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Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon.

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Hi, everybody.

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All right. Let me just get my seal.

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There we go.

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All right, everybody. Welcome to the City of Riverside City Council meeting for Tuesday, September 1st. And we have an afternoon only session today, which means we have no evening session. When we go into closed session, we will come back on adjourned, but there will be no evening session.

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I will call our meeting to order now, and I will call on Council Member Robelard please

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to lead us in an invocation.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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If you would like to bow your heads.

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Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity to gather tonight in service of the people

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of Riverside.

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Grannis Wisdom in the decisions before us, patience to listen to one another, and humility

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to remember that the authority entrusted to us carries our responsibility to serve.

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We've got our council or city staff and all those who have come before us tonight help us look beyond the immediate challenges and make decisions that strengthen our community for the generations that follow.

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We ask for your protection over our first responders, our city employees and all those serving in our community tonight.

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May our deliberations be thoughtful or disagreements respectful and our actions guided by integrity in your name we pray.

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Amen.

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Thank you, we please lead us in the pledge.

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had stayed to the America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice.

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Thank you, Council Member Robelard, and this afternoon, we start with our public comment, as we always do, and this is public comment on the consent calendar, closed session, and any matters within the jurisdiction of the City Council.

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Public comment is now open for this item available in both English and Spanish.

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Call 951-826-8686 and follow the prompts to access the meeting in either language.

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You can also join the Zoom.

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The meeting ID for both languages can be found on the agenda.

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All right, thank you.

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We have a couple requests to speak in chambers.

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And I will call on Dave Stolte, please, whose first is Dave here.

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Hello, Dave.

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Good to see you.

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Good afternoon, Mayor Locke Dawson, City Council and staff.

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I'm Dave Stolte speaking today on behalf of Old Riverside Foundation.

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Prior to the mission ends sale in May, three significant designated and

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protected objects were removed from the hotel.

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The taft chair, plus two paintings, California Alps, and the charge up San Juan Hill.

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I want to address an idea that keeps coming up in community discussions about the removal

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of those three objects, and that is the idea that private ownership means an owner can

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do whatever they want with a historic resource.

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Private property rights are important, but private ownership does not, by itself, exempt a designated

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cultural resource from laws governing its alteration, relocation, or removal.

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That doesn't mean the government owns the property.

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It means that ownership and regulation are separate questions. California law gives the local government's authority to protect historic resources and Riverside exercises that authority through Title 20. Riverside's ordinance specifically requires review before designated cultural resources are removed. So ownership isn't the question. The relevant question for the city is whether Title 20 applied to these three designated mission

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and in objects, and if so, whether its requirements were followed before they were removed.

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Recent concerns about the city's treatment of street vendors have also raised broader

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questions about consistency and code enforcement.

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When residency highly visible enforcement involving small vendors, while a potential violation involving

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one of Riverside's most important historic resources appears unenforced, it naturally

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raises questions about whether our laws are being administered consistently.

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The city's responsibility to administer its ordinances shouldn't depend on the identity

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or prominence of the individual in question.

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Whatever one's view is of the underlying dispute or preservation law in general, an adopted

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ordinance remains in effect unless it is amended, repealed, or determined not to apply.

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other than council member Falconi's expressions of concern, the public has received no explanation from city leadership about the city's position.

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We deserve to know that Riverside's laws are administered impartially. We also deserve a clear explanation of what the city has determined occurred at the mission end, whether title 20 applies and what remedies are available.

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we ask the city to provide a clear statement to the public of its position on

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this issue. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Stolte. Next I have Errol

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Cushivitz.

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Yeah, I'd like to use the overhead projector.

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Good to see you, Mr.

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Cushivitz. Oh, I love seeing you guys. I like to see you behind bars, but I love

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seeing you guys. I wanted to mention the Brown Act. Now the Brown Act was put

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into law years ago, years ago. The Brown Act is required the public to be in

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the meetings to see what you guys are doing. It's not supposed to be behind closed

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doors so you can pay off your lawyers and pay off the lawsuits and everything

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else you know it's very very disgusting what you guys have done so I really

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think in the future you will be you know like I said you will be sued for this

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since this is crazy what you've done this is the direct opposite what the

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Required by the Brown Act. I don't care about your little

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Admintments or resolutions or whatever you guys made up or anything like this

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The Brown Act requires the public to be in your meetings and

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You have never allowed people to see what you guys pay off to lawyers and lawsuits. That's a problem. Can you flip the page for a second?

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I just want to tell you that in the future.

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Now you guys I want to go through this purchase order because can you pull it down a little

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I have thousands of these purchase orders but I have one that there's a bunch of them

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that come out like this.

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Now go ahead and put a little bit down for me a little bit.

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No the other way.

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Thank you very much.

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Thanks.

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Los Angeles Truck Centers LLC.

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Now it's a limited government so you can you're allowed the money laundering money through

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it.

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Now I wanted to see these vehicles and trucks and everything like this, just like AZ bus sales.

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When I went over to the facility at AZ bus sales, I couldn't go in a lot to see the buses that we purchased.

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We have a lot and a lot of problems in California guys.

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Now this one, I want to see the product.

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I don't care. I will go drive to see the product on the lot.

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I'm asking for an appointment to be set up so I can see all this

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Product supposedly the taxpayers are built for

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This should not be allowed but it's allowed under California

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How should I say is Gavin Newsom's allowed this? This is craziness

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How you build the taxpayers for a product that we may not even have or we've never even seen

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Um, we got a lot of problems guys and in I really

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I can see you guys behind bars. I really do believe it's going to happen. You guys have really stolen too much money. It's insanity, and you've gotten greedy. Thank you very much. All right, we have a caller online. Let's take our call, please.

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Council,

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Mayor, and City staff, Business Mark Elliott, and I live and work on University

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Avenue.

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I'm calling in this afternoon because I noticed a familiar pressure at a recent council

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meeting around the Motel conversion that was voted down eight months ago.

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University quarter residents, workers, and business owners stayed silent on this project because

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participation carried a real demonstrated risk.

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After the award was made and the project was voted down, corridor businesses were targeted

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by advocacy groups.

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That showed the corridor that speaking publicly could have real consequences.

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The

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silence is not agreement, it's self-protection.

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So I wondered, why is the pressure returning?

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This is what I found.

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Advocacy side mechanics involved.

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advocacy groups operate inside a funding structure where program wins,

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grant cycles, and regional coordination creates strong incentives to push

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projects forward once they enter a pipeline. Even when major parts of that

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project don't work,

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and we're not talking lunch money here. We're talking hundreds

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of thousands to millions in incentives.

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It's a kind of manufactured consent.

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that coordinated messaging and organized turnout can give the appearance of broad community

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support that doesn't reflect the lived reality of the corridor.

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An advocate is someone funded to influence an outcome unlike a resident who shows up simply

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because they care.

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Let me repeat that.

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An advocate is someone funded to influence an outcome.

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I'm Mike, a resident who shows up simply because they care.

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They're residents speaking this afternoon and their voices matter.

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But the corridor is still underrepresented overall.

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Many of the strongest pressures around this project come from funded advocacy structures,

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not from the people who live or work on university afternoon.

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So my goal this afternoon is simple.

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make sure the corridor's position is understood clearly without pressure, without distortion, and without misrepresentation.

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University Avenue deserved to have their reality reflected accurately in this process.

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We remain in strong support of the council's decision to reject this project.

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Thank you, Mr. Elliott. That was our last request to speak, so we will close public comment and move on on our agenda.

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you're now at item two. This is our mayor and council member communications and I will first start with

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Councilor Falcone as I usually do word one. Thank you mayor. Oh loud there. Let me stand way back.

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There's a series of town halls that I'm doing on the town hall tour and there's quite a few so I won't

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necessarily list every single meeting that's happening but sharing that we've had one last night we had one

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they're both well attended and successful and having some still to come for students,

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for businesses, for Spanish speakers, as well as the general town hall for anyone who

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just wants to come and share what's on their mind.

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So those are posted on social media for anyone who would like to get involved.

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And this is in addition to, of course, the regular neighborhood group meetings of which there

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are many in Ward one for the Woods streets in Northside, the downtown neighborhood, and

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the east side.

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And everything's happened in the next two weeks.

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so take a look at social media for many, many ways to get involved and be

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active in your neighborhood. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember.

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Councilmember Cervantes.

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There we go. Sorry, I wasn't turning on. Thank you.

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Yes, for myself, a couple of dates I want to share. The first being that this is

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in Ward 1, but the true evolution wellness clinic grant opening is going to take

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place this Thursday from six to eight, which we're very excited about, and so

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want to congratulate your revolution, their entire team, and everyone involved to help

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to support the wellness clinic that is going to be brought to our community and service

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hundreds, if not thousands.

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Welcome, folks, throughout many years to come. Additionally, we do have the Labor Day,

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Inland Empire Labor Council is hosting their Labor Day Parade and Picnic that is going

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to be on Monday, September 7. That will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the parade starts

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at 9 a.m. on Magnolia and Ramona Drive, and then there will be a picnic afterwards at White

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Park. So, just want to share, we'll be going out there. So, come on down and join us as well.

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And then I also want to mention that we two things that we took place in this last week.

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this last Friday I was proud to be the keynote speaker for Feeding America of

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San Bernardino Riverside counties at UCR where there was a great group of

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folks that gathered who helped to address food and security, helped service

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pantries and just do really good work across the region. It was proud to be a

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speaker there to share about the work we've done in the Office of War II and even

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in the City of Riverside and so just really want to come in and think again

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those partners for all that they do and very grateful to Feeding America and

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asked me to come out to speak.

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We also had the grand reopening of our Walmart.

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That's over off of Day Street.

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That was about two weeks ago.

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And I want to thank the Greater Chamber Riverside

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for helping to put on a wonderful success and event

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when it commend and congratulate Walmart

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and their employees.

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They do hire and promote a lot of folks

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that live here in our communities

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of Judges Riverside but neighboring cities.

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It was great to see a wonderful turnout

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and we wish them all the success.

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And that's all I have for now.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, Council Member.

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Council Member Robler.

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Thank you Mayor. Last week of the opportunity to attend the Riverside Police

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Department's Awards and swearing in ceremony at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Ward 3

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along with Interim City Manager Tom Hatch. It's a great opportunity to recognize

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the dedication and service of our Riverside Police Officers and welcome those

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taking on those roles. Also attended the top-in-out ceremony with many of my

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colleagues here for the Museum of Riverside and that was a fun experience to see

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that last piece of steel being put together on the skeleton of that new expansion of the museum.

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And then with Labor Day just around the corner, it's a good opportunity to recognize and

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appreciate the contributions of the workers throughout our community, including the city

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employees, first responders, public safety personnel, and other essential workers who continue

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serving Riverside every day.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Council Member.

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Council Member Condor.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Unfortunately, I couldn't be at that ceremony with our police department because I was with

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our Director Michelle Davis and I'm not going to say what I was doing because I think she's

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going to probably talk about it in a few minutes. So that was a great day with Michelle and her

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team, though. And just one more thing. We're not going to see you until after September 11th.

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This is the 25th anniversary on September 11th of the murder of 2,977 innocent souls.

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Take a moment on that day. Remember them. Remember the families that left behind and just stay

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quick prayer for. Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Mill?

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Thank you, Mayor. Last week on the 27th, my team and I had a wonderful

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town hall meeting at the Riverside Country Club Mobile Home Park. Right in Ward 5,

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I want to thank all the city staff that came out there to bring City Hall to the community.

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Football is back and we all know that and especially on Friday night.

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I'm so excited. I was a former high school football coach and I think I love more than a Friday night.

