rolling Hills Estate City website.

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We certainly encourage our community to sign up for Alerts South Bay if you haven't done so.

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And also we have a preparedness expo that we do every year. That one is coming up on October 25th at the Peninsula High School in conjunction with the Farmers Market.

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All of the peninsula cities will be represented there, certainly, and our first responders will be there, usually showing all of their wares, and it's great for the kids also to see all of that and experience certainly fire trucks and police trucks, etc.

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But more importantly, paying attention to being prepared, especially during this time of

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the year, as we start fall, and as I understand it, we may see another version of El Nino,

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that we have seen in the past, and we, on the Palsyverse Peninsula, obviously, with all

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are vulnerable for potential seeing a lot of water go through our canyons and mod et cetera.

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So it really helps to prepare.

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I'm sure we have a lot of sandbags available and I encourage I have a bunch at home and

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I encourage everyone to come to our facilities to get them Greg, where are they exactly?

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Yes, we have sand and bags available at the maintenance yard at Ernie Hall at Park and there's also some available at fire station 106

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That's great. Yeah, I encourage everyone to get some and protect your property as much as you can

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Especially when it's really coming down hard. It's very difficult for our staff to manage it all

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So each citizen should be responsible for their properties and their neighbors for that matter

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So that would be very very important

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With that, I would like to invite County LA County Fire Chief Kelsey to depotium to accept the proclamation.

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So September 2026 is herbiproclamed as National Preparedness Month.

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And fatically.

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Thank you, sir.

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Thank you very much.

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You can put it at the fire station.

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All

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right feel free to say good

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evening mayor city council staff and residents rolling

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hills of states. My name is Wade Kelsey and I am the new acting assistant she for

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Division one for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Chief Cain is on extended leave and he does send his regards. I just wanted to come today and make sure that everybody was on board that knew that I was on board with maintaining the great relationship that the Los Angeles County Fire Department has with the City of Rolling Hills estates. Also wanted to say a couple words about the national preparedness month as we're getting into the early part

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fall late summer. We just finished our dependsable space inspections on the

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POSRA's peninsula and I believe the majority of our rein specs have been

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completed. However now we're getting into the historical fire season that we

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do all that preparedness for so the mayor talked a little bit about know your zone

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talked about other south bay but I would encourage everybody to also go to the

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L.A. County Fire Department website and read about Ready Set Go. Ready Set Go is

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a program that encourages people to get ready, prepare for a wildfire that's

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coming by having a go bag, having all their stuff prepared, their medications,

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clothes, any necessities in a bag ready to go at all times. Set, you're hearing

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those warnings, those alerts come out on alert south bay or on yeah from alert south bay and then

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go hey now it's time to go there's an evacuation order and you're you're told to leave that's the

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go part of it. So I would encourage everybody to read about ready set go as we get towards the later

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part of summer and to the early part of falls everybody knows it's historically when we get the

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Santa Ana wins and that leaves the majority of the southern part well in the northern

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part as well but more the southern part of Los Angeles County is extremely vulnerable

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for those offshore wins the drying that comes with that so that's when it gets it's

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it gets real serious in this particular neck of the woods that's why we do all that hard

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work by maintaining those defense will spaces around your homes and and hardening your homes

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and having a plan to ready set go.

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That's all I have right now.

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There's any questions.

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I just thank you for giving me the opportunity

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to come in here and introduce myself,

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and thank you very much for the proclamation as well.

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Well, Chief, thank you very much for coming.

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We really appreciate you.

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And on the eve of 9-11, certainly,

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we remember those firefighters and those who

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ran to the disaster and we thank you for your service certainly and we

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really appreciate you coming. Thank you sir. All right next is Proclamation

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declaring September 15 through October 15 Hispanic Heritage Month. We

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are recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month from these dates which coincide with

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the anniversary of Independence of several Latin American countries, the

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city of Rolling Hills estates would like to recognize and celebrate the community for

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the rich heritage and histories, arts, foods, traditions and their continuation to our

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city, contributions to our city and to our nation. We're one of the lucky cities to have

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a diversified population across all of the city and who all have integrated into our

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We're way of life and we're delighted to have the various ethnicities and various groups that make up the City of Rolling Hills estate.

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So we're delighted to recognize Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15th through October 15th.

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Next is our consent calendar.

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Is there a motion for this consent calendar?

