[3:49] We're going to go ahead and get the meeting started for the public comment meeting for January 28, 2025, the 6 o'clock.

[3:56] Call for time and roll call please.

[3:58] Council Member of the Costa, President, the horkis, President Rodriguez, President, Mayor of Protent de Gado, Mayor

[4:05] Oamos, President, Mayor, you have a quorum.

[4:08] Thank you, sir. With that, we'll go ahead and have the pledge allegiance led by,

[4:16] oh, did last

[4:18] Mary, will you lead us in the pledge and then we'll have the invocation by Pastor Donald

[4:22] Dello Calvary Chapel.

[4:23] Is everyone?

[4:23] Will please stand face to flag right hand over your heart, ready to begin?

[4:42] Please remain standing, Pastor.

[4:46] Good evening, Mayor.

[4:48] Say a con.

[4:48] So if we can all bow our heads, Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight in the name of

[4:55] Jesus.

[4:55] We ask for your help, your direction, your comfort and your strength is, you know, Lord, that

[5:01] we're living in perilous times.

[5:02] So we need your help. I asked that you bless the mayor and the city council and guide them tonight

[5:07] And we asked Lord that you take care of everybody and this wonderful city south all-money

[5:13] Take care of us and our families. We give it all to you in Jesus name. We pray a man. Amen. Thank you, Peter

[5:21] Maybe seated

[5:28] We have a presentation. So if you guys don't mind we're gonna go ahead and move for F as in Frank

[5:35] to item 4-8. Are you guys okay with that?

[5:38] No objection.

[5:39] No objection.

[5:40] Okay.

[5:41] So what then we go ahead and get started.

[5:43] We have a presentation of certificates and recognition

[5:45] to sell them on a community outreach volunteers for the participation

[5:48] and community events.

[5:50] And that's a better Charlie's Church.

[5:51] So thank you guys for all of your help and assistance.

[5:53] We really appreciate it.

[5:55] At this point we'll go ahead and do the presentation.

[6:28] So once again, we'd like to say thank you to all of the volunteers.

[6:30] We really appreciate all of your participation and help.

[6:32] I mean, I see you guys at all the events and we know that it takes time to do that, so for you to

[6:37] carry enough about our community, to do what you do.

[6:39] Thank you so much.

[6:40] We love you guys for that and God bless you and hope that you continue to be blessed as you

[6:43] bless others.

[6:44] Would you like to see?

[6:46] Yes.

[6:47] Just real quick.

[6:48] Again, as the Mayor just mentioned, we see you.

[6:51] We, you guys are all of our events.

[6:54] We truly appreciate everything that you do.

[6:56] You are truly unique individuals.

[7:00] your volunteerism goes unnoticed, it is deeply appreciated and we want to thank you and I want

[7:07] you to continue helping the community. We're very proud of what you do. So thank you very much.

[7:13] Guys, thank you for everything you do. We do notice you. We see you out there. You guys are at

[7:16] all our events and it's very important to give back. You guys give your time, volunteer. You don't

[7:21] get anything for it just to come out and help us out. So really appreciate what you do. Keep coming

[7:26] out and helping out the community and thanks again, I'm going to send it over to you.

[7:30] Councilman Rodriguez. Of course, I'm going to go ahead and echo everyone's words, but most of all, you know, thank you for leading the way and being a good leader as a youth, showing the way, how to be empathetic, caring, and always giving back to the community. It's the most important thing. So thank you so much for all your hard work and we truly appreciate it. Thank you.

[7:55] Alright, so with that guys, we're gonna go ahead and call your names out.

[8:00] Susie Leo, Sariano.

[8:04] Susie Ariano?

[8:06] Not here?

[8:08] What come on?

[8:18] If we weren't fair as soon as you hear your name, please come up.

[8:23] Don't be shy.

[8:26] Gohan.

[8:27] Can you Salis?

[8:41] Yasika corona.

[8:51] What's that?

[8:52] Giovanni Perez.

[9:07] Jonathan Perez.

[9:22] Oscar Pres,

[9:37] Sergio

[9:40] D

[9:48] Pres, Sergio D

[10:01] Pres, Sergio F Pres,

[10:16] Yolzgar Pres,

[10:23] if I kill your name, please just tell me.

[10:28] Oze, Pinuelas?

[10:38] Oze? No?

[10:39] Okay.

[10:41] Isaiah, Isel Yao, Ramos?

[10:48] Yes.

[10:52] Kimberly, Reinaga, Reinaga?

[11:01] Evan Rivas?

[11:15] Mia or Tiaga?

[11:29] Gabrielle Castillo?

[11:45] Nengues.

[11:46] Nengues.

[11:58] Maximus Consoles?

[12:08] Why Fangri?

[12:17] Nengues.

[12:18] Anthony Lopez,

[12:29] J.D. Lu.

[12:39] Good chance.

[12:42] Ali, Mary,

[12:54] Meaghan, Chiang.

[13:03] Kimble, Inwin.

[13:18] Suying.

[13:29] Thomas Quinn.

[13:38] Luis Perez.

[13:51] Bradley.

[13:52] Pratezantin.

[13:54] Zin.

[14:02] Pratezantin.

[14:02] Congratulations.

[14:04] Thank you.

[14:05] Gustavo Rodriguez.

[14:15] Lily Sanchez.

[14:25] Roy Thong.

[14:36] Denise.

[14:37] Vial.

[14:38] Viamil.

[14:53] Jessica Corona.

[14:54] See ya!

[15:02] All

[15:11] right, you know, these are all our volunteers. It looks like quite a bit of a community, right? So let's give a great big hand and say again, thank you to them.

[15:22] And I know Pastor Charlie could make it tonight, but we'd like to say thank you, Pastor Charlie, who are personally with you, God bless you, and thanks for all your help that you do in our community.

[15:30] All right, we're going to go ahead and take a photo up, guys.

[15:34] Is there anyone else that heard that volunteer that was not mentioned? If so, please come on down and then tell us your name.

[15:41] Anybody?

[15:42] Boy once?

[15:44] Twice?

[15:44] All right.

[15:45] Go on.

[15:58] On paper.

[16:17] Everyone stay there.

[16:21] For a minute.

[16:23] Two.

[16:33] If you guys want to put back down to you.

[16:36] Go for it.

[16:50] See the clerk where you put on the clock.

[16:52] Mr. Doggaard who's 6 or 6 or 6.

[16:55] All

[16:58] right.

[16:58] Smile, guys.

[16:59] See cheese.

[17:00] They're being honored tonight.

[17:02] Thank you.

[17:02] Good job, guys.

[17:03] Thank you.

[17:12] Thank you again, guys.

[17:14] Good bless you.

[17:26] With that, we have our presentation.

[17:29] Will you please mark Mr.

[17:30] The Gaudles your 16th.

[17:32] Agent.

[17:33] Please mark that he's got your 16th.

[17:37] All right.

[17:37] We're going to go for A.

[17:39] 2024-25.

[17:40] Meteor budget review.

[17:42] Missami?

[17:42] You're up.

[17:45] Good evening Madam Mayor.

[17:46] Members City Council.

[17:49] We just passed our mid-year mark, and CD manager asked me to give you a mid-year budget

[17:57] actual update.

[17:58] I know everyone is anxious to hear how measure SCM impacted the city and its financial

[18:05] future.

[18:07] So, I want to keep this short, so I only have five slides, and the first slides has the list

[18:14] of items that I'm going to cover today.

[18:18] the next slide.

[18:22] Thank you.

[18:33] Not working.

[18:36] Okay.

[18:38] But, right.

[18:40] Before I dive into this, I just want to thank you in the city manager for your leadership and support to get the city to this point because it is quite unusual where we are today.

[18:51] And I just want to highlight just a few bullet point of things of how we work as a team and it was like clock work to get to where we are.

[18:58] So in June 11, you adopted the fiscal 25 budget.

[19:02] Two weeks later, we're busy working on possibly modernizing our business license ordinance.

[19:08] July 22nd, Councilman Delgado tells City Manager that the county is working on measuring,

[19:14] measure H might expire early.

[19:17] The same day, we reached out to the special council.

[19:22] And then a few days after that, City finally reaches an agreement with its labor unions.

[19:27] few days after that, special council finishes drafting all the resolution ordinance required

[19:33] to take this in front of the voters.

[19:38] On August 7, only six days after that city council

[19:41] held a special meeting and approved submitting a tax measure to the voters. And by September

[19:46] 10, we incorporate all of the changes in our assumptions, all the results of the Union negotiations.

[19:54] And September 10th, you adopted an amended fiscal 25 budget.

[19:59] So what I'm comparing the actual against is the budget

[20:02] that you've been in on September 10th.

[20:05] So next slide, please.

[20:10] So at six months, the general fund looks

[20:14] little short of the budget, but for this city,

[20:18] a lot more revenues come in in the second half of the year.

[20:22] So when we forecast that out, we believe we're going to be ahead

[20:25] on the revenue side as well, the expenditure for the general fund.

[20:30] For the special revenue fund, as I always say, it's a wash,

[20:33] because the revenue that comes in can only be spent

[20:36] for its legal intended purpose, so it's usually a timing difference.

[20:41] We expend funds first and we submit it to the grant

[20:44] towards reimbursement, so usually there's a lag in that,

[20:48] and that causes some timing difference in the numbers,

[20:51] But overall, it's always going to be a wash.

[20:56] Now, the next slide, the elated slide.

[21:01] So, with the passage of measure SEM,

[21:05] it's going to kick in April first.

[21:08] We were assuming that we're going to get about 1.6 per year,

[21:12] so we only included additional 400 in the 25 actual.

[21:16] And going forward, we included a 1.6 million cell-use transaction tax.

[21:25] And we escalated the revenue that 3% which is a little bit higher than the last

[21:29] escalation I showed you.

[21:31] This is based on some of the assumptions I got from HDL and therefore cast the numbers.

[21:37] And the cost, we even always using 5% to be conservative.

[21:42] Now, when we do that, for the next five years, we actually have

[21:46] balance budget. So this looks quite sustainable and healthy to me. If we live within our

[21:54] means, for example, if the revenues grows faster than 3% or if we live within our

[22:00] means and keep our cost below 5%, this could continue for many more years depending on

[22:06] what happens in the future. At the moment, our reserve could go up as 100% in few years.

[22:12] Next slide.

[22:22] The cache bound.

[22:26] So we've been investing our cache.

[22:31] When we saw that key with inflation, the interest rate was rising, we joined camp and we started moving all the money in our

[22:39] life and so forth into camp to catch the way with the climbing interest rates. This is the cash we currently hold in these accounts.

[22:48] And I kind of laid out what the average maturity is and in those kind of funds. And for fiscal 24, the city made a record of making interest income over 1.9 million.

[22:59] So I just want to share that. Next slide please.

[23:07] When René became the city manager, he wanted to put a lot of thought and time into preparing the budget correctly.

[23:15] So we actually started months early then usual. So usually now we start January 1st.

[23:21] And this is the budget calendar or how we go through four rounds of review and give the department opportunity to

[23:30] update their budget, have a meeting with city manager and back and forth and before we bring

[23:35] in front of city council.

[23:37] With that, if you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

[23:42] Any questions?

[23:44] No questions, but congratulations, making sure that we're doing the right thing, so thank you

[23:50] very much to you and your staff.

[23:51] Thank you.

[23:53] Mr. Mayor.

[23:54] Mr. Mayor.

[23:54] Missami, thank you for providing this for us.

[23:57] I do have one question.

[23:58] I think it was last year that we did the budget that we were looking at a four-year forecast

[24:02] that was going to be under 50% of reserves so can you explain the difference that's how

[24:07] that's turned around and because now we're looking at the 95% or something like that.

[24:15] So both the June 11 and the September 10 presentation I made by 29 I was showing that the reserve

[24:21] will go down from like 80% down to 50% because as the general fund has a deficit, it starts

[24:28] small by starts growing and you start to eat into your reserve.

[24:32] Now technically you don't have an fiscal emergency until you don't have enough money to

[24:38] go on another fiscal year.

[24:42] So for this city, you actually have a fiscal and it will take many years when you have such

[24:47] high reserve because it may start out like 100,000 extra might be a few 100,000 but to actually

[24:53] use up the amount of fund balance you have, it will be much more than five years is my point

[25:01] because we're starting out like at 92%. And we have a surplus of what's going to add

[25:07] into that reserve and as you start, so you haven't even tapped in at 2029, so maybe 2030,

[25:14] 31, as you start to tap in, you still have many years before you create a fiscal emergency for the city.

[25:22] Right. So you have ample time to plan ahead and strategize in my mind.

[25:26] And this is not forecasting out any additional funds that might be coming in the future on top of what we have.

[25:31] We included what we know so far, but we did not include things like allocation.

[25:37] We might get from the county pass measure A for homeless and everything like that.

[25:41] Okay. Okay. Thank you so much.

[25:47] I'm sorry, I'm looking at your numbers here.

[25:49] It is a little bit brighter, but still looking at the numbers here.

[25:53] There's 3.3 million six month variants.

[25:56] Still has been a little bit of worry.

[25:59] There are a number of other things that potentially that we can look at.

[26:02] And I think that all of us up here at one time are another discuss,

[26:07] particularly with some type of utility users tax.

[26:12] And I know, and again, very preliminary,

[26:14] But I know it's something that we have actually

[26:16] I have considered here. I don't know if it's something that this body wants to move forward at a future date

[26:22] But I think it's certainly

[26:25] Something we need to look at consider whether it be a water gas electricity cell phone internet whatever it may be those were all different options and

[26:34] That burden needs to be straight across the board for both businesses and for residents there. So and I know we've talked about that the other thing

[26:42] that we have not taken into consideration here is with the cannabis

[26:48] measure that also passed a number of years ago. Here it's been two years

[26:52] actually going on three years now and the city we've stayed idle on that. We've

[26:57] lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue if not millions of

[27:01] dollars in revenue here and compare to some other cities. So this city really needs

[27:06] take a hard look and trying to make that a priority. Again, that was approved by the voters.

[27:14] So we need to get in full gear. And that's certainly something that could help our

[27:19] coffers here as well. So, and again, those are two different things here that have not been

[27:25] considered here for a linear future here as well.

[27:29] Is there a reason?

[27:31] Well, I want to say thank you for your hard work and one thing that I like that you said

[27:36] you guys started early and you started building this and I like that the direction we're going

[27:41] you know upward and you know I hope you guys continue that and like I said I 100% back you guys

[27:47] on whatever you do thank you sir. Thank you. All right well thank you for that report Miss Sony.

[27:53] We'll be in forward we'll go ahead and oh and good chat to you and your team.

[27:59] For B, San Guillermo Valley cashier program presentation by mobility development

[28:05] I'm still sorry, I think it's a fancy word, Karsha.

[28:16] Can I get the slides?

[28:19] Okay, so I'm creating Randall.

[28:20] Thank you for having us and having us back to

[28:23] Sharon update on a program.

[28:25] And it was Waldobrecht, won't it?

[28:27] Program manager for MDL.

[28:30] I'm the CEO, by the way.

[28:32] So a little bit of background on us.

[28:35] So we've been doing this work for about 15, 16 years now.

[28:39] have been focused on exclusively electric cars since 2018.

[28:44] This is one of three programs that we're running in partnership with California

[28:49] Resources Board and with a bunch of local partners that we'll get to in a moment.

[28:54] I did want to jump right in and just talk about the pricing of the program because we're

[28:58] ready to launch and I know this was an issue that did come up in our last conversation.

[29:05] I believe our COO James Douglass was able to join.

[29:09] So just a refresher, car sharing is a little bit like car rental, but slightly more simplified.

[29:17] It's sort of like you can think of it as sort of self-serve, cars are available when you need it.

[29:24] And so the cars are all electric and accessible at either $24 a day or $22 a week.

[29:31] With that $20 one-time application fee, that just covers the cost of us running the motor vehicle record of the driver.

[29:39] So we wanted to just reiterate that and we can kind of get back to some of the details on that in a minute.

[29:44] And also just to recognize some of our partners here.

[29:47] So the energy coalition is the lead on this project.

[29:50] They've kind of pulled the partners together, recruited us as the operator, again,

[29:53] where mobility development, active San Gabriel has been a key partner in the community and is going to be big.

[30:00] Art of getting the outreach to the community to spread awareness about this program, and EVCS is the charging

[30:06] vendor that they'll be the ones installing the infrastructure at the community center.

[30:11] Our core mission is to sort of think through these programs and make sure that they're there

[30:15] for a long run that it's not just a two or a three year grant and then the program goes away

[30:19] at the end of it, so that's what we spend a lot of our time focused on, and the programs that we run around the country

[30:25] They are all very similar to this.

[30:27] The cost of the program is really driven down as low as we can sustain for users with that contrast from car rental, right?

[30:36] So we try to make these cars as accessible as we can to the community, but still keep the program running.

[30:42] So if you differences between car rental and car share, again it's all about accessibility, right?

[30:46] We don't do any credit check.

[30:48] That's a big thing.

[30:49] You don't need a credit card to become a member.

[30:51] There's no deposit required to participate in the program, and insurance is included in the price.

[30:57] We know a lot of residents, particularly low-income residents have a lot of really struggle with getting insurance on their own vehicle.

[31:04] So these are all big factors and simplifying that price point.

[31:08] These cars are electric again, so charging is included also in the price.

[31:12] So there's no need for the member to either fuel up if it were a gas car or even to figure out how to charge themselves.

[31:20] that's often kind of a barrier for members.

[31:24] We do run on 24-7 bilingual call center.

[31:28] Oftentimes, members, a little bit struggling with a program

[31:32] maybe the first or second time using the service.

[31:35] Electric cars are often new to our users at the beginning.

[31:37] A lot of questions in the front end, but again, it is self-service.

[31:41] I'll go through some of that quickly.

[31:44] But again, they're all electric cars.

[31:45] We have both Hyundai, Cohnos, and, sorry, Chevy Bolton fleet, they're both about 200 putty

[31:53] mile range car.

[31:54] So for most uses, the members are not going to need to fill up the charge car again.

[32:01] But again, sometimes it does take a little bit of getting used to the car.

[32:04] And just real quick to run through this, people use an app, so SGV car share either on

[32:10] the app store or Google Play is the app itself.

[32:14] They download that app, we run their driving record, and then that's their sort of ticket into the program, right?

[32:20] So they go on, they book it for the time they need, the day or the week, and then it self-service from there.

[32:26] They go back to the community center, get the car, return it to the community center at the end of their trip.

[32:32] And I'll turn it over to a while, though, to talk a little bit about where folks are going to charge in the community and how we're going to spread the work.

[32:36] Absolutely, so it is the member, the user who is using the vehicle responsibly to charge the vehicle.

[32:43] The vehicle does come equipped with a charge print card already accessible, so they can just take it to a nearby car.

[32:49] Can you speak into the mic?

[32:50] Absolutely.

[32:51] So yeah, the member can take the actual vehicle already with the charge print card included to one of the chargers nearby,

[32:59] which would help the member actually achieve a preferred drive time activity facility.

[33:04] Members can use it at no charge.

[33:07] That's something that we cover.

[33:09] And they can use it through the charge point card app.

[33:12] You can see all the locations.

[33:14] You can download it at the Google Play or Apple Store.

[33:19] It is the membership responsibility to maintain.

[33:22] I'll be the next slide.

[33:26] So it is the membership responsibility to maintain

[33:28] the value driver's license.

[33:31] Obviously we through our member of guidebook.

[33:33] In case there's an accident,

[33:35] immediately they have to call 911.

[33:36] one. After that, that's taking place and it can reach out to our member services. Any

[33:42] tolls in traffic tickets or responsible, you know, members are responsible for those. Always

[33:48] keep the cars above 20 percent. When you remember using these vehicles and only the end

[33:55] reservations must be taking place at the community center. So anything above that, you

[34:01] know, there will be some fees for that and obviously report all the damage. You can use that

[34:06] of the app you can take pictures of the vehicle, of the vehicle's damage, you can go ahead

[34:09] and report the actual damage to us and we can see that. And actually I will actually

[34:15] on Saturday I will be doing a soft launch here where I'm going to go ahead and educate people

[34:21] more on the program on demand with hands-on and showing some of the vehicle technology.

[34:27] Thank you.

[34:30] Well, last thing I would add is we've been doing beta testing the last couple of weeks with active

[34:34] San Gabriel has been great helping us kind of work out the King's to program and try it out and

[34:40] been able to use the vehicles that many of their outreach events. Any questions?

[34:48] Again, no questions, but I think there's a fantastic program. I'm really really looking forward to seeing it roll out and

[34:55] benefit the community. Thank you.

[34:58] Yeah, so this is a beta program. Are we the first city that you guys are going to be rolling out?

[35:02] So this is one of three programs in Southern California, they are just being with the housing authority, the City of Los Angeles and the City of Riverside.

[35:09] So as far as the car share program, this is the city of Southamun, this is the first.

[35:13] This is going to be the first to roll out, and we also were able to working with the city of Elmonte to also secure a grant that will sort of extend the program.

[35:23] So you combine these two together, they'll be under the same brand, because oftentimes users, you know, they're not making a distinction between city lines.

[35:30] that'll add additional 20 vehicles to the fleet, so we think this will be probably the largest in the region in terms of our programs.

[35:39] Okay, and we've done the outreach for Southern Monty or our Monty to see what it's going to be.

[35:45] How much use did you actually get from the program?

[35:48] Sure, so I'm wondering if Actors and Gabriel wants to come up and say a little bit about this because we have a full outreach plan in place.