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high school football game and last Friday I went out and saw Arlington versus Ramona

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and Arlington and Ramona where most of the kids in Ward 5 go to school and it was a

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great great event saw some of the great Arlington Hall of Famers they were all honored before

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the game and and then of course Ramona always represents and on the field though it was

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Ramona representing 41 to 7 but great to have high school football back on Friday nights

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it's a great community event and then this morning along with our mayor we

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were out at Arlington Park to celebrate the end of summer and to thank our

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parks and recreation staff. They were out there enjoying the pickleball courts

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that are always packed. I mean it's just a just a great event we had to have it at

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nine in the morning because we were expecting a little bit of heat. It was supposed

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to be a lunchtime event, but because of the heat today, we moved it to the morning.

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I want to thank my team Damien, C. Lawley, and Diane, for working with our friends at

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the AFL-CIO and the building trades to bring the very first Labor Day Parade to the city

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of Riverside.

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We've been working very closely with those organizations, and we're really excited to bring the Labor Day

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Parade to Riverside.

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If folks don't know that the Inland Empire is the second largest number of union members

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the entire state outside of Los Angeles, and our folks have been going out to Wilmington

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for years, and when I was approached by a leadership at the AFL-CIO to bring that to

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the Inland Empire, I jumped on it and I'm really thankful to my team for working closely

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with city staff.

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And the folks at both the building trades in AFL-CIO to bring it to fruition on this Monday. On September 12th, we're going to be having a boxing show out at Villegas Park. Again, amazing to see the young, young, young men and women from our community get in the ring and mix it up. I am proud to say that the folks from the Casa Blanca Boxing Club Villegas Park folks usually usually walk away with the belt. So I'm always very proud of that.

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We have a town hall scheduled for September 16th, it will be at Arlington High School.

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And the last thing, I just want to give a big thank you out to our county supervisor,

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Jose Matina and his staff, for always being our point person to get things done at the county.

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My staff, anytime we have any issues with the county, Jose and his team have been amazing.

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And you know, got us the answers and the results that we need.

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So thank you Jose and your team for all the great work that you do that's a lot of merit. Thank you

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Thank you, Councilor

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Thank you, Mayor. Only one update this Thursday

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At 6 p.m. at the Orlando Community Center. We'll be having a community meeting about the TCC the transformative

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Climate Community Grant that the City of Riverside is applying for I encourage individuals especially from

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Ward 6 to attend the meeting, learn more about the grant, and give their feedback.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Cool.

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Thanks, and last but not least, sounds better, Henry.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I just want to thank the Mayor for being at the RTA ribbon cutting last Thursday.

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We were able to celebrate the next chapter of sustainable transportation at the RTA headquarters

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where they had the ribbon cutting for their new hydrogen fueling station.

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And it's quite a thing there and we're really excited to be a part of it.

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And Supervisor Medina was there and the Mayor, thank you for your meaningful comments.

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In celebration, we got some good ice cream as well.

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So, then the last one is that for next Wednesday, September 9th,

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Council Member Hernandez and I, our offices will be hosting a joint meeting where we'll look at the public works vision zero project.

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We'll present in that to the community, and then we'll have some more six and seven updates.

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That'll be at the LaSierra Senior Center from six to seven pm Wednesday September 9th,

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and we'll look forward to seeing everyone there.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Councilor Hemingway.

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I just want to share with everybody, it was like 180 degrees when we were at that RTA

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ribbing petting, and they were going to do like, you know, snacks, it's your cutery board.

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They had an ice cream truck instead, which I thought was just brilliant, so I'm going

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to steal that idea.

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and it was delicious ice cream, so maybe you and Councilor Hernandez should have it at your

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NEDS era. Yeah, I know that was great, and I had to twist Councilor Hemingway's arm to come up

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with me to present the certificate that Councilor Servantes and I had signed, but thank you for

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doing that, I appreciate that. Real quick, I want to thank Dr. Robin Peterson and all of our museum

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staff for inviting us all to the Museum of Riverside's tapping, topping out ceremony.

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Looking forward to that opening. And I know Council Member Pancone is as well. So hopefully

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that will be done 27. Yes. Oh, early 28. Okay. Thank you. And also why I was able to attend

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with Council Member Condor, the Regional Homeless Housing Subcommittee meeting that are

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housing and human services. Michelle will talk about that I think today. But Michelle Davis

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intercepted an amazing job bringing people together from across the county to talk about

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various solutions to our homeless and other issues around that housing. And then finally, I wanted

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to thank the Building Industry Association of Southern California. They are recognizing me this

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Thursday with something called the Lewis Family Leadership Award and the reason I mentioned

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it is not to brag about getting an award but it's because the BIA right now is really

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upset about a piece of legislation that is going through and I've been supportive of that

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legislation and I just goes to show you that I asked them I said do you still want me to

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get this award because they've been very upset about it, but they said, of course, we still

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want to honor you. So I think that's how government should work. You don't always agree on

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things which you can be agreeable when you disagree. So I just wanted to thank BIA for

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that recognition. Okay, next up, we've got our

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Committee meeting, coming up, land use, I think, 9 a.m. on Monday, September 14th. That's coming up. And, oh, wait, like, oh yeah, Monday, September 14th. So, it would be a week after this week from the holiday. Let's see, city manager item three. Do you have any updates? You wish to share with us, Mr. Hatch. Thank you, Madam Mayor. No reports tonight. All right. Thank you. Council, any conflicts of interest?

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Yes, Mayor, and I do need to recuse myself from the public hearing at 3 o'clock item number 40.

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This is due to a contribution I did received from my campaign, not from grapevine but through a different entity, but that is tied to the developer.

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So I want to be mindful and be safe and will formally recuse.

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Great, thank you, Council Member.

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Anybody have any exparte, communications, any report?

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Okay, perfect.

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All right, that brings us to our presentations.

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And first up, we have our housing and human services department overview and employee recognition.

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And I will call on our exceedingly competent director, Michelle Davis, to come forward.

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And please give us your report, Ms. Davis.

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Thank you.

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It's an honor to be in front of you, the city council, city management, and our guest.

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I'm going to give you, I'm going to train state within my 10 minutes and give a quick overview as soon as a presentation gets up.

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Just to give you a quick overview of the Housing and Human Services Department, it's made

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up of 52 full-time employees behind me.

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If I can have Stan the Housing Authority staff, this is your team that oversees our affordable

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housing projects and programs.

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They make sure that rental assistance programs are being funded.

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We have our case managers that ensure that our clients are stably housed and ensuring that

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they move on to affordable housing.

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So I want to recognize that team.

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We also have a landlord liaison and a housing locator who locates housing units for those

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that are participating in the program.

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Under our CDBG team, Michelle, led by Michelle Guzman in the audience, they oversee our

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community development block grants and our hop-up grants, housing for opportunities with

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AIDS.

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And then our outreach services, which is our largest team, which is made up of our public

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safety and engagement team, which if I can have peace set, and our outreach services team

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stand up.

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These are the, this is our largest group that goes out in the field, not all of them, some

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Some of them are at the access center, but they engage our homeless population to try

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and convince them to seek services, whether it's shelter or housing, and sometimes we

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can convince them if they have family members or friends that are willing to take them

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in.

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We can provide trip homes.

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So I want to recognize that team.

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And then our administration team does a lot of heavy lifting with our contracts and making

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sure those invoices are getting paid and those rental assistance are paid.

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So if I can get our admin team to stand up, I want to give a big kudos to this team that

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keeps the wheels running in our department.

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I do have a deputy director position vacant that will be opening up this Thursday.

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So if we have any internal city team members that like to fill that position, this position

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will be focusing on homelessness and getting in the week.

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So looking forward to filling that vacancy.

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Our mission statement is to provide a multi-disciplinary services and support to the city's vulnerable

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populations and residents at Foster Resilience, self-sufficiency, housing stability and enhanced

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equality life for all.

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These are the most common causes of homelessness.

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I won't go over them all because of timing, but we always say that there is not one solution

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for homelessness.

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We need to get to the root cause, and so we need to make sure that we are addressing each

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of these pillars here.

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Our public safety engagement team is made up of two place softcers, one code officer, two

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outreach workers, one substance abuse, and a counselor and a peer support specialist that's

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around only on two teams.

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They go out every single day in the city to address our quality of life issues that are on public

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property and then we are also working with the police department to address when they get

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moved on to private properties.

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We are also contracted for encampment cleanups with Riverside

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County flood control as well as cal trans. Those contracts will be expiring at the end of this

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fiscal year so our team will be working with the county as well as the state to see if we can

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extend those contracts out further. The piece that performance outcomes for the last fiscal year

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We had 7,336 duplicated contacts, we had 241 that accepted services, we had 3,070 code notices,

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225 citations, 671 arrests, and 3D3 vehicle toes, and 736 tons of trash that was removed.

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And if you notice those numbers did increase because we did bring on the caltrans contract,

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we were covering a larger area, and we were also able to fill two additional piece at teams.

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And we also shared with the community of who to call.

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A lot of times residents and business owners when they see a homeless individual are encampment, they're wondering who should I call.

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So we've been sharing this out with the business groups through the chamber as well as our residents.

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The Healing Hermit Service Campus, I want to give a

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Megan Stoy, a big shout-out. She's led a lot of the rehab efforts on the cold assack. The bottom right corner, the Riverside Access Center. We did an interior rehab project that will be done this October, so we'll be doing a grant opening, reopening with city council and our teams here. That will include a life skills and a training room as well as case conferencing rooms. And then just north of that at the place, which is at 2,800 healing place. We completed the 33 rehab of that building for 33 transitional housing units that will be operated by the county.

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County. They did an RFP to procure an operator, and the operator will be opening the doors in October as well.

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The affordable housing projects, we have 3,500 existing affordable housing units in the city of Riverside.

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We have 336 in the pipeline. There are more forthcoming. We have, for instance, a project that we're working with NPHS online in fifth,

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and there are some other developers that have reached out to us for some potential projects.

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We have 24 permits part of housing units, which are Sunrays at Bogart.

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We have 22 permits part of housing units there.

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They will be opening their doors at the end of this year.

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We are expecting 2027, but they got construction moving quickly on that project.

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And then we have 41 transitional housing units in the pipeline.

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And then Mulberry Gardens consists of 59 senior units,

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which AgriPena shared with the Housing and Homeless Committee yesterday.

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The application process will be opening, so we'll show that out on social media.

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and then the 150 units of family units will come online in 2027.

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The housing program performance outcomes under our housing programs in the last fiscal year,

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we're able to keep 105 households stabilized in their housing.

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We assisted 88 senior rental assistance, seniors through a rental assistance program.

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Through the rental assistance program, we were able to help 83 formerly homeless individuals

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of chief housing and housing stability and then we have six full-time case

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managers which will be coming back to council to see if we can increase and add

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another five and then landlord incentive program we give landlords up to

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a thousand dollars if they're willing to lease a unit to one of our rental

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assistance program participants so we were able to provide twenty eight landlord

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incentives and through our landlord like locator shoes able to identify a

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hundred ninety three housing units so if we identify housing unit and we don't

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have somebody in our program that can utilize that we will share that with

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our county partners through their rental assistance programs as well. I also don't have a slide up here,

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but our outreach and shelter outcomes, we did 163 trip homes last year, our interim housing,

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where we will place somebody in another shelter. While we're waiting for vacancies on our beds,

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we assisted 72 individuals, the emergency shelter, we housed 376 individuals there,

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and then our non-congregation shelter. We had 104 guests that were assisted there.

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Regional collaboration, we are huge on trying to work with our city partners within the county to address homelessness within their own cities.

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We held a homeless farm back in February 25th of 2026.

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We brought cities together to talk about what our current needs are, what the shelters current numbers are within the region,

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and trying to encourage cities to partner when they don't have resources similar to what City of Corona and Oracle are doing.

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We also did a faith-based luncheon on March 25th, where we brought faith leaders together.