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move approval. Second.

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Roll call, please. Council Member Stegra.

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Aye. Council Member Schmitz.

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Yes. Council Member Huff.

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Yes. Mayer's reunion.

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Yes.

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The motion carries.

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Thank you. On the public comments, I see that Merlin is here and wanted to say a few words

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with his new gig as I understand it.

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Absolutely.

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So Merlin, welcome.

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Thank you, Honorable Mayor, and all this is a City Council members and City staff.

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Thank you so much for everything that you do for our city. I love that you make these proclamations because I don't always see it in the other cities

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So I'm really grateful for what you do. It always brings shines a spotlight on it

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So so thank you so much for that. And then yes, October 25 can't wait to be at the emergency expo

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I am here as the development director for the Peninsula Education Foundation. That's right peninsula education foundation

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And we raise $2.3 million every year for our 17 schools and for the 10,300 students in these schools. So we're raising money for the schools in all four cities. And we're just pleased to be able to do that. So we'd love your help in coming out to toast on the coast, which is our once a year event that we have raising awareness and fundraisers.

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for our event. So, come on out to Toast on the Coast. It's Saturday, September 26th, from 4 to 9 pm.

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We'd love any support just getting the word out, helping us. I don't think that PEF has come here to do this kind of announcement.

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But here I am. It's a new day in town here for the PEF, so I'm excited to be here.

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We've just gotten so many more sponsors, but we can always use more sponsors.

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So if anybody knows, sponsors have them contact me.

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But what we want most is for everybody to buy a ticket, come and enjoy, be a part of this.

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It's a coastal, wine, food, and music festival that we have right on the grounds of Malagokov,

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the old school and overlooks the beach club, you know, the PV Beach Club and the ocean

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right there.

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And it's amazing.

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It's put on by about 30 restaurants and all the local wineries and everybody comes

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together and it's a wonderful show of spirit.

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I'm just excited to be there this year to be a part of it.

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I was always there attending it and raising my paddle to for the live auction items.

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but this year it's going to be very interesting.

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So, toast on the coast Saturday, September 26th, 4 to 9 p.m. come on out and be a part of it.

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Any questions? I'd be happy to answer them.

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Well, I would just like to thank you so much, first of all, for all your years of service

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for our library. You know, you really transformed the program over there, so I'm very excited

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about what you're going to be doing with the Palestinians.

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I served on the board, and Debbie actually was the president of the board.

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So we have a long history of support of the Ed Foundation.

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So good luck with that.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you so much.

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We're excited to be.

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There's a new day.

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I think we've doubled our sponsors in the two months that I've been there two and a half months.

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So I'm just reaching out to companies because all the money has been raised just by our local residents, you know

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And it's it's a tough thing, you know

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So I'd like to get more company input. We don't have any companies on the hill, but

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There's a lot of them outside so I'm reaching out as much as I can and I just want to challenge everybody. Do you really know your zone?

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Because mine's

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PVE-004 so you know but a lot of people just say know your zone know your zone

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But please make sure that you know your zone. So I was happy to be I'm I was privileged to be a part of that

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That setting up the PVP ready dot gov. So I was I'm excited about that too. I'm excited about a lot of things

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Saturday's the 10th of the 26th. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming

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Anyone else on the public mind?

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Okay, very good. Let's move on, public hearing. There are none. Next is new business, 8A,

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ordinance amending and restating municipal code, chapters 1044 regarding the regulation

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of bicycles, electric bicycles, and other motorized devices. And chapter 1046, this is something

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that we had discussed that policy development session, and it is now being proposed.

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So I invite Jessica Slauson to give us the staff report.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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Mayor, members of the City Council.

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As mentioned before, each night is an ordinance updating the city's regulations related

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to bicycles, electric bicycles, and other motorized devices, as well as the use of wheeled vehicles

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on the city's equestrian trails.

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And so as the City Council is aware, e-bike safety has been an ongoing topic of discussion.

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and the city council had previously directed staff to develop regulations that focus not only on speed but also the unsafe writing behaviors of mainly e-bikes e-bike riders.

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And so the proposed ordinance includes regulations addressing activities such as racing, stunt riding, unsafe passenger practices in proper parking and operating a motorized device or e-bike at a speed that is unreasonable or unsafe for existing conditions.

