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August 3, 2026, and the time now is 6 p.m. Let's stand for the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, and liberty and justice for all.

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Clerk, can you please take woke up?

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Yes. Councilmember Cruz.

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Your councilmember Ponce.

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Here. Councilmember Pineda.

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Here. Vice Mayor Xavier.

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Here. Mayor Pabón Alvarado.

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Here. Councilmember Cruz, Ponce and Pineda.

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Vice Mayor Xavier and Mayor Pabón Alvarado

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are all present in council chambers.

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Next item is oral communications.

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be submitted to the City Clerk before close of oral communications.

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Joyce Sinai.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, Ms. Mayor, Ms. Vice Mayor, and City Council members.

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My name is Joyce Sinai.

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I'm the Community School Manager with Bay Area Community Resources.

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And I support the Beacon Directors who you fund in your San Pablo Schools.

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I'm checking in at the start of the school year to share some of our plans and hopes for the new year.

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There is much to be optimistic about.

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For the first time in a long time, there is no staff turn over this year.

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All six of our beacon directors are happily returning.

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This is significant because the work is iterative and relationship based and it takes time and

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especially consistency to build the enabling conditions that lead to transformation.

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Today was the beacon directors first day back and they were on site to receive the backpack

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deliveries.

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that the city, via Lucette and her crew,

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provides through your collaboration with family giving tree.

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Thank you.

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The backpacks will be distributed to families that need them

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at school orientations, back to school nights, and other events.

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The other BACR manager and I have done a lot of work this summer

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to deepen the structures and protocols that will guide effective

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implementation of the community school strategy.

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We are trained in best practices and we want to ensure that they are implemented in WCC

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One tool that we are most excited about is an observational protocol that aligns with

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the state framework and will enable us to identify where schools are thriving and where

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We feel really good about the updated addition to our Community Schools Guide and we'll be

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happy to share it with you if you'd like to learn more.

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At a district level, Taylor and I served on an interview panel last week to help select

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the new community school director for WCCUSD.

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We are very excited about the potential to deepen this collaboration and expand our work

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with the district to affect meaningful change.

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Lastly, many exciting events will be happening on our campuses as we welcome students and

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September is National Attendance Awareness Month and Beacon Directors will be leading a variety

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and culture throughout our schools.

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Thank you for your time and continued investment in community schools. I look forward to returning in November when public profit will offer a report on the progress of our schools. Thank you, nice, thank you. Thank you.

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Next item, proclamations, item number one, file IB26-361, presentation of proclamation for national night out on August

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for our 2026 city manager.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk.

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Mayor, members of the city council has approved

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at your July 20th, 2026 city council regular meeting.

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recognizing national might out event for 2026,

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which is scheduled for tomorrow, Tuesday, August 4th at 2026.

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So at this time is the scheduled presentation of proclamation.

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So I'll turn this back over for mayor,

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for formal presentation and recognition and recipients for this

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proclamation will be Chief Boobar and the police department okay so should I

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go around the dice do we have any public comment on this I know we do not okay

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all right so we go around the dice to see if there's any any questions or or any

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comments. So Councilmember Cruz just thank you chief for holding this community together

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through our national night out the way our families can really support our police department

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as well as showing them all the different departments you have within the police department

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and thank you so much for all your hard work and keeping it safe here is that Pablo thank you

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Councilmember Ponce, chief and staff.

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Congratulations on this year's proclamation.

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I know it's an exciting event for all the community.

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I guess I'll call the comments made by my colleagues.

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our community come together with law enforcement, with all of, I think there's a lot of misconception

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that is just officers that make up a police department, but there's so many people that contribute

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to the work in known terms of being able to preserve public safety out here in our community.

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Being able to have these opportunities, this great opportunity for them to get to know the

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people that serve them. And that just, you know, in terms of like the overall staff,

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but also the officers, I think is very important for them to be able to have those opportunities

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to force strong relationships, to force trust, and, you know, to make sure that they know that

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there are people out there that they can reach out to, whether or not be them to provide the service

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or support or whatever that may look like, but it may be even connecting them to resources.

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I think that's another component that people should continue to become aware of.

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Um, it's about connecting the dots. Um, in this situation, uh, thank you. Uh, thank you to all of officers all of our, uh,

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police department staff for the great work that they do and keep your community safe and person in the well-being of our commuting. Thank you.

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The National Light Out has really grown in San Bobble and I know all of the families look forward to it now.

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I think it was, I think it's great the way you have it in one location that's what's

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made it the big event that it is and as usual I look forward to being there it's just super

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fun thanks so much to you and everybody in the police department we agree thank you thank

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Thank you. Thank you. This is this is a great event for sure.

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And I know I know a few years ago

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this was in one location. The police department actually went to different places and different

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communities. Do you feel that this is much more appreciated to that that people would go out of

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their house and come together with other neighborhoods.

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That's how I see it, right?

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They not only stay in their neighborhood now,

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they actually come out and meet the other neighbors

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that they have, which I think is a big deal.

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What do you see?

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What has been the overall feedback from the council, but from the actual people who are out visiting and hanging out? Yeah, I appreciate the question. So last year, we actually posed that question to our neighborhood watch groups. And we offered the opportunity or the thought to, hey, should we bring back the sites, visits,

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for Nationalite Out, that's how Nationalite Out was started with the neighborhood watch groups

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and inviting different people to different parts of the community.

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because it is a great event, it has grown, it has given an opportunity for the police department

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to grow in the relationships with the community and the community having relationship with each other.

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So, in addition to the neighborhood watch groups coming together and the police department staff being their city staff, public works, community services, we actually bring in up to 50 different vendors and service providers that will have tables.

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So, within the event you have service providers that represent small businesses, resources from county, CHP, fire department, AMTs,

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different community groups can come there that otherwise would not have that

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opportunity to meet the community. So it offers a lot of opportunity to build

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those relationships not just with the police department, not with just

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community but other resources as well. So overwhelmingly they wanted to keep the

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centralized celebration. But that is something that we are constantly posing and asking

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our community. What is it that you want to see this event take place? And if it has

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to adapt, we'll bring forward those recommendations as well.

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Is the performances going to be similar to last year, in the year, the year's prior or?

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Yeah, we will have different performances. Music will be provided by our very own officer

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or Baniat, DJ Baniat, okay.

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Officer B, so yeah, we'll have a lot of similar events,

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and it is capped off by,

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and inviting any member of the community here tonight,

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you can dunk the chief of police in the dunk tank

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between the hours of 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., if you'd like.

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So I will be there as well.

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I don't have any further questions.

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I love this, I love that the community comes together

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and to me it's an acknowledgement right that we are a community, including the police

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that we took all together here to hang out and have a good time and be good to one another

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and I appreciate the law enforcement.

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You guys, it's just that, guys and gals. You're good

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to our people, to our community. And this is a reflection of that, so thank you.

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And now I will read the proclamation of the City of San Pablo National Night Out August

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4th, 2026, whereas the National Association of Town Watch sponsors a national community

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building campaign on Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 entitled National Night Out.

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And, whereas, the 42nd Annual National Night Out campaign provides an opportunity for

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neighbors in San Pablo to join forces with thousands of communities across the country

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in promoting cooperative police community, crime prevention efforts and, whereas, National

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Night Out is an annual community building campaign that promotes police, community partnerships

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and neighborhood commodity to make a neighborhood safer, more caring places, and whereas neighbors

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in San Pablo assist the San Pablo Police Department through joint community building efforts

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and support national night out 2026. And whereas, it is essential that all neighbors of San

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Pablo come together with police and work together to build a safer, more caring community.

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Now, therefore, I, Elizabeth Pavon Avarado Mayor of the City of San Pablo on behalf of the

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City Council, does hereby call upon all neighbors of San Pablo to join the San Pablo Police

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Department and National Association of Townwatch in support of National Night Out on Tuesday, August 4.

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2026. Thank you. Is there a plaque?

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Okay, next item? Next item. Presentations. Item number two, file ID 26-101. Presentation to the city council regarding the sandpavlo summer, 2026 internship program. City manager? Thank you, Madam Clerk. Mayor members of the city council. This item is a scheduled presentation of our

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Our annual summer internship program, where we administer and manage a summer internship

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program for local youth, ages 50 and a half on up, and to highlight this summer internship

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program and the projects that are worked on by our 7 interns this year in various city

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departments.

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I'll go ahead and turn this over to Paola Cuvius Shirazi, our community services coordinator

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2 who present the formal presentation to the City Council.

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Thank you so much. Good evening Council, Vice Mayor Mayor, it's a pleasure to be with you.

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This time I'm here to share an update about our 2026 summer internship program as coordinated

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by the Youth Schools and Community Partnership Division. So this year and then we'll have

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the presentation started. As you know, YSCP and the City of San Pablo are dedicated to

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creating the next generation of public service leaders who reflect the diversity of the

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city of San Pablo. We do this by coordinating a work-based learning internship program that

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provides paid internships for youth ages 15 and a half and older. They are placed in various

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city departments to gain experience in local government. Our program has four goals. Let's

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Our program has four goals.

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One is to expose interns to careers in public service,

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to build skills for various job settings,

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to connect interns to the community,

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and support interns with a path to college and career.

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This year, our program activities included,

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it took place over a nine week period,

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from June 15th to August 15th.

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This included orientation, safety training, as well as a weekly leadership development seminar,

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and midway and final evaluations with their supervisors. During the course of those nine weeks,

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the interns were each placed across the departments here in the city of San Pablo and worked

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weekly average of about 20 hours a week. So they were part-time city employees working with us.

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We had eight interns across five departments and that was, we had one at the City Manager's

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Office in the Economic Development and Housing Division, two with the Community Development

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Department in the Building Division and Planning Division, two with the San Pablo Police

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Department within the Community Outreach Division, one in the City's administrative services

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in IT and Finance, and one working with us in the Community Services Department with a YSEP division.

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Today, we'll hear from each of our interns. They have about two minutes to share with you about their summer projects

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and some of the skills and experiences that they learned while they were here.

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Each intern has prepared a slide and that summarizes their summer projects

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And we're going to start with James Flores, who entered at the City Manager's Office in the Division of Economic Development and Housing.

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We can wait to have the slideshow for presentation.

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So bear with us with some technical difficulties.

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the start will have James Flores, who interned in the economic development and housing division in the city manager's office.

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Hello, my main project for this summer was creating an updating a new database for ground floor businesses on the commercial corridor, 23rd Street, and presenting my findings about 23rd Street and how they can benefit the city of San Pablo.

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Some side projects I've done as well are documents like organizing documents about employees, programs, and nomination packets for elections both digitally and physically and shadowing co-workers in my department.

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Some skills I've gained and improved on are data organization, communication inside the workplace, microsoft tools and applications, and researching and applying set research.

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You can see on the right of the presentation some slides from my presentation for the project.

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Thank you.

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Next we'll have Santiago Lopez present.

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Good evening, City Council.

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My name is Santiago Lopez and this summer I was in that administrative center.

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Services, Finance, and IT Department. My main projects were conducted in a physical audit for the fiscal year 2026-2027. I performed an audit on the travel and training reimbursements in the Cal credit card. I also assisted in a citywide travel and training SOP. And currently I'm performing a physical inventory for the IT Department. The purpose of these projects were to identify record

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gaps to ensure compliance with city policies and to track items in the IT Department. Lessons

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I learned and skills I gained were time management when juggling multiple projects, communication

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within the team and department, and attention to detail, we're not tasked with importance

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though. Thank you.

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Next, we'll hear from Ben Hernandez-Ustadia.

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Good evening. My name is Ben Hernandez-Ustadia.

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Throughout the course of my internship in the Public Works Department, I learned about

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the programs that we offer in collaboration with Republic Services.

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This included visiting the Republic Services West County Recycling Center on the first day of my internship.

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This exposure helped me create outreach material about our solid waste programs in dumpster days.

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I also assisted with website updates to the public works web pages.

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This involves creating web pages about the services provided in partnership with

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public services.

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Some examples of this would be dump vouchers, dumpster days, and information about public

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works infrastructure projects.

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Finally, I conducted biosworn inspections throughout the city in order to identify the

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plants that were thriving and struggling.

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I collected crucial information that narrowed down which plants should be replaced and

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planted in the future. This information also laid out the groundwork for a plant care guide

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for the plants that we have in our bioswells. As someone who grew up in San Pablo,

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I appreciate how my time in public works taught me to inner workings of how state laws impact

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the work that we do in the municipal sector. Additionally, my experience when working in the field

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with supporting setup neighborhood champion events gave me the exposure I needed to learn how to

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to educate the public on complex topics swiftly

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and effectively.

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Thank you.

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Jackie Hernandez.

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Next we'll hear from Jackie Hernandez.

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Good afternoon, City Council.

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My name is Jackie Hernandez, and I am a current youth

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commissioner as well as an incoming freshman

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at the University of San Francisco,

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while I'll be majoring in international business

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and immigration law.

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Here in the city of San Pablo, I found

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that local government aligns with my co-year interests.

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and it doesn't only give me that first-hand experience,

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but it also helps me align with my future career goals.

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Sorry, once I can't.

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During my time here, I entered upstairs

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in the planning department where I worked in organizing

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and comparing the zoning code updates for the year 2025,

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and this was because the planning division

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made changes to the zoning code, and my job was to make sure that those updates were translated into

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arm and a supercode. I also worked on creating a written guide and video on each track video where I

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showed the public how to sign up and how to submit online permits on the website. And then I also

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researched and compared multiple cities together useful insights to then implement to our website. I believe

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that these projects were mainly to make online navigation more feasible for the public.

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And then definitely one of my biggest takeaways were definitely the networking and

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relationships that I made along the way. I was surprised how welcoming and supporting everyone was

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and how willing and curious they were to know about my life, my aspirations and even my weekend plans

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such as I was with them. So for example here in my picture I want to say a big thank you to my

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My supervisor, Sandra, and my colleague, Laura, and all the staff for this learning opportunities.

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Thank you.

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Next we'll hear from Yusef El-Bagal,

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Good evening, Mayor, Vice-Mayor, City Council Members and City staff.

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My name is Yusef El-Bagal, and I'll be attending the Abu Valley College.

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This past summer had the opportunity to intern at the Building Division of the City's Community Development Department.

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while working the...

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Building Division had assigned me various tasks, such as arranging organized records, writing letters, or correspondence of that type that will be used by residents of the city, and observing the daily activities of a permit technician in order to grasp the idea on building permits in the city of San Pablo. Although all of this had a valuable effect on how well I perform as a professional in an office setting, I went above all with the chief building official Sergio Caudera, and observed numerous work sites with the close examination of how they work. They already established codes into place to develop

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of these buildings all around the city.

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Based on all of these tasks, the building division

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of the City of San Pablo has shown me communication,

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organizational and office skills, leadership abilities,

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and importantly, a deep understanding

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of how important it is to truly protect and serve your city.

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I would first like to thank the City of San Pablo

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for giving me this opportunity to show

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all who my work ethic is about,

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my supervisor, my record letter,

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and the community development department

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that made my experience meaningful enough

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to guide me toward my future.

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thank you all for everything.

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Next we'll hear from Sonsha Slotter.

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Good evening City Council.

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My name is Sonsha Slotter. I'm going to be a junior at Berkeley High School this fall

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and in two years I'm going to be attending Georgia Tech to play volleyball and I was an

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intern with the police department this year. My main project was helping with National

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Line Out, which is our annual event, which is actually being hosted tomorrow so I hope

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was I contacted vendors via phone and email to collect and give important information

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which helped me gain community outreach skills and communication skills.

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I made fires for the annual car show we'll have tomorrow and that helped me gain my event planning skills.

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And we also prepared over a thousand vouchers to give out to the community food vouchers

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and that helped me with my organization skills because we had to cut and organize

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over a thousand little pieces of paper and overall I would say that I gained

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workplace experience leadership and community outreach skills. Thank you guys.

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Thank you, Fasha.

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Just a special note, Kieran Slotter, our economic development housing

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manager is a proud father.

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Thank

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you. Next we'll hear from Avash Bandari.

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Good evening, City Council. My name is Avash Bandari and I'm a rising senior at

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many high school. During this summer, I worked as an intern for the city of San Pablo more specifically

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in the police department. While working at the police department, my main project was to prepare for

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our upcoming event, National Night Out, and to do this, one of the main things I did was organize and

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cut food vouchers, parking passes, and voting ballots. Along with this, I also had other projects

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such as organizing 10 years of department records and data and I organized all this digitally.

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I also supported officers by preparing shading papers for upcoming officer trips

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and through my time at the working at the police department, lessons I gained were lessons and skills

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I gained were communication skills, especially on the phone, communicating skills, organization

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through organizing all the food vouchers,

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there's voting ballots and parking passes,

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event planning, through National Nide Out,

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and planning for that event, and attention to detail,

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which is something that I had to add

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throughout my whole time at the police department.

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Overall, I'm very thankful for this opportunity

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to get to work with the city of San Pablo,

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especially the police department,

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something that was somewhat new to me,

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but an opportunity that I am very thankful for.

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I'm thankful for Paola and also my supervisor,

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Umma and just the city in general.

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And thank you.

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And I hope to see you guys at National Idol.

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Yeah, and

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finally, we'll hear from Marco Bayo.

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Hello, city council.

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My name is Marco Bayo and I'm a rising senior

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at James Logan High School,

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living in the Hayward Fremont area.

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This summer, I worked as an intern with Paola

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for the Youth School and Community Partnerships Division

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of the Community Services Department.

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During my time as an intern, I worked on a variety of projects

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of which I like to highlight three.

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One project I worked on was organizing and verifying

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over three years of scholarship, African data,

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which resulted in the creation of over 150 certificate packages

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and an analysis of recipient demographics.

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I also supported San Paulo's internship and summer

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I also created posters for summer camp staff to support team morale, and with my supervisors' approval, to do so, I used A.I., which helped strengthen my ability to use it responsibly and effectively. By far, my largest project was updating the YCP Division's internal budget trackers for the new 2026 to 2027 fiscal year. Instead of copying the old ones for the last year, I created completely new ones with features such as program assignment drop downs and automatically updating chartering.

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and tables to improve budget tracking.

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Overall, this internship has done so much for me,

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such as strengthening my Excel skills.

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It's improved my ability to use AI effectively and responsibly,

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and has allowed me in multiple opportunities

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to take initiative and be a leader within my community.

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Thank you.

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Thank you so much to all of our interns.

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They've been working on their presentation

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for about two weeks now,

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and so I really appreciate the way that everybody showed up today.

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And before we open it up to questions and comments,

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I want to acknowledge and thank

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Our Assistant City Manager, Mariel Heva, City Attorney, Brian Hickey, and Community Development

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Director, Ellen Tai, for serving as guest speakers during our Leadership Seminar this summer.

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We really learned a lot about them and their leadership journeys and that's influenced,

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and I think that's going to pay dividends beyond just the workplace experience but also learning

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from leaders.

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So thank you so much.

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Nice job.

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Do we have any public comment on this?

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No, we do not.

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Okay, I'm going to go around the dice.

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Councilmember Cruz, do you have any questions or comments?

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Yes.

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The purpose of this program is to create

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the next generation of community leaders.

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So James, Santiago, Ben, Jackie, Yusuf, Sasha,

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Avache and Marco, hopefully what you learn over the summer

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will be the skills you need to be successful

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for on your pathway to college and your career of choice. I want to thank you for participating

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in this program and I wish you all the best. I also want to acknowledge your parents

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for raising such great young people. So always make sure that you're proud of your parents

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and you appreciate everything they do for you guys, okay?

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Nice.

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Keep it with the great work and God bless you all. Thank you.

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Thank you for the presentation.

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What a fantastic group you are.

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Congratulations and finalizing your summer sponsorship.

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One of many, I'm sure.

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So it will say that your future of public leaders and my eyes are current public leaders.

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course, you are already leading by example and wherever you go, take that example with

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you.

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And the skill that you've learned here, put it to good use, if you're in college, if

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you're in high school, wherever it may be that you're going.

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We value your time here and our hope is that wherever you go, you remember some Pablo

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And when you've learned not only in sub-skills, but people skills and we hope that you come back one day and give back to this community.

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I wish you the best in your future. I know that each and every one of you has some really bright future ahead.

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And to all the managers, thank you for supporting this internship. I know it's not easy.

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but the dividends that are put back into our youth are immensely thank you

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managers and thank you thank you to all of our young leaders. Nice, thank you.

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Councilmember Pineda.