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I know planning will be doing a follow-up where they're going to bring the faith partners together with developers

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to talk about how we can build affordable housing on underutilized land that churches own.

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And then we also, I'll talk about the event we did this week later on.

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The initiatives we are working with the county on our MOU is your remember council approved an MOU back in 2022.

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So we did meet with our county department leads to talk about what did we accomplish under that MOU?

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What did we not accomplish that we need to still pursue and then what are some new initiatives and things that we want to work with the county on?

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Being that the county has a lot of their programs and resources here in our city and we are also looking to collaborate with other cities within the district

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Since the county tends to place a lot of resources by district boundaries

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So we're looking to partner with the City of Paris as well as City of Herpe Valley as you know

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Paris got their sales tax initiative passed so we're encouraging them to spend some of those resources towards affordable housing and

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homeless programs as well. So stay tuned for that. And then we continue the mayor's initiative to ending youth homelessness.

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We achieved that goal last year and we continue to achieve it every two weeks with our team that lead the case conferencing meeting.

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We expanded that to include the county partners because we want to see our county partners achieve the same goal.

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so that folks are youth that are not remaining on the streets.

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And then we also, with our veteran homeless population,

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we are also achieving function zero still today.

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And then we also stood up our nonprofit collaborative.

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So we are bringing our nonprofit partners to talk about

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what are their needs to serve our residents,

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as well as how we can help and support them.

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But we're also going to pull our nonprofit partners

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that serve our homeless population

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to talk about how we might be able to leverage resources

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that we might have and expand some of the services

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is to help our unhoused population here in the city.

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I want to recognize our departments within the city

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because not only

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Only the great work that our department does, but we rely on our city, other city departments to do the day in and day out work. The City Attorney's Office does a lot of contract work for us to get our affordable housing developments done, our subrecipient contracts process, and they I jump on loan calls as well. Our city clerk's office does amazing job with taskiness and reminding us about our staff reports and getting those in on time. And of course the city manager's office, I couldn't get my deputy director position filled without the support of Tom. So thank you for that, moving that forward. And then our finance department, they help us get the money out.

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And so I want to thank that team and then general services.

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When we rehabed Healing Campus, we needed somebody, a project manager, that knew the ins and outs of construction.

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So we were able to rely on that.

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And then of course, everybody knows Nathan, Mustafa, and public works.

429
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,360
Does amazing work anytime we need help.

430
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:50,320
Nathan's there to pitch in and help us out more, dealing with trash and debris on the community.

431
00:35:50,740 --> 00:35:53,360
And then of course, the Riverside Police Department, as you know, peace it.

432
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,640
We have team members that are on our team as well.

433
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,540
So I want to recognize our place department that we rely on heavily as well.

434
00:35:59,540 --> 00:36:04,440
It takes a village and a team effort to address homelessness within the city.

435
00:36:06,380 --> 00:36:08,000
I know the date says 2025.

436
00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:09,160
I don't know if you know.

437
00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:13,700
Every November, we submit recognitions and nominations to the Human Resources Department.

438
00:36:13,940 --> 00:36:17,200
So for the 2025 year, I want to recognize Gabby Bustos.

439
00:36:17,620 --> 00:36:20,220
Gabby has been an essential team member of the Housing and Human Services.

440
00:36:20,500 --> 00:36:25,260
She first came on as senior office specialist with the CDBG team and has done an amazing job.

441
00:36:25,460 --> 00:36:28,780
She was promoted to administrative analysis and analyst.

442
00:36:28,780 --> 00:36:33,400
and she does contract agreements, requisition requests, payments and projects and she gets

443
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,100
them to the finish line.

444
00:36:34,260 --> 00:36:37,240
So I want to thank Gabby for all her hard work and we have a gift for you up here.

445
00:36:37,780 --> 00:36:41,860
And also Jasmine Garcia, if you don't know Jasmine, she used to be one of our outreach workers.

446
00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,360
And she got promoted to our lead and now she's a manager of our outreach team.

447
00:36:46,460 --> 00:36:51,260
So she actually works with our PCAT and the outreach team that's at the access center.

448
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:56,040
And so anytime you guys send me those requests of, hey Michelle, I've got a homeless individual

449
00:36:56,040 --> 00:37:01,520
out here that is in need or P set I will send it directly to Jasmine and she's the one that gets

450
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,440
the job done so I want to recognize these two ladies if they can come forward and give you guys a

451
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,960
recognition and I

452
00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:20,900
forgot and

453
00:37:22,940 --> 00:37:26,120
that's just a little bit of all that housing and human services does

454
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:33,520
for the city so that concludes my presentation. Was I under 10? This thing doesn't move. It did move.

455
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:37,860
We're not timing as we should so that's why you were. But you did a great job Michelle. I was wondering

456
00:37:37,860 --> 00:37:41,700
But you did I was looking at it and I was pretty sure you hit it under there

457
00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:45,360
So thank you for that and wow what a lot of work you all do

458
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:49,380
Thank you all of you for doing this very important work within our city

459
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:55,720
And can I add to you Michelle? I thought that was very nice that you recognized your partners within the city and the different departments

460
00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:02,160
That was very nice. Thank you. We have a couple comments from our council members. Councilmember Condor

461
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:02,860
Michelle

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00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:07,600
Thank you to you and your very diverse staff for all the work you do in this

463
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:08,880
It's a very difficult issue.

464
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:10,380
You know, there's been homeless

465
00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:13,300
health since the Egyptians built the pyramids.

466
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:14,880
Everyone says we're gonna solve it.

467
00:38:14,980 --> 00:38:16,040
It's a very difficult issue.

468
00:38:16,220 --> 00:38:18,280
If it wasn't difficult, we would have solved it by now.

469
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,780
But you guys do a good job answering all these issues.

470
00:38:22,260 --> 00:38:24,120
And I think it's the most,

471
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,260
what is great about your presentation.

472
00:38:26,740 --> 00:38:28,480
We all hear every day about homeless

473
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,440
and people yell at us,

474
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:31,660
you're not doing a damn thing for the homeless issue.

475
00:38:32,060 --> 00:38:34,340
They have no idea what your people are out there

476
00:38:34,340 --> 00:38:35,880
doing every day.

477
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,020
with the assistance of the other departments.

478
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,380
The city is doing a lot to do it.

479
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,740
It's just a very difficult and, you know,

480
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,880
you've got over 70, 300 contacts.

481
00:38:46,380 --> 00:38:49,980
I mean, 163 trips home, that's pretty awesome.

482
00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:53,100
And, you know, those accepting services,

483
00:38:53,380 --> 00:38:56,140
we wish it was all, we know it's not, but it takes time.

484
00:38:56,260 --> 00:38:58,160
Sometimes it takes, what, eight, nine contacts

485
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,960
before they'll accept, you're not giving up.

486
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,980
You're doing a good job, your outreach team is great.

487
00:39:02,980 --> 00:39:08,300
your internal team when we call them. I call you a lot. Hello, Michelle. I got almost

488
00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:13,820
guy in the corner, 14th and you know, Moberg. It's grateful what you're doing. So we'll keep

489
00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:18,460
educating the public on the great work you're doing. Keep it up. Keep all of you. Thank you.

490
00:39:18,540 --> 00:39:22,620
God bless all of you for the work you do because we really, really would be a heck of a worst

491
00:39:22,620 --> 00:39:25,620
mess if you could run out there every day on this delicate issue.

492
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,640
Thank you. Thank you, Council Member. Council Member Robelard.

493
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:52,300
Thank you, Marion. Congratulations to the team. It's one of those very, very tough job that it's a lot of times, you know, the results are hard to find sometimes, and I think it's an individual problems and issues that you're trying to deal with and everyone's different. There's no silver bullet if we had it, we would use it.

494
00:39:53,060 --> 00:39:59,560
But I think, you know, one thing I wanted to suggest for next year's faith-based gathering

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00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:28,440
I mean, a lot of the churches I've talked to, they have ministries that they have within their churches that do outreach and have a heart to serve the homeless population. And, you know, a lot of times it's a water bottles, like lunch, kind of thing. And I think there's a lot of things that they could do. That might be a little bit more helpful to the overall strategy we have for homelessness. And I think they are looking for, but I met with a church yesterday about this. And they said we don't want to stop this ministry.

496
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:33,140
but we need to have a redirection. We want them to do something else and having them kind of

497
00:40:34,020 --> 00:40:38,500
BR case managers on the ground where they say, hey, there's these 10 individuals who are around

498
00:40:38,500 --> 00:40:43,140
our church all the time. We're going to essentially step in to be their case manager and constantly

499
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,340
do the outreach, build the relationships, build that bridge, but they just don't know what the

500
00:40:47,340 --> 00:40:52,400
resources are. They don't know how to, you know, they can't be a full-on case manager, but just build

501
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,400
that relationship to kind of helpfully redirect some of these folks. And so I just suggest maybe that

502
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:06,940
That would be also the topic of conversation next year because I think there's a really, really big network of people that want to help and they just need to be directed in that direction.

503
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:07,540
Thank you.

504
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,820
Thank you, Councilmember Mill.

505
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:10,680
Thank you, Mayor.

506
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:15,100
And first of all, how are we having a celebration without Marquis here?

507
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,840
He's on a well-deserved vacation.

508
00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:36,380
I don't remember back coming across my death, but no, Michelle, I got to say, you know, thank you, especially the people who are out on the front line, you know, it's got to be just, it's a thankless job for one, but it just got to be tough.

509
00:41:36,380 --> 00:41:43,820
I mean every day coming back after being out in the streets and sometimes you

510
00:41:43,820 --> 00:41:48,860
got to come back and feel as if like what did I get done today but they get up

511
00:41:48,860 --> 00:41:55,620
tomorrow and they do the same thing and that takes a lot. I know you know

512
00:41:55,620 --> 00:42:01,160
what I'm having a tough day the last thing I want to do is revisit the day I

513
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:09,300
before tomorrow, but your team does that every day. Our city is a better place for their

514
00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:14,040
efforts, so thank you. I just want to follow up on Councilmember Robelard's comments.

515
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:22,160
We actually had a discussion about this in my office a little earlier this morning. You

516
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:29,860
did have the faith-based event recently, and it was more about, hey, how you can build

517
00:42:29,860 --> 00:42:39,420
housing on your church properties. But I really do think that we can use these organizations

518
00:42:39,420 --> 00:42:45,800
that are within our community. I mean, we lean so hard on nonprofits and the organizations

519
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:52,860
out there. But I think we need to, you know, reach out to our churches. I had the honor,

520
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:57,920
I happened to be in Montgomery, Alabama, my own property down in Alabama, and I happened

521
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:02,940
be there and I got to call from Dave Crane, who runs the auto center here in Riverside

522
00:43:03,500 --> 00:43:07,940
and he made mention of my friend just started church in Montgomery.

523
00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:13,140
I have lunch next door to his church every day so they do homeless outreach there.

524
00:43:14,180 --> 00:43:20,640
So I said let me go over and say hello and I sat with him and it was just one day and I'm

525
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:21,160
talking to him.

526
00:43:21,460 --> 00:43:24,720
Turns out that he was Stephen Robelard's youth pastor from Riverside.

527
00:43:26,100 --> 00:43:32,320
I mean, Montgomery Alabama is far away from Riverside, California, and I start talking to Jason Powell, and he says,

528
00:43:33,180 --> 00:43:37,860
you know, Stephen Robard was in my youth church group.

529
00:43:38,580 --> 00:43:43,840
But I was so impressed with what Jason was doing there in Montgomery, Alabama.

530
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:50,640
I admit it's much on a much smaller scale than what we have, and the laws in Alabama are a little different than they are in California.

531
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,440
But I was so impressed with the success.

532
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:58,400
And I watched these folks who have been out on the streets for a long time come.