[35:58] But I do think just to give you a short answer, based on other programs we've run and based on the weekly rental, we think it's likely it'll get fully subscribed within a matter of weeks, maybe months.

[36:13] Good evening, Council members, and my name is Dale, and we have not done any outreach yet for this program.

[36:19] But we are going to begin that, our marketing and outreach for the program includes outreach to the community, including testimonials, surveys, as well as some.

[36:31] right in drives with community members.

[36:35] These will include focus groups at community centers such as schools, at the South-Amentic

[36:40] Community Center as well.

[36:43] Okay.

[36:44] Thank you.

[36:45] Thank you.

[36:46] Thank you.

[36:47] Thank you for there was a number of questions you just answered and first and foremost the inclusion

[36:52] of the insurance in the rental, I think that's a big one.

[36:56] And the liability of sum of the liability, hopefully nothing happens there.

[36:59] But the other thing was awesome, the charge card. So they could take it anywhere and you guys come for that class

[37:05] So

[37:05] Bravo to you guys for that. I'm really excited and looking forward to it and

[37:10] Again

[37:11] Seeing that demonstration over the outside or

[37:14] All right, thank you for your good

[37:16] I was a don't council when this first came out. So I'm kind of new to this so I one of the questions is who keeps the car's clean

[37:24] I think it's a little bit more of an idea.

[37:27] So I'm not responsible for the vehicle type.

[37:30] Program managed to fleet making sure the cars are maintained, operational, the technologies work inefficiently, and that the app is running in the end users, you know, seamless, no issues.

[37:40] Is that daily or is it something that, yes, I'm out of choice daily. Yes.

[37:45] Okay.

[37:46] And I come inspect them sometimes two, two times a week.

[37:49] So is this like a pilot program or is it something we signed a contract with over so many years?

[37:55] So one of the things, it is, you could call it a pilot.

[37:58] The state calls them a pilot, California Resources Board

[38:01] is the funder for most of these programs.

[38:03] And they provide the first three years of funding.

[38:06] We're required to keep it running for a fourth year.

[38:09] Our model, though, is, you know, we've never seen a program

[38:12] dry up because of lack of funding.

[38:13] We stick with the programs for many years.

[38:16] So we would see this as, you know, five, five, ten years, sort of.

[38:20] So one last question, what type of residence are you trying to target?

[38:24] Like, what do you think, who do you think would use this most?

[38:28] Would it be seniors, would it be, you know,

[38:30] just somebody community back and forth, would it be?

[38:34] And, but I want to know your big and down the line,

[38:39] like 1, 2, 3, who do you think would be using this?

[38:41] Are utilizing this service?

[38:42] This is a little different than most of the programs we run

[38:45] and that typically our programs are by the hour

[38:49] and sometimes by the day.

[38:51] So, our most heavily utilized programs

[38:53] of the ones where they're only hourly rentals.

[38:56] And so folks will use it to go grocery shopping, maybe a trip to doctors appointment or the

[39:00] pharmacy, job interviews, child care, or family visits, you know, a lot of these short trips.

[39:08] When we make cars available longer like this, and you're not the only ones in the regions

[39:12] that are focused on this, the housing authority in Los Angeles is also focused on longer

[39:16] term rentals.

[39:18] We think we'll see different trip patterns, but it's a little bit newer to us.

[39:21] weekly. We're likely to see more job-related travel, right? If there's a kind of a 500-mile

[39:28] cap that tells you a lot about how people are going to kind of make it work for them. So we

[39:34] think we'll see a lot more commute trips in that timeframe, but we are making them available daily.

[39:38] I do think to your point about cleaning that we're likely with this sort of pricing to see a lot

[39:43] more weekly trips than daily.

[39:48] So yeah, that was one of my concerns who cleans it, but it wasn't

[39:50] first say who cleans it during the week or making sure they're clean. I'm talking about after each person

[39:54] use. If someone's using it, this someone actually come wipe it down with alcohol wipes and all that.

[40:00] Yes, so once the vehicle is officially used and the brought back then I go and inspect the

[40:03] car make sure the vehicle is ready for the next user. Got you. Okay. Cool. And then um.

[40:10] Yeah, you answered all the other questions, which was good. All the charging and stuff. I was like,

[40:13] what happens in the middle of the road? So you answered that. Thank you so much. Great

[40:17] presentation. Looking forward to working with you guys. Thank you. Thank you for your time.

[40:21] already moving on.

[40:24] Service Department report from the months of October, November, December.

[40:31] And before we get started, let's give our service a great weekend.

[40:34] I know they've been working hard.

[40:37] Thank you guys.

[40:38] Thank you.

[40:39] Good evening Madam Mayor and council.

[40:42] My name is Deputy Ares and I'm the presenting.

[40:45] Part one crime statistics from the months of October to December.

[40:49] So bear with me.

[40:50] It's going to be a lot of numbers and percentages, but

[40:54] get through this.

[40:55] So, for those that are not aware, our part-one crimes consists of homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, theft,

[41:07] ramp theft auto and arson. So, this is a bar graph from 2020 to 2024. When you look at the one and four

[41:17] changes we doing a good job like double digits on decrease in crime for almost every part one

[41:27] crime statistic we are 18% difference one year change and then the four year change under 2%

[41:39] Next slide please. This is going to be a bar graph from 2020 to 2024. You can

[41:47] see in 2021 and 2022 were the highest peaks of crime that was committed and we've had a

[41:54] good downward trend from from 2021. Next slide please.

[42:04] This is a page regarding the

[42:09] off the breakdown and arrest your date. In 2023, we arrested 834 individuals and then in

[42:17] 2024, 845. It gives a breakdown for each month and for each specific part one crime statistic.

[42:29] And again, overall, we are seeing a decrease in the numbers.

[42:35] So that's going to be for October,

[42:38] And I'm just going to be for November.

[42:46] So again, one year change in November, we are under 19% and then the four year change, just

[42:55] a slight increase of 2%, but still overall with all the part one crime statistics.

[43:02] We are seeing downward trends.

[43:07] Next slide. Again, you see 22. We had 902 part 1 crime, or part 1 crimes, and then since then, we're almost 300 under the 222 stat.

[43:31] In 2023, we had from a new November, 925 arrests compared to 2024-896,

[43:51] and then we'll go for December.

[43:57] One year change in crime statistics, 18% under 18% for year over year, and then the four year change

[44:05] we are just slightly above 1%.

[44:11] Again, next slide please.

[44:14] In 2020, 2021, 2021, 2021,

[44:17] we're probably the highest peak years

[44:19] in crimes that we're committed in the city.

[44:24] And then since then, it's been a consistent downward trend

[44:28] from December 2020 to 2024, 2022 being the highest,

[44:32] 195 down to almost 300 less crime coming in 2024.

[44:43] Pretty similar. Rest, 2023. We had

[44:45] 991 in 2024. 961. Rest.

[44:54] And one thing I just really quickly want to point out. I know

[44:58] with burglars.

[45:00] They kind of go and waves the one thing that we've been trying to pass along to the businesses and residents of the city, which benefits us tremendously, is having our alarm systems, current, and working properly, and then also having video surveillance cameras.

[45:20] So that way of crimes are committed, and they're reported, we know about it, and we can work with the video footage that they have to apprehend and arrest individuals who are committing the crimes.

[45:37] There's any questions. We have a take.

[45:41] Yeah, again, no questions, thank you very much for the report, but I do want to comment on the last few years, especially during the pandemic.

[45:51] You guys were up against some unsurmountable odds, a lot of obstacles.

[45:56] For some reason, the pandemic has demonstrated in year 21, 22, we just, everybody was just a little squirrely.

[46:03] The majority of those issues were burglaries and deaths and and Jackie just mentioned a part of the problem was education

[46:11] a lot of the business owners didn't have cameras. They didn't have

[46:16] All of these lights lights. They'd keep their you know some of the gates were unlocked and so you know

[46:22] And we had a lot of people just roaming around and we you know

[46:24] You guys would report and we would say you know, hey hang in there hang in there just persevere

[46:28] You know, stay stay on stay on top of things and things are starting to work out and then

[46:33] we had a DA that just kept revolving, had a revolving door and it just made your job a lot tougher

[46:40] you to rest and then you'd see them again the next day. So things I have turned around,

[46:47] we now have a new DA which is going to make things a little easier. So thank you gentlemen for

[46:52] staying on top of things. Keep up the good work. Thanks, sir. And just to add on to that real quick

[46:56] with all the community events that we do with the businesses and citizens of the community

[47:02] outreach, we're always getting positive feedback when it comes to the cyber-fried presentation

[47:10] that we put on or coffee with a cop or different kinds that we're meeting and going

[47:18] out interacting with the community. That's extremely positive and only benefits both people

[47:25] involved us and the businesses and residents, and then going with properties, which is something

[47:33] just past, I think we're going to see more of a decrease in the crimes being committed.

[47:41] It's going to probably take a little bit of time just because last four years when we were

[47:45] arrested as individuals, crimes were not being prosecuted. So with the new change in law, with

[47:52] two prior drug conditions, or two prior thefts, they can be convicted of felonies. So that's going

[47:59] to be a big change and a big plus for us and the residents and community of Southammonie,

[48:05] but it's going to take a little bit of time just to kind of get that point.

[48:09] Don't forget

[48:10] any word, watch. Yeah, exactly. It's work is. Thank you for being here. Thank you for the report.

[48:15] Thank you all you guys, you know, for everything that you do is always, and it's a it's a

[48:24] that these numbers are trending in in the right direction and

[48:28] hopefully the change of DA is going to help it, you know, go even more in the right direction.

[48:31] So keep keep up the good work. Thanks guys.

[48:33] Sir, thank you.

[48:36] Deputy Ares, one question.

[48:38] Sir, October, November, December 2022.

[48:42] There's a huge spike.

[48:44] 2024.

[48:45] What would you attribute that to?

[48:47] I think it's a lot of factors, I think, so I wasn't on the team during 2021, but I've

[48:58] expressed this before.

[48:59] I think one of the big issues is the help that we're getting from city council with

[49:07] crime prevention funds.

[49:08] It's allowing us to do more operations, be more present out there in the streets, more interaction

[49:17] with the community. And so with all that combined, I think that's where you've been able to see the numbers

[49:25] down trend. If that's the case, we need to make a bigger investment.

[49:31] I generally mean that, you know, because that was a huge drop off in those particular months from

[49:35] 2022 to 2024. So again, I think it's something that we need to consider here with this upcoming

[49:42] fiscal year and where we're going to make that investment into public safety for residents and for

[49:46] businesses. So again, thank you for your report. And again,

[49:50] especially thank you to our team over there. So I'll definitely read

[49:52] Driggas out there. I'm just looking okay, man. I know those 12

[49:56] hour shifts are they're brutal. So again, hey, make sure you're

[49:59] spending that time with your families. Guys. Thank you. Thank you.

[50:02] Surgees. I want to thank you guys for all your hard work. I was

[50:06] services. I see you guys are, you know, patrolling and stuff like that.

[50:12] One is I'm going to ask make a request you know if you guys are ever doing reports and you want to park at the schools

[50:19] as a school board well I former school board member we always encourage that we want that it's a deterrent and stuff and it keeps our kids safe

[50:26] So if you ever have time and you just want to park someone and somewhere instead of a park you know a school parking lot would be awesome we encourage that

[50:33] So I do have one question

[50:35] Is there anything more the city could do to help you guys?

[50:40] Like if you had one wish on your wish list would there be something that we could do

[50:45] or we could consider in the next year how we can help you help us?

[50:52] You know, it's all right.

[50:54] It's a team question.

[50:56] It's just a team question.

[50:57] It's just a team question.

[50:58] It's just a team question.

[51:02] Put a list together.

[51:03] Yeah, no, and, you know, we back, we did compile a small list and we are thankful and very

[51:11] fortunate enough that lists, we're going to receive some of those items that we have in

[51:18] there, including chargers and different types of entry devices that help us with like

[51:26] gaining entry into doors or keeping doors unlocked if they are locked like permanent locking

[51:32] mechanisms. So there are a few things that we've asked and we've

[51:36] we're going to be granted. So we are appreciative of that

[51:41] help in assistance. Well as much as you're there for us, we want to

[51:43] be there for you. So thank you for your service and thank you for

[51:46] all your work. Thank you sir. So again guys, thank you. I know I keep you busy

[51:49] enough. We can these calls. But I want to say to each and every one of you

[51:52] thank you. Our team is awesome. And they are spoiled. They have a list of

[51:57] that a ram and shields and sprays and all kinds of stuff and they got it also so we're here to help you

[52:03] just as much as you serve our community we want to serve you so thank you guys for all that you

[52:07] we appreciate you guys so thank you great presentation thank you

[52:15] all right moving on we have

[52:26] the

[52:26] Council.

[52:30] I will be presenting the months of October and November in December for both code and forth in the public safety.

[52:37] The first slide there is for the month of October, as you can see, there is approximately 90 cases for the month of October.

[52:45] With property maintenance and homelessness are some of the high priorities,

[52:49] issue that we had to deal with in October. Both October and November we had a large increase

[52:55] of flex increase of homeless coming into the city. A lot of its proactive approach and

[53:04] offering resources through both Lakata and Lasa through these two these individuals

[53:10] throughout the city. Next slide.

[53:17] Parking enforcement citations issued for the month of October

[53:22] 475, 180 of those are for street sweeping, as you can see our officers are busy patrolling

[53:30] monitoring the city, for not just for vehicles, parking on the sidewalks, parked on red

[53:35] curves, but also with no current registration or other tags to be on the street itself.

[53:44] Next slide please.

[53:47] It's a continuation.

[53:48] I've seen some of the violations that our public safety officers are enforcing on a daily basis.

[53:54] Next slide.

[53:56] This one is for the month of November.

[53:58] You're seeing the cases for November at 70.

[54:01] Once again property maintenance and homelessness are the homeless at 21 cases for the month.

[54:10] Next slide please.

[54:11] The party citations for the month of November, 574, as you can see, at this point we actually

[54:20] filled a vacant position in the evenings early morning for street sweeping, so there was

[54:27] a number during training that there are 20 citations issued in the evening early morning,

[54:33] then during the day in the residential areas of 204 citations were issued.

[54:38] Next slide please.

[54:40] Once again, a continuation of violations that the officers are forcing on a daily basis.

[54:47] Next slide.

[54:49] Month of December, 51 cases for the month of December, you can see there's a drop-off in the homeless.

[54:56] A lot of it is the individual's relocating back into the San Gabriel River and the Rihanna Watch.

[55:05] We're assuming it's for better shelter from the weather as we know it's been very cold, especially in the evenings.

[55:18] Vehicle and traffic, incidences as you can see as our number one case that we dealt with in December.

[55:26] A lot of traffic collisions, a lot of inoperable vehicles, stone vehicles that were found and reported to the sheriff's department.

[55:35] Next up is now for the month of December we have approximately 1,120 citations that were issued.

[55:43] As you can see, there's a large drought, a large increase in our night as street sweep and enforcement.

[55:48] That went from 20 from the previous month to 340 in the early mornings and the residential is 315.

[55:56] Let me note that this is also with the city's suspension of street sweeping enforcement during the Christmas holiday and New Year holiday as well.

[56:10] Next slide please.

[56:12] Once again, a continuation of the different violations of our public safety officer in the forest along with individuals parking near handicapped access ramps.

[56:23] vehicles for sale on the street, vehicles parked opposite way in direction, expired registration

[56:30] and tags.

[56:34] With that that concludes the presentation. If there's any questions, I can answer

[56:37] them now.

[56:39] All right. Well, once again, Officer Martinez, thank you very much for that report. My question

[56:46] here is so we finally filled the night position and obviously made a big impact. Are we still

[56:52] short-handed, do we still have vacant positions?

[56:55] As of right now, we have filled all the positions that we had vacant.

[57:00] Okay.

[57:01] Thank you very much.

[57:01] That's the only question I have.

[57:02] Give it a good work.

[57:03] Thank you.

[57:04] Thank you.

[57:05] Thank you.

[57:06] I'm so Martinez for the report.

[57:09] I don't have any questions.

[57:10] I want to see if we can code out to, if you're going down central, as soon as you pass

[57:15] over on the left side, there's graffiti.

[57:17] I know it's on the inside of the building, but there's a black fence there and every

[57:21] you can drop out. You can see the whole wall is graffiti in the back so maybe we can contact that

[57:26] business owner about you know possibly getting that painted or you know it's on the inside

[57:30] I know nothing nothing we can do about it but it is it's on the property and it's you could see it

[57:34] as soon as you're passing over a central on the left side

[57:39] Central and over just as soon as you pass right as it's like the second building on the left

[57:45] you can see it right behind the gate right there. No problem. We had did have a large influx of graffiti

[57:51] for December, which you'll probably see in the report of the January, it's almost on the daily basis.

[57:56] A lot of gang related graffiti.

[57:58] Yeah.

[57:58] We're working with both property owners and then with our public work department,

[58:02] assisting us to remove a lot of that stuff immediately.

[58:06] Thank you.

[58:06] Other than that, I just want to give a shot to Officer Rodrigues and Petonus.

[58:10] I mean, there's not a big that I go by, I see these guys out working in the city.

[58:14] So I just want to want to give them a shot out.

[58:17] So thanks for the report.

[58:18] Questions?

[58:18] Thank you, Mr. McG it's Mr. ago.

[58:21] Mr. Martinez, I wanted to see

[58:23] the interview on the back of Pastor Donner and

[58:26] Atelo's building.

[58:27] There, they're at the Calgary

[58:28] Chalper Church, so if we could

[58:29] make sure that we have the property

[58:30] owners there, clean that up there.

[58:33] I drive by their own a daily basis

[58:34] and it seems like every week, it

[58:37] just gets, it gets tagged.

[58:38] So if we could just make sure we

[58:39] stay on top of the property owner

[58:41] there to maintain that there.

[58:43] Again, with respect to Pastor,

[58:46] on Atelo and his services again,

[58:47] We want to have a nice clean building there for them.

[58:50] Thank you.

[58:51] Mr. Rodriguez.

[58:53] I want to thank you for your hard work.

[58:54] Just like I want to echo everyone else.

[58:56] And I do want to say thank you guys for always parking in front of the schools and help

[59:01] you with the traffic and stuff.

[59:03] And it's not even that you have to get off and out.

[59:05] It's just that your presence there changes people's directions and stuff like that in the

[59:11] positive way.

[59:12] So thank you for that.

[59:13] Yeah, so we found that that just the office to be in present even with the lights on

[59:19] It keeps the the parents honest to slow them down our main our main focus is the security and the safety of the kids

[59:26] You know the cross in the street no ones that are even inside the parking

[59:30] The parking lot itself, you know transitioning from vehicles into the school. So that's our main focus

[59:36] Thank you, Jimmy, for all you do. I know I keep you busy to with a lot of calls

[59:39] So thank you to you and your team. I appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing

[59:43] Good job.

[59:43] Thank you.

[59:46] All righty.

[59:46] Moving on.

[59:47] We got our presentation by Chris Knight.

[59:49] Chief Executive Officer.

[59:50] I want to assault the money.

[59:51] Chamberlain Commerce.

[59:52] Quarter third and fourth.

[59:54] Dates.

[59:55] And you can see you there, Chris.

[59:56] Hi.

[1:00:01] Well, good evening, may you almost answer the council. It's always a pleasure to be here and to update you on the

[1:00:07] happenings of the South-Omania Monty Chamber of Commerce. So this is our slide. It's the South-Omania Chamber of Commerce, and it's the

[1:00:16] quarter, third and fourth quarter, the 2024 updates, and your independent business and community advocate.

[1:00:29] If I squint, I forgot my glasses at home. I thought they were my purse. So membership statistics, investing in the

[1:00:36] Chamber gives your business credibility vis-à-vis ability and market ability.

[1:00:44] The Chamber was established to assist as 375 members with financial, marketing, and

[1:00:50] promotional matters through networking meetings, workshops, and special activities.

[1:00:55] A total membership is 375 at this time.

[1:00:59] There are 30 new members, 71 members are South Elmanyon businesses, 218 members are surrounding cities,

[1:01:07] three out of state members and 53 members are import export companies.

[1:01:20] Business assistance.

[1:01:22] We advocate for and support economic development and community engagement between local officials, businesses,

[1:01:28] and community of South Elmanyon.

[1:01:30] A system developing programs and services that focus on the needs of local businesses to

[1:01:37] encourage innovation and growth of small and large businesses.

[1:01:42] SBDC provides counseling and training to small businesses including working with SBA,

[1:01:48] pace, and VAC to develop and provide informational tools to support business startups, existing

[1:01:56] business expansion and women in business, one stop shop.

[1:02:00] The goal of the chamber is providing education, advocacy, business development for business

[1:02:06] members and community involvement.

[1:02:08] We have partnered with Goodwill Industries MCI and San Diego Valley Economic Partnership for

[1:02:15] our concerns for company labor issues.

[1:02:18] The American Job Center Network is part of a one stop system provides universal access to

[1:02:24] integrated array of labor exchange services so that workers job seekers and employers can find

[1:02:32] the services that they need.

[1:02:39] The goal of the

[1:02:43] sign and stamp certificate of origins, members are entitled

[1:02:47] to five free certificate of origins. There is 673 COO sign and stamp from June through December

[1:02:55] 24. Sign and certified were 25 to 198 certificates a month and average value of a certificate

[1:03:04] is between 35,250,000 person certificate. Nice revenue for the City of South

[1:03:10] Elmani. Not too bad.