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I'm very happy. I'm happy, proud, excited, also just for

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like knowledge like when you guys came up here I don't know if you guys saw but you have a

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community of people that have your back that are very proud of you each and every single one of you

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you guys have done extraordinary things for our community we're thankful we are grateful but also

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I hope I'm hopeful I believe so that we planted the seed of public service in terms of

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getting you all excited about this type of work there's a lot of great rewards doing public service

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For me, I mean, I look at the opportunities that you guys have for today and, you know,

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we were barely starting, like, pathway partnerships with, like,

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Different like communities, institutions, businesses, and stuff like that. The fact that you guys are here doing internships with local government, getting that exposure very early on, I think that's actually really incredible. I'm very, very excited because I know what it meant to me as a young person having, you know, adult allies, leaders that had my back that kind of mentored me, supported me, gave me great advice.

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and I said this in the past, I believe so, but I think it still resonates here today,

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which each and every single one of you is like, when I was writing my personal statement,

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when I was applying for college, I said that I wanted to use my education to go back home and serve my community.

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I'm thankful to say that I've been able to do just that, and even in my other capacity,

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I work for the State Department of Education, so I also help and support the State of California.

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And I only got that because I had people that had my back, people that supported me,

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that mentored me, that introduced me to opportunities.

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I'm also going to tell you guys this as well.

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If you come across another opportunity, then maybe it's just not the right fit for you,

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but you know somebody else that wants an opportunity, that deserves an opportunity,

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that has been trying everything to try to get a foot in the door.

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And if you have that opportunity to help somebody out, help them out,

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introduce them. It's all about networking, network, network, network, network. I also just

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wanted to just take a moment to be able to recognize even in terms of the work that you're

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doing to each and every single department. I feel like I think a lot of people look about what we

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receive or even normalize it, that they don't realize that people power or the efforts that go into

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making it possible. And you guys got a chance to see just that. Sometimes it's repetitive tasks,

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Sometimes it takes creativity and a little bit of artistic skill to kind of get it to the finish line, right?

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Because as much as we want and believe things to be like a perfect science in terms of you do

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X lines, you'll get to this result. Sometimes it doesn't work out that way. And that's okay. I'm saying this to say that

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I hope that you see this as an opportunity if not just exposure, but as a pathway for you and seeing the people that

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that supported you, that guided you, that mentored you,

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you know, in this, you know, it's a short period of time,

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but I hope that it was still good,

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because I also, I just wrapped up my internship program

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with my interns at the Department of Education.

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And part of what I like to say is that message

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of not just reinforcing public service

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and the great rewards of that,

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but also, you know, trying to support them in life

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in general in their journey.

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And I hope that as you get older,

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you will see yourselves as those people

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and even see yourself as that today because you guys are all agents of change.

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Each and every single one of you, in your own way, it may be a skill, you know,

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maybe something that you say, something that you do, something that you create.

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You guys are all incredible. I'm proud of you, this whole community's proud of you,

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and when you, I know some of you guys are embarking in college and everything like that,

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think about like cooperative education programs.

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Sometimes you can get academic credit for work placement.

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So consider those things, talk to your counselor, see what's available, and sometimes they

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already have established relationships, kind of maybe probably have you found your way

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here.

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The same exact thing exists at the university, the college level, it's available, opportunities

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like that do exist.

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I know I'm a little bit long-winded in my response, but I also want to just be intentional

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about this time.

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Oh, public speaking, that skill.

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Just practicing that.

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If any of you felt nervous, I promise you, I mean, I'm at my age a little bit older.

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I feel that nervous to this day but I sometimes I let my heart speak by passion come out

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and it just takes over kind of like right now and it just feels a little different

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So I'm just saying that like the more you practice it, I'm not saying you completely normalize it and accepted

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But you start to grow comfort in that discomfort and that's the part of the growth journey. So

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Keep up the great work. Very happy. Very excited for you all and if there's any ways that we can help and continue to support you

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You let us know. Appreciate y'all

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You are all amazing. I hope you enjoyed your time so far. You've got some time left.

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He's in internship. I'm also hoping that maybe what you've been working on is

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giving you some ideas for what you want to do like in college.

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and after college, so on, just give you some insight into things that are possible,

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and

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As council member point out a side, you did a great job speaking. I'm impressed. So my best wishes to all of you. And where you go from here. And thanks for paying part of St. Babel's program. Thanks so much.

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What is there more to say? My goodness. My colleague, you see a little great job. Congrats.

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congratulating you on recognizing what you guys have done not only for yourselves, but also for the city of San Pablo.

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I believe though that you are in a wonderful path.

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I appreciate that you guys have stopped by here doing your path to gain insight, to gain skills, to gain whatever tools you need that you will need to continue to grow.

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So thank you for stopping by.

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I'm sure that you also left something behind for the staff.

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So this is a give and take. We appreciate you. Keep going.

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Don't let this is like I said, this is just part of your journey.

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We just came in. You passed through. You said, yes, I got this. I got that.

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I'm going to the next level in my life. We wish you well.

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and we're always here for you, if you guys ever need anything, I'm sure all you need to do is call.

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And we will respond because that's the kind of San Pablo we are, that's the kind of city we are.

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And I want to say city, I want to say that people in the city, that's who we are.

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So we're here to support you always and congratulations.

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And

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so all the staff, I'm not finished, and so all the staff that provided not only direct guidance but guidance just around them.

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Thank you, thank you Matt for making this happen, okay.

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I'm just to reiterate full compliments go to our community services department for

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coordinating with all of our city departments on this viable summer internship program that

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we do every year.

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Good job.

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Okay.

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Next item.

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Okay.

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Next item.

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Next item.

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Item number three.

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File ID.

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Two six dash.

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Three six two.

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Presentation of the San Pavel Police Department.

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fiscal year 2526 annual report, city manager.

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Thank you, Madam Clerk, may our members of the City Council commensurate with every fiscal year ending period.

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Our San Pablo Police Department commissions and annual year end report, which is prepared and then presented to the City Council for formal acknowledgement and acceptance.

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Since this year, we have a very, very glossy annual report with hard copies available on the council tyres for review, but at this time I'm going to turn this over to Chief Boobar to do a formal presentation on the annual report.

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And after tonight's meeting, this will be officially posted to the CIS website and departmental web page, Chief Boobar.

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00:48:42,620 --> 00:48:43,620
Thank you, City Manager.

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00:48:45,140 --> 00:48:47,300
Council, it is an honor and a pleasure.

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00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:53,320
Always to come to you and brag about your police department, full disclosure, I am biased,

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00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:58,060
but I think you have one of the best police departments in the region.

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And every year we do get to speak about the amazing work that the men and women of the police

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department do each and every year with an amazing community.

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So, next slide. So, I'm going to just briefly go through without – there's plenty

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of information, valuable information in there. And so, I'll just touch on a couple of

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points next page. So, there will be a theme to this year's annual report, courage, integrity,

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innovation, and that that theme is carried out through in our mission statement, serving

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this community with courage, integrity, and innovation, and encapsulates everything that

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our community is about, what your police department is about, and it's embedded in everything

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that we do. The message from me as the chief,

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Keep in mind, my mission, my goal, my objective is the public safety of this community. And this is true, no matter what community you work in, no matter what community you live in, no matter what community you serve in. The only way to reduce crime, which is my main objective to protect this community and reduce crime, community policing strategy and economic development. That is it. All the tools, everything that goes

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00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:35,880
those into it, the priorities that our community shares with us, everything speaks to that

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community policing and economic development.

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So what does that mean?

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If your police department does not have a relationship with the community, ultimately

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we will be challenged on protecting that community.

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So first and foremost, serving this community, I need to make sure that myself and the members

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of my police department have a relationship with the community and through that we can understand

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what are the priorities of the community, what is important, what are the values of this community

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and then we can go about implementing the strategies on how to keep this community safe but public

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safety is a relationship. It's a relationship with our communities and that is what we speak about

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and we talk about courage, integrity, and innovation next page.

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So I always pause whenever showing our organizational chart

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and for those that have been in this community for 30 plus years,

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when I first started in 2002, this organizational chart

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was looked very different.

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We had patrol and we had detectives.

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And those were essentially the make-up of this police department.

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as you can see here, in a small police department, we're only 62 sworn, so we are considered a small

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00:51:56,340 --> 00:52:04,260
police department. You have a very diverse spectrum of police service. And that is, it's directly

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00:52:04,260 --> 00:52:10,500
related to and speaks to the priorities and the values of our community. Creating a traffic safety

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00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:15,940
unit, creating a crisis response unit that addresses homelessness, behavioral health outreach,

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outreach, creating, community outreach, creating, community service, outreach coordinators.

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Everything is made up in our structure to be responsive to our community needs which

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has evolved over the past 25 years.

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So that is what you see in that structure.

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It's an ambitious structure to have, but it speaks to the responsiveness and commitment

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into that responsiveness to the community.

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The next page.

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This is our city, not everybody knows where Sam Pablo's at,

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so it's always good to remind everybody where he's at,

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where Sam Pablo's at, and the makeup,

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and the demographics, and the location of our city,

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and then attached to that is the faces of the leadership team.

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So we're a small police department.

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I want every member of the community to see

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and recognize the decision makers, the leaders,

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the front line supervisors, the command staff member, all of the leadership.

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Not only that, I want you to know what they're in charge of, and how to contact each member of the leadership team.

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Because sometimes when you're dealing with, you know, you're trying to get a hold of someone, trying to get information,

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00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:34,760
one of the most frustrating parts of seeking that information is not knowing where to go.

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We're getting the run around or talking to someone who puts you in touch with someone else.

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We're a small department, we're a small community, our community should know who's part

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00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,700
of the leadership team and be able to pick up the phone and call them directly or email

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them directly if needed and what areas are responsibilities that they fall under.

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So it is important that we all see the faces of leadership and decision makers of the

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police department so our community can again know them and reach out to them if needed.

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00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:06,040
next page.

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The next several pages talking about department achievements and you'll notice

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again a theme what we're talking about when it comes to outreach in our community. We celebrate

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the relationships and the success of our outreach, the priorities of other communities. So what

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you see, what we what we talk about and what we boast about youth engagement, community safety,

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city beautification, community policing, business, engagement, homeless outreach, traffic

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and tobacco, social media, grants, partnerships, these are the things that speak to the priorities

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00:54:46,180 --> 00:54:52,460
of the community, things that we've been successful at, things that we also understand that we

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have a ways to go and that we need to work on, right?

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But we want to echo the success in

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And these achievements, something like tobacco enforcement. Year over year, our tobacco enforcement is recognized as the premier enforcement and outreach unit in the entire county, right? But that's because it speaks to the needs and the priorities and the values of our community. They said, this is an issue. We prioritize it. We received grant funding for it. We dedicated full-time staffing to it. In year over year, it's proven to be successful and to make an impact.

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So these next page, that is how we recognize our achievement and our success is aligned with the community's success.

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It's always important to recognize promotions, people coming are new employees, but also people who were able to reach retirement and successfully retire from many years of service in this career.

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So we celebrate that, we celebrate the new hires, the promotions, the recognitions of our officers,

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00:56:02,100 --> 00:56:07,260
so our officer are not rassic and police service technician, all McGill, where our employees,

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00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,880
officer of the year and civilian employee of the year, as well as our employees of the month,

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always want to recognize the great work of our staff and celebrate that next page.

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So operations division is our patrol division and patrol is our essential duty if something

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were to happen, the one service that we have to provide is a patrol response.

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That is the most essential duty.

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We have over 37,000 calls for service in 2.6 million miles.

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We're a really active and busy police department.

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I always say this, we're prolific in our police work, we're 2.6 square miles, we're

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completely surrounded, and we are vulnerable to crime, not in San Pablo, but crime coming

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into San Pablo.

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That is something that we're always vulnerable as two, as these other jurisdictions, as their

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crime trends go, we get impacted.

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Now, year over year, we've proven to be successful and last year in 2025 is no different.

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We reduced part 1 crimes by 17% alone last year.

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Anytime you can reduce crime, year over year by 1%, it's considered a success in these

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past couple of years.

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We've experienced double-digit reduction in part 1 crimes.

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In addition to that, we have the highest clearance rate of any department in the Bay Area.

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So our clearance rate is over 60% for all crime, all crime.

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For context, compared to speaking some jurisdictions surrounding us, they report out 0 to 3% clearance.

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around 3% for violent crimes, 0% less than 1% for property crime.

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So the fact that our police department is solving more than 60% of all crime,

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and when it comes to the priority violent crime, the highly violent crime,

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that clearance rate is between 80% and 90%.

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Property crime is around 25%.

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We are prolific because we've in solving crime,

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Because we have invested in the proper tools and resources and technology training, but also it is the commitment in that relationship with the community.

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Again, no matter what technology we install, no matter what training we implement, if you don't have a relationship with that community to report the crime, to cooperate with investigations to support and help the police department, then ultimately we will not be successful.

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So, the number and the data suggest that we are successful because of our relationship

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with our community.

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Next page.

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Again, highlighting some of the great work of our investigations division, some of the

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priority cases, homicides, robberies, you will notice a theme, a lot of technology and innovation

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00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:24,690
is being used to solve these crimes, some of these resources and tools that some other police

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00:59:24,690 --> 00:59:31,810
departments may not have. Our city leadership has prioritized investing in this public safety

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technology to help our detectives solve crime. So we have highlighted some of our major

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investigations here, but it is a testament to the tools and resources of commitment and support

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00:59:45,790 --> 00:59:50,350
from our city leadership and our community to allow us to have these tools to help solve these crimes.

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And then we talk about the pop division.

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This is a unique unit that not all police departments have.

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It's our priority oriented policing unit.

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This

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So this has the teams that speak directly to the priorities and the values of our community. So our crisis response unit, behavioral health and homeless outreach, is in there, our traffic unit is in there, our community outreach unit is in there, our code enforcement is in there, as well as our training. So everything that goes, as far as what our community is telling us, we have a unit that can speak directly to those issues and respond,

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which has helped us address and be more responsive to those needs as they come up next page.

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So last year we traffic is always at the top of the priority from our community.

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And in 2024 we had an alarming spike in fatal collisions.

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And all of those collisions were either proven to be directly related to alcohol or substance abuse.

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use or believed to be alcohol related or substance abuse related.

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So we had four fatal collisions and our injury collision reporting was also on the

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rise.

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So last year we prioritized and pursued special enforcement grants that allowed us to

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do increased operations and then subsequently we were able to report since 2024.

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4, we have not had any fatal collisions, so we had over 100% reduction in fatal collisions.

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We had an 11% reduction in injury collisions and 20% reduction in DUI collisions while

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increasing DUI arrests by more than 50%.

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So again, that is something that when we notice a trend or we notice a spike, we have to be

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able to respond through either pursuing grants, through training, through enforcement, to

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directly address that. Business Watch program, something we always champion, and

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beyond just what we do with formal meetings with our business watch, again it's

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01:02:05,590 --> 01:02:09,050
important economic development is important, it's important that our businesses

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feel safe, feel supported, and have a relationship. So myself and members of my

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01:02:15,830 --> 01:02:20,090
command staff, we try to meet a business at least one or two businesses a day

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stopping in, having a conversation. It's amazing what you can learn from the community when you go out and just talk to them.

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We're able to identify a lot of issues that we can address, especially prioritizing San Pablo Town Center,

663
01:02:36,530 --> 01:02:43,490
College Center, and 23rd Street corridor. Those have been our focus areas and we've seen a lot of success with the programs.

664
01:02:43,490 --> 01:02:44,470
Next page,

665
01:02:46,710 --> 01:02:51,090
not sure if you heard, but we are building a new police department.

666
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:58,150
We are expecting to move in, hopefully this fall, but it's going to be a big part of

667
01:02:58,150 --> 01:03:06,030
this next year, standing up a regional training center, bringing in different community programs,

668
01:03:06,350 --> 01:03:13,250
but we're going to be able to offer a lot of expanded resources and training and engagement

669
01:03:13,250 --> 01:03:17,490
in the new facility, and that's something that we want to share with community to look forward to.

670
01:03:18,270 --> 01:03:24,750
And again, wellness, technology, innovation, when it comes to investing in your police department,

671
01:03:25,210 --> 01:03:29,910
you have allowed staff to increase wellness.

672
01:03:30,590 --> 01:03:38,290
We ask our officers, the men and women, the police department's worn and non-s worn to do a very challenging job day in and day out.

673
01:03:38,290 --> 01:03:44,890
And it takes its toll, and we've been able to implement different wellness programs, to

674
01:03:44,890 --> 01:03:50,450
support officers and their families and the staff to do this job every day.

675
01:03:50,970 --> 01:03:57,010
So investment in your police department and your staff has gone a long way, which has

676
01:03:57,010 --> 01:04:00,210
resulted in a better service response.

677
01:04:00,810 --> 01:04:01,230
Next page.

678
01:04:01,230 --> 01:04:02,230
Talking

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01:04:04,730 --> 01:04:11,010
about our Christ's response units, again, that is a large unit.

680
01:04:11,430 --> 01:04:16,830
When we go after the most dangerous individuals on our highest priority, the Christ's response

681
01:04:16,830 --> 01:04:18,390
unit is the team that we call.

682
01:04:18,910 --> 01:04:23,730
This is men and women trained, involves our SWAT team, our Hofstra's negotiation team,

683
01:04:23,950 --> 01:04:24,670
our drone team.

684
01:04:25,170 --> 01:04:33,490
But collectively, we had over 20 activations last year and without one, without one use of

685
01:04:33,490 --> 01:04:38,030
course incident involved in any of those incidents and that's a testament to the training,

686
01:04:38,650 --> 01:04:45,130
the equipment, the professionalism of the staff involved in our cross-response unit.

687
01:04:45,930 --> 01:04:52,030
And then everybody's favorite officer, Pablo, is, he's everyone's favorite, I sometimes

688
01:04:52,030 --> 01:04:56,510
get a chance to actually be Pablo and show up at schools and different community events,

689
01:04:56,510 --> 01:04:59,970
and it's just everyone's

690
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:29,800
And then finally, these last several pages just highlight some of our community programming. I will touch on autism awareness, which is every April going forward. It's a great program. We're able to visit the East Bay Regional Center and their staff and raise funding to support their programs. Some more families can bring, can be aware that this resource exists.

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01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:37,800
It was amazing once we started the autism awareness, how many families were in need and how many families did not know where to go to get help.

692
01:05:38,380 --> 01:05:47,480
So that is a great program we've been able to bring a lot of awareness and resources to the families to bring support.

693
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:48,780
Next page.

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01:05:50,940 --> 01:06:12,920
Again, just highlighting the community programming that we do and then finally National Police Week which was a historic event that I got to participate in and taking June Wheeler, Widow of Robert Wheeler to Washington DC to be recognized formally by the Office of Cops and Department of Justice.

695
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:19,800
So it was a once in a lifetime experience that she will and her family will never forget.

696
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:26,340
And then finally, the back page, just again highlighting the brand new police department looking forward to the future.

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01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:35,000
And what we have in store over the next 12 months with the opening of our new police department pretty soon.

698
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:37,820
And with that, I will open it up to any questions.

699
01:06:39,120 --> 01:06:42,940
Well, do you have any public comment on this?

700
01:06:43,220 --> 01:06:43,800
I do not.

701
01:06:44,300 --> 01:06:44,400
No.

702
01:06:44,900 --> 01:06:45,220
Okay.

703
01:06:45,540 --> 01:06:46,320
Councilmember Cruz.

704
01:06:48,610 --> 01:06:49,630
Great presentation, chief.

705
01:06:50,130 --> 01:06:51,530
Happy related birthday, by the way.

706
01:06:51,790 --> 01:06:52,270
Oh, thank you.

707
01:06:52,370 --> 01:06:52,530
Yeah.

708
01:06:53,270 --> 01:06:57,770
I just think that a lot of people are underestimating the danger of this job, you know.

709
01:06:58,690 --> 01:07:03,770
And I just want to say that I really appreciate what our police department does for city and community.

710
01:07:03,770 --> 01:07:08,610
Chief, Chief, you're doing an outstanding job if I take your word and outstanding.

711
01:07:09,110 --> 01:07:09,510
Thank you.

712
01:07:10,030 --> 01:07:13,430
And I want to say, keep up the great work and God bless our department.

713
01:07:13,790 --> 01:07:14,570
Thank you so much.

714
01:07:15,010 --> 01:07:15,330
Thank you.