533
00:43:58,680 --> 00:43:59,700
You know what he was giving him.

534
00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:02,420
He was giving them back their self-respect and their self-esteem.

535
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,040
People were getting up and they were like, I got a job interview or one guy.

536
00:44:06,100 --> 00:44:06,760
I remember the one guy.

537
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,060
He had tears in his eyes as he was telling the group.

538
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:13,040
I got a job working the night shift at Walfall House.

539
00:44:13,100 --> 00:44:14,500
I haven't had a job in 20 years.

540
00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:17,020
But because of the efforts of what you guys are doing.

541
00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:22,680
And, it was hard not to be emotional about it.

542
00:44:22,780 --> 00:44:25,920
It was just, you know, most of us take, you know, having a job interview,

543
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,160
we're getting a job for granted.

544
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,440
And this man, like, when he hadn't had a job in 20 years,

545
00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:31,980
I think we need to lean on our church.

546
00:44:32,140 --> 00:44:32,820
So I want to bring Jason.

547
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:37,940
In fact, Dave Crane and I had a conversation with Ron Ellis from CBU,

548
00:44:38,060 --> 00:44:40,880
the other day in Councilmember Robaard about, we need to bring Jason out here

549
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,840
and have him talk to us about what he's doing down there.

550
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:44,960
But I was so impressed.

551
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:52,040
And now I'm down there, I had no intention on hanging out in church every day, but I was

552
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,460
so impressed with what they were doing.

553
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:58,200
I went back and spent the next whole day with them watching what they're doing.

554
00:44:58,200 --> 00:44:59,940
I think that we need to lean hard.

555
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:29,180
I do believe that they want to help. We have a lot of issues where a lot of the churches are going out and they're feeding people along the Magnolia quarter. I understand why. But it's counterintuitive to say you're not helping because you and I both know that by doing that while they're doing the Lord's word, it's actually making it harder for your team. So I want to, you know, double down on Councilmember Robler's comments that I do think, you know,

556
00:45:29,180 --> 00:45:35,000
And we have a group of organizations here in town that are just hungry to help.

557
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,760
And I'd like to see over the next year, let's bring them in the full.

558
00:45:38,860 --> 00:45:43,340
Let's just not just collaborate with nonprofits, but let's coordinate with these faith-based

559
00:45:43,340 --> 00:45:45,080
organizations that are so hungry to help.

560
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,820
But I appreciate all you do.

561
00:45:48,060 --> 00:45:53,660
I know, I always say this, it doesn't matter what day of the week is, what time of day.

562
00:45:53,660 --> 00:46:02,580
If I call or send an email, Michelle Davis answers right away and I appreciate your hard work and your shining example for your team. Thank you.

563
00:46:02,940 --> 00:46:03,640
Thank you.

564
00:46:07,260 --> 00:46:08,220
Councillor Hernandez.

565
00:46:12,540 --> 00:46:14,440
I just want to thank you and your team.

566
00:46:15,340 --> 00:46:15,920
I'll keep you short.

567
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,700
I'm, you know, the Council Member of Ward 6.

568
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:29,400
I know you guys are out there day in, day out, and although it may seem like a thankless job sometimes, I am very grateful and sort of the residents of the area.

569
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,640
So thank you for all your hard work

570
00:46:32,140 --> 00:46:32,720
Thank you

571
00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:38,320
Councilmember Conner you're real quick. I want to triple down on what my two colleagues have talked about

572
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:42,880
When customer mail returned and he told me that story about what was going on at that church

573
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,980
I was floored by it. I have passed that story on to probably

574
00:46:47,820 --> 00:46:54,380
35 or 40 people in town including our church and they want to get involved. They want to do that

575
00:46:55,620 --> 00:46:56,080
I

576
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,300
I would like to talk to you in this perfect timing.

577
00:46:58,740 --> 00:47:00,440
I'd like to bring Jason off for the Olympic Empire Forum

578
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,420
and let him talk about how to do it.

579
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,940
So it's the way, you bring him pride back to a person.

580
00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:09,580
I mean, even the money if they earned,

581
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,360
because they were earning 20 bucks a day,

582
00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:14,320
even if they spent that on a pack of cigarettes.

583
00:47:15,660 --> 00:47:16,560
They earned it.

584
00:47:16,980 --> 00:47:19,280
They didn't steal it, they didn't beg for it,

585
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,160
they earned it, and that's the respect coming back.

586
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:23,060
So good job, by you two.

587
00:47:23,220 --> 00:47:24,380
And I'd love to bring that here.

588
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:25,420
Tom and I have talked about it.

589
00:47:25,420 --> 00:47:28,000
I'd love to bring that here, so thank you.

590
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:29,720
Thank you, Council Member.

591
00:47:30,420 --> 00:47:31,480
Just a couple of things.

592
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,420
Michelle, we get a lot of money from the state

593
00:47:35,420 --> 00:47:39,320
every year, HAP funding, which is the Housing Homeless

594
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,740
and Assistance Prevention Program.

595
00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:47,760
Can you just very briefly say what those funds are used for

596
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,720
throughout some of the programs that you've used?

597
00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:50,920
What did they go to?

598
00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:51,820
So we do shelter.

599
00:47:52,300 --> 00:47:54,520
We do rapid rehousing, rental assistance.

600
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:59,320
We do homeless prevention, we do case management, we do affordable housing.

601
00:47:59,980 --> 00:48:03,720
We are also looking at doing a master leasing, which we'll be bringing forward to the council.

602
00:48:04,260 --> 00:48:11,900
I've also got a proposal on my desk for TA youth that are pregnant, that are no longer able to stay in the foster care system, so providing them treatment.

603
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:24,020
And then also a family shelter provider that is operating at a new location at a church and is looking for operation dollars to expand that resource, so we're looking to expand that as well.

604
00:48:24,020 --> 00:48:29,500
We are also looking at releasing a NOFA notice of a funding availability for round six and then probably round seven as well

605
00:48:29,500 --> 00:48:36,140
To make some of those dollars available to our nonprofits, and then we are also having conversations with the other cities within the region

606
00:48:36,140 --> 00:48:40,800
That aren't receiving any state or federal resources on how we can maybe assist them as well

607
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:48,660
Thank you, and I know we're we have a dashboard. We're looking at a dashboard to see the efficacy of where those dollars are going to programs that work

608
00:48:48,660 --> 00:48:53,840
Which don't work and which ones should we shed which ones should we beef up so and I know someone in my

609
00:48:54,020 --> 00:48:55,820
office is looking at that as well.

610
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:56,520
Yes, and she's fabulous.

611
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:57,200
Oh, good.

612
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:57,740
I'm glad.

613
00:48:58,100 --> 00:48:59,560
Yeah, I think she's great.

614
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,320
And then I know you mentioned TAE youth

615
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:04,340
or transitional age youth.

616
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,720
That's who we focused on when we talk about functional zero

617
00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,500
for youth homelessness.

618
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:12,780
I think there was a comment made in a committee meeting yesterday

619
00:49:12,780 --> 00:49:15,500
Councilmember Mills said that someone said

620
00:49:15,500 --> 00:49:17,740
we hadn't solved it youth homelessness

621
00:49:17,740 --> 00:49:21,820
because there were so many McKinney Vinto students

622
00:49:21,820 --> 00:49:23,260
in the school district.

623
00:49:23,260 --> 00:49:29,660
I think they said there was something like 2000 that's an entirely different group and they fall under different designations and all these other things

624
00:49:29,660 --> 00:49:33,980
Correct. Yeah, they include the couch surfing so we're having conversations with the school districts to

625
00:49:33,980 --> 00:49:41,660
Quantifying separate that data out with truly homelessness that are you know unhoused versus those are they're couch surfing or un sheltered

626
00:49:41,660 --> 00:49:50,060
Right, I mean that's not really the issue with that group. I think so and lastly, I think one of the things I wish our public would know was

627
00:49:50,060 --> 00:49:56,820
I think all the council members up here got a request within the past couple weeks about

628
00:49:56,820 --> 00:49:59,760
why aren't we doing like other cities and

629
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:26,540
We're doing police sweeps of our encampments, and I think you showed we do them on the regular basis, and we have done them every, we do them a lot. So I think a couple cities around us have made it public lately that they've been doing it, but we've been doing it for a long time. And in fact, I think your data show there was over 600 arrests within the last year, which were a result of those sweeps, so I appreciate it.

630
00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:35,040
And then lastly, I do, I want our public to know as well that we can fleet homelessness

631
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,340
with a lot of other things and we need to be clear on that.

632
00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:43,900
I mean, we do have a population of folks that need help, they need some bridge funding,

633
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:47,940
they need rental assistance, they've lost their housing, we can get to them.

634
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:53,760
There's a whole nother group here, there's a criminal element on our streets that victimizing

635
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,160
in campments, that live in the encampments, that's the PD's job, they're out there trying

636
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,460
to crack down on criminal activity in our city, that's a whole nother group.

637
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:07,480
And then we have our behavioral and mental health group, that's under a whole nother

638
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:11,900
different group, the county and the state is responsible for addressing those.

639
00:51:12,380 --> 00:51:16,320
But all of those people conflate into one and see that as our responsibility.

640
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So thank you all for doing that work because I think folks don't understand the difference

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between the jurisdictions and nobody cares when they just see somebody suffering on the street.

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So, I'm sorry, that was long winded, but thank you all, thank you very much.

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Appreciate it.

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Okay, moving on to our agenda. Oh, wow, this is a fun one. We've got September

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as Deaf Awareness Month.

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So this is our last presentation and this is in recognition of Deaf Awareness Month.

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and because CSDR is in his ward, I want to ask council member Robelard to help make this presentation.

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But I just know our friends from the deaf community and CSDR, we worked very hard to get our commission established.

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Since I've been in office, we worked very hard to work with our folks at CSDR.

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We continue to and thank you for sticking with us.

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We appreciate you just bearing with us, so thank you.

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And with that, I want to let Councilmember Robelard,

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I don't know if you would like the, okay, can I pass these down?

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Please, thank you.

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All right, before we present the proclamation,

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I wanted to make a moment to recognize Riverside's vibrant deaf community.

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Deaf Awareness Month is an opportunity not only to celebrate the accomplishments

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and contributions of deaf and hard of hearing community, but also to remind all of us the importance of accessibility, inclusion, and understanding.

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California School for the Deaf Riverside has played an important role in fostering that community for generations.

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CSDR has been a part of Riverside for more than 70 years, and today serves more than 400 deaf students ages 3 to 21, from 12 counties throughout Southern California.

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It's 58 plus acre campus is much more than a school.

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It is a place where students learn, build community, develop leadership skills, and prepare for college careers and life beyond the classroom.

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CSD art is an incredible job of creating an environment where American Sign Language and English are both valued.

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Where deaf culture is embraced and where students are encouraged to recognize their own strengths and potential.

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The school provides an impressive career technical education programs, including food education

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and service training, or feast, automotive, biomedical, information technology, construction

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technology, and so much more.

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They also offer a tremendous range of opportunities outside the classroom, including more than 25

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competitive athletic teams, and we all know about their outstanding football team.

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CSDR is also part of something much larger.

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Riverside has a long and proud history of deaf leadership, advocacy, culture, and community.

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The work happening at CSDR, the CS Commission of the Deaf, events like Deaf Festival,

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and many deaf leaders and advocates who have dedicated their time to our community

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have helped make Riverside a place where deaf and hard of hearing individuals can learn,

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lead, work, and thrive.

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We are fortunate to have those leaders with us today and I would like to invite

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Laurie Stretcher and Barbie Gomez to please come up to the to the Dias as well as

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three CSDR students who are joining us this afternoon. And I wanted to thank you

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for being here and more importantly thank you for the work you do every day

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to support these students and strengthen our community. On behalf of the

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Committee of Riverside is an honor to recognize September as Deaf Awareness Month and to present this proclamation recognizes September as Deaf Awareness Month in the city of Riverside.