[1:03:29] These are some of our chamber sponsors and our partners. The

[1:03:34] South Elmani, Elmani Chambers, success is made possibly possible by you and a remarkable and

[1:03:42] committed group of business owners.

[1:03:44] Company leaders, local government officials, nonprofit partners, our Chamber members,

[1:03:50] our Chamber of Commerce, a neighboring Chamber of Commerce's, and volunteers.

[1:03:54] Without their belief and support to the Chamber, we could not supply the resources our

[1:03:59] companies need to grow and protect their businesses.

[1:04:02] task

[1:04:12] A, B, and G, the economic development business advisory council and legislative involvement.

[1:04:34] Work closely with local chambers, school districts, and to build relationships.

[1:04:40] We have, we have here listed several events that have already happened.

[1:04:44] The Pasadena City College leadership was, we are partners with.

[1:04:49] They have a class of sign language, which is great for the community and for businesses.

[1:04:54] We also had a business summit at IKEA, it was in partnership with five of their chambers.

[1:05:01] We had our multi-chamber mixer, which was a great event.

[1:05:06] Again, it is a multi-chamber mixer, and we have our free lunch and learn committee event.

[1:05:13] That is always free.

[1:05:15] You notice that there is a lot of partnership there.

[1:05:18] And it's because when you do a multi-chamber mixer, you are interacting with other chambers, other areas, new prospects, and it's, and that's the idea of what we need to do.

[1:05:41] Ask ANF economic business development and educational programs. Update business law and compliance.

[1:05:49] Inplement laws and updates for 2024 was delivered by Crystal Haddad from Jackson and Lewis PC.

[1:05:57] And that's really, really important.

[1:05:59] We are having another one at this time.

[1:06:01] I'm waiting for her to call back for her schedule.

[1:06:03] We had an ADA webinar compliance Americans with Disability Act State Disability Laws.

[1:06:12] And our companies, I know I just said this last time,

[1:06:15] but I'm just updating Mr. Rodriguez.

[1:06:18] Our companies are being hit hard with ADA.

[1:06:21] People just drive around and they just go ahead and assume

[1:06:24] they don't even have to be on the property.

[1:06:27] They use Google to look it up and if they see it,

[1:06:29] then they're sued.

[1:06:31] And that's happened to several of our companies and most cities.

[1:06:34] Not only ours, but also in other areas.

[1:06:38] Our third one is the B-O-I-R, and I know it's what it is, it's a beneficial owner

[1:06:47] information report, it's called Bore, and it is a report submitted to the federal government

[1:06:53] that provides information about a company's ownership and individual who control the business.

[1:07:00] There is an ongoing lawsuit in Alabama, Texas, and New York that has temporarily put

[1:07:05] hold on this requirement. But it is unclear how long this hold will be will remain in effect.

[1:07:12] webinars are every Tuesday at 1 o'clock with the topics of deadlines for pair reports,

[1:07:18] who needs to be on the report, what information needs to be on the port, they also will give you

[1:07:24] further guidance to file the report. One of the most important things is the couple.

[1:07:30] Companies need to meet the deadlines or file because if they don't, it's a $591 a day, not a month, a day. If it exceeds over $10,000, it is jail time for whoever owns that company.

[1:07:44] So we're trying to get the word out again. There's Tuesdays webinars every Tuesday at 1 o'clock.

[1:07:52] And the information is there if you would like to contact that person. They also are if you just want to be on their email.

[1:08:00] So it's really important that we do get that word out, and also with the wildfires coming up, we need to prepare our

[1:08:07] companies for disasters, and that's what we are doing now as a KC team.

[1:08:17] Task ANF is economic business development and educational programs.

[1:08:24] This last summer, the South Elmani and Monty Chamber partnered with the Sangue River Valley Economic Partnership for a new pilot program.

[1:08:33] It's K-1 for Hill Consortium, Summer Intership Program, this program consists of high school students that entered career technical education support classes to develop business etiquette, computer, leadership skills, to gain a better knowledge of the business world.

[1:08:53] And June, we welcomed Renaldo as a bastion to our office and the assisted we're needed,

[1:08:59] which was great. I wish they were back. We wish then the best of luck on their journey

[1:09:04] to a higher education. But I had spoke to Amy from San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership.

[1:09:12] That internship is not in the city of South Elmani, which I think it should be.

[1:09:17] So when we can use our high school students and they can have those classes as well to understand

[1:09:21] business.

[1:09:27] It's the same flight. Thank you. It says by May or Gloria almost

[1:09:33] request, she wanted to provide the opportunity for all students in the city of

[1:09:37] South Elmani to be eligible for an academic scholarship through funding from

[1:09:41] state of the city. For example, in 2024 this goal was achieved by presenting

[1:09:47] 62 academic scholarships were awarded to students from elementary

[1:09:52] middle school, high school in South Elmoney and total $29,000.

[1:09:59] And I'd like to thank Mayor Almost for her leadership in the Council for implementing

[1:10:02] these decisions.

[1:10:10] Ask A is the economic business development, the Los Angeles Food Bank Tour, development

[1:10:15] and maintain a relationship.

[1:10:17] It's to help foster a relationship with LA Food Bank and the city of South Elmoney's

[1:10:23] mayor and council members.

[1:10:24] Learn what is driving core business and what new developments are happening at the L.A. Food Bank.

[1:10:31] Development maintained open dialogue with upper management at L.A. Food Bank, including

[1:10:35] how the L.A. Food Bank could assist the city of South Elmani.

[1:10:40] Tour were manufacturing facilities to gain a better understanding of the operation.

[1:10:45] And at this time, if you notice the bottom right picture, those are all volunteers.

[1:10:50] They have volunteer shifts, and especially now they need volunteers, they need monetary donations,

[1:10:57] they need food because they are handing out so much food to the victims from the wildfires.

[1:11:02] So, if you know anybody that would like to volunteer or you yourself would like to volunteer,

[1:11:06] just go ahead and call LA Food Bank.

[1:11:17] Ask A and F economic business development and educational program.

[1:11:23] This, the pictures are from an event that we hosted for the Sheriff's Department and we spoke to them and wanted to raise money for them for either their canine unit or whatever they are in need of.

[1:11:37] And I'm proud to say from this event that a foundation was formed, and which is the

[1:11:47] South-O-Money Elmoney Chamber sits on, and it's called the Temple Station Shares Outreach

[1:11:52] Foundation.

[1:11:53] It serves the neighboring communities.

[1:11:56] They are having their first, yeah, Wednesday, February 19th at 630 at the Double Tree Hotel.

[1:12:02] If any of you would like to, on the diets, would like to join us in helping us have a successful fundraiser for our officers, I heard several of you up here saying that we can give more what we can do.

[1:12:16] Because, like they mentioned, they need training, they need drones, they need different, you know, shields.

[1:12:25] I mean, anything that they, and that's all costly and we want to keep them safe because they keep us safe.

[1:12:30] And, you know, they can do their jobs so much better, but guys, I just want to thank you for your fine job.

[1:12:38] So we're excited for that. I do have some paperwork to hand out after the presentation for you, but I'm really excited about about this foundation because it's going to benefit everybody.

[1:12:49] So I'm looking forward to this, so I hope you are too.

[1:13:06] Okay, this is our South Elmani business award in installation that took place on June 27th

[1:13:13] at the Double Tree Hotel and this is where we presented awards to our businesses in South

[1:13:18] Elmani as well as Almati.

[1:13:21] We also had the installation of our new board members for our 2025 and 26th doing a great job

[1:13:28] And it was a fun event, I know sometimes we do morning events and hopefully you'll be able to attend some of the events as well.

[1:13:47] And we have Task D promoting the community.

[1:13:50] It's a ribbon cutting and showcase your business with a ribbon cutting ceremony coordinated by the Chamber available to all members,

[1:13:58] whether you are a new or established business,

[1:14:01] celebrating an anniversary, opening and opening

[1:14:05] after renovation, a photo of your event

[1:14:07] will be published in the Chamber of Social Media

[1:14:09] and Sanger of Valley now magazine.

[1:14:12] And as you can see, we had several ribbon cuttings,

[1:14:15] not all of them around there.

[1:14:17] We had shoe palace.

[1:14:19] They're doing great.

[1:14:21] Their first day was hit.

[1:14:24] 7-11 on Rush had an anniversary, as well as

[1:14:28] renovation and it looks really super nice of you haven't been in their lady take a look

[1:14:33] and marathon batting cages I want to give them a kudos because it's first year in business

[1:14:38] is always hard and they made their one year anniversary so I just wanted to congratulate them on that

[1:14:43] so keep them going keep them in business as also mount view high school roast meat and

[1:14:49] of Monty High School also held ribbon cuttings.

[1:14:56] We have task A, B, C, D, and E business developed.

[1:15:00] New Resource Guidelines, and Promotion.

[1:15:05] It's market your products and services through the chambers, many marketing and promotion opportunities.

[1:15:10] Your rechunders of local business owners and executives, creative and dynamic advertising and sponsorship opportunities,

[1:15:19] exit through the chambers, events, programs, and websites. We have a benefit for all budgets.

[1:15:39] Can you go back one, sir?

[1:15:40] Oh no, that's okay, that's fine, that's fine.

[1:15:43] The publications that we have are town square publications, South

[1:15:48] Almani Elmani Connection, that's a new resource for community

[1:15:52] information, gives members an affordable vehicle to reach new

[1:15:56] customers in the South Almani and Almani and surrounding areas.

[1:16:00] It's distributed every three months and you get an extra exposure

[1:16:04] on the digital news, news people version.

[1:16:10] Okay, and that says, if the chamber didn't, who would,

[1:16:19] it says, why join the chamber?

[1:16:21] You join the chamber for networking, advocacy, business, discounts, credibility, involvement,

[1:16:28] focus on the future, learning opportunities, programs, market your product and services.

[1:16:34] Chamber membership is an investment in York, in your community, and business future.

[1:16:42] We also have a legislation involvement.

[1:16:45] We get involved and speak up for the business relating to government regarding proposed and

[1:16:50] existing laws that affect their business.

[1:16:53] We respond to requests for demographics, questions about businesses, community, even person

[1:16:59] or by email.

[1:17:01] We coordinate the talents of local business and community-by-tracking basic issues and we stand

[1:17:07] and receive and pursue any matter that can make the area a better place to live.

[1:17:12] We also host the San Gabriel Valley Economic Student, San Gabriel Valley Legislation Committee,

[1:17:18] which is being held tomorrow at noon, so that's always a good resource to go to for your

[1:17:24] services.

[1:17:28] Slides, 14, 15, and 16. There are past events that happen. Programs, any events in

[1:17:36] South Elmoney, Elmoney of Chamber of Commerce provide great opportunities to get to know new

[1:17:41] people, expand your prospect base. Chamber events are innovative and fun ways to help to meet

[1:17:47] potential customers, clients, and vendors. South Elmoney, Elmoney Chamber provides activities

[1:17:53] which include networking opportunities, business building branch, company tours and introductions,

[1:17:59] three monthly lunch and learn, community events, ribbon cuttings, expose valuable business

[1:18:05] resources, information, and your chamber mixers, as well as your state of the city.

[1:18:14] And like 17 are upcoming, there are subject to change. They have already changed due to wildfires.

[1:18:20] We had to rearrange our events.

[1:18:25] So they are subject to change, but we wish for you to come on out.

[1:18:31] We have our questions and answers.

[1:18:35] If any of you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me.

[1:18:42] And I'd like to thank you for your time and attention.

[1:18:46] I hope you can join me and together we can make our community a great place to do business.

[1:18:52] And remember, it's good business to do business.

[1:18:55] with the member of the South Elmani Elmani Chamber of Commerce.

[1:18:59] Thank you.

[1:19:00] Great job, Chris.

[1:19:01] Thank you.

[1:19:01] Mr. Kosa?

[1:19:03] Yeah.

[1:19:04] So thank you very much for your advocacy.

[1:19:06] I think the witnesses in South Elmani will definitely benefit from your efforts.

[1:19:11] But I also like that you are expanding the mission of your organization.

[1:19:16] You mentioned three things.

[1:19:19] One, you are creating fundraising for our Temple Unit.

[1:19:23] our deputies in our temple station.

[1:19:26] You also have established a relationship with the food bank.

[1:19:29] I know that sometimes some of our residents are in need.

[1:19:33] And hopefully that'll really help relieve

[1:19:36] some of those needs.

[1:19:38] And thirdly, I really like the idea

[1:19:40] that you have created this scholarship program

[1:19:45] for some of our local students.

[1:19:46] And I know last year, we had a great number

[1:19:49] of students that benefited from these scholarships.

[1:19:52] So can you tell me how many scholarships were given and what were the amounts to those scholarships?

[1:19:59] The amount given was

[1:20:02] it was $29,000 total.

[1:20:06] That was just for the high school. That was just for the high school. Probably over 34,000 then.

[1:20:12] So the scholarships were not just high school. They were also for some of the middle school children,

[1:20:15] some of the rights, some of the local schools. This includes all the school districts

[1:20:19] within South Almani, right?

[1:20:21] So you have the Valendo, Almani, and the Mountain View School

[1:20:23] districts.

[1:20:25] So you pretty much covered a big portion of the community.

[1:20:28] So about $34,000, thank you very much.

[1:20:31] Appreciate that.

[1:20:33] You're welcome.

[1:20:34] It's a pleasure to work with the mayor

[1:20:36] who is actually her idea, but the chamber had a big part

[1:20:41] in kind of rolling that out to make

[1:20:43] and facilitating and making sure that it was moving forward.

[1:20:48] Yes.

[1:20:48] Thank you.

[1:20:49] Thank you.

[1:20:51] Thank you, Madam Mayor Chris, I have a couple of questions for you.

[1:20:54] I'm not going to ask you some of the same questions I've asked in the past because I've

[1:20:58] gotten the same answer and I don't see any that reflected here and any of these slides.

[1:21:02] Aside from that, you have 19 slides on your report and I'm looking at them

[1:21:06] over half of them are copied and pasted from the last report.

[1:21:09] Correct, and the reason why for that is because Mr. Rodriguez is new.

[1:21:13] I should have said something.

[1:21:15] I wanted to just update him.

[1:21:16] Okay, thank you. So right now we have an invoice from you. How much are you looking to get paid out on that invoice?

[1:21:26] Total for 3 and 4? Yes. $10,000. Okay, thank you. And that invoice is going to cover the last six months.

[1:21:36] According to your contract with you, we should be getting quarterly reports. So apparently there was a quarter

[1:21:42] that was missed, that you didn't come and give a presentation.

[1:21:44] And now we're following up for the two quarters.

[1:21:49] A couple of things I want to point out here is,

[1:21:53] we have 2,000 businesses in the city of South Omone.

[1:21:56] You see, the chamber has served the city 400 in two years.

[1:22:02] And in those 102 years, according to six months ago,

[1:22:05] you were able to get 87 businesses in the 102 years

[1:22:09] to join the chamber.

[1:22:11] I wasn't here 100 and two years ago, but yeah, but in total. So the other thing that point that that point out to me is that

[1:22:19] The new total number for the series out the money is 71, which means that you've lost

[1:22:25] 20% of self-domony businesses that have joined the chamber in the last six months

[1:22:30] The number went from 87, the new number is 71. However, according to your slides as well, the surrounding cities,

[1:22:39] number went from 163 to 218, 55 increase in surrounding cities. When you say that the report says that you've only gotten 30 new businesses to join the chamber in the last six months.

[1:22:53] So these numbers are all over the place.

[1:22:56] None of them makes sense.

[1:22:57] I don't know how many we can actually look at.

[1:23:00] But that the big number is a 20% loss of businesses.

[1:23:05] And I know that, you know, my big thing has been growing,

[1:23:09] what are you going to do with the Chamber to grow the business

[1:23:12] and to get more people?

[1:23:13] And you said, you're going to really look at that

[1:23:15] and do what you need to do.

[1:23:17] Not only do we not increase anything,

[1:23:19] we lost 17 in South Omaha, which is 20% of the total.

[1:23:22] three businesses that left right across the street for me. I don't know if you're

[1:23:26] where where that meant she's left. I don't know if you're where the clothing

[1:23:29] the clothing place that left, the shoe pelluses now. There are several businesses

[1:23:34] that left, not due to my doing but maybe financially they're not being supported

[1:23:41] as well as they should be from the community. So there's a lot of factors that

[1:23:44] go into that. Yeah, there are businesses that are going to leave in the

[1:23:50] is that you haven't brought one new business to the chamber and, you know, we brought 30 within

[1:23:57] the whole year.

[1:23:58] Right, not to, I'm sorry, not to the city of South Elmoney, zero for the city of South Elmoney,

[1:24:02] 17, 20%.

[1:24:03] There's three new, there's three new import exports from South Elmoney.

[1:24:08] That's a problem.

[1:24:09] So those are not reflected in the South Elmoney numbers then.

[1:24:12] No, they're import export.

[1:24:14] And then your slide two says 375 total, your slide three says 350 total. So I don't know what the

[1:24:21] discrepancy is on that one. The slide three, that part was supposed to be deleted because I updated it and

[1:24:28] slide two and I accidentally left it there and I called Adrian yesterday and asked him to delete that. So obviously it was already printed before it.

[1:24:38] Okay, and we've had six months to get this presentation together as well. One ribbon cut in the last six months.

[1:24:46] I don't know, I'm seeing what you do is you do a lot of chamber activities, a lot of mixers,

[1:24:52] I'm looking at what you've done as far as council meetings, attending our events, things like that.

[1:24:58] And the biggest question is that we're paying you for.

[1:25:01] So I really don't understand why we're giving the chamber of $20,000 a year.

[1:25:08] What are we paying you for?

[1:25:09] I mean, what aside from your business, aside from your day-to-day stuff or your day-to-day

[1:25:16] business that you do, what more are you doing for that 20,000, that you wouldn't be doing

[1:25:22] if you didn't get that money, because it seems like all these things you'd be doing anyways.

[1:25:26] You'd be doing mixers, you'd be coming to our events that we have and things like that.

[1:25:37] So I just don't get it.

[1:25:39] Okay, well, number one, we wouldn't be sitting on a board to help the sheriff department,

[1:25:46] which takes care of South Elmani.

[1:25:48] From that event, that whole foundation was created.

[1:25:52] If that event didn't exist, that foundation wouldn't exist.

[1:25:57] So there's a lot that go into it.

[1:25:59] The board, did you know about the board so that you can go talk to your companies?

[1:26:04] No, I don't have you told us about that previously because you missed the last six months of being here.

[1:26:10] No, I was here just three and four.

[1:26:13] I delivered one into the board just came about in December.

[1:26:19] So that's a new, that's new to businesses.

[1:26:24] How much money do you get from the city of Amani?

[1:26:26] I don't cater to the city of Amani.

[1:26:28] Why is that?

[1:26:29] Because we just didn't come to an agreement.

[1:26:31] Did you ever?

[1:26:32] Yes, we did.

[1:26:33] And what was the reason that that they decided not to work with the chamber anymore?

[1:26:38] It was a conflict of interest.

[1:26:40] There was a conflict.

[1:26:41] And what would that conflict be?

[1:26:43] I can't say.

[1:26:45] Probably I can, but not right now.

[1:26:48] Do you have a copy of your invoice with you?

[1:26:51] I submitted it to Renee.

[1:26:53] You don't have a copy.

[1:26:54] I can check.

[1:27:33] And I know with

[1:27:38] your busy schedules,

[1:27:39] Would you have the opportunity to have webinars for ADA and to help these businesses?

[1:27:47] Have the relationship they have?

[1:27:49] We're asking the questions right now, Chris. It's not a Q&A.

[1:27:54] Well, I'm just asking. Yeah, I just have it. Okay, um, I have a copy.

[1:28:00] I don't know if anybody else wants to look at a copy. Sure, you can you give everybody a copy.

[1:28:07] Don't give out your original. Just they can make copies if they need them.

[1:28:40] Are you done really? No. Okay.

[1:28:43] So you have that current invoice in front of you now?

[1:28:46] Yes.

[1:28:48] I'm going to read something and I just want you to respond.

[1:28:50] Well, the first thing I want to read is under your contract under Exhibit D Schedule Performance Number 2.

[1:28:55] Consultants shall deliver the following tangible work products to the city by the following dates.

[1:29:00] And then it says a quarterly report detailing all tasks accomplished during the quarter served on the city and conjunction with the invoice,

[1:29:07] which we did not get because we're covering two now.

[1:29:10] The other thing I want to read is Exhibit C, Schedule Compensation.

[1:29:14] This is your Compensation Schedule Number 3 of Exhibit C.

[1:29:18] The city will compensate consultant for their services performed upon submission of valid invoice.

[1:29:24] Each invoice is to include line items for all work performed.

[1:29:30] Can you read your line items that you have on your invoice?

[1:29:35] I don't have any.

[1:29:37] What does it say?

[1:29:37] Thank you for your continued support to the south. I'm on Yamani Chamber of Commerce and it says line. I don't know number one miscellaneous

[1:29:44] Because there's not there's not

[1:29:47] Okay, when I bill I've used chamber wear there's certain programs of certain titles underneath there

[1:29:55] So any I'd have to I have to type it up. That's why when

[1:30:00] At invoice, it's invoiced in that manner. There's not one that says quarterly.

[1:30:05] So does that mean that any invoice you've ever submitted to the city itself, a money has never had line items for all worked, performed as,

[1:30:14] according to the contract exhibits, see, schedule of compensation that that's what you're supposed to be doing.

[1:30:19] You never line item anything, any of the work.

[1:30:22] No, but I could.