715
01:07:15,390 --> 01:07:15,790
Thank you guys too.

716
01:07:19,810 --> 01:07:20,130
Okay.

717
01:07:20,630 --> 01:07:21,030
Councilmember.

718
01:07:21,150 --> 01:07:21,350
Sorry.

719
01:07:21,490 --> 01:07:22,350
I do have one question.

720
01:07:22,430 --> 01:07:22,570
Okay.

721
01:07:22,690 --> 01:07:22,770
Good.

722
01:07:22,850 --> 01:07:23,430
Any hypothesis.

723
01:07:25,050 --> 01:07:27,030
The non-emergency number versus 9-1-1.

724
01:07:27,110 --> 01:07:30,330
How does that assist us with costs?

725
01:07:31,710 --> 01:07:31,930
Yeah.

726
01:07:31,930 --> 01:07:37,670
Yeah, so we always encourage our community to utilize an auto emergency number.

727
01:07:38,710 --> 01:07:44,810
So there's apprehension people are apprehensive about calling 911 because they don't feel

728
01:07:44,810 --> 01:07:49,550
like a certain incident may arise to an emergency.

729
01:07:51,010 --> 01:07:53,250
Now there's that's subjective, right?

730
01:07:53,350 --> 01:07:58,490
One emergency to someone could be a long life threatening issue to someone else and vice versa.

731
01:07:58,490 --> 01:08:03,710
So if there's any apprehension, just call 911, it goes to the same call center.

732
01:08:04,350 --> 01:08:10,030
The non-emergency number, though, is there for things that are not immediately considered

733
01:08:10,030 --> 01:08:10,750
life and death.

734
01:08:11,210 --> 01:08:20,830
So if you have an illegal dumping or something or like a cold theft report, you can use the

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01:08:20,830 --> 01:08:24,170
non-emergency number that is there for our community.

736
01:08:24,170 --> 01:08:29,850
So the committee has both options if they feel it's an emergency call 911 if they feel like it's not an emergency

737
01:08:29,850 --> 01:08:34,570
That's what the not emergency number is there for but you can call either one. We're gonna get the call either way

738
01:08:35,870 --> 01:08:38,090
Thank you. Thank you Madam Mayor. Okay

739
01:08:39,510 --> 01:08:40,390
Councilmember Ponce

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01:08:41,370 --> 01:08:49,490
Thank you chief for the presentation and for your annual report. I really like the layout of the of the report and

741
01:08:49,490 --> 01:08:53,890
And whoever did it, Kudel, Kudel, to them, amazing job.

742
01:08:54,510 --> 01:08:57,750
I really like the theme, courage, integrity, and innovation.

743
01:08:58,570 --> 01:09:02,250
That really speaks highly of the somehow a police apartment in our city.

744
01:09:02,990 --> 01:09:03,450
And you're right.

745
01:09:03,590 --> 01:09:08,490
Community policing is one of our most valuable assets because without the community,

746
01:09:09,650 --> 01:09:13,050
neither you or nobody else or us could do our job.

747
01:09:13,050 --> 01:09:19,910
economic development is important. I don't recall any small business owner that I

748
01:09:19,910 --> 01:09:24,370
spoken to that does not know who there's some public police department is and so

749
01:09:24,370 --> 01:09:29,810
that makes me really proud. You said that we're a small city but we're a small

750
01:09:29,810 --> 01:09:35,170
but mighty city and that really shows and you said it was 17% rate reduction

751
01:09:35,170 --> 01:09:39,450
overall. That's just the amazing work that the men and women at the police department

752
01:09:39,450 --> 01:09:46,350
are doing. It takes a lot and I know that we have some of the most amazing police officers

753
01:09:46,770 --> 01:09:54,310
in the county. I'm happy to say that there's going to be an officer wellness support coming

754
01:09:54,310 --> 01:09:58,570
in the near future in our new department. That's really good. It's really important.

755
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:30,120
For all of them to have this loneliness support, I can't wait to see what that entails. And then finally, the pop division. I just wanted to say kudos to them. I personally have to use our services for someone close to me and their professionalism. And then after the incident, the follow-through, I was really impressed, really impressed. And this is something very unique to some Pablo that is really important to continue.

756
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:37,080
in our community. So overall I mean you guys are doing an amazing job year by year and it only

757
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:42,280
gets better and we continue the path that we've been been going towards. Thank you Chief and

758
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:48,580
thank you to everyone and the police department. Thank you. Thank you. Can you cement the

759
01:10:48,580 --> 01:10:48,880
opinion?

760
01:10:52,270 --> 01:10:56,910
This is awesome. I think first of all appreciate the presentation, appreciate the

761
01:10:56,910 --> 01:11:07,010
information, a happy, related birthday. I think I got to give credit, whoever made this did a really

762
01:11:07,010 --> 01:11:12,530
good job. I think that it's kind of going into my earlier comments. A lot of people don't realize

763
01:11:12,530 --> 01:11:19,930
what goes in to the jobs that are housed in one building, but realizing that it's so much more

764
01:11:19,930 --> 01:11:26,250
and the reach is so far and it goes in every single level like literally in and the fact that we can

765
01:11:26,250 --> 01:11:27,770
and spell it out here, I think it's a really good,

766
01:11:28,290 --> 01:11:29,750
I'm a visual learner as well,

767
01:11:29,750 --> 01:11:31,170
so just visually seeing these things

768
01:11:31,170 --> 01:11:33,990
and seeing the numbers also really helps me out as well a lot.

769
01:11:35,290 --> 01:11:37,610
And I'm sure our residents also appreciate that

770
01:11:37,610 --> 01:11:40,010
because I feel like it's really important, I guess.

771
01:11:41,090 --> 01:11:42,830
I think, again, it gets summed up

772
01:11:42,830 --> 01:11:44,750
that you have this one role, right?

773
01:11:44,890 --> 01:11:46,690
And they only come if I'm doing something bad.

774
01:11:46,930 --> 01:11:49,110
They're like, no, that's not actually it.

775
01:11:49,190 --> 01:11:51,130
I'm like, there's so much that happens.

776
01:11:51,530 --> 01:11:53,110
And so many great and positive things.

777
01:11:53,110 --> 01:11:57,130
And I feel like, and I actually, again, just going back to the coming up,

778
01:11:57,130 --> 01:12:00,950
why I appreciate this, is because it's part of telling the story.

779
01:12:01,250 --> 01:12:06,030
And the story is, like, there's so much that happens each and every single year

780
01:12:06,030 --> 01:12:08,350
to get us to the point of what we are today.

781
01:12:08,830 --> 01:12:13,250
And even as much progress as we make, we recognize that we still have a work to do.

782
01:12:13,530 --> 01:12:15,610
And I feel like that's the beautiful part of this.

783
01:12:15,770 --> 01:12:20,890
So saying that, like, we can prove that things have improved.

784
01:12:20,890 --> 01:12:37,330
And we're demonstrating that in so many different ways, but we are also mindful that there are other issues or situations that complicate things and we're trying our best to try to navigate those situations and produce the greatest and the most positive outcomes.

785
01:12:38,790 --> 01:12:47,570
I also just want to go back to my earlier comment as well saying just recognizing the incredible work that our officers do and that are all of our PD staff.

786
01:12:47,570 --> 01:12:56,650
I mean it's it's putting yourself out there and sometimes in pretty dangerous situations and

787
01:12:57,770 --> 01:13:01,510
kind of building up on the other earlier comments you said talking about like community trust.

788
01:13:01,650 --> 01:13:03,070
This is why that trust is important.

789
01:13:05,450 --> 01:13:10,330
It goes in all ways, right? I think as residents you know they

790
01:13:10,330 --> 01:13:16,950
have to be able and feel confident being able to call 911 or to say that whoever's responding to

791
01:13:16,950 --> 01:13:20,470
this call is going to provide the help, the resource, the support that's needed.

792
01:13:22,010 --> 01:13:26,530
Also, in law enforcement, we need to be able to fostering those strong relationships with

793
01:13:26,530 --> 01:13:28,990
our residents, with our business owners, with our community members.

794
01:13:30,090 --> 01:13:32,790
And sometimes when people slip up, it's like, hey, do you understand?

795
01:13:33,050 --> 01:13:34,270
Like, I've actually seen you guys do this.

796
01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:35,190
So it's actually quite incredible.

797
01:13:35,370 --> 01:13:39,810
It's like talking to people and giving them the support, that mentorship, that guidance

798
01:13:39,810 --> 01:13:40,650
that sometimes we need.

799
01:13:40,770 --> 01:13:43,930
And sometimes we don't have that or have those figures in our lives.

800
01:13:43,930 --> 01:13:47,950
and so, and I've actually, I'm aware that you guys have done that for individuals as

801
01:13:47,950 --> 01:13:53,830
one, and I think that actually does help and does provide support. I just wanted to

802
01:13:53,830 --> 01:14:01,890
say again, really amazing work. I'm mindful again of the climate where in situations we

803
01:14:01,890 --> 01:14:07,910
find ourselves in as well, but I start to take away or to take any light away, honestly,

804
01:14:07,910 --> 01:14:13,590
for the great work, our law enforcement, all of our officers, all of our staff are doing

805
01:14:13,590 --> 01:14:18,350
each and every single day to keep our community safe, to keep our residents well, and to connect

806
01:14:18,350 --> 01:14:22,750
people to the resources. Even thinking about like a national night out, it was talked about by the

807
01:14:22,750 --> 01:14:27,710
interns, talked about with, with the others as well. It's not just an opportunity for residents

808
01:14:27,710 --> 01:14:33,690
to come and meet, you know, their officers, their PD staff or anything like that. It's also connecting

809
01:14:33,690 --> 01:14:40,050
them to resources and it's essentially matchmaking and it's kind of like that

810
01:14:40,050 --> 01:14:42,870
and I look at it through that lens of saying they're like you know if you

811
01:14:42,870 --> 01:14:45,850
find yourself as I should building up on the other comment if like if you

812
01:14:45,850 --> 01:14:51,130
find yourself in a situation where you find out resources that are available

813
01:14:51,130 --> 01:14:54,430
maybe it's not a resource to you but maybe you may know somebody that can

814
01:14:54,430 --> 01:14:58,770
benefit from having access to that or being aware that it even exists I mean a

815
01:14:58,770 --> 01:14:59,850
a lot of times, see that one.

816
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:06,920
I work for the state legislature, had calls from everyone in various types of situations. I felt

817
01:15:06,920 --> 01:15:13,880
like I was doing a little bit of navigating them, helping them get connected to the right support and resources. And

818
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:20,560
I know that this also happens through our PDS role. So I just wanted to say thank you. I appreciate you all and to our residents,

819
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:26,340
you know, please come out, national night out, get to know the great people that occupy,

820
01:15:27,340 --> 01:15:32,600
currently are existing police department, but also who will soon be occupying the new building

821
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:39,080
that will be soon open to the public. But I appreciate you, thank you, and I appreciate all of that.

822
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:40,240
Thank you.

823
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:41,540
You're right, Smith.

824
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,240
As usual, this is great.

825
01:15:46,500 --> 01:15:47,940
This is really nice.

826
01:15:50,400 --> 01:15:52,460
You had to have such a wonderful job.

827
01:15:53,660 --> 01:15:59,260
And you know, Chief, that I break about our police department all over the place.

828
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:08,520
I think our community, for the most part, basically, feels very comfortable with our officers.

829
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:17,900
unlike what I read on social media, the people in some other cities, they don't

830
01:16:17,900 --> 01:16:20,960
really like their police departments. So a

831
01:16:23,590 --> 01:16:24,010
lot of reasons.

832
01:16:27,580 --> 01:16:28,200
And I think it's

833
01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:29,620
because they,

834
01:16:35,400 --> 01:16:42,320
the people don't really know how to interact with the police. You've

835
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:47,100
taught them that how to interact with our police department.

836
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:51,300
I see when he

837
01:16:51,300 --> 01:16:58,680
good things for you and for our city and your new building and I'm looking forward

838
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:02,640
to it being open. Thanks for everything you do, all of you.

839
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:12,720
We are too, thank you. Yeah, this is beautiful. I go what my colleagues here say about your

840
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:19,140
report and everything that you do for sure. One thing that I want to include in all of this

841
01:17:19,140 --> 01:17:29,620
This is the solid foundation that I see that the San Pablo Police Department has because

842
01:17:29,620 --> 01:17:35,680
if your foundation was not solid and it was shaken and you were a bad boss and you

843
01:17:35,680 --> 01:17:42,180
were just good here, you know, you talked well but treated your employees bad, that would

844
01:17:42,180 --> 01:17:44,220
show up and it doesn't.

845
01:17:44,220 --> 01:17:49,120
And so I just want to commend you first, and it rolls, everything rolls down here, right?

846
01:17:49,300 --> 01:17:52,720
So if you're good, the rest of your staff is good, and the rest of the people are good,

847
01:17:53,100 --> 01:17:54,660
and people are good to each other.

848
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:55,740
We're not perfect.

849
01:17:55,960 --> 01:18:01,360
We are going to have our little issues, and we sometimes have to step up and say no because

850
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:11,580
I am the boss, type of thing, but I appreciate that, I just, it's just that sense of community

851
01:18:11,580 --> 01:18:19,020
that you not only bring to our community but also to the community, the whole police

852
01:18:19,020 --> 01:18:28,140
department and the inside of staff. So thank you. And you know my heart always says love you guys.

853
01:18:29,020 --> 01:18:34,540
Thank you so much. Yes. So thank you for the presentation. It's wonderful.

854
01:18:36,630 --> 01:18:39,050
Next item. City manager

855
01:18:39,050 --> 01:18:43,490
your remarks. And just to reflect there was no public comment on that last item.

856
01:18:44,110 --> 01:18:44,830
No, there are no.

857
01:18:45,770 --> 01:18:53,470
Okay, City Manager, Marks. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So two announcements. This Saturday, August 8th is our next dumpster day event.

858
01:18:54,150 --> 01:18:58,730
Sponsored by our Public Works Maintenance Division, located at 2600 log of road.

859
01:18:59,310 --> 01:19:04,550
The event starts at 7 a.m. until the dumpsters get full or 12 noon, whichever occurs first.

860
01:19:04,550 --> 01:19:09,130
First, this is an opportunity for city residents living in the incorporated area of San Pablo

861
01:19:09,950 --> 01:19:12,730
to dispose of unwanted household items for free.

862
01:19:13,090 --> 01:19:19,530
Proof of San Pablo Residency is required, maintenance staff will not unload items and

863
01:19:19,530 --> 01:19:21,710
no commercial vehicles will be accepted.

864
01:19:22,330 --> 01:19:28,110
Also the city cannot accept any mattresses, electronic devices, tires, batteries, or any household

865
01:19:28,110 --> 01:19:29,330
hazardous materials.

866
01:19:29,330 --> 01:19:37,450
For more information, please contact our Public Works Maintenance Division at 510-215-307-0.

867
01:19:38,010 --> 01:19:44,210
And secondly, just to reiterate, again, tomorrow is our 2026 National Night Out event,

868
01:19:44,750 --> 01:19:49,190
sponsor by the San Pablo Police Department, Chief Boobar and PD staff have been

869
01:19:49,190 --> 01:19:52,910
busily preparing for our annual event, which is one of our largest in our community.

870
01:19:52,910 --> 01:19:59,130
every year. Food trucks, vendor booths, PD vehicles, live entertainment, games and prizes,

871
01:19:59,130 --> 01:19:59,710
as raffles.

872
01:20:00,140 --> 01:20:21,380
K-9 demonstrations, car show, and meeting our masks got Pablo. The event will be scheduled at the San Pablo Community Center, 2450-020 in San Pablo. For more information or questions, please contact Al McGill at 4150-215-3150. And that includes the city manager's remarks.

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01:20:21,380 --> 01:20:22,620
Next

874
01:20:25,020 --> 01:20:25,240
item?

875
01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:26,140
Next item?

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01:20:26,940 --> 01:20:28,280
Consent calendar.

877
01:20:29,440 --> 01:20:34,700
Consent calendar includes routine items that are being acted by one motion.

878
01:20:35,420 --> 01:20:38,000
There will be no separate discussion of these items.

879
01:20:38,700 --> 01:20:44,920
If discussion is requested, the item will be removed from the consent calendar and considered

880
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:45,860
separately.

881
01:20:46,500 --> 01:20:51,600
Mayor, would you or any council members like the poll, any items for a discussion?

882
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:57,320
I'll ask the Dias, my colleagues on the Dias.

883
01:20:57,540 --> 01:20:58,340
Council Member Cruz.

884
01:20:58,920 --> 01:20:59,800
No, thank you.

885
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:01,360
Council Member Ponce.

886
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:02,380
No, thank you.

887
01:21:02,740 --> 01:21:03,860
Council Member Pineda.

888
01:21:04,220 --> 01:21:04,840
No, thank you.

889
01:21:05,080 --> 01:21:06,040
Vice Mayor Xavier.

890
01:21:06,460 --> 01:21:06,940
No, thank you.

891
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:12,040
I would like to pull the first item, please.

892
01:21:13,040 --> 01:21:17,380
The meeting minutes are item five, two, six, three, seven, zero.

893
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,340
They're on item five and zero, it's up.

894
01:21:19,340 --> 01:21:20,280
So

895
01:21:25,950 --> 01:21:30,670
is there any public comment on the remainder of the consent calendar?

896
01:21:31,010 --> 01:21:31,850
No there aren't.

897
01:21:32,290 --> 01:21:32,570
Okay.

898
01:21:33,150 --> 01:21:40,970
So the City Council wants to entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar except for item number five.

899
01:21:41,590 --> 01:21:45,110
I would like to move to approve everything except item number five.

900
01:21:46,250 --> 01:21:47,250
Thank you.

901
01:21:47,850 --> 01:21:48,850
Council member Cruz.

902
01:21:49,570 --> 01:21:49,930
Aye.

903
01:21:50,430 --> 01:21:51,470
Council member Ponce.

904
01:21:51,810 --> 01:21:51,970
Aye.

905
01:21:51,970 --> 01:21:54,110
Council Member Pineda.

906
01:21:54,590 --> 01:21:56,270
My name is Mary Xavier.

907
01:21:56,730 --> 01:21:58,610
I am Mayor Pabón Alvarado.

908
01:21:58,910 --> 01:22:00,410
I, yes, that's what this is.

909
01:22:00,770 --> 01:22:03,930
That was item five for number 26, 370.

910
01:22:04,570 --> 01:22:06,050
Five item number five.

911
01:22:06,170 --> 01:22:09,450
My ID, 26, 370.

912
01:22:10,570 --> 01:22:13,490
Consider adopting resolution of the City Council

913
01:22:13,810 --> 01:22:15,550
of the City of San Pablo.

914
01:22:15,970 --> 01:22:19,750
One, appropriating fiscal year 26, 27.

915
01:22:19,750 --> 01:22:28,710
Joe Fund designated reserves fund 110 in the amount of $249,000 to the Citywide

916
01:22:28,710 --> 01:22:37,890
beautification project 0505 to approving fiscal year 2627 designated capital

917
01:22:37,890 --> 01:22:45,650
project allocations and three amending the adopted fiscal year 2627

918
01:22:45,650 --> 01:22:50,670
and capital improvement program, budget effective August 3, 2026.

919
01:22:51,910 --> 01:22:53,190
Thank you, ma'am clerk.

920
01:22:53,930 --> 01:22:59,470
So, emergency to council, staff can proceed with the formal presentation that was provided

921
01:22:59,970 --> 01:23:06,210
at our recent temporary ad hoc subcommittee on July 8th, as well as our budget fiscal

922
01:23:06,210 --> 01:23:09,150
legislative state and committee on July 29th.

923
01:23:09,610 --> 01:23:15,570
And just from initial background, this has been a beautification plan that was initiated

924
01:23:15,570 --> 01:23:23,090
when you have first adopted your council party work plan for fiscal year 2527 back on April 7th of 2025.

925
01:23:24,030 --> 01:23:31,190
And through September 25th to date, city staff had been working in concert with an engineering consultant

926
01:23:31,190 --> 01:23:36,890
along with the temporary ad hoc subcommittee consisting of Mayor Pabona Barato and Councilor Ponce

927
01:23:37,370 --> 01:23:44,990
to recommend a number of capital improvements for fiscal year 2627 year one implementation.