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And so the ordinance also updates the city's equestrian trail regulations, so while the existing prohibition on bike.

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Disciples and motorized devices remains. The amendments provide limited exceptions for a question-related activities necessary and necessary property access. This includes certain construction or repair activities where rear or side yards cannot otherwise be accessed. And so following the city council's review of the draft ordinance in July, the proposed amendments were also presented to the equestrian committee last month, which those revisions were supported.

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And so with that staff recommends that the City Council introduce ordinance number 764 for a first reading with ordinance returning on September 22nd for a second reading and adoption.

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Thank you. I'm available for any questions you may have.

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I appreciate all of your work on this Jessica and I'm glad that we're considering this because I think the time has come to regulate the use of the bikes in our community.

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Anybody else?

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All right, very good.

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Agreed.

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And also update some of our trail usage because equestrian doctors, for example, very near doctors,

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use it.

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Those that deliver hay, for example, in my community, there's no way of accessing them, but through the trails, for example.

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So those were welcomed opportunities to update the code.

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So thank you very much for all of that.

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If there are no more questions, I'll entertain a motion.

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I move that City Council introduce 767 for first reading and bring it back for a second reading and adoption at September 22nd City Council meeting.

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Second.

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There's second?

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Yes, second.

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Very good, real call please.

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Council Member Stegra.

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Aye.

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Council Member Schmidt.

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Yes.

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Council Member Huff.

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Yes.

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Mayors reunion.

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Yes.

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Yes, the motion carries to introduce on first reading ordinance number 764, in ordinance of the City Council of the City of Rolling Hills Estates, amending and restating Rolling Hills Estates Municipal Code, chapter 2.12,

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re-designating.

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I apologize. I'm reading the title for the wrong ordinance.

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My apologies.

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I'm reading the next one here.

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I've got it here.

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This is the 1044 and 1046.

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I apologize, here we go.

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Rolling Hills Estates Municipal Code, chapter 10.44, regarding the regulation of bicycles,

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electric bicycles, motorized bicycles, and other motorized devices, and chapter 10.46,

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regarding the regulation of wheeled vehicles on public equestrian paths and trails.

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Thank you.

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Great. Thank you. Next item is a B, new business adoption of fiscal year 2627, publicly available pay schedule which is customary to provide for transparency and accountability and I invite the Lexa Davis assistant seed manager to provide the staff report.

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Thank you mayor and members of council. As the mayor mentioned, this is an item that comes to you annually as a quick requirement under the CalPERS regulation.

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They are requiring the City Council formally adopt a pay schedule to identify each employee position,

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authorize pay range and applicable time base.

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The proposed schedule reflects the salary ranges that were authorized already by City Council through compensation resolutions in an MOU, adopted in June.

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And then the City Manager's contract amendment, which was approved at the year last meeting of August 25th.

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Approval of this item does not authorize any new compensation, has no additional fiscal impact.

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In fact, this has already been approved with prior City Council actions.

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This is just a formality that's required by CalPERS, which is the public employee retirement system.

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Once approved, the pay schedule will be posted on the city's website and made available to the public in accordance with the requirements.

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And with that, staff is recommending that the City Council approve the fiscal year 2627 publicly available pay schedule.

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And I'm happy to answer any questions.

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Thank you.

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Questions, comments? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion. Move approval. Second.

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Roll co-please. Council Member Scora. Aye. Council Member Schmidt. Yes. Council Member Huff. Yes. Mayor Zaronion. Yes. The motion carries. Thank you.

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Nine is old business. There are none. Ten A city attorney item. Second reading and adoption of ordinance number 762.

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amending some of our municipal code with respect to titles and cleaning up administrative services, directors, responsibilities, et cetera.

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Now I invite our city attorney, Steve McEwan, for the staff report.

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Thank you, Mayor Zerunian, members of the council.

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Item 10A is the second reading and adoption of ordinance 762 that was introduced at the August 25 meeting.

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as we previously discussed, it amends and restates chapter 2.12 of the municipal code to do

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three things, update the title of the office.

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The office from director of finance, the director of administrative services, update the positions, powers and duties to match the broader role over budget finance information technology, including serving a city treasure and allow the city to ensure faithful for performance through either a shirty bond or a master employee insurance policy. Staff recommends that the council waive further reading read by title only in adopt ordinance number 762 as

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As corrected, I did note there were a couple of typos references to administer services and administrative service and I think the council can direct that those be corrected in the ordinance as adopted and as clerical corrections.