[1:30:28] Okay, well, I mean, I think looking at 20% drop in six months is ridiculous.

[1:30:36] I think it's embarrassment that the Chamber would come in here and provide this type of

[1:30:40] report and want to be paid.

[1:30:41] Do you want the truth?

[1:30:42] Sir, do you want me to lie?

[1:30:43] No, I'm not asking you questions, right?

[1:30:44] I'm speaking.

[1:30:45] No, but I'm just asking you, I mean, you're telling me something and it's kind of

[1:30:50] deframing the Chamber as well as that and I don't appreciate that.

[1:30:54] It's facts.

[1:30:55] So I'm reading facts here, Chris.

[1:30:57] Actually, to be able to take care of the chamber, then you should do your job.

[1:31:02] I am doing my job.

[1:31:03] That's why you lost 20% of businesses in the last six months.

[1:31:06] How did somebody say this?

[1:31:06] It was not a business.

[1:31:07] What, really, just as a question, if you have a question, you asked your questions.

[1:31:11] Well, I have statements.

[1:31:13] I don't have, I don't have to ask questions.

[1:31:14] I can have statements.

[1:31:14] Just this in hand for a minute, little.

[1:31:16] So yeah, 20% says a lot as far as businesses.

[1:31:20] I mean, if you're a business owner, you're dropping out from the chamber because you don't

[1:31:23] the value of the chamber, because when you look at your bottom line, you're going to look

[1:31:28] and say, why am I paying this invoice? What am I getting out of it? That's why I'm not going

[1:31:32] to ask you the question why they're dropping out, because I've asked you enough questions in

[1:31:37] the past, and you're just giving me some plus answers, and none of it is reflected here. So

[1:31:42] what I would like to do, I would like to direct staff to hold off on payment of this invoice

[1:31:48] until we get an actual invoice that follows the schedule of your contract and at that point

[1:31:56] I think we should look at the invoice and decide if this invoice should even be paid directly

[1:32:00] depending upon what is listed.

[1:32:04] The other thing I like to do is direct staff to look into other businesses or organizations

[1:32:10] that can provide this service that the chamber does that actually want to come into the city

[1:32:16] and help the 2,000 businesses that are not getting service.

[1:32:21] So if we're going to give away $20,000,

[1:32:23] we should give it away to a company that actually

[1:32:25] wants to earn the money and do what they need to do

[1:32:28] to provide the correct services for our businesses

[1:32:31] and sell the money.

[1:32:32] Thank you, Madam Mayor.

[1:32:34] Mr. Delgado.

[1:32:35] I had just one question.

[1:32:37] I know that last year there was a scholarship money

[1:32:40] that was raised.

[1:32:41] What was a total amount that was raised?

[1:32:46] I want you to see 53,000. I'm not sure.

[1:32:50] 53,000?

[1:32:51] That's a guesstimation.

[1:32:54] So out of the 53,000, 29,000 was given in scholarships?

[1:32:58] No, just to self.

[1:33:01] It's over 34,000, right?

[1:33:04] Because that was sort of better.

[1:33:06] Yeah, I'm just guessing.

[1:33:10] But 29,000 was just for South Almani.

[1:33:14] What happened to the other funds?

[1:33:22] I'm asking Mrs. Knight here if she's the, again, the executive ear for the chamber of commerce.

[1:33:28] So I wanted to what happened to the other funds.

[1:33:30] Secondly, where were those checks made out to?

[1:33:36] Was there a name, is there a foundation, a nonprofit that those checks were made out to?

[1:33:41] It checks were deposited as citizens bank.

[1:33:44] No, no, my question is, is there a nonprofit that that was, it's made up to the Chamber of Commerce State of the City?

[1:33:54] Is the Chamber of Commerce a nonprofit?

[1:33:56] Yes, it is. It's a 501 C6.

[1:34:00] It's not a C3. It's a C6. There's a difference.

[1:34:07] I have some serious concerns here right now.

[1:34:11] with respects to. It's great that we gave a lot of that money away. That's perfectly fine.

[1:34:18] Ms. Knight, you just said C6 that is not a designated certified nonprofit. You need to be a C3.

[1:34:27] I welcome the entire council of the mayor, even our legal council, take a look at that, because if people have contributed

[1:34:34] under the guise that this money was given in the form of scholarships and somehow redirected

[1:34:43] it in some other way. I'd like to ask our legal counsel to look at what options we have to

[1:34:49] look and serve. What do you mean redirected in another way? Again. I'm asking you, there was only

[1:34:58] $2,9,000 that was given to the City of South Omony.

[1:35:01] For our high school.

[1:35:03] $2,9,000 total, South Omony.

[1:35:05] There was 53,000, so that leaves

[1:35:08] a significant amount of money.

[1:35:11] Where did that money go to?

[1:35:12] Well, there's 17,000 in the bank.

[1:35:18] There's a little over 16,000 or more that was put

[1:35:22] for putting on the event.

[1:35:26] Did the chamber receive any of those funds for

[1:35:29] for to pay employee salary or benefits or anything?

[1:35:34] No, for 2024? No. It did not.

[1:35:39] You said those funds are sitting in Citizen Bank right now?

[1:35:41] Yes.

[1:35:42] Okay. Would we have access to that information?

[1:35:45] Yes, they do.

[1:35:48] You know, I have some serious concerns there.

[1:35:50] With our upcoming State of the Union event.

[1:35:55] Again, I have some serious concerns here with that funding there.

[1:36:02] Mr. Regigus?

[1:36:05] Well, you know what, I'm actually just going to not even pay back off of Mr. Barhorcus.

[1:36:11] He said something in the contract, it said itemized, right?

[1:36:15] And I'm going to bring up something that happened last meeting, and I'm sure Mr.

[1:36:19] or Costa could attest to this.

[1:36:22] He said, when money was given to these organizations,

[1:36:28] he said, tell me exactly what they're going to be used for.

[1:36:32] So he asked for an itemized thing for this money

[1:36:36] to be spent with these organizations.

[1:36:39] Now, if it's in your contract to itemize these things,

[1:36:43] apparently that's what the contract states.

[1:36:45] My question is, why hasn't that been done in the past years to where I'm not, I'm not

[1:36:55] against giving the money or not giving the, I'm for, what does the contracts say and

[1:37:01] are we following the contract? Because if we're giving out to other organizations that they

[1:37:05] have to give us itemized things, I would expect your organization to do the same thing, that's,

[1:37:13] when I took over, it was not itemized. So I don't have a problem itemized in

[1:37:23] it.

[1:37:25] So you could understand our apparently that's what the contract says and we're just

[1:37:30] Go in off the contrary. Like I said, I'm not trying to hold money for anyone or anything like that. What I'm trying to say is, can you get us the itemized and then we could go ahead and look at it and go ahead and pay the invoice. It's like me getting my car fixed and not them not writing one thing down. They just give me the bill. Of course, I'm going to ask what, what, what did you do to, to, to my car for me to pay that bill. That would be my analogy. So, I mean, that's all matter, mayor.

[1:37:57] Thank you, gentlemen.

[1:37:58] Really Chris, I think you did a great presentation for all the stuff that you have done and added to what your thing is as kind of on the sense of one man show right now, one woman show.

[1:38:08] And I know you have the ability in you only do it by yourself right now.

[1:38:12] So I commend you for that. That's a lot more for one person.

[1:38:16] For clarification, there was a 501 3c3.

[1:38:20] It's to the educational foundation that Mr. Featings had originally started.

[1:38:25] I'm going to have to stop you right there.

[1:38:28] I sit on that foundation board.

[1:38:30] Yeah, we know.

[1:38:32] So I'll continue.

[1:38:33] And so what we did last year is we started the 501 educational foundation.

[1:38:38] 501, C3.

[1:38:40] So the money would go directly to the students.

[1:38:42] They get a thousand dollars each.

[1:38:44] Each of the scholarships.

[1:38:45] So they got $29,000 dollars.

[1:38:48] That was just for the Salta money high school.

[1:38:50] They additional $2,000 for the banners.

[1:38:52] They had graduation banners.

[1:38:53] Each of the middle schools got a hundred dollars each ten of them, so that's another thousand

[1:38:58] dollars each school.

[1:39:00] And honestly, without the Chambers being able to do that with us, these kids would not get

[1:39:05] that scholarship program.

[1:39:06] So I thank you for commanding you.

[1:39:07] I know it's a lot of work between the City of the City.

[1:39:09] It doesn't just happen.

[1:39:11] There's a lot of time into it that the Chambers does do.

[1:39:14] They reach out to different businesses and companies.

[1:39:16] I invite every single one of you council members to participate as far as getting businesses

[1:39:21] involved in the Chambers.

[1:39:22] There's plenty of businesses that I have spoken to and say, are you a chamber member and many times they say, oh, no, and they say, well, they came by and left me a folder, but you know, I don't know.

[1:39:31] And then I explain the value of it. So it's each and every one of us, not just the chamber to go out there to 2,000 businesses or 10,000 businesses and say, hey, be a chamber member. It's our job, too.

[1:39:42] And you get to remember our job is to allow Sultan money to thrive.

[1:39:46] That's what they vote us in for.

[1:39:48] So we want to make sure we thrive, however you can.

[1:39:50] And I know Rudy, you've asked many times over,

[1:39:53] is, well, who's job is it?

[1:39:55] It's your job. It's my job.

[1:39:57] All of our jobs. Larry, many, we hector.

[1:39:59] It's all of our jobs to make sure that we participate in whatever's going to value our city.

[1:40:05] That's our job.

[1:40:06] That's the title we carry.

[1:40:07] That's the work we put in as well.

[1:40:09] And we can't say, oh, well, we're paying her $10,000 or $20,000, we're paying $20,000 and for clarification annually, and annually is, yes, I'm going to be reporting.

[1:40:19] Your reporting just started what I think a year ago, and then Ken left, and so he was the CEO. She is now doing it.

[1:40:26] I think she's done a tremendous job. We never had all these reports before. However, so for this to be coming up and saying, hey, this is what we're doing. I think it's commendable.

[1:40:35] You have done a tremendous job and so much and honestly I would invite every one of you to participate in the chambers and see how much

[1:40:43] They do how much networking is out there. How much they're doing for the businesses and all businesses getting invited

[1:40:48] It's not just the members all businesses getting invited. Now whether they choose to go or participate

[1:40:52] That's on them, but all of them are invited

[1:40:55] So if you have a better connection to knowing how to reach out to 10,000 businesses

[1:40:58] I invite you to do so. I think that's a great idea to say hey

[1:41:02] I know they were starting up Asian program tutors start to get the Asian businesses.

[1:41:06] We all know how many of the businesses are cultural here and to reach them is very difficult.

[1:41:13] But we do also have where she's reached out all of branched to the community and got some of those businesses involved.

[1:41:21] And it's kind of funny. It's like a rolling rock. You get one and you start rolling down. They all start coming in.

[1:41:27] little by little. So that's, I think, how she gathered the next 30 in the last couple of months.

[1:41:32] So for one person to do all the work she does, I highly commend you. And for those of you

[1:41:37] who you don't know, she hasn't been paid since she's taken this position. They have lower

[1:41:42] her pay and not because she's not doing things, she has added so much more. It's like adding

[1:41:48] more sauce to the beef. She has added so much sauce to what she's doing. But if you're not

[1:41:53] involved, you don't know, you don't see a firsthand all the work that goes into it. So again,

[1:41:57] I see a lot of work being put into this, and for what you have done and accomplished, I am

[1:42:02] honestly amazed.

[1:42:04] That's a lot for one person to do, and I feel bad for you when you get criticized when

[1:42:10] I hear people criticizing for the fact that lack of knowledge, people perish.

[1:42:14] I hope that everyone here is seeing the knowledgeable of what she's been doing, how effective

[1:42:19] she's been doing it, from where she was when she started to where she is now.

[1:42:24] It's a tremendous jump.

[1:42:25] She has taken leaps that none of this was done. She was left with a lot of problems and so now these problems are being clarified and cleared

[1:42:36] So I think it's kind of like

[1:42:39] When you come in and you see something that has to be taken care of and now it's being taken care of and now even better and excelling

[1:42:44] I see her finally excelling now

[1:42:46] She's able to get her feedback on the ground get out of the deficit get out of the problems that we're occurring

[1:42:51] so

[1:42:52] Again, it's a lot of work

[1:42:54] We have to take the charge as well. We're on the council. We got to make our city better.

[1:42:59] I don't care how we do it. We got to do it. We got to make our city better.

[1:43:02] And it's only going to happen with teamwork.

[1:43:04] And if we're all up here, bickering and fighting and complaining about each other, it's not going to work.

[1:43:08] We got to make sure that we stand together as a team and we start moving things forward.

[1:43:13] And that's part of supporting our businesses and the people that support our businesses as well.

[1:43:17] I can tell you first hand. I talked to many businesses. They call me all the time and when I talked to the businesses

[1:43:23] They didn't know what was going on during COVID. The chambers literally almost on a daily basis

[1:43:29] Those those roles the everything was changing. They were on it. They were helping people that weren't even their members as

[1:43:35] A courtesy to us where I said can you help with these guys? They're not members, but we don't know what the heck is going on and what's the next rule?

[1:43:41] So, they literally went to every business and walked and posted and helped them with the paperwork and get everything going and filing.

[1:43:47] That's going to button beyond. They didn't have to do that. They chose to do that to help our community help our businesses.

[1:43:53] So, again, for all of that you do them, people don't see behind the scenes in which you're not putting up here.

[1:43:58] That's a lot. So, thank you. And keep up the good work. And when whoever supporting our community in our shows, thank you because we want to support them too.

[1:44:05] make sure that everything gets in the right hands. There's no funny business going on and for

[1:44:11] all the stuff that has been accumulated and done, I mean even with saw me saw the books and thought

[1:44:16] I was a great idea going good job. So there is accountability. He has made sure everything was

[1:44:22] in order. So again, thank you for everything you do. Great job.

[1:44:27] Madam Mayor, can I clarify one thing? Yes. I did not attack. I did not attack the chamber. What

[1:44:33] said is the contract is the contract and if it says itemized that that's all I'm saying you

[1:44:40] itemize it we look at it we we have to follow contracts that's what we have to do we have to be

[1:44:45] diligent and artwork also and make sure to look at it just like Mr. Acosta said with those

[1:44:50] other people that we gave money out to he said hey I want to know how it's going back to the city

[1:44:56] and how the city's benefiting so it is just more of hey let's just follow

[1:45:00] The contract. Thank you. Madam Mayor, I'd like to just respond to what you said. You know, I'm not in any way saying this is not our job as well.

[1:45:10] But this is their business. And you know, we could say that they're networking and they're doing all this stuff, but the proof is in the pudding.

[1:45:17] The fact is they've lost 20% of businesses in the last six months. There's no way around that. That's a fact. And what we're doing here is holding a vendor.

[1:45:29] We're going to hold you accountable.

[1:45:31] Hold you accountable to the fact.

[1:45:33] So it's not that anything's being negative.

[1:45:34] If it's negative, because it's the truth.

[1:45:37] By stating a fact, it doesn't make it negative.

[1:45:39] It makes it a fact.

[1:45:40] And these are based off the numbers.

[1:45:42] So I get what you're saying.

[1:45:44] It's all of our jobs.

[1:45:45] It is our job.

[1:45:46] But it's their business.

[1:45:47] And we pay them to provide this service.

[1:45:49] You can't get around the fact.

[1:45:50] They've lost 20% of the businesses that took them in six months.

[1:45:54] that took them a hundred and two years to gain.

[1:45:58] I want to guess it depends.

[1:46:00] It's a perspective half full, half empty.

[1:46:02] It's 102 years, like she said, she wasn't here on the table.

[1:46:04] She really just over a year ago.

[1:46:06] So if I'm a year to do this, it's amazing.

[1:46:08] Yeah, unless you really know what we do, then you should come and visit, but as far as

[1:46:18] talking about the chamber and things like that, my job is to defend the chamber, and I'm

[1:46:23] is going to tell you that when you defame the change

[1:46:27] in Chamberlain like that by saying, why?

[1:46:30] Then apparently you don't know why.

[1:46:33] And I would appreciate it that you talk to it in a different manner

[1:46:38] or use different words.

[1:46:41] Like I would like to see.

[1:46:43] I mean, I've asked enough.

[1:46:45] I've asked enough over and over.

[1:46:46] And I would like to see this instead of saying,

[1:46:49] I don't like the way you're doing it.

[1:46:50] No, that's toxic.

[1:46:51] Okay, that's really tough.

[1:46:53] If I'm done as a question.

[1:46:54] Point of order.

[1:46:56] If we could have.

[1:46:57] Thank you, Mr.

[1:47:00] There's a presentation being made.

[1:47:02] I statement was made by council member,

[1:47:06] Boharkas to the mayor.

[1:47:08] The statement has ended.

[1:47:09] You had a response to the statement.

[1:47:12] And then we opened it up and then we went again.

[1:47:14] We get that.

[1:47:15] So anyway, let's go point of order.

[1:47:16] Just continue with our meeting.

[1:47:18] So again, thank you.

[1:47:20] We have a approval of agenda, can I get a motion to approve?

[1:47:24] Motion to approve.

[1:47:25] Second, Madam.

[1:47:26] Move by Rudy, second, by Hector.

[1:47:27] Call for the vote, please.

[1:47:39] Motion carries 50.

[1:47:43] Public comments.

[1:47:44] Speaker's may provide public comments on any matter within the subject jurisdiction.

[1:47:48] Of the city council and clean items on the agenda.

[1:47:50] Each speaker will be limited to five minutes unless the majority of the council

[1:47:53] objects the mayor may provide.

[1:47:54] Speaker's more or less time to speak.

[1:47:55] All comments and queries shall be addressed.

[1:47:57] To the council as a body and not to any specific member.

[1:47:59] there up, pursuant to the government called Section 54954.2, the Ralph A Brown Act, no action

[1:48:05] or discussion by the City Council shall be undertaken on any item.

[1:48:09] Not appearing on the posted agenda except to briefly provide information as for clarification,

[1:48:13] provide direction to staff, or schedule a matter for future meeting.

[1:48:17] At this time public comment is now open, Madam Mayor, I have some cards here.

[1:48:21] If I may add on to your direction, just for the members of the audience, a friendly reminder

[1:48:25] that the council does follow rules of decorum. So I stated all comments and queries are to

[1:48:31] be addressed to the council as the whole and not the individual member. Thank you. Again,

[1:48:37] that's what we just read. So we'll go ahead and open up with Andrew Graff on behalf of Creed

[1:48:42] Ellie.

[1:48:48] Good evening, Mayor. I'm here to speak on item 8A. Should I speak now or wait until the

[1:48:55] is called.

[1:49:04] You can speak now if you wish to.

[1:49:07] Well, I have an opportunity to speak during the item, or well, they're not be offended

[1:49:10] all for public comment.

[1:49:11] That item will be continued. So if you'd like to speak on to that item, it's advisable.

[1:49:16] It needs to be on the item now.

[1:49:18] Okay. Thank you for your clarification.

[1:49:20] I can understand that. My name is Andrew Graff.

[1:49:23] I'm going to turn you with Adam's broadwill Joseph and Cardozo.

[1:49:26] Here on behalf of the Appellants in Item 8A, the appeal for of the Planning Commission

[1:49:31] resolution number 2409 with respect to the 222 Rosemeat Warehouse Boulevard projects. I'm here

[1:49:40] representing the coalition of responsible equitable economic development, Los Angeles or

[1:49:45] Creed LA. The coalition is a Creed LA is a coalition of labor organizations and residents that

[1:49:53] advocate for production of the environment and the health of the community's work forces.

[1:49:58] Staff has recommended that item 8A be continued to February 18th, 2025.

[1:50:04] Creed LA supports this continuance, but requests that the city council further extend

[1:50:08] the date for the continued hearing to allow sufficient time for the city to prepare an

[1:50:14] environmental impact report, which corrects the deficiencies with the city's environmental

[1:50:19] review as identified and creed LA's appeal and those discussed in the letter that was submitted

[1:50:24] yesterday evening.

[1:50:25] It is critical that the city brings its actions into compliance with Siqua and land

[1:50:30] your laws before any further hearings are conducted with greatly, for sure, consideration,

[1:50:35] these comments.

[1:50:36] Thank you,

[1:50:38] sir.

[1:50:40] And as you were told, it's going to be table till February, 8.

[1:50:44] Next up, Eva Dubois.

[1:50:51] Good evening.

[1:50:52] My name is Eva Dubois, and my properties at 1732, Burkett Road have come because there's

[1:51:01] a lot of concern because it's a dangerous traffic situation where I live and there's no way

[1:51:11] to stop the traffic from going through the red lights. I mean the boulevard stops. What's happening

[1:51:18] is that the cars never stop. They just go right through and there's also a three way intersection

[1:51:29] there. So the property is here and then we've got a stop here and a stop here and then it goes through.

[1:51:35] But the problem is that they come through and nobody stops. They just go around. They park on the

[1:51:41] curves of the street. The cross street is broad. Broad meat? Is that it? Yeah. Broad meat and

[1:51:49] Burkett Road and the cars all stop there and park wherever they want. But nobody stops at these.

[1:51:56] So it's a dangerous situation, our own car was hit, while it was parked because they

[1:52:02] like to come there and a lot of the young people, I guess, they're young, like to

[1:52:07] come and do U-turns in that intersection.

[1:52:10] So there's no way to stop it because there's nothing to impede the speed.