928
01:23:44,990 --> 01:24:05,310
and following that input, our budget fiscal legislative stand committee on July 29th recommended a one-time funding appropriation of 249,000 for those six improvement projects to be allocated and appropriated this evening by resolution, and that was formally recommended by the stand committee.

929
01:24:05,310 --> 01:24:11,830
So at this time to give a full background of the timeline and process of the development

930
01:24:11,830 --> 01:24:17,550
of the citywide modification plan, I have our environmental programs, Manjaro Mandibuth,

931
01:24:17,690 --> 01:24:23,490
who's here, who can provide the formal presentation that was previously addressed with the Staying

932
01:24:23,490 --> 01:24:24,470
Committee last week.

933
01:24:25,030 --> 01:24:25,210
Amanda.

934
01:24:25,890 --> 01:24:27,330
Good evening, Council.

935
01:24:28,030 --> 01:24:31,990
Unfortunately, this Jim Mercurio was unable to be here today, so I'll be presenting in

936
01:24:31,990 --> 01:24:36,870
her absence, but we'll be talking about the City of San Pablo citywide beautification program.

937
01:24:37,630 --> 01:24:41,070
So to start, we're going to just go through the background of where, you know, how we

938
01:24:41,070 --> 01:24:41,430
got here.

939
01:24:41,430 --> 01:24:48,210
So in April of 2025, Council chose to amend their priority work plan to include a new policy

940
01:24:48,210 --> 01:24:51,710
to explore a new citywide beautification plan.

941
01:24:51,870 --> 01:24:58,430
Then in September of that year, the Council directed the city manager to proceed with the

942
01:24:58,430 --> 01:24:59,290
project implementation.

943
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:07,000
After that, the staff came back in January and presented some conceptual projects to council. Along

944
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:12,060
with that council, the voted on some guidelines, which we'll go over a little later regarding

945
01:25:12,060 --> 01:25:17,420
how these projects would be decided. Then in April of 2026, council awarded a contract

946
01:25:17,420 --> 01:25:29,980
to an engineering firm WaterEarth, who helped the staff to put together the plan, and at that

947
01:25:29,980 --> 01:25:31,580
to help develop that draft plan.

948
01:25:32,260 --> 01:25:37,540
Then in July of 26, the draft plan was presented

949
01:25:38,380 --> 01:25:40,660
to the temporary ad hoc subcommittee,

950
01:25:41,470 --> 01:25:43,360
where they received recommendations

951
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,940
and moved forward to the Budget Fiscal

952
01:25:45,940 --> 01:25:49,080
Legislative Standard Committee in late July of 2026,

953
01:25:50,200 --> 01:25:52,860
which recommended one time funding appropriations

954
01:25:52,860 --> 01:25:57,000
of $249,000 and then presented it and brought it

955
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,000
to full council, which is where we're here tonight.

956
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:03,100
So lots of different meetings up to this point, but we'll go ahead and present on the full plan.

957
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:11,700
So with the plan, there were six categories that these projects fell under, economic development, landscaping,

958
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:17,320
straight maintenance, street trees, public art, and miscellaneous, and we'll go through each one of the projects that fall under the categories.

959
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:25,200
With the guidelines that the council had adopted, each project was to cost less than $75,000 each.

960
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:29,000
The total budget was to be $250,000 annually,

961
01:26:29,700 --> 01:26:35,720
and we were to be complying with all of our policy and regulations and public contract and code when going through these projects.

962
01:26:37,940 --> 01:26:41,880
The, right now we're going to go through each of the projects.

963
01:26:42,180 --> 01:26:46,620
So the first category was economic development and there was two projects submitted under that one.

964
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:49,780
So that was the citywide marketing and branding signage.

965
01:26:49,860 --> 01:26:54,060
So that was a lot of our wayfinding projects or updating a lot of our wayfinding signs.

966
01:26:54,060 --> 01:26:58,800
The second one under that category was the Citywide Street Pole Banner Program.

967
01:26:59,860 --> 01:27:02,640
And again, we'll go into a little bit more detail with most of these.

968
01:27:03,560 --> 01:27:07,640
Under the Landscape and Maintenance, we had four projects, which was the City Hall,

969
01:27:07,940 --> 01:27:15,160
the new City Holiday Tree project, the Adobe and Historic Facilities Fencing and Landscaping project,

970
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:22,100
the Wildcat Curec beautification project, and the Citywide Neighborhood Traffic Circle Assessment and Improvements project.

971
01:27:22,100 --> 01:27:29,280
project, then under the curb and gutter sidewalk and ADA improvements, there was two projects,

972
01:27:29,540 --> 01:27:33,340
the citywide pedestrian safety crosswalk improvements and the citywide bus shelter

973
01:27:33,340 --> 01:27:38,920
and bus stop improvement program, category 4 with street medians and this involved new

974
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:44,360
monument entry sign replacements and the new citywide landscape street median projects.

975
01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:50,400
And then finally we have the street trees, public art and miscellaneous and under each of those

976
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:55,100
project for street trees was an annual street tree replacement program. Under public arts we had

977
01:27:55,100 --> 01:28:01,360
two projects which is the development program. Developing a program for administering citywide

978
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:07,220
public art throughout the city and then also the citywide art and murals program and then the final

979
01:28:07,220 --> 01:28:13,460
miscellaneous projects was a need or hood public work or public works mobile camera for enhanced

980
01:28:13,460 --> 01:28:20,300
legal dumping monitoring. So after looking at each and one of those projects our

981
01:28:20,300 --> 01:28:23,920
consultant helped us to develop criteria and with how each of these projects

982
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:28,160
would be evaluated. This you're seeing the scoring criteria up here based on

983
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:32,500
how quickly it could be implemented, how much it cost, how much impact it would

984
01:28:32,500 --> 01:28:35,360
have on the community and all of those things. So each project was given and

985
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:39,980
weighted score and with that we prioritized projects for ones that we could do

986
01:28:39,980 --> 01:28:42,900
quickly within the first year and then projects that within follow-up on

987
01:28:42,900 --> 01:28:49,260
years two and three of this program. So with that, got recommended these six projects

988
01:28:49,260 --> 01:28:54,520
for the first year, and they are the Street Pole Banner Program, the Way Finding Project,

989
01:28:55,180 --> 01:28:59,480
the Camera Enhancements and Monitoring for Illegal Dumping, the Wildcat Cute Beautification,

990
01:28:59,880 --> 01:29:04,140
the Historical Facilities Fencing, and the Annual Street Tree Replacement Program. So those

991
01:29:04,140 --> 01:29:10,400
are the first year, those are the six projects that given the fiscal constraints and the fact

992
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:12,320
that we are down quite a few engineering staff.

993
01:29:12,320 --> 01:29:15,440
It was the one that the staff thought that they could actually take on within this first year.

994
01:29:17,180 --> 01:29:19,680
So, to go into each one of these a little bit more detail.

995
01:29:20,380 --> 01:29:22,380
So we have the city wide street poll banner program.

996
01:29:22,620 --> 01:29:26,580
This would be to purchase and install banners owned on city street lights.

997
01:29:27,060 --> 01:29:29,560
The first year would be installing 50 of these banners.

998
01:29:29,940 --> 01:29:35,020
And the banners were previously purchased by the Economic Development and Housing Division.

999
01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:39,900
You can see the one for San Pablo here, which would be the first ones that we put out.

1000
01:29:39,900 --> 01:29:58,180
And so these would go along San Pablo Avenue creating a bit of a corridor really highlighting the businesses in that area and going with that marketing scheme that the city has been undertaking that would cost $15,500 and in future years it would cost up to $70,000 for additional banners and installation.

1001
01:29:58,840 --> 01:29:59,960
We said minimal on-

1002
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:28,300
I'm going to go and cost because they're pretty durable materials. They would be have to replace over time, but they have a pretty long life. The second one is our wayfinding program. The wayfinding sign was installed about 10 years ago. And we've actually had a lot of facilities that have moved around since then. And so this would be updating all of those wayfinding signs to ensure that they're all appropriately directing people to the various facilities, whether that be city hall or health facilities, the library.

1003
01:30:28,300 --> 01:30:30,460
all of those things have actually moved in those 10 years.

1004
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:34,480
And so confirming that all of those signs are correct and updating them throughout the city

1005
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:41,280
that cost us $30,000 within an additional $30,000 to complete in a future year.

1006
01:30:45,220 --> 01:30:50,140
There we go. The next one is our neighborhood mobile cameras for illegal dumping.

1007
01:30:50,660 --> 01:30:55,500
There are currently 12 cameras and so this would be increased in the program from 12 to 18 cameras

1008
01:30:55,500 --> 01:31:00,940
and replacing all of the batteries and memory cards in the current 12 that we have operating.

1009
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,320
When we install these cameras, they come on poles that we can move around the city and

1010
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:10,280
they're solar powered, and they have Wi-Fi connections so that we can connect to the

1011
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:10,540
cameras.

1012
01:31:11,140 --> 01:31:17,580
The cost for this program is about $27,500, but it does not include the monitoring of the

1013
01:31:17,580 --> 01:31:21,680
videos and the pursuing of the prosecution after the fact it is just for the camera installation

1014
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:22,000
itself.

1015
01:31:24,910 --> 01:31:30,870
The next project is the Wildcat Creek beautification project, so this is to provide more regular

1016
01:31:30,870 --> 01:31:32,870
other trash and litter abatement along Wildcat Creek.

1017
01:31:33,990 --> 01:31:38,590
This project would actually be hiring a conservation

1018
01:31:38,590 --> 01:31:42,110
coerce, like civic court to come and do restoration

1019
01:31:42,110 --> 01:31:43,170
along Wildcat Creek.

1020
01:31:43,170 --> 01:31:45,330
We're moving a lot of trash, moving some of the invasives

1021
01:31:45,330 --> 01:31:46,490
that capture that trash.

1022
01:31:47,230 --> 01:31:50,570
And we would be focusing on two priority areas, Wildcat Creek

1023
01:31:50,570 --> 01:31:52,370
behind City Hall, between Vale and Church,

1024
01:31:52,650 --> 01:31:55,190
and then along Wildcat Creek at Davis Park,

1025
01:31:55,190 --> 01:31:57,370
which are two most heavily impacted areas.

1026
01:31:57,370 --> 01:32:04,230
The cost for this is $67,500 and continued funding would be needed to maintain this level

1027
01:32:04,230 --> 01:32:06,110
of effort to keep our waterways clean.

1028
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:13,060
The next project is the historical facilities fencing, so we would be replacing fencing around

1029
01:32:13,060 --> 01:32:19,080
the historic facilities that would be aligned with the requirements of that and then also along

1030
01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:22,620
the backside along the creek replacing the chain link fence which is pretty consistently

1031
01:32:22,620 --> 01:32:24,940
cut to a rot iron fence which would be much more durable.

1032
01:32:25,800 --> 01:32:29,940
This will encourage legal access to those sites as well as the adjacent housing property.

1033
01:32:30,940 --> 01:32:37,140
The cost for this is $70,000 and we don't anticipate any additional funding in the future needed for this project.

1034
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:49,560
Then we have the citywide annual street tree replacement program and we fairly consistently have trees that are hit by cars or taken down or that die.

1035
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:55,100
And so this, with this program, it would be multi-year, and we'd be replacing 15 to 20 trees

1036
01:32:55,100 --> 01:32:55,700
this year.

1037
01:32:56,100 --> 01:32:57,800
We're pairing the sidewalk around the trees.

1038
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:02,220
Trees actually have a very difficult time growing in these type of environments, so we

1039
01:33:02,220 --> 01:33:06,760
usually have to dig up a fair amount around the tree to replace the soil to amend it so

1040
01:33:06,760 --> 01:33:12,480
that that tree actually have a more likely to survive the life of a street tree.

1041
01:33:12,660 --> 01:33:16,440
So it's more expensive than what people would think to actually replace a street tree because

1042
01:33:16,440 --> 01:33:17,700
it's very hard for them to live there.

1043
01:33:17,700 --> 01:33:26,980
So it's 42,500 for those approximately 15 to 20 trees to get replaced, and we would need continuing funding to continue that level of replacement year on year-on-year-own.

1044
01:33:27,620 --> 01:33:37,480
This also doesn't include hand watering, which most of our trees don't have irrigation. So our for the establishment period, which is considered one year, we would have to go around with our water buffalo and actually hand water these trees.

1045
01:33:39,630 --> 01:33:44,490
So this is the list of all of those projects and how we got to that to just about $250,000.

1046
01:33:44,490 --> 01:33:51,470
So for year one each broken down, again, we stayed within those parameters that the Council

1047
01:33:51,470 --> 01:33:56,890
requested, which was each project less than $75,000 and a maximum of $250,000 per year

1048
01:33:56,890 --> 01:33:57,810
for the total project.

1049
01:33:58,770 --> 01:34:01,390
So this is that just broken down and added up.

1050
01:34:02,690 --> 01:34:08,810
Then in fiscal year two, from the priority weighted programming that happened, these are the

1051
01:34:08,810 --> 01:34:10,770
projects that we would be taking on the next year.

1052
01:34:10,770 --> 01:34:14,890
so this would be the landscaping and street medians program, the traffic

1053
01:34:14,890 --> 01:34:19,350
surgical assessment improvements, developing a policy and criteria for the

1054
01:34:19,350 --> 01:34:24,370
public art, new monument sign entry replacements, the holiday tree, and

1055
01:34:24,370 --> 01:34:28,570
additional work for the Adobe historical fencing. So this year's the rot iron

1056
01:34:28,570 --> 01:34:31,430
fencing in future years would be like white picket fences around the front that

1057
01:34:31,430 --> 01:34:35,630
actually match with the historical requirements of those buildings. And then in

1058
01:34:35,630 --> 01:34:40,670
year three, we have the citywide art and murals program, the bus shelter

1059
01:34:40,670 --> 01:34:46,090
bus stop program, the annual street replacement program continuing now from our major quarters

1060
01:34:46,090 --> 01:34:51,330
to our residential streets, and then our citywide pedestrian and safe crosswalk improvements.

1061
01:34:51,630 --> 01:34:56,370
And if anybody has any questions on these particular ones we can go into a little bit more detail,

1062
01:34:56,370 --> 01:34:58,030
but these would be for future years.

1063
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:29,360
So with that today, really, we want to receive this presentation, then there was an item that was obviously pulled off consent with the resolution to approve these projects and the funding that goes with them to go towards this project and formal for formal approval tonight. And I'm happy to answer any questions. Okay, thank you, Amanda. This is actually doesn't happen when somebody pulls an item than the whole presentation happens, right? But I'm glad that it was presented to the staff.

1064
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:34,660
to the council. I'm going to go around really quickly and see if anyone has any questions

1065
01:35:34,660 --> 01:35:38,120
because I have a few councilmember Cruz, the other questions.

1066
01:35:40,180 --> 01:35:48,500
No, I just wasn't aware about the mobile cameras, how you moving around the city. So you

1067
01:35:48,500 --> 01:35:52,580
move them to hotspots. How do you find other hotspots in the city?

1068
01:35:53,500 --> 01:35:57,380
There's a few ways we can do that. One, we have an asset management system called cartograph.

1069
01:35:57,380 --> 01:36:02,080
So every time we pick up a legal dumping our maintenance team is actually geolocating where that was at

1070
01:36:02,080 --> 01:36:05,700
And so we can start to do assessments when we see a lot of dots in one area

1071
01:36:05,700 --> 01:36:09,940
We can start to move a camera to that area and say okay. This is become a hotspot area

1072
01:36:09,940 --> 01:36:11,820
We don't know why but we're gonna move a camera there

1073
01:36:11,820 --> 01:36:14,500
We also move it based on our neighborhood champions

1074
01:36:14,500 --> 01:36:18,960
They get feedback from their residents because one of the hardest things to do is with these cameras

1075
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:24,280
You'll get hours and hours and hours of footage and it's hard to narrow it down when an actual a legal dumping will happen

1076
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:29,580
And so we do prioritize the ones with the neighborhood champions because they call us when the next morning when they notice

1077
01:36:29,580 --> 01:36:33,820
Hey last night it happened that way we have 12 hours of footage to go over rather than you know

1078
01:36:33,820 --> 01:36:38,160
Maybe four or five days with a footage to go over so they help us out

1079
01:36:38,160 --> 01:36:39,820
And they have their neighbors help us out

1080
01:36:39,820 --> 01:36:44,220
So we prioritize some of those neighborhood champion areas when we have a legal dumping in that

1081
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:47,560
And then we also have people that call in and say hey

1082
01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:51,400
We're really seeing a spike in our area. Can you please bring one to this location?

1083
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:56,400
And so then we will, we prioritize that and we'll relocate those to those areas.

1084
01:36:56,880 --> 01:37:00,960
And we have a couple that our staff just know where we have consistent illegal dumping

1085
01:37:00,960 --> 01:37:02,520
issues and so we also monitor those.

1086
01:37:02,600 --> 01:37:04,660
So we just move them around the city as need be.

1087
01:37:04,920 --> 01:37:05,840
Keep everybody on their toes.

1088
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:13,180
So the cost, the cost that your request is for the battery replacement and what else?

1089
01:37:13,860 --> 01:37:18,860
The new SD cards, they get weathered over time as well as these ones will have greater,

1090
01:37:18,860 --> 01:37:23,480
there are two terabyte cards that are much bigger in the amount of data that they can hold

1091
01:37:23,480 --> 01:37:23,840
as well.

1092
01:37:24,340 --> 01:37:24,540
Okay.

1093
01:37:25,300 --> 01:37:25,700
Okay.

1094
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:26,660
That's all the questions I have.

1095
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:27,020
Thank you.

1096
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:29,560
Council Member Ponce.

1097
01:37:30,500 --> 01:37:32,900
I'll wait for my questions and comments to then.

1098
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:33,680
Thank you.

1099
01:37:34,340 --> 01:37:35,240
Council Member Pineda.

1100
01:37:35,500 --> 01:37:36,040
No questions.

1101
01:37:36,180 --> 01:37:36,380
Your comments.

1102
01:37:36,860 --> 01:37:37,780
Vice Mayor Xavier.

1103
01:37:38,480 --> 01:37:38,980
No questions.

1104
01:37:40,180 --> 01:37:40,500
Thank you.

1105
01:37:40,820 --> 01:37:44,320
So I pulled it because I just want to say I really do appreciate the work that the staff

1106
01:37:44,320 --> 01:37:52,640
has done to recognize, has done and recognized that the year one project generally come from

1107
01:37:52,640 --> 01:37:58,120
the beautiful creation plan. So I got this that we had all reviewed already in January.

1108
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:03,880
My concern is whether or not these projects were identified. But whether the first year funding

1109
01:38:03,880 --> 01:38:12,160
reflects the vision council had when we created a citywide beautification program. The January

1110
01:38:12,160 --> 01:38:17,440
plan envisioned a program that would transform the appearance of San Pablo

1111
01:38:17,440 --> 01:38:22,640
through gateway improvements, landscape mediums, neighborhood landscaping,

1112
01:38:23,060 --> 01:38:28,440
public art, pedestrian enhancement, creek beautification, branding, and street

1113
01:38:28,440 --> 01:38:36,900
trees. However, further review, the proposal to implementation, I noticed that many

1114
01:38:36,900 --> 01:38:44,580
of the projects that residents would most readily recognize as beautifications such as landscape

1115
01:38:44,580 --> 01:38:50,940
street media and public art gateway improvements, ADA, pedestrian enhancements and neighborhood

1116
01:38:50,940 --> 01:38:59,480
landscaping has been moved to year two and year three under the heading possible projects.

1117
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:06,200
The word possible concerns me. Possible does not mean funded. Possible does not mean scheduled.

1118
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:14,200
possible does not mean they will happen. It means they may happen if future funding and priorities allow.

1119
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:22,900
As a result, what we are proving tonight is primarily a first year focus on projects such as illegal,

1120
01:39:23,380 --> 01:39:31,920
dumping cameras, fencing, placement, replacement, banners, and limited, limited tree replacement.

1121
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:38,280
These are worthwhile projects, but several more accurately describe as maintenance, asset

1122
01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:43,980
protection, and enforcement than transformational beautification.

1123
01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:51,320
You have to admit that because putting more cameras up is not going to beautify the city.

1124
01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:58,320
that's the, finally, after enforcement goes in months.

1125
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:28,740
I don't know to catch the person who is continuing to dump in this one spot, right, while other places. I mean, it's not really going to give us that that affect the first year because the beautification is a byproduct, right? And there's still enforcement that has to be done. I mean, it's just, it's not impactful. It doesn't give us that what we at least what I was looking for in the first year.