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I had a lot of description there, so you guys can read the proclamation, but we are proclaiming today as the Deaf Awareness Month, if you guys would like to come up to the Dias and say a few words.

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And then so I was going to interpret for you.

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Hi, my name is Sarah Johnson and I'm a senior at CSDR, California School for the Deaf

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Riverside, of course, and I'm here to represent our Junior NAD, Junior National Association

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for the Deaf.

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Hello, everyone.

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My name is Kaliya Kent Davis and I'm a senior at CSDR and I'm representing our associated

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student body government.

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First of all, we just wanted to express our gratitude for recognizing our community and inviting

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us here today. And we also appreciate so much this recognition of Deaf Awareness Month.

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And you guys are welcome to visit us and support CSDR at any moment. Thank you so much.

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All right, thank you. And if you guys can go ahead, we'll come into the well right here.

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And we'll take a picture with the certificates. And everyone here as well as our Deaf

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commissioners as well can come into the well.

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Thank

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you, everyone.

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Thank you all for coming.

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and also just congratulations to everybody and thank you Councilor Robelard.

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All right council we are moving on on our agenda and we are at our consent

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calendar and I will ask our city manager if you have any items you wish to

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All right, word one pass word two word pass

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All right, we have a motion of second. Please vote on the consent.

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Motion carries unanimous.

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Okay, great. Thank you. So we are now at our closed sessions, right? Yeah, so Councillor, we're going to move into closed session for a bit.

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and then we will come back out for our public hearing which is scheduled to be 3 p.m.

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Do we? Where is it? It's not on, sorry, it's not on my tab here.

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Okay, it's right here.

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So pardon me, it's skipped on my notes here, so apologies. All right, so we are now at item 30A

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And this is our interim city managers to execute a contract with two interim deputy committee and economic development directors.

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So with that, I will open public comment for this item.

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Public comment is now open for this item, available in both English and Spanish.

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Call 951-826-8686 and follow the prompts to access the meeting in either language.

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To request to speak, press star 9.

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You can also join the Zoom.

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The meeting ID for both languages can be found on the agenda.

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Thank you.

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With that, I will ask Mediana Gonzalez, please, to come forward and give us a staff report.

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Ms. Gonzalez.

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Yes.

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Hi.

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Good afternoon.

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Madam Mayor, City Council and City staff.

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Mediana Gonzalez, the BDHR Director.

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I'm just here to provide you with a brief overview of item 38 on the agenda, which is requesting

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approval of the employment agreements.

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and resolutions for Bill Guyardo and Steven Mendoza, who are two retired newadans, and we are hoping they serve as interim deputy community and economic development directors.

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Per CalPERS, regulations under government code section 21-21-H, the city is required to get approval from the governing body to appoint via a resolution, a retired newadan to a vacant position requiring specialized skills,

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while actively recruiting for the permanent position.

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This item cannot be on the consent calendar.

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There are other CalPERS requirements

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notated in the resolution,

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including that there be an open recruitment,

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that the retiree can only be appointed to the position once

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and that the retiree does not work in excess

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of 960 hours in a fiscal year.

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The HR department is currently recruiting

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for the two deputy director positions

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and will be working with the contracted executive recruitment firm to conduct the nationwide search.

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The recruitment posting can be found on the city's HR website.

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While the active recruitment is underway, it is imperative that the two vacancies,

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to fill the two vacancies with highly qualified individuals and candidates that can provide the necessary level of support.

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The two external candidates that have been identified to fill the vacancies on a temporary

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basis are both retire-nuitants and they possess extensive knowledge and experience, holding

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director, assistant city manager and city manager positions in the past with a number

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of Southern California agencies.

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With that, HR is requesting that you approve the two enclosed resolutions and that you

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to authorize the interim city manager to execute the employment agreements for the Mr. Mendoza and Mr. Gallardo so that they can be working with the city immediately.

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This concludes my brief overview of the report and I'm open to entertaining any questions that you may have.

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All right. Thank you, Ms. Gonzalez. Let me see if we have any requests to speak on this item.

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Nothing in chambers and I don't see anybody online.

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I will close public comment, council, any questions, comments?

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Moose time recommendation.

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All right.

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We have a motion of second, or three, or four.

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Please vote.

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Motion carries unanimous.

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All right.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Ms. Gonzalez.

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Item 30B.

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This is a resolution establishing rules and regulations for procurement process.

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So we will open public comment for this.

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Public comment is now open for this item available in both English and Spanish.

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Call 951-826-8686 and follow the prompts to access the media.

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Meeting in either language. To request to speak, press star nine. You can also join the

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Zoom. The meeting ID for both languages can be found on the agenda. Thank you. With

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that, I'd like to ask Jennifer McCoy, please, to give us a staff presentation on this

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item.

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Good afternoon, Mayor and council members. My name is Jen McCoy and the purchasing manager

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in the finance department. Today, I will be presenting an update to our city's purchasing

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The proposed amendments address for primary areas of the increasing the procurement thresholds for

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good services and professional services.

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City manager delegated a signature authority purchasing exceptions and definitions,

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technical and administration corrections, and the overall objective is to modernize the city's procurement framework.

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based on operational experience while maintaining competition, accountability, and appropriate oversight.

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This city's strategic procurement reform initiative, the updated federal procurement thresholds,

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and our analysis of three years of city procurement activity.

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Before discussing the proposed changes, I want to briefly distinguish the different authorities involved.

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The city's centralized purchasing system is established through the city's charter and municipal code,

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While the purchasing resolution establishes the rules governing how our city precures good services and

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professional services and construction.

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City Council also delegates certain contracting authorities to the city manager.

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The delegated authority has changed over time in 2005.

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The city established a uniform $50,000 threshold and then in 2024.

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Council adopted and increased the city manager's delegated authority from $50,000 to $100,000 for

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good services and professional services.

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This review connected to the city's broader strategic

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procurement reform initiative. In 2024 purchasing work with Harvard Kennedy Business School,

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Governor Performance Lab, and later transferred to its contracted partners for public good.

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The work included interviews with more than 100 city staff, a survey of more than 400 vendors,

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and implementation of 21 procurement reforms.

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The three consistent themes came out of our work.

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We reduced to reduce duplicated efforts in unnecessary process delays,

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clarify roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority,

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and improve vendor access to city contracting opportunities.

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At the same time, federal procurement thresholds changed effective October 1st, 2025.

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The one-quote requirement called micro-purchase threshold increased from $10,000 to $15,000

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and the informal process called simplified acquisition threshold increased from $250,000

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to $350,000.

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The policy objective behind today's recommendations is therefore to apply procurement requirements

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proportionately to the value, the risk, complexity, and public significance of a transaction while

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Now maintaining competition accountability and oversight.

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The procurement thresholds are alternatives that are being presented today are three options.

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Option one would establish a one citywide threshold, one quote through $15,000 in formal competition between $15,000 and $350,000 and formal competition above $350,000.

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staffed option two, which is staff's recommendation, establishes one quote through $15,000 for non-fetalally funded procurements.

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We're looking for informal competition through 220,000, and for federally funded informal competition through $350,000.

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And formal procurement being required for those projects that are over those informal thresholds.

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And then option three is to maintain the existing thresholds in the purchasing resolution.

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So staff recommends option two.

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It provides many of the efficiencies associated with the higher federal threshold while maintaining

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a more conservative $220,000 threshold for non federally funded procurements.

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Both option one and two allow the city to utilize the higher $350,000 federal requirement when

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In administering federal funder procurements, this improves flexibility, responsiveness, and

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compliance with federal procurements requirements.

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And establishing a $220,000 threshold also creates a logical policy framework should the City

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council elect at a future date.

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I urge you, charter amendments, and this would align with CUPCA, which is the California Uniform Public

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Construction Cost Accounting Act. And today's action does not amend charter 1109. Any future

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charter amendments would require a separate review process and voter approval. Until then,

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all charter section 1109 construction procurement and approval requirements would remain unchanged.

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And I'd like to note that this change in informal procurement, it does not eliminate competition.

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Informal procurement is a competitive procurement process.

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The difference is the formality and administrative regulations associated with this listation.

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We evaluated over 8,000 procurement actions for fiscal years, 23, 24, 325, 26.

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Under the city's current thresholds, 1397 of those actions would have required formal procurement.

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Under option one that decreases to 501 procurements and under option two it decreases to 669,

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a reduction of 728 formal procurements over a three-year period analysis.

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At the same time, approximately a little over 1 billion in procurement expenditures

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would have still been subject to formal competitive procurement under option two.

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And the important distinction is that these procurements are not being non-competitive.

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They are moving from the city's formal procurement process to a documented informal competitive process.

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Purchasing oversight, document requirements, ethical requirements, budget controls, and applicable policies will continue.

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You know, option two does reduce the administrative timeline associated with formal solicitation while preserving competition and keeping more than one billion of the analyzed procurement spend within the formal procurement process.

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Next, I'd like to discuss the city manager approval authority.

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The second policy decision, again, is recommended as a separate from the competitive procurement threshold.

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A procurement can be competitively conducted and still require council approval because

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of the dollar amount or another legal requirement.

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Council currently delegates authority of $200,000.

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The alternatives evaluated at option one which is $350,000.

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Option two at $220,000 and option three to maintain the current $100,000 authority.

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Staff recommends option two at $220,000.

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Our analysis looked at 624 affected non-charter council purchase orders representing approximately

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$560 million.

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Under option 2, 218 council actions would move to administrative approval and 406 would

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remain in city council.

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More importantly, council review would be retained for approximately 94% of the affected

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procurement spend.

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There are also 157 charter section 1109 purchase orders representing approximately 358 million in this analysis.

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Those are unaffected by this proposal.

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Our existing controls will remain in place.

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One of the important points is to remember that delegated authority does not remove the city's existing controls.

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Departments remain limited to council adopted approach of creations and purposes of their spend.

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Signature authority does not create additional budget authority.

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Competitive requirements continue, purchasing oversight continues.

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Documentation and ethical requirements continue.

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Required departmental purchasing, contract management, finance and city attorney review,

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continue where applicable.

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The recommendation changes the level of final approval for qualifying transactions,

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not the underlying control structure.

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The

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amendments also include specific safeguards to preserve council oversight and public transparency.

863
01:14:14,980 --> 01:14:22,400
First, delegated agreements and amendments will continue to be publicly reported, including their cumulative contracts value.

864
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:35,120
Second, the resolution contains anti-fragmentation requirements. A contract cannot be divided into separate procurements, phases, or amendments for the purpose of avoiding procurement or approval thresholds.

865
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:41,440
Third, if the cumulative value of an agreement exceeds delegated authority, it must return to

866
01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:46,360
council unless council previously provided additional not to exceed amounts.

867
01:14:47,260 --> 01:14:51,480
And nothing in the delegated authority removes the matter from council when council approval

868
01:14:51,480 --> 01:14:57,580
is dependent independently required by the charter, municipal code grant requirements, city

869
01:14:57,580 --> 01:14:59,600
policy or other applicable requirements.

870
01:15:00,270 --> 01:15:21,750
And finally, staff will return to council within 12 months to evaluate implementation and recommend any necessary refinements. The goal is increase delegated authority is paired with transparency, cumulative value controls, anti fragmentation or protections and continued council oversight.

871
01:15:23,970 --> 01:15:31,950
We also quantified the administrative impact associated with delegated approval authority. Based on the city's prior analysis,

872
01:15:31,950 --> 01:15:38,230
Precurement-related council agenda items require approximately 13.7 hours across various

873
01:15:39,030 --> 01:15:41,410
departments and review levels involved.