[1:52:16] If we had a speed bump, if we had a camera, if we had something that would deter, you know,

[1:52:22] activity. It's presenting a danger to all of us, to our property, to our families, because

[1:52:29] we have children.

[1:52:30] And as I said, it's a dangerous situation and it needs to have some sort of barriers so that people slow down in some way and don't come speeding through there and just use it as a place to take a turn and just go flying through that area.

[1:52:51] So, I'm hoping that you can put some sort of an impediment for these cars that goes through

[1:52:59] a camera would be great, a speed bump would be even better, having both would be perfect.

[1:53:07] So that at least, you know, there's something that deters people from doing these activities,

[1:53:12] because it is a danger.

[1:53:14] It's putting all our neighbors, my neighbors here too.

[1:53:17] She almost got hit.

[1:53:18] And it's the same thing, it's the same reason, and there's nobody stops there.

[1:53:23] So I'm concerned that it's going to cause, you know, even more problems and more danger to the

[1:53:31] neighborhood. So I'm hoping that you'll address this and try to get us some relief.

[1:53:37] Because otherwise I think the city's going to be responsible. And I don't want that to happen,

[1:53:43] but I also want the neighborhood to be safe. Okay, thank you. Thank you, ma'am. We'll go ahead and

[1:53:47] extra stuff. Make sure you study that please. And guys, you heard that. You can get one

[1:53:53] of that. Thank you. Anyone else? Probably coming is now open.

[1:53:57] Can my neighbor talk about this? Sure, of course.

[1:54:03] Hello, good afternoon, everybody. My name is Yara Luna.

[1:54:08] Like my neighbor was saying, I'm aware of what

[1:54:12] the situation has been happening not so long ago. Maybe like a month I would say. There was

[1:54:19] accident on thine is Avenue and Brooket where they ran someone over and then like the next

[1:54:28] day they put the stop signs that flashes. So that's what we want as well on brought me to

[1:54:35] Ambracet to at least put some like the flashes on the stop sign or like speed bombs because

[1:54:44] They fly out like they just turn nobody stops on that stop sign and I'm very in the corner of that street.

[1:54:52] So last time I was heading out of my driveway and if I wouldn't stop I think he wouldn't hit my car.

[1:54:59] So, I've been noticing that often that I guess they want to beat the traffic on the

[1:55:13] derby and so I guess they go all the way around but they don't stop, they don't make the

[1:55:18] stop.

[1:55:19] So, it's something that I would like for you guys to be aware of, you know, because there

[1:55:24] kids to and for our safety. Thank you. He's appreciate that. Yes. Thank you.

[1:55:31] It's not what we're looking into that. Anyone else? Yes, sir.

[1:55:40] Good evening. Robert

[1:55:41] I need to go in. 45 years resident.

[1:55:45] I wasn't planning to come at this time, but

[1:55:49] comment regarding the budget, right? So it's very great. It's good to know that we're good.

[1:55:54] be in the green and there's so much buffer and safety in there. But somewhere in that conversation

[1:55:59] something was brought up about more taxation to the citizens, right? And so as a citizen,

[1:56:07] I'm pretty sure the majority of us, and I'll use upon our allergic to taxes, right? So that's not

[1:56:13] where my older geezer, I can have so bad.

[1:56:16] So I did something real simple, you know, when we were

[1:56:24] computer, right? I'd love to be able to think like that kid or, you know, they may

[1:56:28] move these, the computer war, tennis shoes and kids wanted to wear glasses so they

[1:56:33] were really smart and all that stuff, right? But in this day and age, we have this

[1:56:37] little mini computer, right? So I went on to AI and I typed in,

[1:56:45] how can a city council

[1:56:48] Rays revenue without taxing its citizens.

[1:56:52] It gave me an infinite list.

[1:56:55] It was this big, right?

[1:56:58] And then I said, review the list and remove any item

[1:57:03] that might still tax the system.

[1:57:06] And it was a shorter list, but it's still significantly long.

[1:57:10] And I don't want to take any of your time to read it here.

[1:57:13] But there are plenty of options on there.

[1:57:18] And if anyone wants to see me after the meeting,

[1:57:20] I can show them that.

[1:57:23] And I suggest that we look at those other options first.

[1:57:27] And I understand that maybe some of them are not viable.

[1:57:31] I understand that some of them make take years.

[1:57:34] But I'd like to think that we would prioritize those first

[1:57:38] before we get to the citizens.

[1:57:40] So that's my suggestion.

[1:57:41] on a different matter, I didn't get my green trashpamp can picked up, so I had a call

[1:57:50] the company, right? Athens. And then, you know, I was a logistics manager for 40 years,

[1:57:56] I last 10 years with international paper, so I understand logistics. I asked them if they had a GPS

[1:58:03] to see if the route went through, if the guy is parking on the corner, or do they have a

[1:58:10] account, you know, like, you know, trash, trash trucks go up and down.

[1:58:15] So it seems like we should be able to get a report that indicates if this area

[1:58:22] a pickup on Monday has, you know, 300 citizens, they ought to be able to show that

[1:58:27] that truck picked up 300 trash cans, right?

[1:58:30] It's just a simple assessment.

[1:58:32] I'm concerned that citizens are paying their money and someone's not picking up their trash

[1:58:39] and we're kind of docile, but we still have to pay that bill and I can assure you because I have

[1:58:45] cancelled cards and they called me for my money and they won't pick up my trash if I make a mistake.

[1:58:51] So I don't like that.

[1:58:53] I think there should be accountability on the number of pickups to the city to make sure they're not getting paid for it.

[1:59:00] Not doing work.

[1:59:01] Thank you.

[1:59:02] Excuse Mr. Irgon.

[1:59:03] Did they end up picking up your trash after all?

[1:59:05] Yeah, they got it the same day, yeah, but the concern was I would have thought that if they didn't pick up my trash

[1:59:12] There would be like a sticker that says hey, you know, you're not in compliance or something like that

[1:59:16] And I find it very difficult to understand how somebody can miss a trash can got mean if that's what they're doing all day long, right?

[1:59:23] And yeah, conspiracy theory. What if they're parking somewhere and not picking up 50 dumps

[1:59:29] And what's 50 times, you know, whatever weekly charge they get, and if they do that, the next section, and they do once a week, and so that revenue can add up very quickly, lack of work getting paid.

[1:59:41] Don't like that scenario. Thank you.

[1:59:42] Thank you, sir. Anyone else?

[1:59:45] Will it come in?

[1:59:47] Is there any other?

[1:59:53] Good evening Mayor City Council.

[1:59:57] It's just a real quick comment.

[1:59:58] It'll just interesting to me that worked.

[2:00:00] Locking about the $20,000 that may be paid to chambers. And you have the right to question everything. And I understand that. The policy is agreement, whatever the contract is. But for as much as they've done, for not only the children of our local schools, but the share of the Parliament, it's something just to really think about. And I understand you guys want answers. I totally agree, but last meeting, they gave a wrestling program, who I love sports.

[2:00:30] $15,000, and they didn't question anything, and one of your board members of pure council,

[2:00:36] he runs that program or is a main coach there.

[2:00:40] I just don't, you didn't, you didn't question that, and I'm not sure why.

[2:00:45] Thank you.

[2:00:47] Thank you.

[2:00:48] Mr. Olmels.

[2:00:49] Anyone else?

[2:00:52] Someone I'm like?

[2:00:54] Yes, Mayor, I believe Eddie's online.

[2:00:57] Eddie, go ahead and get five minutes.

[2:01:02] And if you're there, go ahead and unmute.

[2:01:08] Good evening. Can you hear me?

[2:01:10] Yes, sir. Go ahead.

[2:01:12] Hello. Good afternoon, City Council.

[2:01:14] I'm just going to go fast because I'm just thinking out of the box.

[2:01:20] Have we taken a look at the restrooms at the City of Saltamani,

[2:01:27] Littlely Park?

[2:01:28] I've been trying to see how we're going to go forward to

[2:01:33] I played there in 1979, John Morannell was there, and those restrooms, according to

[2:01:41] the ACLU, the men's restroom, there is no way you could get a wheelchair accessibility

[2:01:48] in there.

[2:01:49] That's two stalls, two seats, one urinal.

[2:01:54] Under code compliance with the ACLU, I'm asking before there is something brought up to

[2:02:00] provides us attention. Some of those in there and sue the city. So let's see if we could

[2:02:07] get that restroom upgraded updated and all the funds that we have. We didn't do nothing

[2:02:15] about the CNN measure. I'm directing the council, voters voted that in. There's been

[2:02:23] a lot of maneuvering and basically, let's dodge that, that elected, we voted on it,

[2:02:34] it was on the ballot. However, much it caused it to be on the ballot, it passed. Public

[2:02:41] safety needs money, city needs money. It's a way of bringing revenue funds and money into

[2:02:51] city. You're not going to stop. Elmani has five dispensaries, maybe six, take a peak, city manager,

[2:03:00] talk to the city manager over there. See what she's bought in the Elmani police department

[2:03:07] with that money, a new vercat, they bought an idea of all the commanders at night, the SWAT has

[2:03:15] they have their night vision. So allocated money comes through that dispensary. Let's not

[2:03:23] dodge it, miss out. We already missed out three years of revenue. Another, another issue

[2:03:29] that was the fire across the street from City Hall. We put a green screen. Is that debris still

[2:03:36] not being moved? I haven't taken a peek because I had knee surgery, but as soon as I'm able

[2:03:41] to hop along and drive a car. I'll be over there to look at that. City, a money greater.

[2:03:50] Anyway, that's that hospital needs their trauma center updated. It's a nice hospital from

[2:03:59] coming in and visiting now. We've done a good job of helping them, you know, but the

[2:04:07] It's our data 50 years, you know, you go in there and yeah, they have people trying to keep it updated, but we really need to take a look at helping our money greater that's used by our county sheriffs used by our money police department as an emergency outlet for our officers that take people in there for anything that they need to take in there.

[2:04:33] it is a public public place and there is public funding. We as a city should push that issue.

[2:04:42] You know, naming Michael Hunt drive another name. I'm not going to tell you what I would

[2:04:48] name it, but I know there's ifs ands about taking Michael Hunt and they did it when it was

[2:04:54] slack road, made it in his name. There's ifs ands and buts. I was a I was a patron of going to that

[2:05:01] all the time, you know, maybe we should change the name Michael Hunt drive to another name.

[2:05:09] I'm not going to say what name, but I know there's someone that deserves to be put on that street

[2:05:17] that serve the city and you serve the city. Now the cross building, the cross building is the

[2:05:25] feed, place that city of Sautamani now is using. Why can we get Ben Lira, which if someone

[2:05:33] digs into archives and the crowd's wish was to have Ben Lira have that as a boxing gym. Maybe

[2:05:41] I'm shooting out at the moon, maybe I'm shooting out to Jupiter or Mars, but I'm telling you guys.

[2:05:48] I'll dig up paperwork, bring it up to the forum, and that should be one of the leading boxing

[2:05:55] in Jim's in the landmark city of Saltamani where we've had champions, box and come up.

[2:06:03] I'll leave it at that seven seconds and you guys all have a blessed night and take care

[2:06:09] of business because business may need. Amen.

[2:06:13] Thank you, Eddie. Anyone else?

[2:06:17] Anyone else?

[2:06:17] Anyone else, someone?

[2:06:18] See, none of the public companies. No close.

[2:06:25] Madam Mayor, if I may ask a question. Is there any way we could move up item 12B?

[2:06:31] because there's a couple of people here and I know that our next item that's coming up might

[2:06:35] take a long time.

[2:06:39] It's actually council members agenda, and I'd want to bring it about 12 B. If I can,

[2:06:58] I have

[2:06:58] no objection.

[2:07:00] There's no objection if there isn't any. Because I'd like to touch on that anyway, we

[2:07:04] are really doing it.

[2:07:10] Okay.

[2:07:11] All right. At this time, if I could have Mr. Robert Yer-Goyne, please come up to the podium.

[2:07:18] He's going to go ahead and present something. I understand the City already has a cert program,

[2:07:24] but what we're talking about is a cert team. Go ahead, Mr. Yer-Goyne again. We do have that.

[2:07:30] Yes. We actually have a whole team in committee. That does that. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mr. Robon.

[2:07:38] Thank you for your patience. Didn't expect to get up here twice, but you know, you can call it a fad.

[2:07:45] You can call it a call to attention, right? But, you know, we got fires going on. And now all of a sudden our attention is, it is in that direction, right?

[2:07:55] somebody dies, yikes, right? Something bad happened. So there's been fires in the

[2:08:01] Eaton Canyon up here, both of us know somebody in that area, right? Some of us know

[2:08:06] some of the folks in Palo Sates. And when I'm talking about his emergency

[2:08:10] preparedness, and certainly the cert program assists in that way. As a

[2:08:15] resident, I've heard of it before, but in my opinion, and I'm going to talk

[2:08:19] to do opinion, and this is not to degrade anyone, I don't see it as a strong

[2:08:24] focal point in that myself as a citizen, I am not fully aware of its day-day

[2:08:31] day actions, monthly actions, even annual actions. I just have not seen it. Now

[2:08:36] that could be my fault, and I understand that completely. But the reality is that

[2:08:41] who in these emergencies take place, people die, people get hurt, and there's a lot

[2:08:46] of chaos. If you tell a citizen, hey, far as coming, you've got to leave, first thing

[2:08:52] think of, I got to get my valuables, right? Now when they think about that, I guess what?

[2:08:58] They forgot about leaving. And then that five minutes turns into 10, turns into 20, turns

[2:09:04] into 30, and guess what? You can't have 20,000 people leave at the same time, right? So there's

[2:09:11] some emergency preparedness that we have a hat to have a headache time. Folks got to understand

[2:09:17] the realities of congestion. They got to understand that when it's time to go a time

[2:09:21] to go, and they need to be reminded, takes a medicine, if you have a C-pat machine, get that,

[2:09:28] did you photograph all of your important documents, let's say it's a fire, and you don't

[2:09:31] have your insurance, etc. We've got to get all that stuff prepared, and most of us don't

[2:09:38] think about it, because it hasn't hit us. But right now we look at what's happening over

[2:09:42] there, and both of those people are suffering, right? We don't want to be in that place.

[2:09:47] I know you don't want that to happen.

[2:09:50] So I'm encouraging you to, I don't know what the right word is.

[2:09:53] I want to be polite, reanimate the program, make it a little higher level.

[2:09:59] But also, not everybody's going to join the circuit program.

[2:10:03] So let's get some emergency preparedness for the citizens.

[2:10:09] I'm sure we have resources like the Red Cross.

[2:10:11] I'm sure the fireman and the policemen, you know,

[2:10:17] first aid and CPR classes, et cetera, teach people how to put together

[2:10:21] go bag and all the stuff that I just wasn't talking about that.

[2:10:25] Because what we don't want to do is when they look back and say,

[2:10:28] I could have done something.

[2:10:30] I should have done something.

[2:10:31] All right.

[2:10:32] So thank you.

[2:10:33] Thank you, Mr. Gones.

[2:10:34] So Madam Mayor, the reason I brought that up is I ran into Mr.

[2:10:39] You're going at burgers, I don't actually.

[2:10:43] And he brought that up.

[2:10:44] And that was something that I thought about years ago.

[2:10:46] So we just want to make it more visible to where we could create an actual team, like a core of people that maybe if it's meeting once a month or twice a month or even trying to have more people join or

[2:11:03] And then we went on to educate how do we educate these people because I'm telling you right now out of the three friends that I know that lost their homes up in El Tadina

[2:11:13] It would never happen to them because they live too far away from the mountain, but yet it happened to them.

[2:11:19] So we do not know, believe it or not, in an earthquake, we're surrounded by rivers.

[2:11:25] There's bridges every single point.

[2:11:27] So if we have to go ahead and try to survive and this is a low number three to five days,

[2:11:34] can everybody actually do this?

[2:11:36] Are we prepared to do this?

[2:11:39] What can the city do to educate the community and let them know that you need these items and you need to be able to help one of the biggest things that Mr.

[2:11:51] You're going brought up or that we talked about is how do you help your neighbor?

[2:11:56] What if I'm prepared but my neighbor's not prepared?

[2:11:58] How do I help my neighbor?

[2:12:00] How do I go?

[2:12:00] How do I work with the police department because the sheriff's department they're gonna be really busy the hospitals gonna be really busy

[2:12:07] If the cert team, if we had an actual team that would meet together, that would just at least go out and go to all the senior citizen homes and make sure they're okay or go out and just knock on doors and make sure that would help the sheriff's department relieve some of their work.

[2:12:26] You know, hey, maybe, of course, you can't perform first aid unless you, you know, first aid but might help the hospitals.

[2:12:35] So what I'm trying to do is if I could direct staff to help me put together something to where we create a certain team.

[2:12:43] I understand people are certified but if I, I don't know, but I'm asking, while I'll ask you, Mayor, do we have a team that actually meets once a month, once a year?

[2:12:56] half a year or any time.

[2:12:58] So recently we made many quarterly and we just had one last month or the month before and we're

[2:13:06] getting all the backpacks you, you should know you wouldn't have received one but the rest

[2:13:09] of you guys got a backpack with some of the items in it and a list, a checklist.

[2:13:15] So we have administrative staff involved with it as well as myself and Mr. Auguster on the

[2:13:20] And also, it talks about, if something were to happen, each of the buildings that are accessible for us, what we do, what we need to do triaging, again being certified.

[2:13:35] Also, the direction to D3, which is our area, where our area D3.

[2:13:41] And so who we contact, how we have contacts, there's a list of sheets of their, those contacts will be put online as soon as they're completely verified.

[2:13:51] So we're almost there. Diana has been taking care of that. She's spearheads at her and Eric.

[2:13:57] And also it talks about our checklist as a city as a whole. How much would it be for us to survive? How long would it take for us to survive?

[2:14:07] So there's items in their flashlight.

[2:14:08] So I guess building a team, if we could add on to what we already have and build a team just because we need to add on to what we already have.

[2:14:20] You know, I'm sure Mr. You're going myself and some other residents showed up here would want to be a part of that team.

[2:14:27] And like I said our goal is to try to educate and I don't need the backpack. I need my neighbor to have that backpack.

[2:14:34] course because I know what to do. I'm saying how do we educate the rest of the

[2:14:39] community that that's the most important part of you let me finish you might hear the

[2:14:43] rest of it. So also on top of that it also we talked about reaching out to others as

[2:14:49] well. So we've had cert programs in your natural class, went through six week class and

[2:14:56] training. So it was people from our community as well as outside.

[2:15:00] Surrounding communities. So each of them were told, if something were to occur, because you're getting the training here, your first thought is to take care of your family and then you immediately come to help the city that you took and certified for.

[2:15:14] And that's what we are trained to do. So with all of that, we have everything in the motion. We just haven't completed everything yet. So we're in the middle of completing everything, updating it.

[2:15:25] So once it's updated, then it's going to open up again another class for whoever else wants to join,

[2:15:30] then they'll be able to join as well. So we have, like, say, Joy Figaroa, he's got what,

[2:15:36] maybe 12 men under him. So he and his 12 men staff are already directed on what to do.

[2:15:42] Every department head here has the people under them. They are already telling their staff.

[2:15:46] This is what you're directed to do. So something we're to occur. We do have a beginning already to start.

[2:15:51] Now, is it over? No. We're building on it every time we have a meeting. We add more. We check out more.

[2:15:57] We do more things and we get an update. So, once that's in completion of the updating,

[2:16:02] because did area D3 change some of their stuff. Once that's in completion of,

[2:16:06] then we'll go ahead and have another class session where more people will be added to it.

[2:16:09] And this is up into the residence. Public.

[2:16:12] Public. Not just the residence. So, does that answer your question?

[2:16:18] Okay.

[2:16:27] Item number 7, consent calendar.

[2:16:29] Going to get a motion to approve.

[2:16:31] So move, I'll second the motion.

[2:16:33] Move by Hector, second by Mani, call for the vote, please.

[2:16:46] Motion carries 5-0.

[2:17:11] We're table in 80.

[2:17:14] Yes, Madam Mayor, pursuant to government code section 549-55.1.

[2:17:18] This hearing will be continued to the February 18th, 2025 City Council meeting.

[2:17:23] Thank you, Madam.

[2:17:24] All right.

[2:17:24] Next up, item 8B consideration approval resolution, 25 servo 9, authorized by Programming and Programming of Community Development, Block Grant, CDBG funds, who's doing that?

[2:17:35] Madam Mayor, this is a public hearing, it's recommended to open the public hearing for a public comment.

[2:17:41] Okay, with that being said, public hearing is now open on item B as in Baker.

[2:17:47] Anybody? Anybody online?

[2:17:51] C9, hearing is closed, go ahead, do we have a presentation?

[2:17:56] Madam Mayor, have a brief presentation by staff, and address will provide that.

[2:18:02] Good evening, Madam Mayor, City Council members.

[2:18:04] Each year, we're required to repurpose our funds that we receive for CDVG from LACDA that

[2:18:11] via HUD. So this year we're recommending is that we reprogram our funding for FY2425 and FY2526.

[2:18:25] What we're asking is for to repurpose in 2425 CDBG funds allocation a total of 910,952.

[2:18:37] The breakdown is 136-207 for the aquatic pool replastry project, $100,000, $100,000 for

[2:18:46] code enforcement, $136,000 for involving funds for the aquatic pool replastry project, $238,745 for

[2:18:56] the city hall restroom renovation project, and then we're asking CDB or LACDA for an additional

[2:19:02] of $300,000 and revolving funds to be used for the city hall restroom renovation project.