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Very good. Any questions, comments?

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Entertaining motion with those potential changes?

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I move adoption of ordinance 762 with those changes.

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Second.

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I roll call, please.

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Council members to grow up.

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Aye.

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Council member Schmidt.

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Yes.

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Yes. Council Member Huff.

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Yes.

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Mayors Euronean.

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Yes.

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The motion carries to adopt ordinance number 7-6-2 in ordinance of the City Council of the City of Rolling Hills Estates, amending and restating Rolling Hills Estates Municipal Code, Chapter 2.1-2,

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re-designating the position of Finance Director as administrative services director, and updating the powers and duties of the position.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Next item is City Council Regional Committee Reports.

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Let's start.

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I attended the coordinating last week and also the Clean Power Alliance and the breaking news from Clean Power Alliance as we for the first time used an electronic voting platform because we have 37 members on our board now and it took a long time to do roll call so we all went through a training session.

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There was a staff member available from Clean Power Alliance at all the remote locations.

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When we have one person there, not me, had a problem with it.

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And we all voted seamlessly for the rest of the meeting.

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Excellent.

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Great.

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Fantastic.

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Two updates.

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As we know, the legislature has gone into clothes and at our last legislative meeting,

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there were three separate bills to opposition and one support.

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Those are sitting on the Governor's desk in the House, till September 30th to sign.

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So information was sent to city managers and staff about those bills and whether or not we want to send letters and I think Alexa actually was already on top of that in the last two weeks.

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And then tomorrow we have a special meeting to go through the proposed budget for 26.

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Yes, it's realized it's a little late, but it's a Q&A and a preview presentation for what will be voted on at the end of the month.

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Just a reminder that we have the statewide conference for CalCities in Orange County this year instead of the usual Long Beach and

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The LA County division luncheon will be Wednesday the 23rd

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So that's coming up in a couple weeks. Okay. All right. I attended both the SCAG meeting and

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And most of SCAG's focus right now, at least that my policy committee was next cycle

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of rena and the methodologies that I know and the methodologies that relate to it.

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And SCAG is working feverishly, certainly learning from the past experience, but at the

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that today, it's all about HCD, and with maybe a new administration, you know, there may be some

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changes and potentially we can have a little bit of better process rather than, you know,

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shoving down the throat type of authoritarian style that we had previously.

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So that's what Skag is working on, at least on the methodology side.

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I've also attended the contract cities, the fall seminar, the focus there also was some

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on housing and certainly Rina and a few other issues that really did not thankfully relate

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to us and on the topics of what to do in public safety aspects of some of the homeless encampments

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for example and things of that sort. I mean my heart goes out to the entire both sides of that

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equation, but unfortunately some cities are really suffering as a result. So very, very difficult,

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both health hazards, public safety hazards that are created as a result. So it's really a difficult

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topic for, you know, on-

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Both sides of the argument, so. Frank, can I come in on scag? There's something wrong with the process. Because, well, okay, that's an understatement. Because right now, you think the area median income for low income is the same as moderate income this year. And there's something wrong about that because the housing, the unhoused lobbies really went all the public dollars to go to low income. But there's a

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the death of moderate income housing in the South Bay, especially when you consider

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the space, not space like a space force base, those people serving in the military there

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can't afford housing and they can very well move elsewhere and take all of their dollars

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that they spend on a discretionary basis with them.

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So there's something very wrong with it and I guess I should mention that the housing

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trust is meeting next week. But we've known for a long time that there's been a severe

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lack of modern income housing and policy is not set up to promote that.

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I fully agree. Including our enabling legislation.

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Well, unfortunately that has been the case. And when you talk about the ideological push that they

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constantly have, low income, low income, low income, low, low, etc., and not taking into account

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bunch of people that you mentioned and not to mention by the way the environmental impact.

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These people need a job.

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So they're probably going to still be at the base, but live in Riverside County or something

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and drive, which is crazy, absolutely crazy.

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So in any event, but we're working on it, all I can say is the methodology.

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But at the end of the day, you can have all the method, we'd be had a methodology before.

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It's just that, you know, they ignored it.

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So what?

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So hopefully it'll change and hopefully it'll work.