1126
01:40:28,740 --> 01:40:36,440
So my concern is that if the projects that truly change the look and feel the San Pablo

1127
01:40:36,440 --> 01:40:44,900
remain only possible projects, then the city may never realize the broader beautification

1128
01:40:44,900 --> 01:40:47,480
vision that council discussed in January.

1129
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:58,000
Residents could still see deteriorated mediums, limited landscaping, and corridors that lack

1130
01:40:58,000 --> 01:41:03,380
the visual improvements we envisioned, at least that was me.

1131
01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:11,840
For example, the proposed includes funding to replace approximately 15 to 23 trees where

1132
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:14,720
trees have died or been damaged.

1133
01:41:16,040 --> 01:41:22,740
I mean, that's an important maintenance activity, but replace a small number of trees does not

1134
01:41:22,740 --> 01:41:31,040
substantially expand our urban look or create a city-wide beautification many

1135
01:41:31,040 --> 01:41:37,320
residents are expecting. I would like for us to consider whether some of the

1136
01:41:37,320 --> 01:41:41,540
funding allocated to maintenance asset protection which is defensing on the

1137
01:41:41,540 --> 01:41:48,860
historical building and enforcement could instead be invested and projects that

1138
01:41:48,860 --> 01:41:57,860
provide immediate visible improvements. Projects like landscapes, mediums, gateway, enhancements.

1139
01:41:59,140 --> 01:42:07,200
I believe that they are four entry. There's two, and one of them we are going to start working on

1140
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:18,300
it, but the one over here on San Pavelo and Robert F. Miller Drive, that is uncapped. I don't know how

1141
01:42:18,300 --> 01:42:26,860
anybody can be okay with funding something like more cameras, where we already have cameras

1142
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:33,080
and funding six more cameras. How much is it going to cost? 42? 27,000.

1143
01:42:35,700 --> 01:42:36,720
But it really is not,

1144
01:42:36,820 --> 01:42:39,380
that's not really a beautification project.

1145
01:42:41,440 --> 01:42:44,740
Projects like landscaping, mediums, gateway enhancements,

1146
01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:50,960
neighborhood landscaping, and public art so that the residents can actually see citywide

1147
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:57,760
beautification taking shape in its first year rather than waiting for projects that are currently

1148
01:42:57,760 --> 01:43:05,960
listed only as possible. That's the part that I that gets me.

1149
01:43:09,710 --> 01:43:12,550
The way-finding program,

1150
01:43:13,010 --> 01:43:21,150
that one is, why would that be beautification when really that needs to happen? If we didn't have

1151
01:43:21,150 --> 01:43:27,730
the budget for beautification, would it we keep it that way that the way that old signs are?

1152
01:43:28,550 --> 01:43:33,310
So, wayfinding is considered beautification because you're enhancing wayfinding.

1153
01:43:33,450 --> 01:43:38,810
But we have a community. So, we need to replace the ones that are outdated and obsolete

1154
01:43:39,390 --> 01:43:43,890
and make sure they're reflective of the current location of your city landmarks and locations.

1155
01:43:44,190 --> 01:43:49,650
So, it is a beautification. The current wayfinding signs are in color and they're very

1156
01:43:50,750 --> 01:43:54,450
and we're looking to replace those with something similar or better than that.

1157
01:43:54,570 --> 01:43:56,530
That's more actually accurate.

1158
01:43:57,470 --> 01:43:59,950
So, again, these are all beautification items.

1159
01:44:00,270 --> 01:44:01,470
I know you don't agree with it, Mayor.

1160
01:44:02,130 --> 01:44:03,630
But remember, we had a process.

1161
01:44:03,910 --> 01:44:07,750
And that process involved input from an ad hoc subcommittee,

1162
01:44:08,130 --> 01:44:10,590
which you participate on in July 8th.

1163
01:44:10,590 --> 01:44:14,070
And you also have another colleague who participated on that ad hoc subcommittee.

1164
01:44:14,550 --> 01:44:18,070
And there was formal recommendation to move forward with these six projects.

1165
01:44:18,070 --> 01:44:38,090
If it's the desire of the Council to change that process and not move forward with this item, we can certainly delay it if you want to reevaluate and reconsider that this funding and allocation, but at least these are six projects we can initiate get started and as funding becomes available at the mid-year cycle.

1166
01:44:38,490 --> 01:44:45,590
Council can certainly reevaluate where we are and start programming the year two and year three projects.

1167
01:44:45,590 --> 01:44:52,390
Some of those year or two year through projects don't have a cost estimate yet, so we still need more evaluation on those for us.

1168
01:44:52,430 --> 01:44:59,970
So if nearly half of our year one funding is being directed toward fencing cameras and replacement.

1169
01:45:18,140 --> 01:45:29,980
The first time when we were called for the meeting, it kind of struck me and said, okay, what I did was I went back and I really started studying what you were doing.

1170
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:38,280
were proposing, but was a proposal from the staff. And you know, like there's six proposals,

1171
01:45:39,260 --> 01:45:45,960
three of them will certainly enhance the city immediately. And three is more of a maintenance.

1172
01:45:46,280 --> 01:45:56,680
And I just wonder, why would you, why wouldn't we give our, give the city and the people who live

1173
01:45:56,680 --> 01:46:08,400
here, that real beautification project. Some of this, let's say the 27,500 further additional

1174
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:09,660
six cameras,

1175
01:46:13,750 --> 01:46:22,750
that actually could be for more trees on San Pablo Dam Road. I mean San

1176
01:46:22,750 --> 01:46:28,610
Pablo, San Pablo Avenue over here, where the Robert F. Miller drives, and San Pablo.

1177
01:46:29,450 --> 01:46:37,750
That is a pretty, you know, pretty sad area. And a lot of it, actually, is kind of, and I appreciate this.

1178
01:46:37,910 --> 01:46:43,590
You know, and I appreciate that I can bring this up, and I don't have to sit down and go, okay, well, that's what the city manager says.

1179
01:46:43,590 --> 01:46:50,810
It's going to be what that story is going to be. I want to come back and say, hey, can we think about, you know, how, how else we can bring

1180
01:46:50,810 --> 01:46:56,510
beautiful to the city of San Pablo I think I think a city of you know people

1181
01:46:56,510 --> 01:47:02,630
deserve it I really really do believe that so we deserve we deserve not

1182
01:47:02,630 --> 01:47:10,230
maintenance projects so much as really new beautification I am allowed as also

1183
01:47:10,230 --> 01:47:19,630
to take time to review what has been presented to me in the ad hoc committee and I

1184
01:47:19,630 --> 01:47:22,710
and I would encourage everyone else to do the same,

1185
01:47:22,890 --> 01:47:25,190
like when something is presented to go back

1186
01:47:25,190 --> 01:47:29,030
and really review what is really going on.

1187
01:47:29,170 --> 01:47:31,630
I went back to Pinot and also Hercules

1188
01:47:33,370 --> 01:47:34,870
in their budget structure.

1189
01:47:35,130 --> 01:47:38,110
And some of these three items are actually in maintenance.

1190
01:47:38,430 --> 01:47:40,190
And that's where I got the ideas, like wow.

1191
01:47:40,670 --> 01:47:43,570
They have an maintenance, but we have an imbeutification.

1192
01:47:43,850 --> 01:47:44,850
How is that?

1193
01:47:45,210 --> 01:47:46,050
Isn't it the same?

1194
01:47:47,890 --> 01:47:54,830
I mean I can answer that some of the O&M costs associated with maintenance are improvements

1195
01:47:54,830 --> 01:48:00,450
and so you're using one time money for that purpose because these are projects that we

1196
01:48:00,450 --> 01:48:05,730
can actually implement possibly without having to go out to a formal bid or to hire a

1197
01:48:05,730 --> 01:48:07,570
contractor we can actually do it in-house.

1198
01:48:08,230 --> 01:48:13,530
So it may appear that the face value is maintenance but they are improvements so that's the point

1199
01:48:13,530 --> 01:48:17,650
of the year one plan is to work within the parameters that the Council establish.

1200
01:48:18,190 --> 01:48:21,890
This isn't city manager driven. The Council established the project parameters

1201
01:48:21,890 --> 01:48:29,110
back in January by majority vote. I have that established. The temporary ad hoc subcamy on April 6th

1202
01:48:29,110 --> 01:48:34,250
by majority vote. You met as a temporary ad hoc subcamy on July 8th and both

1203
01:48:34,250 --> 01:48:39,050
Council members recommend its formal consideration, the Council, and then as the Buddhist

1204
01:48:39,050 --> 01:48:40,590
is fiscal or to say staying committed,

1205
01:48:40,770 --> 01:48:42,530
you appropriated the funding recommendation.

1206
01:48:43,110 --> 01:48:44,390
So we're at the 11th hour.

1207
01:48:44,830 --> 01:48:46,850
So the choice before the council is,

1208
01:48:47,270 --> 01:48:49,030
if the rebalance of the council members

1209
01:48:49,030 --> 01:48:52,850
want to align their opinions along with the mayor's opinion,

1210
01:48:52,970 --> 01:48:56,030
you can certainly do that and we can delay this item

1211
01:48:56,330 --> 01:48:58,310
and bring it back for the consideration.

1212
01:48:58,710 --> 01:49:00,730
However, we lose the opportunity

1213
01:49:00,730 --> 01:49:03,430
to implement the first initial six projects

1214
01:49:04,070 --> 01:49:06,370
and expend the 249,000,

1215
01:49:06,370 --> 01:49:09,830
in which the council initially directed back on Channel 20th.

1216
01:49:10,490 --> 01:49:12,390
So that's the decision point.

1217
01:49:12,670 --> 01:49:14,890
Otherwise, you can move forward as we scheduled

1218
01:49:15,310 --> 01:49:18,250
with all the council ad hoc and staying community input

1219
01:49:18,710 --> 01:49:19,750
and approve this side

1220
01:49:19,750 --> 01:49:21,790
and what the funding allocation or recommendation

1221
01:49:22,270 --> 01:49:24,610
and actually get projects in the ground

1222
01:49:24,610 --> 01:49:26,370
and working this year one.

1223
01:49:26,950 --> 01:49:29,090
Your two and your three are gonna come back to you

1224
01:49:29,090 --> 01:49:31,850
most likely in January of 27th

1225
01:49:31,850 --> 01:49:35,890
when we finish our year and audit for fiscal year 25th, 26th.

1226
01:49:35,890 --> 01:49:44,950
We'll replenish your fiscal resiliency reserve policy operating reserves, and there may be some additional one-time money that we could earmarked

1227
01:49:44,950 --> 01:49:55,190
to show up year one, year two, and year three project lists. But again, more work is needed on cost estimating the projects for year two and year three.

1228
01:49:55,370 --> 01:49:59,790
So there's more time, and more evaluation, and funding needed for those.

1229
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:29,080
You're two, you're three projects. And we may be able to expedite one or two of those programs or projects if we have the ability to do so. But right now, I'm dealing with a limited engineering staff. I don't have a permanent public works director until next month. We also have a vacant senior civil engineer which the council will be reclassifying to an engineering services manager that we need to recruit and backfill. So we're down key project management engineering staff in order to

1230
01:50:29,080 --> 01:50:32,180
can do further analysis and doing more evaluation

1231
01:50:32,180 --> 01:50:33,220
of these projects.

1232
01:50:33,740 --> 01:50:35,540
That's the two decisions before that.

1233
01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:37,240
But this is a really small city.

1234
01:50:37,480 --> 01:50:40,300
So for us to do so many analysis is just like shameful.

1235
01:50:40,880 --> 01:50:45,620
So why were the most visible beautification projects

1236
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:48,240
deferred to year two and three?

1237
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:50,300
I can help to answer that question.

1238
01:50:50,620 --> 01:50:53,480
So I know, I mean, you guys were talking a lot about,

1239
01:50:53,500 --> 01:50:55,880
there's a lot that goes into everything a city does.

1240
01:50:56,100 --> 01:50:58,160
And believe it or not, street meetings are quite difficult.

1241
01:50:58,660 --> 01:51:01,580
Every time you change a street median, you have to get a traffic engineer.

1242
01:51:01,740 --> 01:51:02,680
There's sight distance issues.

1243
01:51:02,800 --> 01:51:03,900
You have to determine which trees.

1244
01:51:04,040 --> 01:51:07,800
You can't plant trees that are going to drop limbs because that's a traffic issue.

1245
01:51:08,060 --> 01:51:14,180
There's a whole analysis that actually has to go into what type of tree you pick will

1246
01:51:14,180 --> 01:51:15,500
that work in our climate?

1247
01:51:15,800 --> 01:51:17,800
Will that work in the type of soil that's in that median?

1248
01:51:18,060 --> 01:51:19,340
How wide is that median?

1249
01:51:19,480 --> 01:51:21,980
Does it have enough root space for that particular tree?

1250
01:51:22,480 --> 01:51:24,920
So I know it seems a very simple task.

1251
01:51:25,060 --> 01:51:26,060
Well, why don't we just plant a tree?

1252
01:51:26,140 --> 01:51:27,160
We plant trees all over the place.

1253
01:51:27,700 --> 01:51:31,640
Medians and street trees are the hardest things to plant and not have them instantly die.

1254
01:51:32,220 --> 01:51:36,040
The other thing is we don't have a lot of irrigation along our medians and so we have

1255
01:51:36,040 --> 01:51:39,500
to be very thoughtful about the trees that we plant because we have to hand water them

1256
01:51:39,500 --> 01:51:43,360
which is both a safety concern for our meat contractors when we're out there because it takes

1257
01:51:43,360 --> 01:51:47,160
so long to do it and things like San Pablo Avenue we would have to take off a lane during

1258
01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:51,680
that short time but nonetheless take down lanes to be going and doing that so it's not

1259
01:51:51,680 --> 01:51:55,880
that we don't want to do it right away it just takes a lot more steps to do things like

1260
01:51:55,880 --> 01:52:00,260
media and maintenance because there are so many steps involved and the approvals that

1261
01:52:00,260 --> 01:52:04,300
you have to get through your traffic engineers, through your arborists, all of those things that

1262
01:52:04,300 --> 01:52:10,240
have to happen. And I know it sounds very bureaucratic. And I know it's just that every other

1263
01:52:10,240 --> 01:52:17,280
city is beautiful. And we are not. And you know, I mean, if you compare it, we've done a good job,

1264
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:24,020
but this year one, I really, really was looking at this and saying, you know, this is not going to

1265
01:52:24,020 --> 01:52:30,000
that's what we need. And then that whole word possible funding for year two and three, that one kind of bug

1266
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:35,980
me a lot because it's like, we're going to sit here in two years or next year and it's going to be the same.

1267
01:52:36,100 --> 01:52:39,200
Well, there's not enough money. We got to, you know, raise taxes again.

1268
01:52:40,240 --> 01:52:48,640
And it's just really, really for me knowing how we could have a more impact.

1269
01:52:48,640 --> 01:52:55,620
So the city and the beautification and these are the three, you know, the six, these are the three that we chose to do.

1270
01:52:55,740 --> 01:52:57,420
That is especially with the cameras.

1271
01:52:57,420 --> 01:53:02,880
It's really not directly related to beautification.

1272
01:53:03,320 --> 01:53:12,620
Anyway, I'm not finished at the meeting that we had.

1273
01:53:12,780 --> 01:53:16,020
The last meeting that we had that this was presented at our meeting.

1274
01:53:16,020 --> 01:53:24,980
I requested, and Maria, I believe that you wrote this, these requests down.

1275
01:53:26,340 --> 01:53:39,600
One of them was that if these projects, because all these costs are estimates, if in the

1276
01:53:39,600 --> 01:53:45,720
end we have not spent all this money in this one project, let's just say that the

1277
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:48,600
trees didn't cost. How much is it?

1278
01:53:52,100 --> 01:54:01,300
42,500. Let's say that we have an additional, you know, $10,000 on there. Let's say that

1279
01:54:01,300 --> 01:54:08,200
in the fencing it didn't cost 70,000 but it cost 60,000, right? Do we have to wait for

1280
01:54:08,200 --> 01:54:14,640
So can we begin the next year's projects with the money that's left over?

1281
01:54:15,440 --> 01:54:16,500
So let me answer that.

1282
01:54:16,840 --> 01:54:25,660
So, Marin Council, like I said, when we will address this potential program for year two and year three,

1283
01:54:26,300 --> 01:54:30,060
is at your mid-year budget cycle when we adopt your act for.

1284
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:36,980
So when we adopt your act for, and we replenish your fiscal resiliency reserve policy operating reserves,

1285
01:54:36,980 --> 01:54:43,480
there may be additional one time money that we will identify and if that money is available

1286
01:54:43,480 --> 01:54:49,660
we can program it into funding year one year two or year three projects. So at that time

1287
01:54:49,660 --> 01:54:55,700
since we don't have that information yet that discussion is going to get deferred until

1288
01:54:55,700 --> 01:54:59,760
limit your budget cycle and at that point if we have a

1289
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:29,980
Additional funding from the existing six projects that you hopefully approve tonight. We can also program any remaining balances because it's going to be in Project 320, right? So those are capital project funds, which can be airmarked to supplement or to be redirected to another capital project if there's funding left over. So again, all this stuff is a work in progress. So once we get to the mid-cycle, I promise you, we'll come back

1290
01:55:29,980 --> 01:55:36,740
and we'll do a CIP budget update, and part of that discussion will involve the City of

1291
01:55:36,740 --> 01:55:43,640
Libertification Plan and reconsidering any existing projects and possibly programming your

1292
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:48,480
two or your three projects ahead of time if there's ample funding available, but we're

1293
01:55:48,480 --> 01:55:49,260
not at that point.

1294
01:55:49,620 --> 01:55:57,780
Right, but I just wanted for the record to know that we want, you know, I would like to

1295
01:55:57,780 --> 01:56:05,580
see that happen, because this whole year two possible funding just read me the wrong

1296
01:56:05,580 --> 01:56:05,960
way.

1297
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:14,480
Yeah, just because that means that our city could potentially have year one where we have

1298
01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:19,860
the funds and then year two, well, you know, we said it was possible, but we just read

1299
01:56:19,860 --> 01:56:25,280
a point now in August where we don't have a crystal ball yet and we still need to do

1300
01:56:25,280 --> 01:56:31,080
work on the cost estimates for the remaining projects and there's also some policies that

1301
01:56:31,080 --> 01:56:34,600
you're going to have to adopt related to the public art because we do have a separate

1302
01:56:34,600 --> 01:56:40,800
funding source for that program which is going to require a separate process to kind of

1303
01:56:40,800 --> 01:56:49,300
co-inside with the CYB Reification Plan so there's a lot of moving parts to this again we have

1304
01:56:49,300 --> 01:56:54,440
a new public work district are coming on board next month that person could also shed some

1305
01:56:54,440 --> 01:56:56,600
some light and maybe streamline some of the project

1306
01:56:56,600 --> 01:56:57,360
implementation.

1307
01:56:58,140 --> 01:57:00,220
But again, to revisit a lot of these issues,

1308
01:57:00,960 --> 01:57:03,980
January, 2027 at the midpoint is the appropriate time

1309
01:57:03,980 --> 01:57:07,480
where we can evaluate and look at additional funding sources

1310
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:10,620
and future programming of the remaining projects

1311
01:57:10,620 --> 01:57:12,240
for year two and year three.

1312
01:57:12,440 --> 01:57:14,360
And maybe do them earlier than planned.

1313
01:57:14,800 --> 01:57:16,620
We just don't have that information yet.

1314
01:57:18,970 --> 01:57:23,730
So we would wait until January, 2027 for us

1315
01:57:23,730 --> 01:57:31,550
Just review whether or not there's any additional funding from this 249, 249,000.

1316
01:57:31,550 --> 01:57:36,650
Yes, and fund 320 if there's any remaining funds of the 249,000 that you hopefully will

1317
01:57:36,650 --> 01:57:37,610
appropriate tonight.