[2:19:09] For FY-2526, it's a total of $226,774,000 at the city is going to receive.

[2:19:20] We're going to use 100 or we're recommending to use 136,000 to repay revolving funds that were used for this year's

[2:19:26] aquatic porous classroom project and then we're asking to repay 90,000, 774 to repay the

[2:19:33] revolving funds that are going to be used for this year's project for the City Hall

[2:19:37] Restaurant Innovation Project.

[2:19:41] Nice. Any questions? All right. Can you get a motion to approve?

[2:19:48] Motion to approve. Let me get a second please. Second.

[2:19:51] Move by manning second by Rudy. Call for the vote please.

[2:20:00] So Mayor, just to clarify, it's to adopt resolution number 20509,

[2:20:06] allowing the city to revise the CDBG consolidated action plan for use of the CDBG funds for

[2:20:12] physical year 2024 25 and physical year 2526 and all the city managed to adjust the CDBG program

[2:20:20] budgets as necessary throughout physical year 2425 and 2526 for the timely expenditure of CDBG funds.

[2:20:29] Yes, thank you Rene. Motion passed 50.

[2:20:34] All righty. 9A presentation of design options for Civic Center and

[2:20:38] inter-just jurisdictional bicycle lanes for project.

[2:20:42] Madam Mayor and City Council. If you recall,

[2:20:46] this item has brought to your attention.

[2:20:49] And I want to say mid year of last year.

[2:20:54] And we're bringing it back for consideration of two options for this project.

[2:20:59] We do have representatives with transtec that will provide the presentation if we can have them come up, and I'll start it off with the first three slides to, and then represent transtec will do the technical part.

[2:21:19] So, you need one second,

[2:21:27] so this has been a long process for this project, it's fully funded.

[2:21:35] We've been really successful in getting money through Metro via the cog for two sets of funding.

[2:21:44] So right now we'll go over the project overview and bicycle facility design, so I'll just do the project overview

[2:21:50] that had to, I don't have to translate. Next slide, please.

[2:21:55] So if we recall this, this location involves

[2:21:58] sanity to Avenue and the quarter between

[2:22:01] Highway 60 and Tyler at Clingerman is pretty much the

[2:22:05] length of the project. And it's going to include pedestrian

[2:22:09] mobility improvements, sidewalk improvements,

[2:22:13] and also safety construction improvements in some of the

[2:22:18] the next slide please.

[2:22:25] So this is the location of the project from the freeway all the way to.

[2:22:30] The end of the city limit. So it's Santa Anita and Tyler. 1.4 miles. Next slide please.

[2:22:38] So this is the funding for pretty much both options. 1 is cheaper than the other.

[2:22:45] But again, these are measure M fundings, regional measure M fundings that we were able to attend.

[2:22:52] So it's obtained in two different call for projects and the total is 9.1 million. Next slide.

[2:23:00] And I'll let Cranstick do the overview of the two options.

[2:23:06] Thank you.

[2:23:07] My name is Arirat, Madam Mayor and Council members.

[2:23:10] The design project manager for this project.

[2:23:12] So we will go over the design options for the corridor.

[2:23:16] Talking about option one and option two briefly.

[2:23:19] Option one as you see in a cross section in the bottom of the screen.

[2:23:23] That is a class 4 by a clean or a separated by clean.

[2:23:28] What this design, the on a street parking lane, will be on the left side of the

[2:23:34] bike lane, bike lane will be actually adjacent to the curb line and there will be a buffer

[2:23:39] of a delineators adjacent to the bike lane and this option will include the Pursuit

[2:23:46] of a new to Viver Avenue next slide.

[2:23:51] This is option 2, this is a class 2 bike lane and this option is to see the parking lane

[2:23:59] is adjacent to the curve on the bike lane is adjacent to the traffic lane, the traffic

[2:24:04] on the top is actually schematic.

[2:24:07] The cross section and the bill shows that we are keeping the four lanes for the corridor

[2:24:12] for the entire corridor, for the project limit.

[2:24:15] This option, again, is the cost to bike lane.

[2:24:19] It doesn't have that separated concept of the option one.

[2:24:25] Next slide.

[2:24:27] This is the remaining portion of the corridors.

[2:24:31] So from we were having you all the way to the north side.

[2:24:34] This is a cost to bike lane.

[2:24:36] This doesn't have a buffer.

[2:24:38] We don't have room for buffer.

[2:24:39] We are working within the curved space of the street.

[2:24:42] What this option we're keeping to on the street parking and the bike lane will be on the left side of the parking lane next night, please

[2:24:51] These are bicycle lane definitions. This is the Cust-TU is on the left side of the parking parking is adjacent to the curb

[2:25:00] Cust-TU with the buffer is the same concept, but there's a buffer striping buffer on the left side between the bike lane and the traffic lane

[2:25:09] costs four or psychotrack, the parking lane is on the left side of the bike lane and

[2:25:15] the bike lane is adjacent to the curb line. Next slide, these are the numbers of parking

[2:25:24] losses based on each option. The costs four bike lane has the most losses and the reason

[2:25:32] for that is because we need to consider side distances when we push the bike the parking

[2:25:37] to be adjacent to the traffic lane when it

[2:25:40] to consider sight distance and visibility for

[2:25:42] turning movements at the dryways.

[2:25:45] And the total number of the parkingway

[2:25:47] honest parking spots that will be lost

[2:25:50] as part of this option, as you see in the second column

[2:25:55] is 105.

[2:25:57] Second option, which is a class 2,

[2:26:01] will lose just 21 if I'm not mistaken.

[2:26:05] I can read that from here, but I will lose this 21 parking over of the option 2 if we can go to

[2:26:12] next slide.

[2:26:15] So what this I wanted to get this staff recommendation.

[2:26:20] Basically we have a recommendation

[2:26:22] between these two options. To City Council provide direction whether to implement design option 1,

[2:26:29] which is the cycle track class 4 or the design option 2, which is class 2, bike lane for this project.

[2:26:37] so that we can proceed with the final design

[2:26:39] and direct the city manager to finalize project design

[2:26:42] based on the selected design option.

[2:26:45] And Mayor and City Council, if I may,

[2:26:48] as Trance succeeded, there's two options.

[2:26:52] And the big difference is the amount of parking spaces lost.

[2:26:56] So for option one, there's actually 99 spots

[2:27:04] that will be lost for option one.

[2:27:06] And that's because of the design of the road with that particular bike lane, plus incorporating new rules and laws from the state regarding parking and site distance, line of site distance as people exit the driveways.

[2:27:22] The second option only loses 21 parking spaces, and that's due to the type of bike lane that's being designed.

[2:27:35] Can we get option 3?

[2:27:38] So I like the one where it has the buffer.

[2:27:41] Obviously, we can't lose that much parking.

[2:27:42] You're going to kill us here.

[2:27:43] People are going to be calling us even more than we get called.

[2:27:46] How many of you guys have calls because of parking?

[2:27:49] Yeah.

[2:27:49] We can't lose parking.

[2:27:50] So yeah, we get that all the time.

[2:27:53] But can you put it back to the design shows the designs?

[2:28:02] So even though I think it's important to have a buffer having the bike to me right there.

[2:28:06] That's dangerous on the middle picture.

[2:28:08] I mean, someone opened their car door, they're going flying, and also, like, I don't know how you're protecting them because you see the way these cars drive.

[2:28:17] If they're trying to get around that car next to them, they don't care, they're just going to do it anyway, which might hit someone.

[2:28:22] I don't know if there's an option 3 that we can create, that would put the bike lane, maybe adjacent to the curb, right?

[2:28:30] But without losing the parking and still keep the buffer, and you can have the buffer between the lane, bike lane and the...

[2:28:39] And the left side of the car. Does that make sense?

[2:28:42] So if I may not something, if I may, to clarify.

[2:28:48] So this option is mainly part of incorporated.

[2:28:53] This design is incorporated and mainly an option too.

[2:28:59] The class score is basically option one, which is the major parking loss.

[2:29:05] And we're just following the design standards and design manuals and because there are multiple drivers on the corridor,

[2:29:15] that's the main reason that we have a major loss and a number of the parking.

[2:29:19] But my point is to clarify for council,

[2:29:24] class 2 and class 2 that are shown is mainly for option 2, correct?

[2:29:31] which is only 21 species.

[2:29:35] The protected that you see on the bottom,

[2:29:38] that's mainly in option one.

[2:29:42] Cots, yeah.

[2:29:43] But because of the design, you lose 99 spots for option one.

[2:29:51] That's a lot of spots.

[2:29:52] And it is a major commercial corridor.

[2:29:56] Parking is a premium.

[2:30:00] I am there. We have some businesses for construction like the grant places that are along that corridor as well.

[2:30:16] I like to go with the lowest loss of parking spots. Preferably none.

[2:30:24] Is it possible to come up with an option three?

[2:30:34] But if we were to say develop a third one and table this to a next meeting, would that be

[2:30:43] accommodable?

[2:30:44] Again, the corridor, the features that are existing in the corridor, this doesn't make

[2:30:50] it in a perfect corridor for class 4 or class 1, so class 2 may be the best option I

[2:30:57] to keep it on the street parking as many as much as possible.

[2:31:03] So just to make a comparison from a mayor and city council, if you look at the Merced Project,

[2:31:09] that was a combination of many design options for that street, including Rodeite, and we were

[2:31:16] able to put the bike lane off the street.

[2:31:19] If we do that on San Anita, we would probably lose another lane of traffic on both sides,

[2:31:24] And that wouldn't be acceptable.

[2:31:28] Yeah, that would.

[2:31:29] Yeah, that would.

[2:31:29] And more expensive.

[2:31:31] Yeah.

[2:31:34] Better bear.

[2:31:37] Frankly, I'd say no to this project.

[2:31:39] There's no fiscal impact to us.

[2:31:42] There is none.

[2:31:43] I have gotten beat up on that project over.

[2:31:46] I'm or said not only from residents, but from businesses.

[2:31:51] I drive by there.

[2:31:53] I've seen maybe two people biking in those lands on

[2:31:57] said, Madam Mayor, members of the Council, and I tell you walk up and down there, that

[2:32:02] corridor, and you ask any one of those residents.

[2:32:06] My correct Mr. Rodriguez, they are upset, they are highly upset.

[2:32:10] That major corridor there on Santa Anita, that's a major corridor.

[2:32:16] So again, there is no, there's no financial impact to us, this is all fully funded here

[2:32:21] I metro and my feeling is the street is perfectly fine the way it is right now.

[2:32:29] We just need to repay it and maybe restripe it there.

[2:32:33] IMS is one of our largest employers there in the city.

[2:32:38] They do a tremendous amount of business here for us and employ a lot of people and I would

[2:32:43] hate to inconvenience them in any way, particularly with a lot of their employees who park

[2:32:49] or use that off-site park in there as well.

[2:32:53] So, you know, Madam Mayor, frankly, you asked me,

[2:32:55] I just say, thank you for the presentation,

[2:32:58] but I'm not interested in this project here.

[2:33:03] Madam Mayor, I'm actually getting a go ahead

[2:33:05] and say, the Merced Project probably won me the election.

[2:33:10] They were so upset every time I knocked on one

[2:33:13] of those doors over and over again.

[2:33:15] That was the biggest complaint

[2:33:16] and I actually could show you pictures of residents sending me,

[2:33:20] things that happened on Mercedes because of that project right there. When I say unhappy that that's a total

[2:33:28] understatement so I'd have to agree with Mr. Delgado unless this is well thought out and I mean

[2:33:35] well thought out. Mercedes was not well thought out based on the pictures and I'll show these pictures

[2:33:40] after if anyone wants to see them. I mean there's cars stuck on curbs, teeter tottering and residents

[2:33:47] are talking about how they can't make a turn in or what can we do can we put a big

[2:33:52] old sign that says curb and all these things they come up with and the thing is we

[2:33:57] can't go back. I wasn't a part of that plan but I know that I don't think we need what we

[2:34:05] have three corridors to the freeway. We have Durfee, San Anita and Mercedes.

[2:34:15] We already

[2:34:17] cyclains. I don't see how taking our last one, which would be sunny and eat, it would be a smart thing to do.

[2:34:24] People have to get to work. And if you're going to narrow this down to two lanes or even put

[2:34:29] bike lanes where it's a little scarier, I would not be for that. And like I said, I'm going off of

[2:34:36] what the residents told me about the Merced Project. Extremely unhappy. Thank you.

[2:34:45] That's why we need an option 3.

[2:34:47] If we can, maybe, concur with, within the budget, and maybe over with Renee, we can talk

[2:34:52] about perhaps creating an option 3, where it's still safe for those who do bike, right?

[2:34:58] And again, yeah, we know, I not done every door there too, and I took a lot of heat for that.

[2:35:04] But the project the way we described it was not exactly how it came out.

[2:35:09] And so, it did take away parking, it does, does not accommodate some of that turning.

[2:35:17] If you look at the turns or why turns, it's like, why do you have to go so far up?

[2:35:21] So, yeah, there has been an accident, they did blame the new design for it.

[2:35:27] I still can understand how the new design got blamed for it because the way they hit it, but it was a

[2:35:39] So I would highly say just instead of just killing the whole project and not making it safe

[2:35:46] Let's go back to the thinking part and let's redo something perhaps create an option three

[2:35:52] Or it's still safe for the residents that are biking but more importantly

[2:35:56] That serves our community that we have now present me and the businesses because we hear all the time

[2:36:02] There's no parking here in Selthamani

[2:36:05] We took a business with a 22 square foot, a 22,000 square foot, and maybe eight parking's

[2:36:10] yeah, they're not going to be in a parking for your employees, so that's something that

[2:36:14] we got to make sure that we accommodate, and I really hate to see after all the hard work

[2:36:20] and I apologize that I know you guys probably did go through a lot of work, but we have to

[2:36:25] see other options, neither one of these are going to complicate with our community, we're

[2:36:30] to get a lot of heat for it, and I mean, I can take the heat don't get me wrong. But when they have

[2:36:37] a point to what they're saying, I have to accommodate that and say hey wait a minute,

[2:36:41] our job is to make sure we serve. And so if we can create a project 3, let's do that,

[2:36:47] I'll be more than willing to put in the two cents and kind of describe what we're looking at to keep

[2:36:51] our parking but keep it safe. If I made that something here, my mayor basically with

[2:36:56] As a spike, when we are not changing the street configuration.

[2:37:00] So we are just adding a striping.

[2:37:01] So we'll be just a paper rehabilitation, brand new striping,

[2:37:05] some signal improvement, traffic safety,

[2:37:07] for pedestrian, AD improvement.

[2:37:10] And we are keeping the existing mean nice tool

[2:37:13] in each direction all along the corridor.

[2:37:16] So that's a class for that you're referring to.

[2:37:18] I'm not aware of mercy of a new project.

[2:37:21] But the description is probably a different classification

[2:37:24] of the bikeman. Class 2 is existing configuration. You're just adding a striping.

[2:37:32] And we are losing minimal parking on a street parking. And there is a reason for that is the new state day lighting now. And there are some of the existing on a street parking spots that in the event today they are not standard. So they even, you know, have parking, marking in front of the fire hydrants in front of the driveway. So the 20 that we are losing is for that reason.

[2:37:56] Also, the 21 that we're losing is because in front of fire hydrants and so forth.

[2:38:01] Yeah, those are either understainers or not 20 feet long, so basically those are

[2:38:05] substainers or they are marked in a wrong place, so they are either on the front of

[2:38:10] the dryways and also the new state law that is a 20 feet daylighting now for intersections.

[2:38:17] If we apply that today, which is a statewide law that was approved last year, that includes

[2:38:23] at you. So we'll only lose 10% of the total parking with that option.

[2:38:29] So Madam Mayor and City Council, we've heard all your concerns. We'll regroup and see

[2:38:34] what we can come up with. It may delay the project a year or two. There's timelines on

[2:38:40] this funding, but there are also other funding opportunities that come up through the regional

[2:38:46] measure M. So we will take a look to see what we can. Maybe we can phase it in into sections.

[2:38:54] But we'll take a look.

[2:38:56] May I ask a question on the last statement there? Sure.

[2:38:59] So you just said that there's a new state law and that's what is limiting the number or taking away the parking spots.

[2:39:07] So are you saying because of this law, even if we don't restripe or create a bike lane,

[2:39:12] We still have to adhere to this law,

[2:39:14] and we're still going to lose 20 parking spots.

[2:39:16] That's correct.

[2:39:17] So based on this, Nielna, that was probably

[2:39:19] 2020, four is called Daylighting.

[2:39:21] The last 20 feet of every intersection approach.

[2:39:25] There's no honest street parking allowed.

[2:39:28] That's all the cities in California.

[2:39:30] OK, thank you.

[2:39:32] Yes, I'm sorry.

[2:39:33] Well, we will lose some parking no matter what design we choose.

[2:39:38] Because of it, it's a street reconstruction project.

[2:39:42] Yeah, and that's kind of my point, I mean, if we're not going to lose any lanes, we're

[2:39:48] not, we're going to lose parking anyways, so going with that first option where we just

[2:39:53] have the one bike lane right next to the car is probably the most feasible, but at the end

[2:39:59] of the day it's just paint, right? It's just a white stripe going down the road, so.

[2:40:03] And that we can live with.

[2:40:06] It's not good or not.

[2:40:07] That's what we're going to do it anyway.

[2:40:12] I do want to call the attention to council members and Mayor.

[2:40:15] That's option two.

[2:40:16] So as you can see, we do keep all four lanes are turning lane.

[2:40:20] And then along with the parking and the bike lane.

[2:40:25] And if you go to the one before that was even more.

[2:40:28] It's it even minimized more the bike lane.

[2:40:32] Giving more on the car lane, which is I think what we're in favor of this with an option correct

[2:40:38] More wrong. This is where we lose the most parking spaces

[2:40:42] We would lose 99 here whereas option

[2:40:44] Yeah, this is option number one, but an option number two you gave three definitions and in the very first definition on top of the slide

[2:40:49] If you go to the definitions slide right there. See the top line the top of the figure

[2:40:56] You have one basically one stripe of two stripes that create the bike lane

[2:41:01] And according to the presentation, we won't be losing any car lanes.

[2:41:08] We don't increase the bike path by that third stripe in the middle picture.

[2:41:15] So we're definitely minimizing on that top picture.

[2:41:19] And it's important.

[2:41:21] So the top picture, if I may add a top picture, it's from Viver all the way to the north city and the middle picture is from Viver all the way to Merset.

[2:41:30] I'm both of some of our clients, you know, but both you're not losing honestly parking other than you know what you have to you based on the new state.

[2:41:38] Okay, so based on that same and what's the purpose of having lane north of weaver and south of weaver?

[2:41:46] The existing curb to curb distance is different between the two with it.

[2:41:52] So the car lane stays the same. The car with the car lane stays the same.

[2:41:57] So the street, white ends, so that allows you to put another three feet of basically

[2:42:02] sign up.

[2:42:03] You have a standard lanes and standard parking lanes and also a bike lane.

[2:42:08] So it's a striping and plus pavement we have, we're adding some raised medians to the

[2:42:12] center, some landscape item, a new monument for the city, so all those are part of the

[2:42:18] project.

[2:42:20] All right.

[2:42:21] See, my question was, kind of like what you put it out?

[2:42:24] The first one, in picture, why can't we just put the guy on the right side of the car instead of on the left side of the car?

[2:42:31] If you put it on the right side, it will be the turret option on the bottom.

[2:42:36] So that's the cost for. So the top one is the bottom one is the plus four.

[2:42:42] And that's the major change. That's the option that we'll lose almost all the time.

[2:42:46] I don't want to. Okay. I got you. I understood.

[2:42:49] So we'll take a look at it and come back with another recommendation.

[2:42:55] Well, we're willing to really look at it and wait if we're going to have to do it anyway.

[2:43:01] We don't want to lose a money. If we have to do it anyway.

[2:43:05] So maybe we might consider possibly getting it done without losing our money.

[2:43:11] So if we come back with an A, I don't know the time when we lose the money.

[2:43:15] What is the deadline on this project?

[2:43:19] The funding source deadline?

[2:43:21] The funding source deadline.

[2:43:23] We have two cycles, cycle 1 and cycle 3, measure M and SP funds.

[2:43:29] So essentially the first cycle we have time until at least a couple more years

[2:43:34] to finalize the design and start construction.

[2:43:38] So we have some time.

[2:43:39] I mean, I can, we have another at least one more year to finalize the design because these

[2:43:46] are state funds, these are not federal funds, so the requirements are not as stringent,

[2:43:52] so we have some time basically.

[2:43:55] Okay, we have time.

[2:43:56] We'll go ahead and table it.

[2:43:57] Maybe to the next meeting.

[2:44:01] I'm sorry.

[2:44:01] A little bit more March.

[2:44:03] A little bit more.

[2:44:03] Kai, come on, Renee.

[2:44:05] All right, March.

[2:44:06] Give me enough time.

[2:44:08] Yes, I think so for air.

[2:44:09] that march you guys okay with that yeah okay for revisited march thank you gentlemen

[2:44:14] thank you thank you madam my grace for five minute resuscitation

[2:44:19] yeah I agree five minute resuscitation

[2:53:11] I'll go down and call that.

[2:53:15] Next up we have a presentation design option. Oh, wait, I think we just did.

[2:53:18] Yeah, we just did. We did 90, huh? 90 be continued from January 14th, regular city council meeting or commission.

[2:53:34] So if you guys don't mind, I'm going to go ahead and read out the names.