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I mean, the good news for our city is that we've always complied with our arena numbers

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and we intend to continue to comply, but you're right, we're playing one-size-fits-all

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and ignoring the specific needs of a community, the one you highlight is a perfect one and not

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Not only them, I mean there's teachers, there are firefighters, there are police in this

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category of people that are being priced out.

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So anyway.

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Thank you.

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And not to mention the policy topic of wealth building.

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We are not encouraging our people to own and you have an entire generation of renters.

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I mean, fine, it's fine if that's what they want to do, but the most important American

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middle class was based on owning your place, and I mean, let's face it, I don't consider

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myself rich, but my biggest asset is my house, and I'm probably true for all of us, but

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that's not happening, and that's a policy thing.

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especially if you're people of color who categorically have been

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199 of those opportunities and that's how they build wealth and generation.

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100% and they're no better. Here's a statistic.

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They're no better today than they were in 1958.

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That's amazing.

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It's sad.

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Sad.

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Totally sad.

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I get it.

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But these policies are not encouraging that.

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And then, of course, it's not working, so anyway, we can pontificate all day long, but it won't work.

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All right, those were the two things.

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12 mayor and council items?

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I'm wondering if we could get, I've gotten a lot of inquiries about the construction there

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of the Diablo Grace School and the update on that.

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Yes,

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I think it's council little where we've had some challenges with the contractor performing.

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We are working through those issues and also with Will Dan who is our project management

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team.

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We do have a meeting with Will Dan this week to kind of figure out how best we can move

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this project along and get it back on track.

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back. We do have lanes of traffic open in both directions, so there are no lane or road

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closures, and we do have a safe path of travel for pedestrians, including the school

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children, and we continue to monitor that and make sure that's working effectively and

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and it seems to be the case, but we have any prospective date and site.

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We don't know. As you recall, the project was meant to be done in two phases. And so the anticipation

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would be that we would pick up phase two once school was out next summer, but that phase

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one didn't get completed in time for the school to start. And so no, we do not yet have

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a date yet when that so-called phase one will be done, but we are working on it.

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Did they have anything their contract to give them a little incentive that they lose certain percentage per day or something like that?

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Yeah, there is language in the contract that does allow us to doctomy, if you will, for not delivering.

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But we also have, we need to work with them and getting the project done, and so our focus right now is trying to get, you know, get the work done.

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Yeah, so.

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Thank you.

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And the important part is that I think staff has done a very good job with respect to trying to protect with those K rails that we have, that pedestrian path.

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and I rode yesterday and with bicycle and I was able to get into that area to protect myself

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because it's really narrow now. There's no bike lane left so I went in there and felt pretty

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safe that you know I was certainly away from the cars so same with the school children I see them

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from my community they walk or bike I see them all the time so they're able to use that and it's a

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really nice safety. In fact, safer than before. There was no, you know, protection like that,

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so but I agree with Greg that, you know, the most important aspect is to get it done as quickly

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as possible. So, but thanks for working that out. Any other mayor council items? All right. We have

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No closed session.

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We have an adjournment here.

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Of course, our neighbors, friends, and relatives of the Jewish faith will be celebrating

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Rastrana beginning this Friday.

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And I would like certainly on behalf of my colleagues in the city extend the warm wishes for

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a peaceful, healthy, and happy new year to all those in our community that certainly celebrate

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I will be going to temple our temple here for services this Saturday representing our city and we wish them all the best.

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We also would like to adjourn tonight's meeting in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks honoring those who lost their lives.

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the bravery of the first responders as I said earlier and all those forever impacted by this

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tragic event of that day. I can't believe that it has been 25 years where our world completely changed.

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We also are having events at USC on campus. I don't know if you knew but we have two pieces of

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of one of the buildings that are on our campus.

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We brought from New York and we'll have a presidential event.

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I'm speaking at that event as well.

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So remembering of course and talking about

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how our world changed and how we found out that day

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that we were no longer a sanctuary

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and that the oceans did not necessarily

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separate the battlefield.

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and those who wished harm to our country could easily make it here and that's

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where we learned it and today with the technological advancements that

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threat still exists and we are trying to mitigate those threats of course and

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trying to see if a more peaceful world can be accomplished so we adjourn to our

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Our regular council meeting of September 22, 2026 at 7 p.m.

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And honoring certainly those who gave their lives on September the 11th, 2001.

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We adjourn.