874
01:15:42,050 --> 01:15:47,430
Under option 1, approximately 119 council actions annually would move to administrative

875
01:15:47,430 --> 01:15:53,730
approval, represented approximately 1635 hours of administrative capacity.

876
01:15:54,950 --> 01:16:01,470
Under the recommended option 2, approximately 73 council actions annually would move to administrative

877
01:16:01,470 --> 01:16:07,150
of approval, represented approximately 996 hours of administrative capacity.

878
01:16:07,950 --> 01:16:12,470
Those hours are not being presented as budget savings or staffing reductions.

879
01:16:12,850 --> 01:16:18,250
They are representing capacity that can instead be directed towards contract administration,

880
01:16:18,790 --> 01:16:24,070
compliance monitoring, strategic sourcing, vendor outreach, procurement planning, complex

881
01:16:24,070 --> 01:16:27,750
procurements, and supporting timely delivery of council approved programs.

882
01:16:27,750 --> 01:16:34,250
Options 2 provides measurable administrative efficiencies while maintaining a high level of council oversight.

883
01:16:37,160 --> 01:16:42,000
We also compared Riverside's current thresholds to comparable California public agencies.

884
01:16:42,740 --> 01:16:51,280
Riverside's current formal procurement threshold is $50,000 compared to a peer average of approximately $116,923.

885
01:16:51,960 --> 01:16:56,440
Seven of the 13 agencies reviewed have higher formal procurement thresholds.

886
01:16:56,440 --> 01:17:05,640
And Riverside's current city manager authority is 100,000 compared with a peer average of approximately $178,833,000.

887
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:10,580
And nine of the 13 peer agencies provided greater delegated authority.

888
01:17:11,800 --> 01:17:15,620
The peer analysis supports increasing Riverside thresholds and delegated authority.

889
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:20,840
However, the recommendation amounts are based on Riverside's own operational and

890
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,100
policy analysis rather than simply adopting the peer average.

891
01:17:24,100 --> 01:17:25,320
The

892
01:17:27,820 --> 01:17:33,280
proposed resolution also adds or expands several narrowly defined purchasing exceptions

893
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,080
based on specialized operational needs.

894
01:17:36,640 --> 01:17:41,500
For fleet, the amendments provide greater flexibility for vehicle acquisition, leasing,

895
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,100
maintenance, repair, outfitting, and support.

896
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:49,640
Vehicle procurement is particularly affected by model year timing, production allocations,

897
01:17:49,980 --> 01:17:54,060
limited availability, pricing windows, and specialized configurations.

898
01:17:54,060 --> 01:18:01,700
The amendment allows purchasing to use authorized procurement methods appropriate to those market conditions.

899
01:18:02,460 --> 01:18:21,260
The next exception for certain employee benefits, the exception is limited to employee negotiation or employee authorized voluntary program paid predominantly by the participating employee, human resources, legal administrative and collective bargaining requirements continue to apply.

900
01:18:21,260 --> 01:18:31,260
And for police canines, the exception recognizes the specialized and sometimes time sensitive nature of acquiring for working animals,

901
01:18:31,580 --> 01:18:36,560
including veterinary services, boarding equipment, supplies, and specialized training.

902
01:18:37,200 --> 01:18:41,100
These exceptions are intended to address specific operational circumstances.

903
01:18:41,100 --> 01:18:43,260
They are not a broad exception from purchasing.

904
01:18:47,370 --> 01:18:51,450
And the resolution also contains several technical clarifications.

905
01:18:51,450 --> 01:18:56,730
We added the definition of piggybacking and distinguishing it from cooperative purchasing.

906
01:18:57,450 --> 01:19:02,690
We clarified the city's direct contractual relationship with the awarded vendor when

907
01:19:02,690 --> 01:19:06,450
utilizing another public agency's competitively awarded contract.

908
01:19:07,070 --> 01:19:12,890
Field order provisions were revised for applicable construction and design build activities.

909
01:19:13,510 --> 01:19:17,650
Professional service references were added to provisions where they were not previously

910
01:19:17,650 --> 01:19:24,270
they included in the resolution, and Section 1104 regarding change orders was recognized,

911
01:19:24,650 --> 01:19:29,370
reorganized to clarify cumulative authority and when approval must return to original

912
01:19:29,370 --> 01:19:30,210
awarding entity.

913
01:19:31,130 --> 01:19:36,690
And these changes are intended to reduce ambiguity and make the resolution easier for staff

914
01:19:36,690 --> 01:19:38,450
to consistently administer.

915
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:46,600
And finally, the staff recommends that Council first approve the technical and administrative amendments,

916
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:52,320
including the revised definitions, purchasing exception, and ministerial corrections.

917
01:19:52,980 --> 01:19:59,240
Second, we ask that you approve option two for the procurement threshold, which is one quote through $15,000.

918
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:29,600
Informal procurement through 220 for non federally funded projects or procurements, informal procurement through 350,000 for federally funded procurements and formal procurement above applicable thresholds. Third, approve option two for city manager delegated authority at 220,000. Fourth, repeal resolution number 24101, replaced it with the amended resolution and finally direct staff to return to council. Within 12 months with

919
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:37,180
evaluation of implementation. That concludes my presentation and I'm available to answer any questions that you might have.

920
01:20:37,860 --> 01:20:44,500
All right. Thank you, Ms. McCoy. Let me see if we have any collars. We don't have any requests to speak in chambers. I don't believe anybody's online.

921
01:20:46,140 --> 01:20:47,740
So we'll do

922
01:20:50,750 --> 01:20:51,590
we have any collars?

923
01:20:54,420 --> 01:21:01,440
Okay. I don't see any. Okay. If you have one color, let's have our color, please.

924
01:21:01,440 --> 01:21:02,340
Hello,

925
01:21:06,500 --> 01:21:07,580
Jason Hunter, Ward 1.

926
01:21:08,260 --> 01:21:13,940
Just over two years ago, this Council, minus Mr. Hernandez, voted to double our city manager's

927
01:21:13,940 --> 01:21:16,620
signature authority from 50,000 to 100,000.

928
01:21:16,660 --> 01:21:21,960
I opposed it on the basis of how it limits transparency for both the public and the council,

929
01:21:22,140 --> 01:21:25,780
which inevitably would lead to lack of fiscal soundness of the city.

930
01:21:26,480 --> 01:21:31,860
Was this evidence this year by the proposal of measure Z, in my opinion, almost certainly?

931
01:21:31,860 --> 01:21:36,080
But now we propose to double down on bad policy.

932
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:41,060
I might even say triple down given that we're not only looking to increase the signature

933
01:21:41,060 --> 01:21:46,460
authority of the city manager, we're also looking to less than the competitive process

934
01:21:46,460 --> 01:21:52,860
of our bidding system going with a lot more informal proposals versus formal bidding.

935
01:21:53,460 --> 01:21:58,860
I asked the council table this proposal until after the IG can study it.

936
01:21:58,860 --> 01:22:02,480
In fact, this is a great test case for IG.

937
01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:03,820
Why do I say that?

938
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:05,980
Because either report is written and recommended

939
01:22:05,980 --> 01:22:07,860
by the department, finance and purchasing,

940
01:22:07,860 --> 01:22:09,160
and the city manager's office,

941
01:22:09,940 --> 01:22:11,460
a state-again expanded authority

942
01:22:11,460 --> 01:22:13,380
and reduced administrative burden from the change.

943
01:22:13,480 --> 01:22:14,880
I think there's a conflict there.

944
01:22:15,180 --> 01:22:15,820
Clearly a conflict.

945
01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:19,520
Let's talk about the actual impacts here,

946
01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:21,240
where the city manager's signature tutorial,

947
01:22:21,380 --> 01:22:23,500
raising it under option two,

948
01:22:23,780 --> 01:22:27,020
eliminates one third of council actions involving money

949
01:22:27,020 --> 01:22:29,540
that the full council in public will be aware of.

950
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:33,340
Option 3 eliminates 60% of those actions.

951
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:34,620
Don't look at total dollars.

952
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:36,000
Look at the actions themselves.

953
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,640
Also, staff is proposing to quadruple

954
01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:41,960
the formal procurement thresholds,

955
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:45,660
eliminating about 2 thirds of our formal procurement

956
01:22:45,660 --> 01:22:50,540
under option one and 50% under option two and the option three.

957
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:52,180
This is substantial.

958
01:22:52,180 --> 01:23:01,940
So I might say tectotic shift in city spending and how it spends with almost no explanation

959
01:23:01,940 --> 01:23:07,240
given in that staff report and presentation to the Council of the public as to exactly

960
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:11,200
what the differences are between formal and informal procurement.

961
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:17,260
I'll end with this in my professional opinion what we are proposing here are red flags to

962
01:23:17,260 --> 01:23:25,060
a precursor for insider-based fraud, former RPU General Manager David Wright, who was

963
01:23:25,060 --> 01:23:33,580
still, I believe, serving part of his sentence from home would absolutely all of this proposal.

964
01:23:34,440 --> 01:23:40,320
Number one, limits transparency to the public and council on government spending. It limits

965
01:23:40,320 --> 01:23:46,500
accountability to after-the-fact discovery of things. Thirdly, it reduces competition,

966
01:23:46,500 --> 01:23:49,880
a roading quality timeliness and cost containment.

967
01:23:50,620 --> 01:23:52,760
In my opinion, take option three,

968
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:56,060
and let's get a less biased report from our internal

969
01:23:56,060 --> 01:23:57,420
and from our inspector general.

970
01:23:57,620 --> 01:23:59,020
Apparently, they'll be hired soon,

971
01:23:59,240 --> 01:24:01,060
so we're in the file stages and negotiation.

972
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:03,740
This is a great thing to throw there.

973
01:24:04,340 --> 01:24:05,060
Thank you.

974
01:24:05,740 --> 01:24:06,900
Thank you, Mr. Hunter.

975
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:08,460
We have another caller.

976
01:24:08,660 --> 01:24:10,000
Please, let's have our next caller.

977
01:24:22,210 --> 01:24:24,130
Hi, if you're online, unmute please,

978
01:24:24,450 --> 01:24:25,590
and you can start speaking.

979
01:24:25,590 --> 01:24:34,280
Hello this is Aurora Chavez. I'm getting better. I'm still a little bit sick but I'm doing

980
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:43,220
better. On this item this was surprised. I think everybody was surprised by the amount

981
01:24:43,220 --> 01:24:50,760
of purchase cards available to everybody that was given one of those purchase cards and

982
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:55,100
and then the amounts on those purchase cards was surprising too.

983
01:24:55,100 --> 01:24:59,620
So I'm glad that the council is going to be more

984
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:29,920
We're addressing those issues. Hopefully, they'll find out that the amount of money that were given out might need to be reduced a bit and have somebody more looking into what was given out and hopefully what was approved or not approved by the council and what needs to be changed that way. Maybe procedures need to be changed. Also to also to the

985
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:40,730
city manager, our last city manager gave kind of approval for buses and I

986
01:25:40,730 --> 01:25:46,070
don't know if the city will be on the on the hook for those amounts of the amount

987
01:25:46,070 --> 01:25:51,330
to pay for those buses and whether they're going to use those buses or not or

988
01:25:51,330 --> 01:25:58,230
if the contract needs to be canceled or not. So I'm just making sure that the

989
01:25:58,230 --> 01:26:11,430
The City Council is more aware of what the City Manager's what he was doing and then hopefully the next City Manager we can make sure that they do the procedures correctly.

990
01:26:12,210 --> 01:26:13,070
Thank you so much.

991
01:26:13,630 --> 01:26:14,650
Thank you, Miss Chavez.

992
01:26:15,610 --> 01:26:17,310
I believe that was our last caller.

993
01:26:17,770 --> 01:26:24,910
So we will close public comment and come back to our City Council for discussion, Councillor Vermil.