[2:53:37] Madam Mayor, before we begin. Go ahead. We have a lot of applicants for clarification. I want to make sure that we lay down.

[2:53:44] what the process will be first.

[2:53:47] That's what I was about to do.

[2:53:49] Before we even begin,

[2:53:51] and what I'd like to do is

[2:53:54] make this an informed motion that each individual member up on this board

[2:53:58] have one nomination per commission.

[2:54:05] So for example, if we're starting with the women's commission,

[2:54:10] that a domination be made for a particular candidate,

[2:54:13] And then we vote on that particular candidate.

[2:54:16] If that candidate receives three affirmative votes,

[2:54:20] they will be elected or put on that particular body.

[2:54:29] So with that, I'd like to make sure that we follow, again,

[2:54:33] the process that is transparent, and a process

[2:54:35] that is fair that allows each individual member

[2:54:38] appear to nominate whoever they feel would best fill that vacancy for every one of these

[2:54:50] commissions.

[2:54:50] Okay.

[2:54:52] So I'd like to make that in full promotion that we follow that process.

[2:54:55] I have a question on the process.

[2:54:58] I think that makes it a little more equitable.

[2:55:01] So with the process B, for example, Madam Mayor starts with one, make a nomination.

[2:55:05] We vote on that and then we move down the line.

[2:55:07] That would be, and if we don't get one by the end of the line, then we go back this way and keep coming this way.

[2:55:13] That would be the equitable thing to do. You start at one end and go down to the other.

[2:55:18] But with that gentleman, I'm going to let's, you know, I'd like to read all the names.

[2:55:21] There's a motion.

[2:55:22] And then we get to the back.

[2:55:23] Can I get a second?

[2:55:24] Go back and vote.

[2:55:25] I'll second that process.

[2:55:27] I'd like to call for the question on that particular processor.

[2:55:41] It's four to one.

[2:55:42] And I'll tell you why he said no.

[2:55:44] because in the past when we haven't read all the names, I get the calls.

[2:55:48] You even call out my name. I said, I was reading down the list.

[2:55:51] If whoever got the first five, that's not my fault.

[2:55:54] So that's why I asked again if we can read all the names.

[2:55:58] And then we'll go back and start to choose,

[2:56:00] so just to read the purportable clarification,

[2:56:03] to read the names as a whole.

[2:56:05] Yes. And then to go back to nominations. Correct.

[2:56:10] Yeah. Yeah.

[2:56:12] Are you gentlemen okay with that?

[2:56:14] You can read out the names but you can, again at that time, you can make your nomination for one specific

[2:56:23] for that particular board.

[2:56:26] Okay.

[2:56:26] Madam Mayor, before we move forward, I have two things that I want to talk about real quick.

[2:56:31] So on two of the commissions we have criteria around seniors and around youth.

[2:56:38] And I think since I've been on, we can go back to 2017 when I was on the Community Services Commission.

[2:56:43] And we never had enough applicants to feel those criterias.

[2:56:48] And ever since, even last year, the last couple years that we've picked, we haven't had that.

[2:56:52] So what I like to do is make a motion that we remove those criterias going forward and pick

[2:57:00] off of the list that we have.

[2:57:03] And then ask staff to bring that back at our next meeting so we can change the ordinance

[2:57:09] on that.

[2:57:10] So I'd like to make a motion for that.

[2:57:12] Second.

[2:57:12] So, if we do that, then we're tabling this to the next meeting.

[2:57:17] It would be removing the criteria for these two groups.

[2:57:22] It's the only age limited groups is the advancement of women in girls' commission

[2:57:28] and the community service commissioners.

[2:57:30] So, we would remove those limitations for this meeting,

[2:57:34] an interaction for staff to come back and adopt an ordinance to formalize.

[2:57:39] So, either way, even if we get the diverse system, we're not going to tell them all, you didn't make that age cut or we're removed that age cut.

[2:57:46] Well, a big part of the meta-mares for the community, I mean, for the Women's Commission, the youth has to be a 16 or 17-year-old kid.

[2:57:53] I mean, we don't have that, and we're going to wait until we get a 16 or 17-year-old kid.

[2:57:57] And if we do, are they, you know, we're going to have to go find somebody that's not going to want to show up and really be part of it?

[2:58:04] And also I think it's better that we just go off the list of people that we have that want to be part of our commissions that rather than having to

[2:58:10] table this and reopen it to try to get people within those criteria.

[2:58:14] It's been put out already to the public and we didn't get the criteria we never have.

[2:58:20] You know, in the last, I don't know how many years.

[2:58:22] Like I said, we have.

[2:58:23] Last two years we've been for the women's commission.

[2:58:25] We actually had the youth.

[2:58:26] We had two high schoolers on youth.

[2:58:28] They didn't say much, but yeah, we had them.

[2:58:30] I can't remember that, but I know we didn't have for the community services commission.

[2:58:35] So it's kind of all or nothing.

[2:58:36] It's either we do it all or we do, or we do none of it.

[2:58:39] And like I said to the, you know,

[2:58:42] I agree with you.

[2:58:43] I think I would like to see a change a little bit because we can choose a younger person or not.

[2:58:49] That's fine.

[2:58:51] But I'm saying as far as whom we choose now because it is an ordinance now.

[2:58:57] It shouldn't.

[2:58:57] It doesn't matter. Like we're not going to stay for instance. We choose whatever age group and then we say okay, you to meet that criteria. You're off. We're not going to do that, right?

[2:59:07] Correct. The motion on the floor is to remove those limitations.

[2:59:11] So, so it wouldn't matter who we chose. Right. Right. They don't have to be a senior or 16.

[2:59:18] And bring it back and bring back next meeting to change the ordinance.

[2:59:22] I'm going to ask for clarification, even though we don't meet those criteria, we still get five people on the commission.

[2:59:30] So we would ideally like some girls to be on the girls commission or women's commission.

[2:59:36] We ideally would like an older folks to be in there as well.

[2:59:41] We value their opinions, but it doesn't limit the number of commissioners.

[2:59:46] So in other words, if we have one under 16 and one over 60 and there's a commission of five and if we don't fill those two criteria, we don't end up with three commissioners.

[2:59:57] We still end up with five commissioners.

[2:59:58] We're just taking away the criteria.

[3:00:00] Pick off the list that we have five commissioners off the list that we have for that particular commission.

[3:00:05] But we can still fill the five commissioners, even if we don't get a 16 year old or a 60 year old.

[3:00:11] Yeah, that's a point of taking the criteria away.

[3:00:14] No, no, but we can still create a commission without them. Even the criteria is in place, we can still have a commission.

[3:00:21] That's the way it's been, right? I mean, it's been like that for many years.

[3:00:24] We're actually seeing the same thing, yes, I think they're in different ways we're seeing the same pool.

[3:00:32] You're choosing from the same pool of applicants.

[3:00:35] So, Madam Mayor, real quick, for one more clarification.

[3:00:39] So, you're going to read off every one's name, just to read it off.

[3:00:41] For all those implied, yes.

[3:00:43] And then we're going to do the nominations for that.

[3:00:46] We have a first and a second.

[3:00:48] Yeah. We have a first and a second motion to eliminate the the age limitations. So if you'd like to

[3:00:57] sit a click like to call roll call for the first. I'm sorry he does have an interaction for staff to come

[3:01:02] back at the next meeting to get for council to consider more than it's

[3:01:11] for motion carries for one zero.

[3:01:14] One of the thing Madam Mayor, I want to bring up and I like to get input from the council. I know

[3:01:18] historically we've had on our Community Services Commission seven commissioners and we did

[3:01:23] move that to a five and I think with the amount of commissioners that we have now, I would

[3:01:29] like to make a motion to move that commission back to a seven person commission now that we're

[3:01:35] taking away the criteria and that we can get a little more input from our community with a seven

[3:01:42] person commission.

[3:01:44] I second that you know what if you have a seven just keep in mind we have to meet somewhere else

[3:01:52] they can't meet here because they didn't fit here the last time. That's what we changed it back to it was.

[3:02:01] Sorry madam, for clarification what commission is this this is for the community services commission

[3:02:06] and then I also ask with that motion that we bring that back in two weeks tell also change the ordinance as well as the other motion.

[3:02:13] Thank you,

[3:02:36] sir.

[3:02:36] One abstention from the mayor, and we have everybody with her kiss, yes.

[3:02:40] Mania Costa, no.

[3:02:41] Pector delgado, yes.

[3:02:43] Larry Rodriguez, yes.

[3:02:44] Three, one, one.

[3:02:55] What is this one for?

[3:02:57] I think it was an error.

[3:02:59] I think we're back to reading the names.

[3:03:01] Sorry, it's an error.

[3:03:03] Okay.

[3:03:05] That was like, wait a minute.

[3:03:06] That's okay.

[3:03:07] So you're currently back into the names for the women's and girls, sir.

[3:03:11] Okay.

[3:03:12] So for the women's commission, we'll go to start.

[3:03:15] We had Linda Miramontes, Christina Fonseca, L.A. Strong, Evelyn Pustos, Henson, Denise Silva,

[3:03:24] Darning Soto, Nidia Romero, Evelyn Brianias, Cindy, Igwin, Elizabeth Gutierrez,

[3:03:29] Karina Marillo, and Sarah Aguiano,

[3:03:36] so with that I like to make the first nomination

[3:03:38] for Linda Miramontes,

[3:03:46] can I get the boat?

[3:03:59] Or almost yes, Rudy Bohrkes, no?

[3:05:18] Mayor abstaining.

[3:05:26] I'd like to make a nomination for Alistairong.

[3:05:40] Five O.

[3:05:45] Mr. Costa.

[3:05:47] I'd like to nominate Christina Fonseca.

[3:05:58] Five O.

[3:06:05] Go back to me again.

[3:06:07] I'd like to nominate

[3:06:14] Darlene Soto.

[3:06:30] Gloria, yes. Rudy, no.

[3:06:33] Man, yes. Hector and there, you know.

[3:06:37] Three, two, well.

[3:06:38] Oops, wrong one.

[3:06:46] I'd like to nominate the other brionises?

[3:06:50] What did you say?

[3:06:50] Is she related to Leo Brionis?

[3:06:54] Do you know?

[3:06:55] She related to who?

[3:06:56] Leo Brionis?

[3:06:57] Brionis family?

[3:06:59] I don't know.

[3:07:00] I don't know.

[3:07:02] But that's what I'm nominating.

[3:07:14] For one, mayor abstaining.

[3:07:25] Hector?

[3:07:27] I think that's five minutes.

[3:07:27] That's five minutes.

[3:07:29] Oh, I'm sorry.

[3:07:41] All righty. So congratulations. We have some of them already. So we have in correct me if I'm wrong, please. We got Christina Fonseca, Alice Strong, darling, no, she didn't get it.

[3:07:58] Evelyn Brianis, Elizabeth Gutierrez,

[3:08:06] and Sarah Gata Aguiano.

[3:08:09] Correct, correct.

[3:08:10] Okay, that's fine.

[3:08:12] Got it.

[3:08:12] Thank you.

[3:08:22] Next up, we have for the community service.

[3:08:27] Once again, I'll read the names.

[3:08:29] It's Rosio, Ingrid Aguilar, Hortensea Vasquez, Jerry Diaz, Salvador Ramirez, Nidia Romero,

[3:08:36] Darning Soto, Denise Silva, George Aguiano, Robert Bacera, Sending Aguin,

[3:08:43] yeah, that's it.

[3:08:45] And before we vote on this one, just to let you know, I spoke to staff, they love the fact

[3:08:50] of our commissioners the ones they have right now, because they showed up to do many different

[3:08:55] functions and stuff, and they helped. They actually participate in. Fourth of July, they were

[3:08:59] handing out things, excuse me. Fourth of July, they were there for handing out things and some of

[3:09:09] really thankful for the community service people that we have already. So with that being said,

[3:09:13] we're going to go ahead. I just read the names. The first one I'll choose is Israel Lossio.

[3:09:28] Five o'clock.

[3:09:34] Larry. On nominate. Jerry or T's.

[3:09:40] There's no Jerry or T's on this. Jerry D's. Jerry D's.

[3:09:45] Jerry D's.

[3:09:51] Jerry D's. Jerry D's. Jerry D's. Jerry

[3:10:05] D's.

[3:10:19] Five o'clock.

[3:10:22] Ah nominate Cindy Nguyen.

[3:10:35] Four o'clock.

[3:10:36] Mary of Cindy.

[3:10:42] Mr. Kosa.

[3:10:43] I'd like to nominate Salvador Ramirez.

[3:10:55] Mary, yes.

[3:10:57] Rudy, yet no.

[3:10:58] Mani, yes.

[3:10:59] Yeah, many, yes.

[3:11:01] And the other two vector and Larry, no.

[3:11:02] Three, two.

[3:11:05] It's not like we didn't see that coming.

[3:11:07] Let's

[3:11:10] see.

[3:11:11] Coming back to me.

[3:11:14] Is that coming?

[3:11:17] Um, Ingrid Aguilar.

[3:11:33] Almost, yes.

[3:11:35] Rudy, no.

[3:11:36] Mani, yes.

[3:11:37] Hector and Larry, no.

[3:11:38] 3,

[3:11:45] 2. I'd like to nominate Denise Silva.

[3:11:58] 5, 0.

[3:12:02] I'd like to nominate Georgian Giano.

[3:12:04] Well, then I think that's our 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4,

[3:12:09] 7.

[3:12:09] Or a point you seven already.

[3:12:13] Okay.

[3:12:14] We don't have to have it in resolution 3, 4, we do that.

[3:12:20] You know, or you know.

[3:12:21] So it's a motion that passes, coming back towards the next meeting is the amendment to the ordinance.

[3:12:26] So since the motion pass to allow the change for 5 to 7, that's applicable to the current.

[3:12:34] Okay,

[3:12:38] so with that, I'm sorry.

[3:12:39] Who was that again?

[3:12:40] Georgia again.

[3:12:48] What should Gary's Bible?

[3:12:51] On nominate Hortensia Vasquez.

[3:13:08] Bible.

[3:13:14] That's seven right to correct.

[3:13:16] I think this time I marked it.

[3:13:20] Already moving on, we have the point for the patriotic commission.

[3:13:24] I'm

[3:13:32] sorry for clarification for the community service, it'll be Israel Lassio, Jerry Diaz,

[3:13:39] Denise Silva, George Ayano, Robert Bessera, Sinywin,

[3:13:47] and Ortenzi Avazquez.

[3:13:49] Thank you,

[3:13:55] Rudy.

[3:13:55] Denise Avazquez, Fibal.

[3:14:00] Okay, moving on, patriotic commission.

[3:14:06] I'd like to nominate Naomi Lopez.

[3:14:09] Madam Mayor, are you going to read the name?

[3:14:10] I'm sorry, thank you, yes sir.

[3:14:14] That's what I did before I got the other ones.

[3:14:17] Okay, we're going to go with Patriotic Commission,

[3:14:18] Blanca Figaro, Neomi Lopez,

[3:14:20] Alexandra Alex, Miramontez, Rosemary Tavera,

[3:14:23] Victor Montiel, Abraham, Florida's Rojo,

[3:14:27] Media Romero, and Robert Pissera.

[3:14:31] But Robert Pissera was chosen right for another one.

[3:14:36] So he's off the list?

[3:14:37] Yes, he'd be taken off.

[3:14:39] So, yeah.

[3:14:46] Okay, starting of nominate Naomi Lopez.

[3:14:55] Five oh.

[3:14:58] There.

[3:15:00] I want to nominate a block of figure, I

[3:15:11] will,

[3:15:16] I would like to nominate Nidia Romero.

[3:15:23] Oh, let me, I hit the wrong one, can I change it?

[3:15:30] Maybe you can, let me, my apologies.

[3:15:33] That's the reset, I'm going to reset the vote and go ahead and revote again.

[3:15:44] Fivell.

[3:15:45] Oh, nominate Alejandro Mitomotos.

[3:15:59] Fivell.

[3:16:02] I like to nominate Rosemary Tabera.

[3:16:04] Korea,

[3:16:15] yes, Rudy, no, man, yes, Hector and Larry, no.

[3:16:20] 3, 2,

[3:16:24] back to me?

[3:16:28] No, he's at once.

[3:16:31] We'll go Victor Montiel.

[3:16:44] 5 home.

[3:16:46] Yes, we're 5.

[3:16:48] That's 5 more.

[3:16:51] Okay, we have Blanca Figura, Naomi Lopez, Alex Miramonte, Victor Montiel, and Nidia Romero for the Patriotic Commission.

[3:17:06] Okay, then, for that's all of them.

[3:17:08] We

[3:17:15] did that a lot faster than that.

[3:17:17] All right.

[3:17:18] One more.

[3:17:18] Madam Mayor.

[3:17:19] Which one?

[3:17:19] The final commission.

[3:17:21] All the exact first.

[3:17:23] There we go.

[3:17:24] Okay. The names.

[3:17:25] The Oberera.

[3:17:25] Jeff Ortiz.

[3:17:26] Emily Lars.

[3:17:28] Excuse me, Lars.

[3:17:29] Can it tang.

[3:17:30] Salvador Ramirez.

[3:17:31] Dolores.

[3:17:32] Darling Soto.

[3:17:33] Denise Silva.

[3:17:34] Denise was.

[3:17:36] I'm one of them.

[3:17:36] So you can take that one out.

[3:17:38] Eric Hernandez.

[3:17:38] Robert Bessera.

[3:17:39] Take his off.

[3:17:43] Great.

[3:17:43] the most hijack in Rubio, Rudy Lejia, and Eric Velasquez.

[3:17:49] All nominated Leo Brero.

[3:18:06] Mr. Costa?

[3:18:06] You're cool.

[3:18:07] Oh, okay.

[3:18:09] I like to nominate Leo Brero.

[3:18:11] We voted for you.

[3:18:12] On the screen.

[3:18:13] Oh, okay.

[3:18:14] Okay.

[3:18:14] Thank you.

[3:18:15] Got it.

[3:18:17] Five-oh.

[3:18:20] Larry?

[3:18:21] I would like to nominate Jeff Ortiz.

[3:18:33] Five-oh.

[3:18:35] Actor?

[3:18:35] I'd like to nominate Gracie Redemosa.

[3:18:51] Rudy S. Manino, Hector S. Lari S.

[3:18:55] 32.

[3:18:58] I will nominate Jackie Rubio.

[3:19:12] 32. Gloria No. Rudy S. Manino, Hector S. Lari S.

[3:19:24] I'd like to nominate Kenneth Tang.

[3:19:43] 5-0.

[3:19:47] It's 1-2-3-4.

[3:19:49] 5-5.

[3:19:51] So, for clarification, we have Neo-Brahara, Jennifer T's,

[3:19:56] the gracious of the most hijacky Rubio.

[3:20:00] I'm going to see you one, too.

[3:20:02] Do you want to?

[3:20:03] Do you want to?

[3:20:03] In Kennedy.

[3:20:04] Excuse me, Kennedy.

[3:20:19] Congratulations to our new commissioners.

[3:20:24] And moving on to the nine and

[3:20:33] nine G.

[3:20:40] Oh, nine F consideration and approval of resolution

[3:20:43] and 25.010 amending resolution 1769 and the rules of order to change the dates, regular city council meetings,

[3:20:52] community service commissions, meetings, and planning commission meetings.

[3:20:56] Before we vote on this, I just want to state a little something.

[3:21:02] I think it's really highly irregular and especially in particular that council member has been here for 22 years.

[3:21:08] So he knows we always have meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of the month.

[3:21:11] If he wanted to self-improve himself, which I highly commanded, by the way, I think that's great,

[3:21:18] but you should know already what dates you're really committed to, because with this,

[3:21:22] we have several people that are in communities now, and having to change their schedule,

[3:21:25] their family schedules, their work schedules, and that's including staff.

[3:21:30] I don't know if you even considered staff, now obviously staff's going to do what we ask of them,

[3:21:35] but specifically in this case, told what to do.

[3:21:38] So, I think that it's really highly inconvenience when you're changing something for one particular person that you're ready to convince you right off the top 30 people without even consideration of their scheduling because they do get their schedules according to what our meetings are and they adopted all their family schedules and their activities and all their sports with their kids and stuff for the second and for two of the month because that's what they're accommodable and they knew what their schedule was.

[3:22:04] So knowing what your schedule was, I believe that you should probably have considered that before just making this thing for one person.

[3:22:13] So with that being said.

[3:22:14] Madam Mayor, I'd like to give you a little history lesson since I've been here.

[3:22:17] Give me a history lesson.

[3:22:19] We actually changed the meetings years ago as well.

[3:22:22] We moved them to the Wednesday and they were perfectly fine.

[3:22:26] So again, my apologies to those people who have felt...

[3:22:30] They're in convenience, but again, if it is important, they'll show up to her meetings, or they can log online. So again, Madam Mayor, historically meetings have been changed in the past.

[3:22:40] And that can say this same for you. I'd like to make a motion.

[3:22:43] Madam Mayor to approve.

[3:22:44] We're not done yet, Hector.

[3:22:45] There's a motion on the floor. Can I get a second?

[3:22:47] No, there's not going to be a motion yet until the mayor calls it.

[3:22:50] Madam Mayor, listen.

[3:22:51] I know it's a motion.

[3:22:52] But you're not.

[3:22:53] Madam Mayor.

[3:22:53] So let's get point of order.

[3:22:54] Point of order is there's a motion on the floor. Can I get a second?

[3:22:58] No, you will not call for the second until the mayor.