1318
01:57:38,510 --> 01:57:44,770
So again, everything's a moving process and we still have to do more work internally and

1319
01:57:44,770 --> 01:57:50,490
evaluate where we are and then see of those six projects if all of them can get completed

1320
01:57:50,490 --> 01:57:55,890
within the next eight months, anything that's left over will reevaluate and

1321
01:57:55,890 --> 01:58:00,690
that there's more one time funding or a grant source we identify that can fund

1322
01:58:00,690 --> 01:58:03,970
the additional projects in year two and year three will bring that forward

1323
01:58:03,970 --> 01:58:07,910
and provide a recommendation. Yeah, one of the saddest things is that the way that I

1324
01:58:07,910 --> 01:58:12,050
fought for this doesn't give me a lot of confidence. That's that's why you know

1325
01:58:12,050 --> 01:58:17,670
because it's like I've been and I shouldn't fight. Our city should be beautiful. We

1326
01:58:17,670 --> 01:58:26,690
We've had the money, we've had it, you know, we've decided to put it elsewhere or whatever

1327
01:58:26,690 --> 01:58:31,510
it is, but I think it's a time and I don't really, again, I don't trust that the...

1328
01:58:35,460 --> 01:58:37,280
Madam Mayor, I have a question for the city manager.

1329
01:58:38,300 --> 01:58:43,280
So Matt, it's okay, go ahead.

1330
01:58:43,560 --> 01:58:44,300
No, no, you won't.

1331
01:58:44,400 --> 01:58:44,640
Sure.

1332
01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:45,760
Okay, thank you.

1333
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:51,640
Just for the future, the priority work plan, how will that impact all of this?

1334
01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:57,620
Yeah, so one of the things is that parallel to this process, you're going to be retooling

1335
01:58:57,620 --> 01:58:58,440
your work plan.

1336
01:58:58,900 --> 01:59:05,760
We hope to start engaging with the council formally on that with a professional facilitator in early

1337
01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:06,100
fall.

1338
01:59:06,540 --> 01:59:13,780
Hopefully October 2026 will be able to have our first council workshop on identifying the

1339
01:59:13,780 --> 01:59:14,300
priorities.

1340
01:59:14,300 --> 01:59:22,300
Also, in early September we'll be adding some priority items to our tracking poll for our

1341
01:59:22,300 --> 01:59:27,640
funding mechanism, which will get some committee feedback on what the community considers to

1342
01:59:27,640 --> 01:59:28,260
be priorities.

1343
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:32,840
And then the council has to go through the separate process of looking and evaluating those

1344
01:59:32,840 --> 01:59:36,720
priorities, building consensus and doing a ranking of those priorities.

1345
01:59:36,960 --> 01:59:43,100
So there may be some more priority direction from the council on what they consider to be

1346
01:59:43,100 --> 01:59:46,420
the high priority versus me and priority versus a little priority projects.

1347
01:59:46,640 --> 01:59:49,420
I don't know yet until we have that conversation.

1348
01:59:49,940 --> 01:59:51,860
And again, that involves the entire council.

1349
01:59:52,120 --> 01:59:58,020
So, we're not that potent, but that also could influence how you implement their remaining

1350
01:59:58,020 --> 01:59:59,960
projects for you.

1351
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:25,800
You're one, you're two, and you're three, and you're city-wide beautification plan. That's the power of the CAP budget amendment. You can always come back, evaluate, shore up funding, add a grant fund, do a lot of different things so that you're continuing to make progress and success at implementing your projects under your city-wide beautification plan. Because it's a three-year plan. Thank you. Thank you Madam Mayor.

1352
02:00:25,800 --> 02:00:41,140
Okay. Council member Ponce. So I just want to make a statement because I am part of the ad hoc subcommittee that the mayor and I are in that reviewed this thoroughly in the meeting last week.

1353
02:00:42,040 --> 02:00:54,300
I also review each package as submitted by staff where everything is written in detail. No. If I were what we're going to speak about and discuss in our meeting.

1354
02:00:54,300 --> 02:00:59,720
both the mayor and I moved forward with the guidelines and timeline recommended by staff.

1355
02:01:00,480 --> 02:01:07,960
We had a broad discussion at that meeting on the criteria and I don't understand why we need

1356
02:01:07,960 --> 02:01:15,600
any changes at this point to what was already approved. I honestly continue to think that this is a

1357
02:01:15,600 --> 02:01:21,740
good timeline. It is a smaller project in essence but with the current staff that we currently have,

1358
02:01:21,740 --> 02:01:23,760
I think this is a really good beginning.

1359
02:01:24,940 --> 02:01:28,040
I do want to see our city completely beautified.

1360
02:01:28,200 --> 02:01:31,460
Let's get that in on the record, 100% beautified.

1361
02:01:31,920 --> 02:01:34,020
Just like any other beautiful city south there.

1362
02:01:34,540 --> 02:01:35,640
But we have to start somewhere.

1363
02:01:36,320 --> 02:01:38,700
And I think this is a good start.

1364
02:01:42,000 --> 02:01:45,940
Also, the work possibly did not come up in our last meeting.

1365
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:50,440
And since I pledged to be a champion for beautification,

1366
02:01:50,440 --> 02:01:54,820
I have no issues continuing year two and championing

1367
02:01:55,500 --> 02:01:57,160
beautification for the entire city.

1368
02:01:57,700 --> 02:01:59,560
So I just wanted to put that on the record.

1369
02:02:00,040 --> 02:02:03,460
And again, I think that this is a really good beginning for us.

1370
02:02:04,380 --> 02:02:07,660
Finally, enforcement is part of beautification.

1371
02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:10,180
That is all that I have. Thank you.

1372
02:02:15,350 --> 02:02:19,330
Okay. Well, one of the things and I will correct you

1373
02:02:19,330 --> 02:02:22,750
because when we get the council package,

1374
02:02:22,750 --> 02:02:29,910
we don't get the PowerPoints in advance, we don't get to see it, it gets presented at the day of the council.

1375
02:02:30,110 --> 02:02:34,830
There's a lot of information that we receive on day one because we're not getting that in advance.

1376
02:02:35,490 --> 02:02:39,930
So we only get a summary of what's going to be presented.

1377
02:02:40,230 --> 02:02:42,730
We do not get this deep low.

1378
02:02:42,730 --> 02:02:51,730
Now, sure, that last week when we were at the ad hoc committee, it didn't even...

1379
02:02:51,730 --> 02:02:55,930
I asked about five questions anyway because it just something was rubbing me,

1380
02:02:56,630 --> 02:03:01,750
like this something is not comfortable, so I go back and I reread my package

1381
02:03:01,750 --> 02:03:04,250
and then I see possible funding.

1382
02:03:04,730 --> 02:03:08,790
And then I start looking at how other cities are funding these other

1383
02:03:08,790 --> 02:03:19,170
or code enforcement, you know, things that should be on the police department operations,

1384
02:03:19,230 --> 02:03:20,670
which is code enforcement.

1385
02:03:21,270 --> 02:03:27,650
And I also see, you know, those three items that are more maintenance than beautification,

1386
02:03:28,170 --> 02:03:33,730
that's when I start bringing myself to this place is that I'm not ashamed to say, well,

1387
02:03:33,790 --> 02:03:34,210
you know what?

1388
02:03:34,210 --> 02:03:41,910
I've rethought about this because can we have a greater impact on year one than just

1389
02:03:41,910 --> 02:03:49,750
an impact on the side, not even, and then I saw a possibility, a possible funding and

1390
02:03:49,750 --> 02:03:52,070
that's when I was like, okay, this isn't a promising to me.

1391
02:03:52,870 --> 02:03:59,730
So I have that right to come back and go, you know what, let's revisit this, I really

1392
02:03:59,730 --> 02:04:02,970
you do, especially under the possible projects,

1393
02:04:05,150 --> 02:04:07,930
especially how long has it been since we've

1394
02:04:07,930 --> 02:04:16,030
had a beautification program here in the city of San Pablo? Rita, you would know. It's been

1395
02:04:16,030 --> 02:04:27,730
about 12 years, maybe. So I've bought a long time ago. So I do want to say maintenance is

1396
02:04:32,310 --> 02:04:37,990
I would like to motion to approve the item as recommended by staff.

1397
02:04:38,190 --> 02:04:38,590
Not second.

1398
02:04:42,930 --> 02:04:43,750
Councilmember Cruz.

1399
02:04:44,630 --> 02:04:44,790
Aye.

1400
02:04:45,250 --> 02:04:46,210
Councilmember Ponce.

1401
02:04:46,590 --> 02:04:46,730
Aye.

1402
02:04:47,310 --> 02:04:48,330
Councilmember Pineda.

1403
02:04:48,950 --> 02:04:49,110
Aye.

1404
02:04:49,750 --> 02:04:50,850
Vice Mayor Xavier.

1405
02:04:51,530 --> 02:04:53,530
Mayor Perbone Avarado.

1406
02:04:53,910 --> 02:04:54,190
No.

1407
02:04:55,550 --> 02:04:57,650
Motion passes for the one.

1408
02:04:58,870 --> 02:04:59,510
Thank you.

1409
02:05:01,140 --> 02:05:31,120
Okay. Next item. Oh, we have to approve. Oh, yeah, this has been approved. That's part of the packet. Next item. Next item. Public hearing. Item number 18, file ID 26-401. Consider adopting and ordinance of the city council of the city of San Pablo, amending the San Pablo zoning code. Chapter 17.6O.

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02:05:31,120 --> 02:05:42,100
special residential uses, section 17.60.070, accessory dwelling units, to update development

1411
02:05:42,100 --> 02:05:48,980
standards and regulations in order to reflect current state law and promote the development

1412
02:05:48,980 --> 02:05:54,060
of accessory dwelling units, ADUs, city attorney?

1413
02:05:54,940 --> 02:05:58,620
Yeah, just a brief reminder that this next item is a public hearing.

1414
02:05:59,380 --> 02:06:05,960
So it will begin with a staff presentation by our senior planner, Griffin Dempsey, and

1415
02:06:05,960 --> 02:06:11,720
then the mayor will open the public hearing, take public comment, close the public hearing,

1416
02:06:11,740 --> 02:06:14,740
and then the council can deliberate and consider the item.

1417
02:06:15,640 --> 02:06:19,700
So in the issue of time, let's go ahead and turn this over to Mr. Dempsey for formal presentation.

1418
02:06:19,700 --> 02:06:25,500
All right. Thank you, City Manager and Council. I'll try to keep this pretty concise.

1419
02:06:26,120 --> 02:06:32,520
Essentially, we have another update to our accessory dwelling unit ordinance. These have

1420
02:06:32,520 --> 02:06:38,220
come before you before. The reason for this is that the state law around ADUs continues

1421
02:06:38,220 --> 02:06:43,700
to evolve. And most recently, we brought forth another round of amendments to planning commission

1422
02:06:43,700 --> 02:06:48,600
in April, HCD, or the State Department of Housing and Community Development. They usually review

1423
02:06:48,600 --> 02:06:52,900
ordinance is after we adopt them, this time it does the courtesy of reviewing it prior

1424
02:06:52,900 --> 02:06:58,640
to adoption, pointed out a few ways that the framework of our ordinance was inconsistent

1425
02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:03,380
with state law. So we went back and took the first round of changes that we brought to

1426
02:07:03,380 --> 02:07:08,400
planning commission and didn't make it to council and incorporated those in a fully rewritten

1427
02:07:08,400 --> 02:07:13,380
ordinance from the ground up that fundamentally doesn't change that much about the practice

1428
02:07:13,380 --> 02:07:18,380
and implementation of accessory dwelling unit approvals in the city, but is much more consistent

1429
02:07:18,380 --> 02:07:23,520
with state law. And we've also incorporated a few changes that go above and beyond state law to

1430
02:07:23,520 --> 02:07:29,380
tie into the city's pending pro housing designation, which those of you who are on the economic development

1431
02:07:29,380 --> 02:07:31,940
and housing standing committee have probably heard about already.

1432
02:07:34,100 --> 02:07:35,580
So essentially as I mentioned,

1433
02:07:35,780 --> 02:07:42,220
it's a fully rewritten structure over ADU ordinance that is centered around a slight rephrasing of

1434
02:07:42,220 --> 02:07:44,280
what the different types of ADUs are,

1435
02:07:44,500 --> 02:07:48,600
as well as changing the multifamily ADU regulations

1436
02:07:48,600 --> 02:07:51,600
to match updated state laws in terms of the number

1437
02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:52,760
and types allowed.

1438
02:07:53,760 --> 02:07:55,960
I won't go too much into the details here,

1439
02:07:56,260 --> 02:07:58,880
but essentially it's just aligning our code

1440
02:07:58,880 --> 02:08:01,040
with what the state is mandating at this point,

1441
02:08:01,260 --> 02:08:03,660
as well as laying out more detailed permit processing

1442
02:08:03,660 --> 02:08:05,960
procedures to make sure that these types of approvals

1443
02:08:05,960 --> 02:08:09,020
move quickly through our department's approval process.

1444
02:08:10,420 --> 02:08:38,820
There are also some changes to the ordinance that were originally proposed in April that are still incorporated, so I wanted to go over these really quick because the planning commission did approve these and then they got kind of subsumed into a larger rewrite but these changes included some changes to the definitions of the square footage, including an appeal process for denial and incompleteness findings, increasing the number of detached ADUs allowed for existing or proposed multi-family buildings.

1445
02:08:38,820 --> 02:08:45,940
owner-occupancy requirements for JADUs and prohibition of rental terms of less than 30 days for JADUs,

1446
02:08:45,940 --> 02:08:49,920
essentially preventing them from being used as Airbnb's or other short-term rentals.

1447
02:08:50,880 --> 02:08:55,520
So those changes got brought on into the larger set of changes,

1448
02:08:55,860 --> 02:08:57,500
revising our ordinance from the ground up.

1449
02:08:57,900 --> 02:09:02,120
Additionally, staff are proposing some changes that go above and beyond what the state law requires.

1450
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:09,140
This includes increasing the maximum height of ADUs to 20 feet of the even 25 feet of the roofpeak and

1451
02:09:09,140 --> 02:09:15,460
increasing the maximum for area to 1,200 square feet as well as clarifying rules that parking is not required.

1452
02:09:16,020 --> 02:09:20,060
I will note parking was essentially never required because the state only allowed

1453
02:09:20,600 --> 02:09:26,920
or parking under certain circumstances which nowhere in the city met because we're too close to public transit.

1454
02:09:27,140 --> 02:09:31,760
So we just swept it clean said no parking just to clean up the code make it easier to administer.

1455
02:09:31,760 --> 02:09:34,520
or that's not changing how the rules are already existed.

1456
02:09:35,160 --> 02:09:39,540
The reason for the square footage and height increase has to do with the design of the ADU's

1457
02:09:39,540 --> 02:09:44,440
and promoting general, like, more family-sized housing is seeing the image on the right.

1458
02:09:44,560 --> 02:09:50,040
A two-story ADU can allow for ground floor structure or indoor parking.

1459
02:09:50,780 --> 02:09:55,620
Essentially, before we have a lot of people converting their garages into ADU's or tearing

1460
02:09:55,620 --> 02:09:59,680
them down and building an ADU in its place, allowing that second story allows people to

1461
02:09:59,680 --> 02:09:59,860
maintain.

1462
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:25,400
The parking and still build the unit there, which can help with the parking issue that we hear a lot about in our neighborhoods. We do get a lot of complaints. So like, oh, all these aid user getting belt and it's making parking worse on the streets because people are demolishing their garages and building new units. If we allow them to go up the second floor, they can keep the parking. They can even add new parking where there wasn't parking before and also add the new housing that we are badly in need of help us meet those arena numbers.

1463
02:10:25,400 --> 02:10:32,580
It also that second story allows the preservation of yard open space instead of building on the whole yard a homeowner can

1464
02:10:32,580 --> 02:10:40,040
Beledice 80 you with a smaller footprint that goes up a second story and maintain open space light green area for themselves and the residents.

1465
02:10:41,280 --> 02:10:47,780
These changes also tie into the city's pro housing designation, which is a designation of the state that we've applied for that will

1466
02:10:48,300 --> 02:11:03,540
For one, recognize our jurisdiction as being in favor of more housing and also open up a lot of new grant funding and opportunities we have put forth several promises in terms of policies that are making in one of those promises is that our ADU ordinance will go above and be on state law.

1467
02:11:03,820 --> 02:11:11,880
So we made a promise to the state that we're doing this and now is our chance to actually do this with this increased height and square footage allowances for ADUs.

1468
02:11:11,880 --> 02:11:16,780
The proposed amendments can form with general plan and housing element policies calling

1469
02:11:16,780 --> 02:11:21,120
for balanced land use patterns, promotion of development of a variety of housing types

1470
02:11:21,120 --> 02:11:25,280
and increasing our progress towards our arena numbers.

1471
02:11:27,100 --> 02:11:31,980
Public hearing was noticed appropriately and ADU ordinance amendments are exempt from

1472
02:11:31,980 --> 02:11:34,620
the California Environmental Quality Act per state law.

1473
02:11:36,220 --> 02:11:40,240
Following the April planning commission where we brought forth that first set of amendments,

1474
02:11:40,240 --> 02:11:48,900
This revised ordinance was brought forth to the July 28th planning commission meeting where they reviewed the ordinance and recommended approval to City Council.

1475
02:11:50,100 --> 02:12:03,000
So in conclusion, the proposed ordinance before you would restructure ADU regulations to best align with the state laws and our guidance that we've received from housing and community development who has to review and approve our ordinance.

1476
02:12:03,000 --> 02:12:08,120
We had changes discussed in the planning commission meeting that are maintained within

1477
02:12:08,120 --> 02:12:12,600
a new framework as well as measures going above and beyond what the state requires to allow

1478
02:12:12,600 --> 02:12:17,420
for more flexibility and diversity in terms of the types of ADUs that homeowners can build

1479
02:12:17,940 --> 02:12:22,600
and these proposed or this proposed ordinances consistent with the goals of the general plan

1480
02:12:22,600 --> 02:12:26,120
and the housing element and has been recommended for adoption by planning commission.

1481
02:12:27,160 --> 02:12:31,740
So staff recommends reviewing the proposed amendment, conducting a public hearing, waving the first

1482
02:12:31,740 --> 02:12:40,660
reading and introducing the ordinance, ultimately for the adoption of the ordinance, amending the zoning code, chapter 17.60, special residential uses,

1483
02:12:41,220 --> 02:12:48,520
section 17.60.070, accessory dwelling units, reflect current state law, and promote the development of ADUs.

1484
02:12:49,480 --> 02:12:53,240
That includes my presentation. I'll now be open for any questions from council.

1485
02:12:53,240 --> 02:12:59,600
Okay. I'm going to open this up to public hearing. Do we have any at six at eight thirteen? Do we have any?

1486
02:12:59,680 --> 02:13:00,300
No, we do not.

1487
02:13:00,560 --> 02:13:04,560
Okay. Thank you. Then I will close at eight thirteen. The public hearing.

1488
02:13:04,940 --> 02:13:09,580
I will go around the diocese if anyone has any questions. Councilmember Cruz, do you have any questions?

1489
02:13:10,460 --> 02:13:19,140
Oh, yes. Thank you for the presentation. Since the state ADU law has changed us, the state plan to have grants available to

1490
02:13:19,140 --> 02:13:20,560
assist us with those ADUs?

1491
02:13:21,420 --> 02:13:23,180
They haven't offered anything specific.

1492
02:13:23,540 --> 02:13:27,100
They could tie into the pro housing designation that we're applying for.

1493
02:13:27,200 --> 02:13:29,140
That's going to open up a lot of new funding that can go

1494
02:13:29,140 --> 02:13:30,440
towards a variety of sources.

1495
02:13:31,160 --> 02:13:35,040
I don't think there's anything ADU specific there, but once we've unlocked that

1496
02:13:35,040 --> 02:13:38,860
that funding, we can take a closer look and see if any of it can go towards

1497
02:13:38,860 --> 02:13:40,600
assisting homeowners with ADUs.

1498
02:13:41,060 --> 02:13:45,360
However, we are working on assistance with off-the-shelf plans for ADUs.

1499
02:13:45,580 --> 02:13:48,520
Like pre-approved plans is something we're working towards as a department.

1500
02:13:48,520 --> 02:13:50,880
So that might be coming down in the near future.

1501
02:13:51,040 --> 02:13:52,480
And while it's not financial assistance,

1502
02:13:52,680 --> 02:13:57,860
directly, it could help homeowners with getting to the final steps of building an ADU.

1503
02:13:59,240 --> 02:14:04,080
So we're not planning to have these funds available to our residents.

1504
02:14:04,900 --> 02:14:06,420
To any of our buyer programs.

1505
02:14:07,320 --> 02:14:10,760
No, it's not related to the home buyer programs at this time.