994
01:26:25,090 --> 01:26:25,470
Thank you, Mayor.

995
01:26:25,470 --> 01:26:37,810
You know, I'm all about reducing unnecessary bureaucracy, you know, but I'm not willing to do so at the expense of, you know, competition transparency or council oversight.

996
01:26:38,190 --> 01:26:40,230
I think that's what this is asking us to do here today.

997
01:26:40,790 --> 01:26:44,370
I do have some questions I have for you.

998
01:26:46,490 --> 01:26:46,850
Thank you.

999
01:26:46,850 --> 01:26:54,490
My first question is, why is staff recommending a $220,000 formal procurement threshold when

1000
01:26:54,590 --> 01:27:00,570
the pure agency average cited in the report is only $116,923?

1001
01:27:01,430 --> 01:27:06,810
The goal was to have a line with CUPCA.

1002
01:27:07,590 --> 01:27:17,870
So, there's some, Cupca allows for public works contracts to be informally bid if a member

1003
01:27:17,870 --> 01:27:25,130
agency is a part of the organization and so we were looking at the different authority

1004
01:27:25,130 --> 01:27:30,810
levels and where it made sense was to put $220,000 to align with that.

1005
01:27:31,130 --> 01:27:35,630
If we decide in the future we wanted to do a charter amendment, it would easily align with

1006
01:27:35,630 --> 01:27:39,330
the state law is already, so that was the decision of the dollar threshold.

1007
01:27:39,910 --> 01:27:40,290
Okay.

1008
01:27:41,050 --> 01:27:44,890
Now, let's talk about the informal pro-curements.

1009
01:27:46,790 --> 01:27:50,510
What exactly do you mean by three bids if possible?

1010
01:27:51,190 --> 01:27:54,250
And who decides when three bids are not possible?

1011
01:27:54,630 --> 01:27:59,350
And are you planning to justify that publicly?

1012
01:28:00,150 --> 01:28:06,230
Sure, so informal procurement is currently done where a department is to submit three

1013
01:28:06,230 --> 01:28:08,790
quotes from three different vendors.

1014
01:28:09,210 --> 01:28:14,270
They follow the same procurement guidelines that we do for the formal procurement minus

1015
01:28:14,270 --> 01:28:16,350
it doesn't go on our city website.

1016
01:28:17,530 --> 01:28:22,470
So we do verify and purchasing when we're issuing a purchase order or a contract that the

1017
01:28:22,470 --> 01:28:27,270
quotes were received and that they were apples to apples to make sure we're getting the

1018
01:28:27,270 --> 01:28:27,870
same services.

1019
01:28:30,930 --> 01:28:34,430
We do verify all of these through the purchase requisitions and

1020
01:28:34,430 --> 01:28:39,350
purchase orders before they're issued. My apologies, I forgot the second party question.

1021
01:28:39,990 --> 01:28:47,070
So who decide, well, one, like an exception. Okay, so the if they do not get

1022
01:28:47,070 --> 01:28:51,990
three quotes, they have to provide a justification of why they are using a

1023
01:28:51,990 --> 01:28:56,290
purchasing exception. So it has to match the purchasing resolution as a possible

1024
01:28:56,290 --> 01:28:57,950
option to not get three quotes.

1025
01:28:58,290 --> 01:28:58,890
Okay, so just.

1026
01:28:59,630 --> 01:29:02,950
And that applies to formal and informal in some situation.

1027
01:29:03,110 --> 01:29:04,730
And so help me understand, because I'm not,

1028
01:29:05,130 --> 01:29:05,590
I'm not sure.

1029
01:29:06,090 --> 01:29:06,690
Help me understand.

1030
01:29:06,850 --> 01:29:10,630
Again, who makes the decision that three bids are not possible?

1031
01:29:10,810 --> 01:29:11,650
Who, who, who?

1032
01:29:11,650 --> 01:29:15,330
Typically, the department presents it to the purchasing team,

1033
01:29:15,330 --> 01:29:18,910
and then I approve it in the purchasing resolution.

1034
01:29:18,910 --> 01:29:23,910
It does give me the authority to make sure that the exception applies,

1035
01:29:23,910 --> 01:29:30,250
whether it's a singles or a sole source or another exception applies and then

1036
01:29:30,250 --> 01:29:33,730
they all the requisitions that turn into purchase orders or contracts are

1037
01:29:33,730 --> 01:29:38,370
then also approved by department heads and so does have a chain of custody to

1038
01:29:38,370 --> 01:29:43,390
make sure that everything is compliant. Will every informal procurement

1039
01:29:43,390 --> 01:29:50,590
between 50 and 220 thousand dollars be publicly posted or will the vendors be

1040
01:29:50,590 --> 01:29:51,550
solicited privately.

1041
01:29:52,430 --> 01:29:56,670
So the informal procurement is solicited privately by the department.

1042
01:29:57,030 --> 01:29:59,750
The department will reach out to you multiple vendors.

1043
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,560
Often times departments will reach out to the purchasing division to get a list of qualified or vendors that are pre-authorized, have been vetted through insurance and various aspects licensing and such, and they will contact them individually by email, typically is the process, and then they return all of the data to us in purchasing, and we produce a bid tabulation to compare everything, make sure they're qualified to do the work, and that they're compliant with the requirements.

1044
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:43,120
Is there a local requirement and do we give local businesses, let's say all things are equal or are we giving preference to our Riverside based businesses?

1045
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:57,540
So we currently have a good faith affidavit form that if a department does not select or go with a local vendor they have to provide justification why they are not contacting a local vendor.

1046
01:30:57,540 --> 01:31:00,080
and the department had approved that.

1047
01:31:01,260 --> 01:31:04,920
We recently had an outreach program

1048
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:09,940
or an outreach network event for local businesses.

1049
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:13,380
So we do encourage and provide information to them

1050
01:31:13,380 --> 01:31:15,500
through those type of events and workshops

1051
01:31:15,500 --> 01:31:18,620
to get them publicly notice of opportunities.

1052
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:23,660
So they would be reached in different manners.

1053
01:31:23,660 --> 01:31:32,540
We also do publicly put things out on social media to give local vendors and other businesses opportunities notifications.

1054
01:31:32,900 --> 01:31:39,580
Because I can't stress it enough that we put banners on our signs about shopping locally and whatnot.

1055
01:31:39,980 --> 01:31:46,060
For our residents, I think we as a city should set the example and shop locally as well and

1056
01:31:46,060 --> 01:31:49,120
be reaching out to the vendors that are here in our community.

1057
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:54,120
So we're putting money into the pocket so that it gets put back into our community.

1058
01:31:54,360 --> 01:32:02,060
So I'm always so disheartened when I see we're hiring vendors that are out of state, back some that are on the other side of the country.

1059
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:12,740
I'd love to see us try to keep as much money as possible here in Riverside because it goes to people who live in our community and it puts money right back into our community.

1060
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:15,060
Just two more questions before you.

1061
01:32:15,060 --> 01:32:22,920
for you. Why are delegated contracts only reported annually? And will staff commit to quarterly

1062
01:32:22,920 --> 01:32:28,340
public reports listing the vendor, amount funding source, bids received, amendments, exceptions,

1063
01:32:29,020 --> 01:32:36,100
and cumulative cumulative contract value? Okay. In 2024, it was the decision of

1064
01:32:36,100 --> 01:32:43,340
counseled for us to bring in the contracts back annually. We can definitely increase the amount

1065
01:32:43,340 --> 01:32:48,500
of times we do bring that information to you all and we could do it for informal and formal

1066
01:32:48,500 --> 01:32:48,900
procurement.

1067
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:53,220
So you have a good idea of where the contract spend is and how it was procured.

1068
01:32:54,200 --> 01:33:00,900
And my final question would be since since y'all are acknowledging in the report that the

1069
01:33:00,900 --> 01:33:06,840
estimated 996 redirected staff hours will not produce actual budget savings.

1070
01:33:07,340 --> 01:33:12,140
What measurable tax payer benefits must be achieved before the council renews these changes

1071
01:33:12,140 --> 01:33:13,020
after 12 months.

1072
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:19,220
I don't know if I have an answer for you on block.

1073
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:21,320
Good

1074
01:33:27,460 --> 01:33:28,740
afternoon, Councilor.

1075
01:33:28,780 --> 01:33:30,040
I'm Julie and I'm a finance director.

1076
01:33:30,700 --> 01:33:32,740
So I just want to make sure I'm standing in your question.

1077
01:33:33,100 --> 01:33:35,880
You want to know what actual taxpayer seating?

1078
01:33:37,240 --> 01:33:39,760
You're acknowledging that what you're trying to do

1079
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:43,120
is to streamline the process, eliminate the bureaucracy.

1080
01:33:43,960 --> 01:33:48,800
you know, it's going to save 996 staff hours.

1081
01:33:49,100 --> 01:33:51,440
It's going to cut down on items before the council.

1082
01:33:51,800 --> 01:33:53,920
What's the real benefit to the community?

1083
01:33:54,740 --> 01:34:01,400
So the benefit is that we'll be able to redirect those hours to provide faster services to the community.

1084
01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:06,320
We'll be able to focus on other council priorities, other council programs.

1085
01:34:06,860 --> 01:34:08,640
So that's what I would say would be the benefit.

1086
01:34:08,640 --> 01:34:18,440
It would be able to produce services quicker, services to the community quicker, work on higher priority council items, things like that.

1087
01:34:18,720 --> 01:34:20,960
But it wouldn't be actual dollar savings.

1088
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:21,840
Okay, thank you.

1089
01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:30,440
I agree with, again, as I stated previously, I'm all for reducing unnecessary bureaucracy.

1090
01:34:31,380 --> 01:34:35,660
And I think our residents deserve a government that's efficient.

1091
01:34:35,660 --> 01:34:53,580
But I also think they deserve, and I think they demand a government that's accountable, and I think what we're doing here is, we're taking away, I don't like, I actually don't like when I see, oh, we're going to reduce the number of items that come before council to a lower number.

1092
01:34:55,140 --> 01:34:59,960
I'm not I'm not really in favor of that I you know I worked hard to get

1093
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:29,740
Let's get into this position. I don't care how long. I know people want to get out of here sometimes. We can be here all night. I think what's more important is that we discuss things publicly. And I think this actually makes us less accountable to the public. I think you have folks who come down here every week. One person in particular just spews a lot of silliness and nonsense.

1094
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:37,020
with when you know we can give them all the data, he wouldn't know what it means anyway because you know it just is what it is.

1095
01:35:37,320 --> 01:35:46,700
But I think more importantly, the average citizen in Riverside, you know they want to see how their tax dollars are being spent.

1096
01:35:47,100 --> 01:35:56,600
I think while I understand you're trying to make the process quicker and more efficient, I also think it gives the perception we're trying to do things in the back room

1097
01:35:56,600 --> 01:36:06,020
in the, you know, under the shroud of secrecy, so, you know, I can't, I can't support this

1098
01:36:06,020 --> 01:36:11,060
item as it's currently written today. I'd love to hear what my colleagues think, but I

1099
01:36:11,060 --> 01:36:17,100
think, you know, again, I think we need to be more transparent. I think we need to be discussing

1100
01:36:17,100 --> 01:36:23,520
how we spend taxpayers' money more often out here instead of trying to do it. You know,

1101
01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:30,620
So y'all, no disrespect to any of the staff, but y'all weren't elected to spend the tax dollars of the city, we were.

1102
01:36:31,260 --> 01:36:35,820
And so I can't support this as currently proposed.

1103
01:36:36,620 --> 01:36:37,940
Thank you, Council Member Mill.

1104
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:39,580
Council Member Sir Bond has.

1105
01:36:42,540 --> 01:36:44,540
All right, this mics are being a little funny today.