[3:22:59] call for it. So if we have the motion on the floor, you can wait until we're finished

[3:23:03] seeing that you don't know when else has a dialogue. It should be fair to everybody

[3:23:06] across the board if you have a document. And Madam Mayor, listen, I don't need to

[3:23:09] sit up here and have a lecture for me. I need to give you a lecture and from just

[3:23:12] stating the fact that council members. The point of order is there's a motion on the floor

[3:23:17] if there's a second. I'll second the motion. Call for the question. Excuse me again.

[3:23:22] We're not calling for the question yet.

[3:23:23] Legal counsel, can you? Yeah, when the mayor can you. Can you call? Yeah, we've got a motion.

[3:23:29] I'll second the call for the question.

[3:23:31] We'll let the legal council explain it to you.

[3:23:34] Thank you.

[3:23:36] There is a call for the question for the question.

[3:23:39] There is a second for the motion.

[3:23:41] We do.

[3:23:41] It does require.

[3:23:44] Right.

[3:23:45] If you call for the question.

[3:23:48] The vote is now proposed to council.

[3:23:50] To call for the question.

[3:23:51] Which is all discussion.

[3:23:53] But once once council votes on that.

[3:23:55] as a first and the second, it does require a majority vote.

[3:23:58] And Council, just for clarification, when someone does have something to speak, they have the right to speak before the vote.

[3:24:08] Correct. If it's right. If it's right. If it's right.

[3:24:12] Okay. So we had a motion by Hector Delgado, second by Rudy. No shocker there. This call for the vote, please.

[3:24:20] I'm sorry. Council member, just for, are you making the motion for the item or for the call of the question?

[3:24:26] that's the motion on the floor is the call of the question, which is the motion itself. So

[3:24:34] first we need our drive. According to Robert's rule of order, we vote on the call of the question

[3:24:38] if that passes, then we move to the call for the motion. So this is for the call of the question

[3:24:44] then we can go to the motion on the item on the agenda.

[3:25:08] Gloria, no, Rudy, yes,

[3:25:10] Mani, no, Hector, no, I'm sorry, yes, and Laryas,

[3:25:18] Samosa and Hasses,

[3:25:22] so without we can resume to the analysis for 9F.

[3:25:25] Correct. Motion to approve.

[3:25:28] So moved.

[3:25:30] It's a ribbon.

[3:25:31] Move 10 second.

[3:25:33] Call for the vote, please.

[3:25:42] Gloria, no, Laryas.

[3:25:44] Mani, no, Hector, yes, Laryas.

[3:25:48] Motion carries 3,

[3:25:54] 2.

[3:25:54] Right, moving on 9G consideration and approval of resolution 2501 when the first amendment to the Employment Agreement with Renée Salais for City Manager.

[3:26:03] So moved.

[3:26:05] Council.

[3:26:06] I'm sorry.

[3:26:07] Council.

[3:26:07] Before we move to the motion, we are required to raid the salient terms onto the record.

[3:26:13] So thank you.

[3:26:13] And don't wait for a moment.

[3:26:16] The term of the contract will expound for four years through January 24th, 2029.

[3:26:21] Compensation will be an annual salary of $240,000.

[3:26:25] Severance pay will be increased from equal to nine months of monthly base salary.

[3:26:32] Administrative leave will be granted 80 hours of administrative leave per fiscal year.

[3:26:37] Retirement benefits, be a CalPERS, will be under the PEPHRA program.

[3:26:40] the auto allowance will be a monthly auto allowance of $800. And deferred compensation,

[3:26:47] shall City shall contribute $400 per month into a qualified $459 plan. And the final

[3:26:52] item is a personal expense reimbursement of covering professional membership, fees, attendance

[3:26:59] to professional conferences, and other job related costs. Conferences will be limited to $2,500

[3:27:06] per conference. Thank you.

[3:27:08] Second.

[3:27:10] Who moved it?

[3:27:12] Hector.

[3:27:13] Okay.

[3:27:13] Move by Hector.

[3:27:14] Second by Rudy Coffey.

[3:27:22] Five o'clock.

[3:27:24] We're voting answers.

[3:27:26] If I may may share a couple words.

[3:27:28] Sure.

[3:27:28] Thank you, sir.

[3:27:29] Thank you.

[3:27:30] Everyone.

[3:27:30] I'm looking forward to working with all of you to meet the objectives and goals of the city council for the city of South

[3:27:36] Elmani.

[3:27:37] Thank you.

[3:27:38] Congratulations, sir.

[3:27:45] 9-H consideration approval of resolution 2501 to adopting a proving upgraded pay schedule and benefits to the public work's director position.

[3:27:53] Make a motion to approve.

[3:27:55] Move by manny second by hector, call for the vote please.

[3:28:15] Motion carries 50.

[3:28:23] The committee reports.

[3:28:24] Many.

[3:28:25] Nothing to report.

[3:28:30] Rudy.

[3:28:31] Madam chair, I have nothing to report, but one thing I do want to say is I've been running down this agenda here.

[3:28:37] and I think would like to recognize Honduras for his hard work. His name is just about on

[3:28:41] every staff report that we have and I don't think he always gets the the credit agency's

[3:28:45] for putting all this in doing all this work and it's a lot of work and there's a lot of paperwork.

[3:28:49] So thank you for your hard work, Honduras.

[3:28:52] Thanks. Yes, thank you, Honduras. Mr. Delgado?

[3:28:56] But I'm sorry, nothing to report at this time.

[3:28:58] Larry?

[3:28:59] Not a mayor, nothing to report but one comment I do want to say great jobs staff,

[3:29:05] But public works and and code enforcement and all that. Thank you so much for for helping out

[3:29:11] To keep the city safe and clean and that goes with law enforcement and I see it every day right right right right right in front of the schools and

[3:29:18] Means a lot to the residents and and to the kids. Thank you

[3:29:22] Thank you sir

[3:29:24] So I got to attend the

[3:29:28] The chamber meeting it turned out to be very successful was really nice. They had a lot of things to discuss and a lot of things

[3:29:33] they were going over. I also got to attend. So Siaka actually gave a really good idea for those

[3:29:40] of you don't know Siaka's for the animal control. And they gave us a list, so maybe

[3:29:44] what we were talking about the cert committee, they gave us a list of not to forget your pets.

[3:29:51] And what to bring and get for their pets, check list. So I thought it was really cool because

[3:29:57] I'll be honest.

[3:29:59] I think in my head, I...

[3:30:00] Pack all these things for my family and ready to go. But I don't think I packed anything for my pet. I didn't think, bring my big old grizzly bear with us. And so when I saw the checklist, I was like, dang, that's actually really smart. Why didn't I think of that? So that this would be put on our website so that you guys can see what the emergency, I know we all live animals here. So what to do for our pets and the checklist of what to, for the pets and stuff to consider them into your emergency escape, consider your pets, your family members with you.

[3:30:30] felt that was really good. Also, got to attend the economic development partnership. So Renate,

[3:30:38] thank you Renate for city managers. He got honored. And I'll wait to say thank you to all the

[3:30:43] city managers. And that was a really nice turnout. I was at the left stop. And it turned out to be

[3:30:49] really good. It's actually a pretty cool place. We had a lot of the whole thing and saved it. It's

[3:30:53] in what's going to. So I thought it was really nice to have into attend and to say congratulations to

[3:30:57] hardworking city manager and that was a few more things I attended but I didn't

[3:31:03] write down I couldn't see my phone fast enough so that's your work and oh the

[3:31:07] senior the senior luncheon went to the senior luncheon and it was really nice I

[3:31:12] love the fact that the seniors get so excited when they see us so it turned out to be

[3:31:17] a really good luncheon I know they have one coming up to for a Valentine's

[3:31:21] days so keep that in mind also got to attend our lunar new year that's it was the

[3:31:26] new year. I was shocked. I'll pack that place. It was packed. I came in and I was like oh my god

[3:31:33] we have a table for us. And luckily I got to see. But the kids performances I like to thank new temple school

[3:31:40] and shyly. Their performance was outstanding. Just amazing. And any other school that participated

[3:31:47] I believe we have one more which I can't remember the name but thank you for all that they did.

[3:31:51] did a tremendous job and and to our staff because the decor was beautiful. The food was

[3:31:56] good, be sent there. Congratulations at Fuji. It was really good. And just to see the talent

[3:32:02] that they have, not only for their own culture, but for an Asian culture that they participated

[3:32:08] in, their pronunciation was crazy amazing. And it was really nice to see that. So congratulations

[3:32:15] and thank you Dr. Evans for being there and participating with the kids and making sure that

[3:32:19] They did everything correctly, so we thought we're going to go here with 12 A, Rudy Borkas.

[3:32:26] So we'll take you, Madam Mayor. Well, we know, last meeting, we ended recognizing Ralph Ortiz,

[3:32:34] you know, Jeff Ortiz is his brother, you know, Jeff Ortiz is one of our commissioners.

[3:32:39] His mom and the family have been here for 60 years in the city of South Albany,

[3:32:44] and they would like to use the senior center on March 8th for the more moral services.

[3:32:49] So, I'd like to see if we can get the council to agree to a full waiver for the family.

[3:32:56] I have no objection to that, really.

[3:32:58] I think it's a great idea, but keep in mind.

[3:33:01] If there's a certain amount of people running it, correct me from wrong.

[3:33:03] If it's more than 100, they have to have security.

[3:33:09] Madam Mayor and City Council, I believe it's 120 or maybe 150.

[3:33:16] I'd have to do that.

[3:33:16] That's something that custody won't cover, so if you have more than 120.

[3:33:20] I'll let Jeff know.

[3:33:21] Yeah, is this emotion or just

[3:33:24] So it would be a motion is it a motion? Okay, I'll second that motion

[3:33:29] I got to make the motion first. Yeah, I'll make a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the full waiver

[3:33:36] I second that an exception to the security

[3:33:39] I an exception to the security if they're not too surprised 120. Yeah, okay

[3:33:45] Go for the vote please

[3:33:54] Fimo. Thank you. Thank you, councilmember.

[3:33:57] 12B, we did yours.

[3:34:06] 12C, councilmember.

[3:34:07] I'm very excited. Yes, so I have a few

[3:34:10] so I'll just go ahead and read off the first one.

[3:34:12] So at the January 14th, 2025 city council meeting,

[3:34:15] which was the last one we had, our mayor

[3:34:17] of pro-tam, Hector Lagoda requested $15,000 for his

[3:34:19] wrestling program called Beat the Streets and was approved

[3:34:22] in a three-two count. This request should be contingent

[3:34:27] on Mr. Dugaro providing a letter to the city of Satamani,

[3:34:31] formally requesting the $15,000, and that the letter

[3:34:33] should be on the organization's letterhead,

[3:34:36] and include the charitable tax ID,

[3:34:37] and describe how the money will be spent.

[3:34:40] So I'm just basically asking a formal request for this money

[3:34:44] so that we can track it.

[3:34:47] I think we have a fiduciary responsibility

[3:34:48] to the city, to make sure that the money's being spent well,

[3:34:54] and on the residents.

[3:34:55] Can I make a quick correction? I believe it was for one. Did you question or not? No, it was for one vote.

[3:35:05] The vote was for one. Yeah. Oh, he said. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. There was a for one. Yeah, I got that.

[3:35:13] Yeah, it's a good idea. No objection. I believe last time there was a letter provided Mr. City Manager. Was there a letter provided in the previous reportifying?

[3:35:21] Yes, there's a letter provided, it didn't make the package, but I've made copies for it, and it's on your dius.

[3:35:30] Do you see if we have it?

[3:35:32] Yes.

[3:35:33] It's in your packet on there.

[3:35:35] Okay.

[3:35:36] I'll look for it.

[3:35:37] I didn't see it.

[3:35:38] All right.

[3:35:39] My second request, again, at the January 14, 2025,

[3:35:42] to the consummating request of $35,000 to the

[3:35:46] Amani Sautamani Emergency Resources Association,

[3:35:48] that is headquartered in Amani.

[3:35:50] was approved, and I think this one was a three-two vote.

[3:35:54] The staff should be directed to conduct research,

[3:35:57] provide details of the organization's finances and disclosures.

[3:36:00] Again, it is our fiduciary responsibility to make sure

[3:36:02] that this money is being spent appropriately.

[3:36:07] So I like to direct staff to take a look at their financial statements.

[3:36:15] According to Ms. Pradea, this is a public,

[3:36:19] for public entities, so we should be able to find these,

[3:36:24] to have access to the financial statements.

[3:36:28] If anybody, is there any OK with that?

[3:36:31] One clarification, Madam Mayor, I think the vote was 3-1-1.

[3:36:36] I'm correct.

[3:36:37] That is correct.

[3:36:38] Okay.

[3:36:38] So it was approved on a 3-1-1.

[3:36:40] Right in the minutes.

[3:36:41] All right.

[3:36:43] But yeah, I'm not sure, Madam Mayor.

[3:36:45] I think in clarification, we also asked that night of,

[3:36:48] I'm sorry, my apologies are kicking my butt right now.

[3:36:52] We also asked for the auto reports to be rendered as well.

[3:36:55] So, yes, I think that's a good idea.

[3:36:57] Well, that's what I'm formally asking that.

[3:36:59] I'm formally asking that we'll that staff find,

[3:37:02] you know, do a little research so that we can,

[3:37:04] we can all see it.

[3:37:07] And the third request, since we are giving the Senate

[3:37:11] to $35,000 that we place a financial condition on the emergency

[3:37:17] resource association that the money should be only only be used for self the money residents seeking emergency relief and financial assistance.

[3:37:25] So what I'm asking is that all in-

[3:37:30] You have this money being spent should be spent on Salta Mani residents who are seeking help, who are seeking financial assistance. And of course, according to Ms. Pridya, there is a record of it, so I like to make this money contingent on that.

[3:37:45] Everybody okay with that?

[3:37:46] Yeah, and just for point of clarification, the financials, a monthly report is generated.

[3:37:55] We can do a quarterly report, we can do again yearly report, whatever it may be, because

[3:37:59] the statistics are there.

[3:38:00] And 100% of the proceeds do go right back to Southamane residents, and again, the money's

[3:38:07] designated for Southamane only go to Southamane residents.

[3:38:12] And I'm an absolute agreement with that.

[3:38:14] that again, 100% of those proceeds be spent here

[3:38:16] on residents and families in South Elmone.

[3:38:20] Madam Mayor, if I get to direct this to the attorney.

[3:38:24] Yeah, South Elmone taxpayer money can only be spent

[3:38:27] on South Elmone residences, I correct?

[3:38:32] That's a very general statement.

[3:38:34] It depends on, there could be different situations

[3:38:37] that we're talking about in Indonesia.

[3:38:39] It's a particular, well, if this non-profit has agreed

[3:38:43] that it be used only for Sathamani residents and yes, it would be contingent on that.

[3:38:52] But does that have to be informal writing as they don't make the donation? Because it's the donations

[3:38:58] already been approved. So do we say we're going to mend that with specifying that it goes to

[3:39:04] Sathamani residents. If the organization, yes, it would have to be in writing that they would

[3:39:09] the money is donated would only be contributed to self-domodity residents.

[3:39:16] So do we have to tell them in writing or we can tell them verbally this is what it would be.

[3:39:20] It would be best if it's in writing.

[3:39:23] Okay, city manager, can you make sure that happens?

[3:39:25] And just to clear things up, everyone agrees with that.

[3:39:30] Even Mr. Delgado, so yeah, we're all in.

[3:39:33] So the consensus is true.

[3:39:37] Good job Mr. Costa, yes.

[3:39:39] It's mostly the past.

[3:39:43] We need you to call for the vote

[3:39:49] for all three or for all three you got 12c

[3:39:55] There was a consensus, but do we need a motion for a vote?

[3:39:58] We have the consensus here. I think it's best if we call for the vote

[3:40:03] So if there's a motion

[3:40:05] I don't know if the cost is out. Yeah, so I like to make a motion to approve all three items.

[3:40:10] Can I get a second?

[3:40:12] I second that.

[3:40:14] Can you move by manny? Second by Larry?

[3:40:17] And just for clarification, that's also direct staff city manager to prepare letter to send over to the organization.

[3:40:23] Yes, sir. Thank you for clarification.

[3:40:30] Fivell.

[3:40:34] All right.

[3:40:36] Mine is 12D.

[3:40:38] Consideration of sponsoring the Lincoln Training Center for their 39th annual affair of the heart events scheduled for March 22nd, 2025.

[3:40:46] So they do this every year and we make a donation every year.

[3:40:49] I know, we've said 500 is the maximum that we usually give donations of, they're asking for actually a different amount.

[3:41:00] Is that what you're looking at, Rene?

[3:41:02] Sorry.

[3:41:02] Oh, I'm sorry.

[3:41:03] That you're looking at their flyer.

[3:41:07] But I'd like to request that we have these donate $500 to the link and training center.

[3:41:13] Madam Mayor, I think they have some other options on there.

[3:41:15] You know, Noreen Baka over at that organization, they do some incredible work looking at

[3:41:21] the sponsorship levels there.

[3:41:36] If you wanted to do more about a merit being, I certainly would be in support.

[3:41:41] Again, they do some incredible work here with, you know, people with disabilities and providing

[3:41:50] training and they've been in the city many, many years.

[3:41:58] So, so, what the other amounts are,

[3:42:01] and my voice is bad. It's called an evening in Paris, so what they do is they have a dinner annually,

[3:42:08] and for those of you who don't know or familiar with it,

[3:42:13] they have, they offer help for those that

[3:42:15] are in need of special needs, down syndrome, autistic, whatever the special need is,

[3:42:21] And they train them how to be on their own, how to get their own apartment, how to get a job.

[3:42:26] They actually job place them as well.

[3:42:28] And they actually make a lot of things in their own facility as well.

[3:42:34] They create, and so say for instance, they'll bring in 12 cases of whatever it is.

[3:42:39] And they have to pack a bag, they have them stationed out.

[3:42:41] So each of them start putting in and they pass it down and it's simply lining.

[3:42:45] It's pretty impressive when you see them and they look so happy.

[3:42:49] They put the music on for them and they're kind of dancing while they're working in style. So it's really impressive if you guys haven't had an opportunity to go visit it

[3:42:56] Please do it's touching

[3:42:58] But this is something that they do every year and they have a big dinner fundraiser

[3:43:03] So Mr. Rogado right as far as the title sponsor, but I mean title sponsors 30,000

[3:43:08] Presenting sponsor 15,000 gold sponsors 10,000

[3:43:12] Opel parking sponsor 6,000 Ruby sponsor 5,000 Emerald sponsor 3,500

[3:43:20] But I did explain to them that our city has a code that we usually give 500.

[3:43:25] I know we've given more in the past.

[3:43:29] But I would at least request at least a minimum of 500.

[3:43:35] That's a bigger, is that your motion or you're just putting that out?

[3:43:38] I'm putting that out there.

[3:43:42] If I may, can I make a motion for $1,000?

[3:43:45] I have no problem with that, Mr. Rodriguez.

[3:43:48] $1,000.

[3:43:49] Second.

[3:43:50] Okay, so we have a motion on the floor from Larry Rodriguez, second by Rudy, call for the vote, please.

[3:44:04] And I know they're going to appreciate that.

[3:44:10] 5-0.

[3:44:15] There is no close session.

[3:44:17] Reese's.

[3:44:17] We did that.

[3:44:19] Now, let's see.

[3:44:19] Clerk.

[3:44:21] Oh.

[3:44:21] Successor.

[3:44:21] That's your, guys.

[3:44:25] HCC member.

[3:44:26] Acosta.

[3:44:27] Present.

[3:44:28] HCC member.

[3:44:29] Bajorcus.

[3:44:30] For Drogus, President, Vice-Chaird Durgado, President, Chair Almost.

[3:44:35] Yes, President. Chair, you have a quarter.

[3:44:38] Thank you, sir.

[3:44:41] I'll wait there. Can I get the proof of agenda?

[3:44:43] So move, madam. Second.

[3:44:45] Move by Hector, second by Rudy, call for the vote, please.

[3:44:58] Motion carries 5-0.

[3:45:02] Public comments, speakers may provide public comments on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Board, including items in the agenda, each speaker will be limited to five minutes unless the majority of the Board objects, or the chair may provide speakers more or less time to speak, all comments and queries shall be addressed by the Board, as a body and not any specific member thereof.

[3:45:22] pursuant to the government code section 5495442, Ralph Brown Act, no action discussion

[3:45:27] on the board shall be undertaken on any item, not a period on the posted agenda except

[3:45:33] to briefly provide information, ask for clarification, provide direction to staff or schedule

[3:45:37] a matter for future meeting. Public companies now open.

[3:45:44] Last Tuesday, Andy, many public

[3:45:45] already, any online. Okay, seeing none. Public companies now closed. Concern calendar can

[3:45:52] get a motion to approve.

[3:45:53] Motion approved.

[3:45:54] Second.

[3:45:56] I'm sorry.

[3:45:56] Who moved here?

[3:45:57] Hector Wright.

[3:45:57] That was a mysterious.

[3:45:59] No, I did.

[3:46:00] Really moved it?

[3:46:01] Okay.

[3:46:01] Who's second?

[3:46:03] Okay.

[3:46:03] Who by really second by Mr. Costa?

[3:46:06] Call for the vote, please.

[3:46:13] Motion carries 5-0.

[3:46:22] No, executive direction at this time.

[3:46:24] At German, Success Regency.

[3:46:28] At 9.43 PM.

[3:46:31] Chief.

[3:46:33] And what were you commanding in a adjourned council meeting?

[3:46:36] At 9.43, we know adjourned.

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