1506
02:14:11,920 --> 02:14:15,640
Is there a way we can offer these grants to our residents?

1507
02:14:16,900 --> 02:14:27,940
So right now we don't have a funding source to offer grants relative to the ADUs and again the state has historically provided those granting opportunities.

1508
02:14:28,520 --> 02:14:37,000
So again if they have something in the current state budget that comes out that we can offer to our residents we will certainly direct those resources to

1509
02:14:37,000 --> 02:14:45,780
to do ADU assets, but this time we just don't have the funds to offer a program on ADUs.

1510
02:14:46,900 --> 02:14:47,600
Thank you.

1511
02:14:48,040 --> 02:14:49,280
Thank you, Madam Mayor.

1512
02:14:50,680 --> 02:14:51,820
Council Member Ponzi.

1513
02:14:53,220 --> 02:14:54,500
Thank you for the presentation, Griffin.

1514
02:14:54,720 --> 02:14:58,680
I have no questions, but did I hear senior next year title?

1515
02:14:59,000 --> 02:14:59,640
I did not know.

1516
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:14,780
Congratulations. I wish but I feel that was an error. A prediction. That's a prediction. Thank you for the presence of your. If you want a budget for it.

1517
02:15:18,620 --> 02:15:31,420
Councilmember Pineda. Thank you for the presentation. No questions on mine. Thank you. Vice Mayor Xavier. Thanks. And I have no questions. I do have a question to follow up with.

1518
02:15:31,420 --> 02:15:40,720
what council member Cruz asked, how about the current grant funding that EDC holds to

1519
02:15:40,720 --> 02:15:46,460
provide first time home buyers first time home buyers.

1520
02:15:47,140 --> 02:15:54,100
So again, that's a specific program for promoting home ownership, so it would have to come

1521
02:15:54,100 --> 02:15:59,180
back to the council if that's something you as a council want to do to tweak that program

1522
02:15:59,180 --> 02:16:06,960
and to direct staff to modify the scope and policy with the EDC, that's something we're going to have to look at.

1523
02:16:07,840 --> 02:16:14,360
And again, this could be one of those programs that you discussed that are upcoming work plan discussion in early fall.

1524
02:16:14,800 --> 02:16:21,520
So that'll take a little bit more work and more time to do with EDC who's administering that program on behalf of the city.

1525
02:16:23,240 --> 02:16:27,760
So what you're saying is that we should wait until the priority work plan.

1526
02:16:28,620 --> 02:16:38,180
That would be the proper before we before we ask EDC or the staff to look into how you can expand it to include ADUs.

1527
02:16:38,440 --> 02:16:39,660
Yeah, it's not going to take it.

1528
02:16:39,660 --> 02:16:43,780
Again, if you're wanting to amend your work plan now, then there needs to be a separate motion.

1529
02:16:44,020 --> 02:16:46,580
We'd have to evaluate it, bring it back for discussion.

1530
02:16:46,580 --> 02:16:51,940
Or you can wait a couple of months when we do have this discussion on ranking priorities.

1531
02:16:51,940 --> 02:16:54,220
If that's something that Council wants to focus on.

1532
02:16:54,220 --> 02:16:58,320
and there's majority go to approval to do so you can also choose that option.

1533
02:17:00,260 --> 02:17:06,660
I would add on the first time home buyer program if you'll recall the city council did

1534
02:17:07,740 --> 02:17:14,680
pass an ordinance I think it was last year where 80 use can now be separately sellable and so

1535
02:17:15,840 --> 02:17:20,120
I don't want to speak out of turn but it's possible that that first time home buyer program would

1536
02:17:20,120 --> 02:17:25,260
would apply to an ADU, if it were an ADU that was actually separately sold.

1537
02:17:26,060 --> 02:17:32,160
So there are ways where that program might fit with ADUs.

1538
02:17:32,440 --> 02:17:32,520
Yeah.

1539
02:17:32,900 --> 02:17:33,100
Yeah.

1540
02:17:33,340 --> 02:17:39,320
I didn't think that it would be that difficult, but, you know, how it is here.

1541
02:17:39,520 --> 02:17:39,740
Okay.

1542
02:17:39,740 --> 02:17:40,640
And we'll further add again.

1543
02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:44,340
We're on our way to getting our pro housing designation from the state.

1544
02:17:44,340 --> 02:17:49,040
Again, that will unlock a couple of new pots of funding that can go towards housing related

1545
02:17:49,040 --> 02:17:49,400
measures.

1546
02:17:49,400 --> 02:17:56,360
So once we've gotten there, staff will look into if there's anything that can go towards assisting homeowners of aid and construction.

1547
02:17:57,580 --> 02:18:12,640
I think, thank you for that and Council member Cruz for bringing it up and so that we can at least start looking at that, because we need more home buyers here.

1548
02:18:12,640 --> 02:18:21,990
Okay, that's it. Thank you for the presentation and we are to move, right?

1549
02:18:22,690 --> 02:18:25,630
What action item are we taking here?

1550
02:18:27,050 --> 02:18:29,070
Yes, it would be a motion to wave.

1551
02:18:29,910 --> 02:18:31,410
Okay, so about the ordinance.

1552
02:18:31,670 --> 02:18:33,350
To wave reading and introduce the ordinance.

1553
02:18:33,950 --> 02:18:35,030
Some of them.

1554
02:18:37,200 --> 02:18:38,540
Do we ask for public comment?

1555
02:18:38,880 --> 02:18:38,980
Yes.

1556
02:18:39,500 --> 02:18:39,840
Okay.

1557
02:18:39,980 --> 02:18:41,280
Yeah, we close the public here.

1558
02:18:41,400 --> 02:18:43,460
There are no public comments.

1559
02:18:43,580 --> 02:18:44,460
I already asked.

1560
02:18:44,460 --> 02:18:49,040
Oh, sorry, I know it's getting late, you know, sorry.

1561
02:18:49,880 --> 02:18:53,060
Motion made by me as second by vice mayor Xavier.

1562
02:18:53,280 --> 02:18:54,160
Okay, fine.

1563
02:18:54,600 --> 02:18:55,400
Council member Cruz.

1564
02:18:56,160 --> 02:18:56,320
Aye.

1565
02:18:56,700 --> 02:18:57,560
Council member Ponce.

1566
02:18:57,880 --> 02:18:58,000
Aye.

1567
02:18:58,460 --> 02:18:59,500
Council member Pineda.

1568
02:18:59,640 --> 02:18:59,800
Aye.

1569
02:19:00,180 --> 02:19:01,240
Vice mayor Xavier.

1570
02:19:01,680 --> 02:19:01,820
Aye.

1571
02:19:02,120 --> 02:19:03,420
Mayor Perville and Alvarado.

1572
02:19:03,700 --> 02:19:03,840
Aye.

1573
02:19:04,360 --> 02:19:05,080
Motion passes.

1574
02:19:05,540 --> 02:19:12,060
Then I would just note that that ordinance will come back for final adoption on the consent calendar at your next meeting.

1575
02:19:12,060 --> 02:19:15,440
Okay, next item.

1576
02:19:17,640 --> 02:19:27,440
Item number ordinances. Item number 19, file ID 26-337. Consider an ordinance

1577
02:19:27,440 --> 02:19:35,860
of the City Council of the City of San Pablo, a mending chapter 3.16 of the San Pablo,

1578
02:19:35,860 --> 02:19:44,880
municipal code 2-1. Increase the C-Managers Contracting Authority 2. Increase monetary thresholds

1579
02:19:44,880 --> 02:19:51,900
related to public project bidding to align with current state of California thresholds.

1580
02:19:52,160 --> 02:19:59,960
And 3. Increase the monetary thresholds related to formal and informal procurement of non-public

1581
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:29,920
Public project, city manager. Thank you, Madam Clerk. So, Mayor City Council, for the most part of fiscal year 2526, Arturo Castillo, our Ministry of Services Director, and the Finance Department have been working diligently with a third party financial services consultant, Edie Bailey. And this is to shore up and improve internal policies related to fiscal practices and procedures. One of those recommendations that came out of the work

1582
02:20:29,920 --> 02:20:48,740
work that Edie Bailey has done for the department is looking at recommending some changes to the general contracting authority under the city manager, as well as our public procurement thresholds, which are considered a low based on a recent analysis done by Edie Bailey.

1583
02:20:48,740 --> 02:20:53,540
So, this information was initially presented to the Budget Fiscal Legislation, so, staying

1584
02:20:53,540 --> 02:20:59,000
in committee in addition to all the other recommended fiscal policy recommendations, and

1585
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:04,940
this item needed to come back as a separate item for discussion with the council and adopted

1586
02:21:04,940 --> 02:21:09,780
by an ordinance amendment, so this would amend your existing municipal code.

1587
02:21:10,460 --> 02:21:17,040
So, tonight, we're going to go ahead and focus on just this aspect of the policy recommendation

1588
02:21:17,040 --> 02:21:23,900
related to the City of Meanderer signing authority and also the formal and informal procurement thresholds for non-public projects.

1589
02:21:24,820 --> 02:21:31,560
And I'll continue used of the state group of regulations on public project construction thresholds as well.

1590
02:21:32,100 --> 02:21:36,520
So I'll turn this over to Mr. Castillo for formal presentation to the council.

1591
02:21:36,840 --> 02:21:42,460
Before we move forward, can I ask you to increase the heat in here, please.

1592
02:21:42,460 --> 02:21:51,260
is getting really cold. Thank you. Okay. I'm going to proceed. I feel like I'm going into a

1593
02:21:51,260 --> 02:21:58,200
refrigerator. So good evening everyone and good evening Madam Mayor as well as Vice Mayor and City

1594
02:21:58,200 --> 02:22:04,620
Council. It's my pleasure as City Manager Matt Rodriguez and I do apologize. Thank you also

1595
02:22:04,620 --> 02:22:08,400
the City Manager, Mayor Rodriguez, to introduce Scott

1596
02:22:08,400 --> 02:22:11,320
Catlett, managing director of I'd Bailey.

1597
02:22:11,700 --> 02:22:15,840
As the City Manager mentioned, the city partnered with I'd

1598
02:22:15,840 --> 02:22:18,420
Bailey to take an independent look at our procurement

1599
02:22:18,420 --> 02:22:19,260
thresholds.

1600
02:22:19,540 --> 02:22:23,420
Some of those thresholds not been updated since 2009 and

1601
02:22:23,420 --> 02:22:24,140
2017.

1602
02:22:25,060 --> 02:22:28,580
I'd Bailey surveyed comparable cities across the region,

1603
02:22:28,720 --> 02:22:31,800
measured the purchasing power.

1604
02:22:31,800 --> 02:22:37,740
we have lost since the inflation and also tested our practices against the current state standards.

1605
02:22:38,300 --> 02:22:49,000
Our staff worked alongside with I'd Bailey team and in addition to that, we have presented in front of you some municipal code amendments before you tonight.

1606
02:22:49,400 --> 02:22:57,720
So I'm going to hand it over to Scott again, our managing director for my Bailey to present on the details of this information.

1607
02:22:58,140 --> 02:22:58,800
Are you there, Scott?

1608
02:23:01,770 --> 02:23:08,970
Good evening mayor and members of council and please be with you this evening to share a brief presentation about the work that we did in this area.

1609
02:23:09,270 --> 02:23:13,150
If someone could advance the slide I will start the presentation.

1610
02:23:18,330 --> 02:23:25,490
All right so the current thresholds that the city has and this is true with other cities as well.

1611
02:23:25,630 --> 02:23:30,030
There are three categories of thresholds that have to do with procurement and signing authority.

1612
02:23:30,030 --> 02:23:34,830
The first has to do with what are called public projects, which is the most part is construction.

1613
02:23:36,230 --> 02:23:38,390
The second has to do with non-public projects.

1614
02:23:38,610 --> 02:23:42,830
So those would be services, materials and equipment procurements, pretty much anything

1615
02:23:42,830 --> 02:23:43,670
other than construction.

1616
02:23:44,510 --> 02:23:49,790
And the third would be the signing authority for contracts with the budget authority delegated

1617
02:23:49,790 --> 02:23:51,450
by the council to the city manager.

1618
02:23:52,370 --> 02:23:58,310
Two of these three thresholds have not been updated as in some time, as was just mentioned,

1619
02:23:58,310 --> 02:24:04,630
The non-public procurement threshold was last updated in 2019, and the signing authority

1620
02:24:04,630 --> 02:24:11,630
threshold was last updated in 2017, because the city follows CUPCA, the public project

1621
02:24:11,630 --> 02:24:14,970
thresholds are in alignment with the state of California standards.

1622
02:24:15,770 --> 02:24:16,530
Next slide please.

1623
02:24:18,470 --> 02:24:23,230
So one of the most important things in doing this analysis was to determine the right set

1624
02:24:23,230 --> 02:24:27,110
of comparative cities to look at and compare us into the city.

1625
02:24:27,110 --> 02:24:33,850
So we began with a list of all of the cities in San Pablo's region and then narrow that list

1626
02:24:33,850 --> 02:24:39,850
initially to 20 cities based on an analysis of population as well as total budget to get

1627
02:24:39,850 --> 02:24:46,370
a similar set of cities based on not just population, but the size of the operation of the city

1628
02:24:46,370 --> 02:24:51,010
because that has a correlation with typically the amount of procurements that are going on.

1629
02:24:51,690 --> 02:24:59,970
So we gathered that data and we gathered the procurement regulations for all 20 of those cities and then we used that information to narrow the list down.

1630
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:29,160
Now, ultimately to a list of 10 comparison cities. There are various reasons you can see there, why we did that. Some had not updated their thresholds and as much as 25 or more years. There were some that had some differences in how they managed procurement. So we wanted to make sure that these were agencies that were in alignment with best practices and also that had updated their thresholds recently enough so that it would make sense to compare them. So that remaining list of 10, we then did some additional analysis on. You can go to the next slide for that.

1631
02:25:29,160 --> 02:25:35,180
So, first of all, on the budget authority, you can see here in the table those 10 survey

1632
02:25:35,180 --> 02:25:39,280
cities and the information that was developed in the survey.

1633
02:25:40,700 --> 02:25:47,140
On the construction side, the average amount was $182,000, with most of them inlining their

1634
02:25:47,140 --> 02:25:51,480
thresholds with the state's current formal bidding threshold of 220,000.

1635
02:25:51,780 --> 02:25:57,300
On the services materials and supply side, there were some minor differences, but fairly

1636
02:25:57,300 --> 02:26:04,360
please similar there with an average amount of $92,597,500 respectively.

1637
02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:05,720
Next slide, please.

1638
02:26:07,400 --> 02:26:14,900
On the procurement side, the majority of the agencies that we looked at had similar

1639
02:26:14,900 --> 02:26:18,020
construction thresholds to the state standards.

1640
02:26:18,500 --> 02:26:20,100
You'll see a few there with $5,000.

1641
02:26:20,180 --> 02:26:23,080
Those are agencies that have not elected to follow CUPCA.

1642
02:26:23,080 --> 02:26:38,780
On the non-construction side, all of the cities that were included in the survey all 10 had thresholds for formal and informal procurement that exceeded the city's current thresholds, which are 25,000 and 5,000 respectively for formal and informal.

1643
02:26:39,960 --> 02:26:45,860
Few cities did not have this information available with time constraints. We were able to gather for almost all of them.

1644
02:26:46,280 --> 02:26:50,420
And so you can see there in the table the data for the agencies that had that information available to us.

1645
02:26:50,420 --> 02:26:51,860
Next slide, please.

1646
02:26:52,680 --> 02:26:59,860
The last piece of the analysis looked at inflation because as I mentioned earlier, some of these thresholds had not been updated in quite some time.

1647
02:27:00,000 --> 02:27:10,420
And so you can see there in the table that analysis on the percentages and the far right columns, what I would call your attention to.

1648
02:27:10,520 --> 02:27:19,800
You can see that there's been a significant amount of erosion and the purchasing power of those dollar amounts that were set back in 2009 and 2017 respectively.

1649
02:27:19,800 --> 02:27:26,700
and so you can see in today's dollars what those numbers would adjust to in the 2026 column.

1650
02:27:27,440 --> 02:27:34,180
Next slide please. So in summary, three things to point out from the report that's included

1651
02:27:34,180 --> 02:27:41,200
in your packet. From a best practices authority, it's appropriate for these delegated thresholds

1652
02:27:41,200 --> 02:27:46,480
to be set at a level that's a balance between administrative efficiency as well as the oversight

1653
02:27:46,480 --> 02:27:51,900
by the City Council. So when higher thresholds are in place, when they're grounded in effective

1654
02:27:51,900 --> 02:27:57,140
written policies and procedures such as those that the City have has, they provide for a more

1655
02:27:57,140 --> 02:28:01,820
efficient and a timely procurement process, and then service delivery to your constituents also

1656
02:28:02,280 --> 02:28:07,740
in a timely way. The survey data from our survey supports the recommendation to increase the City

1657
02:28:07,740 --> 02:28:13,140
Manager's threshold from $50,000 to $100,000. And in our experience, you know, looking broader

1658
02:28:13,140 --> 02:28:18,120
across California, that change is not inconsistent with what we see in other cities.

1659
02:28:18,920 --> 02:28:24,040
And again, there's been a significant reduction in the purchasing power of this current threshold

1660
02:28:24,040 --> 02:28:25,000
since 2017.

1661
02:28:25,360 --> 02:28:30,980
And then, finally, the survey data also supports a recommendation to increase the non-public

1662
02:28:30,980 --> 02:28:39,080
thresholds to 100,000 and 10,000 respectively, aligning that threshold along with the other

1663
02:28:39,080 --> 02:28:40,200
makes a lot of sense.

1664
02:28:40,200 --> 02:28:48,280
And again, in our experience, these recommendations are consistent with what we see on a broader basis across California.

1665
02:28:49,120 --> 02:28:53,280
And that concludes my presentation and I'd be happy to answer any questions that the council may have.

1666
02:28:53,920 --> 02:28:54,180
Thank you.

1667
02:28:54,380 --> 02:28:56,800
Okay. Do we have any public comment on this?

1668
02:28:57,440 --> 02:28:58,220
No, we do.

1669
02:28:58,520 --> 02:29:00,300
Okay. Thank you for the presentation.

1670
02:29:01,260 --> 02:29:02,740
Councilmember Cruz, do you have any questions?

1671
02:29:04,420 --> 02:29:05,320
Thank you, Scott.

1672
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:08,500
I don't have any questions or questions.

1673
02:29:08,500 --> 02:29:11,920
Thank you for the presentation.

1674
02:29:12,120 --> 02:29:17,320
When I review this, I was just surprised that we hadn't analyzed the threshold in so long.

1675
02:29:18,240 --> 02:29:20,660
We do it every three years, but I have no questions.

1676
02:29:22,080 --> 02:29:23,040
Can't you remember Pineda?

1677
02:29:23,620 --> 02:29:24,740
I do have a question.

1678
02:29:26,420 --> 02:29:34,000
I was going over the cities and everything, and I'm wondering because I asked, I think I remember

1679
02:29:34,000 --> 02:29:39,020
that the city of Richmond actually took up this very issue but on the opposite situation

1680
02:29:39,020 --> 02:29:45,240
where they try to reduce the amount. So I'm trying to understand why would a city do that

1681
02:29:45,240 --> 02:29:49,700
and then I know that right here and I guess I'm just trying to grab my head around this whole thing.

1682
02:29:49,900 --> 02:29:54,380
So like there are cities that are increasing the limits to kind of say like you know

1683
02:29:54,380 --> 02:29:59,180
there hasn't been a just an X number of years but also I'm aware or I believe again I'm going

1684
02:29:59,180 --> 02:29:59,880
of a memory here.

1685
02:30:00,890 --> 02:30:19,590
Even our neighboring city, they did the exact opposite where they scaled down how much they are allowed to spend before coming a council for consideration and a vote. So, I just want the city of Richmond be considered in this graph as well in terms. Scott, I could defer to you on that one and then I'll replace well.

1686
02:30:24,210 --> 02:30:30,530
I would have to go back to the survey to see if the city of Richmond was in the original data.

1687
02:30:30,530 --> 02:30:39,410
Yeah, but I can't say is that the city of, I want to say, Moraga was one of the studies

1688
02:30:39,410 --> 02:30:42,210
that we looked at, and they looked at the neighboring cities as well.

1689
02:30:42,370 --> 02:30:49,650
I also looked at this information without I'd Bayley at the time in 2025, and there were

1690
02:30:49,650 --> 02:30:54,230
numerous amount of cities that were looking to increase their threshold.

1691
02:30:54,930 --> 02:30:59,250
Again, the city of Moraga, I know, the city of El Serito's also looking at their threshold

1692
02:30:59,250 --> 02:30:59,690
as well.

1693
02:30:59,690 --> 02:31:05,730
Again, I'm not I haven't spoken to the city of Richmond and quite some time. They have a new finance director there and

1694
02:31:07,370 --> 02:31:07,890
they

1695
02:31:09,370 --> 02:31:14,810
Increased it and I haven't heard in any which way that they would decrease it. That sort of happened. I can the last like

1696
02:31:15,550 --> 02:31:23,770
Two months or so. So it's 25,000 they are city-mandered contract authority enrichment, and that's quite low and

1697
02:31:23,770 --> 02:31:29,010
And there's other political considerations in Richmond that I don't really think we need

1698
02:31:29,010 --> 02:31:35,310
to deliberate on, but it does produce a lot of inefficiencies, which is why a lot of

1699
02:31:35,310 --> 02:31:40,490
city managers who we've discussed over time that have worked in Richmond to find it difficult

1700
02:31:40,490 --> 02:31:44,570
to move things forward because everything has to go to the agenda.

1701
02:31:45,350 --> 02:31:53,030
So it creates a lot of administrative tedious work for staff, but that council is also charter

1702
02:31:53,030 --> 02:32:04,890
So they can actually bypass a lot of the procurement requirements through state law, so either way, they have those two considerations that I've been ongoing for years.

1703
02:32:05,230 --> 02:32:22,190
So again, we want to be able to emulate best management practices here with the other cities in the region and the fact that based on the ED Bailey analysis, all the costs indices for construction and cost of services have gone up three to four times.

1704
02:32:22,190 --> 02:32:24,690
than then what they were nearly 10 years ago.

1705
02:32:25,430 --> 02:32:31,610
So we're trying to keep up at pace with our other agencies in the county.

1706
02:32:32,330 --> 02:32:38,050
And again, this remains us to be more efficient and reduces a lot of administrative requirements

1707
02:32:38,050 --> 02:32:39,370
that have to come forward.

1708
02:32:39,710 --> 02:32:46,230
And plus, Council continues to retain proper oversight on all city spending because you

1709
02:32:46,230 --> 02:32:49,390
appropriate all the funding through an annual adopted budget.

1710
02:32:49,390 --> 02:32:54,830
and every expenditure appears in the vendor check register report, which is on your agenda

1711
02:32:54,830 --> 02:33:00,550
practically every month. Not to mention, all of these regulations can't be adjusted

1712
02:33:00,550 --> 02:33:05,990
without coinciding with what's in your municipal, because that needs to be amended by ordinance.

1713
02:33:06,770 --> 02:33:14,650
So ultimately, the council, anything above 100,000 would still require council approval in any

1714
02:33:14,650 --> 02:33:19,950
for formal threshold amount of 100,000 in terms of funding appropriation still requires

1715
02:33:19,950 --> 02:33:25,390
council approval. So the council still has oversight and authority over these changes

1716
02:33:25,390 --> 02:33:30,750
if you support them moving forward tonight. But again, this is about operational efficiency.

1717
02:33:31,310 --> 02:33:37,310
So let me just get this. We have a discussion for clarity. So does this mean that if we were

1718
02:33:37,310 --> 02:33:43,290
to support this, we would see less items through ad hoc committees, and then I'm assuming

1719
02:33:43,290 --> 02:33:50,290
would even show up on consent counter because they would still be an authority that would be under use back so staying committees.

1720
02:33:50,590 --> 02:33:59,470
Yeah, so staying committees would still have routine items that come before you for information purposes or just formal recommendations that would still go with the council.

1721
02:33:59,470 --> 02:34:04,490
But again, if it's under the city manager's authority, it wouldn't necessary have to go to the council.

1722
02:34:04,610 --> 02:34:10,450
It could still go to a staying committee for information update and for acknowledgments.

1723
02:34:10,450 --> 02:34:11,870
so we wouldn't stop that practice.

1724
02:34:16,590 --> 02:34:17,390
That's the final question.

1725
02:34:17,550 --> 02:34:17,910
Thank you.

1726
02:34:20,570 --> 02:34:22,130
Vice President, Xavier, do you have any questions?

1727
02:34:22,850 --> 02:34:23,650
No, I have no questions.

1728
02:34:24,050 --> 02:34:24,370
Thank you.

1729
02:34:25,950 --> 02:34:27,010
Yep, I have no questions.

1730
02:34:31,260 --> 02:34:33,680
So the last slide are the recommendations.

1731
02:34:35,140 --> 02:34:36,560
There you are for the action.

1732
02:34:36,900 --> 02:34:39,540
Which is to obviously receive the presentation,

1733
02:34:39,880 --> 02:34:42,720
but introduce the ordinance and waive the first reading

1734
02:34:43,300 --> 02:34:47,780
amending chapter 3.16, which is authorizes

1735
02:34:47,780 --> 02:34:59,960
is the following and increased the city manager's delegated sign authority from 50,000 to 100,000 and an increase to the not public project procurement threshold to 1,000.

1736
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:02,540
100,000 in 10,000.

1737
02:35:06,790 --> 02:35:08,330
What is the pleasure of the council?

1738
02:35:15,340 --> 02:35:19,600
The on move that we introduce

1739
02:35:21,780 --> 02:35:26,820
the ordinance with the first reading. No, no, it's this one here.

1740
02:35:34,080 --> 02:35:37,940
Chapter 316, 3.16, etc.

1741
02:35:40,040 --> 02:35:49,600
The ordinance covers all of those items so if the motion is to introduce the ordinance and wave reading, then that does cover all of those listed items.

1742
02:35:50,460 --> 02:35:54,060
And before we ask for a second, I do want to check with the clerk.

1743
02:35:54,320 --> 02:35:56,440
Did we ask for public comment yet?

1744
02:35:56,900 --> 02:35:57,280
Yes.

1745
02:35:57,880 --> 02:35:58,040
Okay.

1746
02:35:58,880 --> 02:35:59,020
Thanks.

1747
02:36:01,530 --> 02:36:01,690
Okay.

1748
02:36:03,070 --> 02:36:04,070
Is there a second?

1749
02:36:04,070 --> 02:36:13,070
I'll move to, oh second, I'll second, okay, Council Member Cruz.

1750
02:36:13,610 --> 02:36:13,770
Aye.

1751
02:36:14,090 --> 02:36:15,090
Council Member Ponce.

1752
02:36:15,510 --> 02:36:15,650
Aye.

1753
02:36:16,070 --> 02:36:17,310
Council Member Pineda.

1754
02:36:18,150 --> 02:36:19,030
Aye.

1755
02:36:19,950 --> 02:36:21,090
Vice Mayor Xavier.

1756
02:36:21,530 --> 02:36:21,690
Aye.

1757
02:36:22,250 --> 02:36:23,550
Mayor Pavón Alvarado.

1758
02:36:25,230 --> 02:36:25,550
Aye.

1759
02:36:27,250 --> 02:36:28,310
Motion passes.

1760
02:36:29,750 --> 02:36:37,410
And as with the other ordinance, this one will also come back at your next meeting on the consent calendar for final adoption.

1761
02:36:38,790 --> 02:36:44,490
But if we decide to pull it, there is no backlash. We can still do that, right?

1762
02:36:45,710 --> 02:36:50,250
Pull it from the consent calendar or not because this is an ordinance.

1763
02:36:50,530 --> 02:36:57,170
Yeah, because it's an ordinance, it has to be introduced at a meeting and that it's finally adopted at a subsequent meeting.

1764
02:36:57,170 --> 02:37:02,310
So in order to become effective, the ordinance needs to be adopted at the next meeting.

1765
02:37:02,450 --> 02:37:06,710
It was introduced tonight, it'll be on the consent calendar at the next meeting for adoption.

1766
02:37:07,190 --> 02:37:18,290
My question is if at the next meeting this item, we have further questions, could we put it and ask for the questions of it?

1767
02:37:18,590 --> 02:37:19,270
Yes, absolutely.

1768
02:37:19,550 --> 02:37:20,150
Okay, thank you.

1769
02:37:20,150 --> 02:37:34,510
All right. Next item. Next item, please. Item number 20 file ID 26-412. Consider adopting

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02:37:34,510 --> 02:37:41,450
resolution of the City Council of the City of San Pablo approving the acceptance of private

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02:37:41,450 --> 02:37:49,650
donations and authorizing city staff to assault a memorial plaque in honor of former public

1772
02:37:49,650 --> 02:37:55,150
Public Works Director, Alan Penganobin, City Manager.

1773
02:37:55,710 --> 02:37:56,530
Thank you, Madam Clerk.

1774
02:37:56,810 --> 02:38:01,650
So Mayor and City Council, as you know, you have an adopted facility naming and

1775
02:38:01,650 --> 02:38:05,330
memorial policy that was adopted in 2018.

1776
02:38:06,350 --> 02:38:11,450
And because of those policy requirements, requests for installing private

1777
02:38:11,450 --> 02:38:16,730
memorial plaques can be formally considered by the City Council with a recommendation

1778
02:38:16,730 --> 02:38:18,830
from the Community Services Standing Committee.

1779
02:38:19,390 --> 02:38:22,170
So unfortunately, the Community Services Standing Committee

1780
02:38:22,170 --> 02:38:27,480
was scheduled to review this item last month on June, July 24th.

1781
02:38:27,890 --> 02:38:29,390
Unfortunately, there was not a quorum

1782
02:38:29,390 --> 02:38:32,410
to be able to proceed with reviewing this item.

1783
02:38:32,650 --> 02:38:34,470
So it's now coming to the full council.

1784
02:38:35,170 --> 02:38:39,210
So at this time, we do have a request from existing city staff

1785
02:38:39,210 --> 02:38:43,470
on providing a private donated memorial plaque,

1786
02:38:43,470 --> 02:38:49,930
I'm not using any public funding in accordance with your policy to honor our former public works

1787
02:38:49,930 --> 02:38:55,830
director, Alan Pan-Ganaban, who passed away earlier this year in May of 2026.

1788
02:38:56,650 --> 02:39:01,050
So we'll go ahead and turn this over to Amanda Booth for formal presentation on the merits

1789
02:39:01,050 --> 02:39:08,550
of the request and then council will be asked to approve said memorial plaque for formal

1790
02:39:08,550 --> 02:39:11,970
installation in accordance with your policy.

1791
02:39:11,970 --> 02:39:15,040
Good evening, Council.

1792
02:39:16,620 --> 02:39:26,300
Staff is here to ask for your consideration to approve a plaque to be placed on city property in honor of Alan Paganeman, the city's most recent public works director.

1793
02:39:27,100 --> 02:39:30,600
Alan had been with the city for eight years and with the public work director for the past four.

1794
02:39:31,320 --> 02:39:34,460
He went out on leave in late in 2025 and passed away a few months ago.

1795
02:39:35,420 --> 02:39:41,840
Public work staff has brought forth this request to install a plaque to remember Alan for his leadership to city staff.

1796
02:39:41,840 --> 02:39:50,740
Per policy 17-1-188, purchase and installment of the plaque would be completely without

1797
02:39:50,740 --> 02:39:55,280
city resources and would be covered entirely by donations as well as donated labor.

1798
02:39:56,880 --> 02:39:59,960
Alan was a city employee since 2018 and he was a Republican.

1799
02:40:00,600 --> 02:40:29,680
Public Works Director since 2022. The plaque is estimated to cost about $1,600 and again would be completely funded by staff donations. And maintenance would be donating their labor to install the plaque. The request is to have the plaque installed at the Wildcat Creek Trail, which is a project that he oversaw while he was here. And it would be installed upon a rock that would go along the trail. So the request is to respectfully ask for

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02:40:29,680 --> 02:40:35,120
your review and recommendation to review this request and approve it to City Council today.

1801
02:40:42,080 --> 02:40:44,660
Is there any public comment on this? No, there aren't.

1802
02:40:46,780 --> 02:40:48,840
Council Member Cruz, you have any questions?

1803
02:40:51,240 --> 02:40:55,820
No, I just want to publicly say thank you all for your commitment to our city and

1804
02:40:56,320 --> 02:41:00,120
may you rest in peace and God bless your family too, sir. Thank you.

1805
02:41:01,180 --> 02:41:02,280
Council Member Ponce.

1806
02:41:03,860 --> 02:41:12,740
thank you for the presentation. This is a great request. My only question is who do

1807
02:41:12,740 --> 02:41:23,440
I give my donation to? So we will follow up with Council. Obviously there's sufficient

1808
02:41:23,440 --> 02:41:28,480
private donations to cover the cost, but if individual Council members wish to make

1809
02:41:28,480 --> 02:41:31,960
a contribution. We can follow up with you on that.

1810
02:41:36,920 --> 02:41:39,900
Any more questions? Councilmember Pineda?

1811
02:41:43,150 --> 02:41:45,670
Thank you. I

1812
02:41:48,930 --> 02:41:54,760
appreciate you and staff and my

1813
02:41:58,250 --> 02:42:00,650
condolences. Honestly, I think about,

1814
02:42:01,330 --> 02:42:05,990
you know, it's when one person's gone. It's like, it's not just one person. A lot of people are

1815
02:42:05,990 --> 02:42:06,390
affected.

1816
02:42:09,150 --> 02:42:14,050
I know that, you know, he's had a tremendous impact not just on the city but

1817
02:42:14,050 --> 02:42:19,790
on city staff. These are friends that he's made along the way. Some would argue even

1818
02:42:19,790 --> 02:42:26,230
family, right? Sometimes the people you're around the most become a part of your family.

1819
02:42:28,320 --> 02:42:35,760
I appreciate you. I appreciate all the staff that came together to ramp this up and put

1820
02:42:35,760 --> 02:42:36,320
to motion.

1821
02:42:39,980 --> 02:42:41,500
I will be supporting this

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02:42:44,500 --> 02:42:49,600
for city leadership. You know, I still, I mean,

1823
02:42:49,640 --> 02:42:54,240
I know that we already do offer this, but you know, I think about the support for staff

1824
02:42:55,300 --> 02:43:02,280
and creating and maintaining those safe space for dialogue, for healing, for coping,

1825
02:43:03,600 --> 02:43:10,080
and totally also celebration of life in general, because I don't think anyone would want to find

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02:43:10,080 --> 02:43:15,920
themselves in a situation where people are just only grieving in one way and not realizing

1827
02:43:15,920 --> 02:43:18,980
or not acknowledging the other side or saying they're like, no, it's such a tremendous

1828
02:43:18,980 --> 02:43:19,400
person.

1829
02:43:19,620 --> 02:43:23,900
And the fact that even thinking about that place where it's being trumped up for the designation,

1830
02:43:24,280 --> 02:43:30,220
I mean like this is possible, not just because of people like him, because of him.

1831
02:43:30,960 --> 02:43:36,780
This is possible because, you know, also getting a group of like-minded thinkers and doers

1832
02:43:36,780 --> 02:43:39,180
and making this a reality.

1833
02:43:39,180 --> 02:43:48,200
So I just want to say I see you. I appreciate you. I appreciate all the stuff. And I got now I'll be supporting this. Thank you

1834
02:43:49,860 --> 02:43:51,040
Vice mayor Xavier

1835
02:43:51,920 --> 02:43:56,340
Thank you for joining us Amanda and the rest of the staff

1836
02:43:57,060 --> 02:43:58,080
This is great

1837
02:43:59,200 --> 02:44:02,440
And I believe that's a good spot for the plaque

1838
02:44:04,280 --> 02:44:05,320
so I

1839
02:44:05,320 --> 02:44:06,200
will visit it.

1840
02:44:10,760 --> 02:44:19,080
My condolences, for sure, to the family and to the staff. Words can't even

1841
02:44:19,080 --> 02:44:19,460
explain.

1842
02:44:21,880 --> 02:44:25,300
Express the heartbreak to see him go so young.

1843
02:44:28,140 --> 02:44:32,560
I always find that he was a good

1844
02:44:32,560 --> 02:44:35,920
man. I know he's in a better place now, so.

1845
02:44:38,260 --> 02:44:40,540
So yeah, what is the pleasure of the Council?

1846
02:44:40,920 --> 02:44:46,980
A really quick Amanda, could you keep us posted on the viewing, please, of the plaque. Thank you.

1847
02:44:49,000 --> 02:44:52,020
I would like to move this item forward and approve.

1848
02:44:53,000 --> 02:44:56,620
Second, thank you. Council Member Cruz?

1849
02:44:57,320 --> 02:44:59,200
Aye. Council Member Ponce?

1850
02:45:01,810 --> 02:45:06,790
So we'll complete the vote and then I have staff needs to add some additional information. Aye.

1851
02:45:10,920 --> 02:45:11,440
Aye.

1852
02:45:12,880 --> 02:45:18,420
Councilmember Panetta. Aye. Vice Mayor Xavier. Aye. Mayor Pabón Alvarado. Aye.

1853
02:45:19,000 --> 02:45:32,920
So, Mayor Council, we do have a video that we would like to show that highlights Allen and his contributions to the city. So I think we wanted to show that real quick if we can bring it up.

1854
02:45:34,200 --> 02:45:36,280
And this is just for information purposes.

1855
02:55:09,650 --> 02:55:12,210
Thank you for being a friend,

1856
02:55:14,260 --> 02:55:23,840
babbled down a road and back again. Your heart is true, you're a pal, and a confidant, not

1857
02:55:27,710 --> 02:55:29,110
a shame to say,

1858
02:55:33,180 --> 02:55:36,300
say this way, my hat ain't

1859
02:55:38,600 --> 02:55:39,140
been taken.

1860
02:56:24,880 --> 02:56:31,020
So we sincerely think that pan-gonna band family for sharing that video with us tonight. Yes, we do.

1861
02:56:38,260 --> 02:56:39,540
Okay, so business.

1862
02:56:43,610 --> 02:56:44,490
So the next item.

1863
02:56:44,490 --> 02:56:49,750
is that City Council assignment reports.

1864
02:56:53,460 --> 02:56:56,100
Councilmember Cruz.

1865
02:56:57,660 --> 02:56:59,860
None to report tonight. Thank you.

1866
02:57:01,980 --> 02:57:03,480
Councilmember Ponce.

1867
02:57:03,820 --> 02:57:07,160
No, nothing for me. Thank you. Councilmember.

1868
02:57:07,740 --> 02:57:10,260
Nothing for me as well. Vice Mayor.

1869
02:57:11,540 --> 02:57:20,140
I guess I had my Wicked Act meeting, and I would like to request that we adjourn in

1870
02:57:20,140 --> 02:57:28,580
memory of Jean Alameda, who was a former commander of St. Paul's, St. Paul's Police Department.

1871
02:57:29,380 --> 02:57:32,780
He was with our Police Department for 22 years.

1872
02:57:33,420 --> 02:57:37,300
They went to Pinole and retired from their Police Department.

1873
02:57:40,080 --> 02:57:46,300
So, this concludes, we adjourned to the regular City Council meeting on Tuesday, September

1874
02:57:46,300 --> 02:57:55,500
8, 2026 at 6 p.m. in memory of Sandra Wilson, Binder, Mother of Leland Grants, Public Works,

1875
02:57:55,660 --> 02:57:56,900
Maintenance, Worker.

1876
02:57:57,850 --> 02:58:05,100
And then we have the request from Vice Mayor for Gene Alameda, so if Council wishes to make

1877
02:58:05,100 --> 02:58:13,240
a motion and a vote on that we can adjourn for the second my morning a motion a second council

1878
02:58:13,240 --> 02:58:18,740
member Cruz aye council member Ponce aye

1879
02:58:21,010 --> 02:58:25,150
council member Pineda aye vice mayor Xavier

1880
02:58:25,150 --> 02:58:33,770
aye mayor Pabón Alvarado aye motion passes okay that concludes your council meeting thank

1881
02:58:33,770 --> 02:58:34,010
Thank you.

1882
02:58:34,410 --> 02:58:35,090
Thank you.

1883
02:58:35,290 --> 02:58:36,250
Thank you.

1884
02:58:36,250 --> 02:58:39,850
And thank you, Maria, for stepping in while the mall is going vacation.

1885
02:58:40,350 --> 02:58:40,870
Just a great job.

1886
02:58:41,010 --> 02:58:41,330
Thank you.