1106
01:36:45,360 --> 01:36:52,020
Thank you for the presentation, and I appreciate some of the questions from my colleagues so that we could just get some more clarity.

1107
01:36:52,020 --> 01:36:57,000
I think for myself in going through this, I feel most comfortable and I'd love to hear

1108
01:36:57,000 --> 01:37:00,420
from my colleagues in looking at both options.

1109
01:37:00,420 --> 01:37:06,540
I think I like option two in seeing on the procurement process and I appreciate your

1110
01:37:06,540 --> 01:37:08,500
elaboration on some questions I would have had as well.

1111
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:13,360
What I like about this one is that it provides the same, just reading from the report, same

1112
01:37:13,360 --> 01:37:18,240
operational benefits through a dual threshold approach that differentiates between federally

1113
01:37:18,240 --> 01:37:22,520
funded and non federally funded procurement, procurement, procurement, so my God, that word,

1114
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:28,960
all of us are going to emphasize it. And under both options, charter section 1109, construction

1115
01:37:28,960 --> 01:37:33,700
procurement requirements remain unchanged. That one I think, to me, I like the separation

1116
01:37:33,700 --> 01:37:41,120
of the dual. I think it's always good we have that. And then looking at exhibit B, I will

1117
01:37:41,120 --> 01:37:46,180
say that I concur in that, you know, I do not mind keeping it set as quo, if that's how

1118
01:37:46,180 --> 01:37:48,700
how this council fills, I do feel it's our responsibility,

1119
01:37:48,960 --> 01:37:52,540
the judiciary responsibility to oversee every dollar

1120
01:37:52,540 --> 01:37:54,280
because at the end of the day, we are the ones up here

1121
01:37:54,280 --> 01:37:55,680
having to vote on the budget

1122
01:37:55,680 --> 01:37:57,980
and we've been cutting things in our budget.

1123
01:37:58,140 --> 01:37:59,720
We've had to make some very challenging decisions

1124
01:37:59,720 --> 01:38:00,760
these last several years.

1125
01:38:01,440 --> 01:38:03,980
But with that said, I also do know on the back end,

1126
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:07,540
especially as we have events and we do other things

1127
01:38:07,540 --> 01:38:09,340
and just knowing how purchasing works

1128
01:38:09,340 --> 01:38:12,180
and how we talk about red tape and processes

1129
01:38:12,660 --> 01:38:15,640
and being efficient with our time, with our staff

1130
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:20,180
and even just knowing that as we're a big city and as frankly the cost to do

1131
01:38:20,180 --> 01:38:25,240
business and the cost of in general have gone up for so many things I think that's

1132
01:38:25,240 --> 01:38:27,940
where we're seeing the cost of some of these items be higher than they probably

1133
01:38:27,940 --> 01:38:31,740
would be in the past but that would have probably been under the threshold of

1134
01:38:31,740 --> 01:38:36,120
authority but now they're higher and so I do think if it means being efficient

1135
01:38:36,120 --> 01:38:40,780
with time and reports and things and whatnot and getting things paid out I lean

1136
01:38:40,780 --> 01:38:43,980
towards option two a little bit because it does stay here for the public

1137
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:50,040
Council still retains review of 94% of the effect it's been while providing a more moderate

1138
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:54,720
reduction in council actions, but in both cases, all charter section, 1109 construction

1139
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:55,360
procurements.

1140
01:38:55,440 --> 01:38:58,220
Again, remains subject to existing city council approval requirements.

1141
01:38:58,960 --> 01:39:05,280
So I option one cuts us down to 87.4%, which that makes me kind of have a little bit of

1142
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:05,600
eye twitch.

1143
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:10,340
Just because you never know again what could come forward and I think my only question

1144
01:39:10,340 --> 01:39:15,960
that would be to option two, let's say that six percent, is there a way that the department

1145
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:21,540
could still provide counsel with, I don't know if it's a list of what has been approved

1146
01:39:21,540 --> 01:39:26,860
or authorized, you know, prior to it going out, just for us to always be able to look at

1147
01:39:26,860 --> 01:39:31,260
it in the event we want to bring it and put it on consent if we have questions or if we

1148
01:39:31,260 --> 01:39:36,280
think we need to have a discussion in that way, you know, we still have that authority and

1149
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:38,640
ability, of course, to raise questions, concerns.

1150
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,180
I don't know if you had any thought about what that could look like.

1151
01:39:42,480 --> 01:39:50,220
As far as bringing it before, the action takes place, I haven't thought much about aligning

1152
01:39:50,220 --> 01:39:51,200
it in that direction.

1153
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:59,840
I do know that the public utility board does require RPU to

1154
01:39:59,840 --> 01:39:59,940
You

1155
01:40:08,900 --> 01:40:29,980
So, there is a mechanism where items can be reported and we can pull the data to give you all that to report it. I just don't know the functionality of how it would happen prior to awarding a contract. If that was one of the stipulations to be able to do this type of process, it might streamline it a little bit.

1156
01:40:29,980 --> 01:40:36,300
little bit but we would have to work on the procedures of getting that to you all in

1157
01:40:36,300 --> 01:40:37,880
a timely fashion before it happens.

1158
01:40:38,100 --> 01:40:41,900
I guess I'm thinking kind of how planning has their DRC reviews where they run through

1159
01:40:41,900 --> 01:40:45,900
things that then aren't going to come here and it's almost like if you're already going

1160
01:40:45,900 --> 01:40:49,640
to have a list of you know that's going to be clear to be kind of cut out and it's going

1161
01:40:49,640 --> 01:40:53,340
to be maybe authorized maybe there could be a channel through City Manager's Office that

1162
01:40:53,340 --> 01:40:57,800
then it's like council please see attached these are the items that are already essentially

1163
01:40:57,800 --> 01:41:01,640
authorized to go. Again, it almost could be like, let us know if there's anything you need

1164
01:41:01,640 --> 01:41:07,000
clarification on, you know, and if there were, again, I guess potentially there's a red flag

1165
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:11,560
or a question or even a yellow of just like, hey, what is this? We can have that ability. But I think

1166
01:41:11,560 --> 01:41:16,860
overall, I think I lean towards option two. Again, we'd love to hear my colleagues thoughts on for both

1167
01:41:16,860 --> 01:41:22,280
of these. And yeah, at the end of the day, if we want to maintain status quo, I'm comfortable with that

1168
01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:27,640
as well, but I appreciate the desire for efficiency, and I do think it could hopefully

1169
01:41:27,640 --> 01:41:29,620
help us behind the scenes with a couple things.

1170
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:30,540
Thank you.

1171
01:41:30,740 --> 01:41:31,900
Thank you, Council Member.

1172
01:41:32,140 --> 01:41:33,540
I Council Member Rove-Lard.

1173
01:41:34,420 --> 01:41:34,820
Thank you, Mayor.

1174
01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:37,080
I think efficiency is always good.

1175
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,880
People always say, why don't you run the government like a business?

1176
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:45,300
Well, if we ran like a business, we wouldn't have any of this oversight and so forth, but there's

1177
01:41:45,300 --> 01:41:49,380
importance to the oversight because it is not our money, it's the public's money, right?

1178
01:41:49,380 --> 01:41:54,300
And so, but I do want to echo some of the comments made by

1179
01:41:54,300 --> 01:42:05,260
Councillor Vantes because we're seeing this kind of play out in real time in Ward 3 where we have this very long complicated procurement process and we're looking to replace

1180
01:42:06,140 --> 01:42:17,800
flooring in a senior center and they have purchased all the furniture they need and they're waiting for us to replace the flooring and the company that purchased

1181
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:22,440
just that they're as holding the furniture is like we can't hold this past the new year.

1182
01:42:23,280 --> 01:42:26,780
We're saying, well, we had a very, very long complicated procurement process to get

1183
01:42:26,780 --> 01:42:27,640
the bids and everything else.

1184
01:42:27,780 --> 01:42:31,240
And now we're going to be pushing out past the new year to even get them new flooring.

1185
01:42:31,640 --> 01:42:36,140
And it'd probably be the same vendor we use every single time beforehand on that same building

1186
01:42:36,140 --> 01:42:39,180
to replace flooring because they always come in at the lowest bid.

1187
01:42:39,580 --> 01:42:44,280
And it's just an example of yes, we want the process to be transparent.

1188
01:42:44,280 --> 01:42:49,400
We want this process but at some point cost versus effect it's not really getting there

1189
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:55,400
And and I think the comment was made about don't look at the dollar amount look at the number of items

1190
01:42:56,000 --> 01:43:02,680
Well, I think the dollar amount is what's really important because if you're talking about 94% of the dollar spend being a still under council authority

1191
01:43:02,680 --> 01:43:07,180
You're eliminating so much of the minute the smaller purchases that are

1192
01:43:07,780 --> 01:43:10,660
Needed to be effective to move quickly to get things done

1193
01:43:12,120 --> 01:43:26,300
That is a real cost that could potentially cost this senior center a lot of money because a lot of problems are not to find out alternative solutions of what we can store the furniture for them while we wait to get our act together and get them flooring.

1194
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:40,520
It's a very very frustrating process and so it is dollar amounts may not be like one to one ratios but there is a whole lot of second and third orders of things that happen because of that.

1195
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:45,940
efficiency. And so I'd like option number two for that reason. I think part

1196
01:43:45,940 --> 01:43:52,160
of it too is lawyers use all the time. We're trying to hide something paper

1197
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,900
of the thing but tons of data in there try try to sift through a thousand

1198
01:43:55,900 --> 01:44:00,780
items. It makes it really hard to find the thing that you're looking for. I think

1199
01:44:00,780 --> 01:44:05,160
that's part of this is we can reduce the efficiency because you're you're

1200
01:44:05,160 --> 01:44:10,100
able to identify and focus on a smaller amount of things versus laundry less

1201
01:44:10,100 --> 01:44:14,340
of things that could probably escape by, I notice, and then those reports to City Council

1202
01:44:14,980 --> 01:44:19,540
become redundant. They become the same thing over and over again. You get Council members

1203
01:44:19,540 --> 01:44:24,880
not paying attention because there's 15,000 things on that list, and then nothing stands

1204
01:44:24,880 --> 01:44:28,940
out. And you're not able to actually identify the important pieces there. And so I think

1205
01:44:28,940 --> 01:44:35,920
efficiency makes sense. I don't think there's a huge urgent need for this, but I think

1206
01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:39,240
I think that I can see the efficiencies being valuable.

1207
01:44:39,480 --> 01:44:41,720
And then we said we had an inspector general coming on.

1208
01:44:42,180 --> 01:44:44,340
We'll should be talking about that in a couple of weeks here,

1209
01:44:44,500 --> 01:44:46,600
about having the inspector general on board.

1210
01:44:46,980 --> 01:44:49,920
We can then evaluate, and I guess things can be changed

1211
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:53,000
if we need to change them, but I think that efficiency

1212
01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:54,440
should be the goal of government,

1213
01:44:54,520 --> 01:44:55,840
because that's one of the things that I think we struggle

1214
01:44:55,840 --> 01:44:57,040
with the most is efficiency.

1215
01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:57,920
Thank you.

1216
01:44:59,200 --> 01:44:59,940
Thank you, come.

1217
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:01,600
Council Member, Council Member Hernandez.

1218
01:45:08,100 --> 01:45:34,900
Thank you, Mayor. This one is a bit of a tough one. I appreciate the presentation and I appreciate you answering all of our questions. I agree kind of with a little bit of everybody. I agree with Council Member Mill. We were voted to go through the process and make sure that we are being held accountable for

1219
01:45:34,900 --> 01:45:43,680
a lot of the how our procurement process goes forward and the purchases that we make spending

1220
01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:44,640
taxpayer money.

1221
01:45:45,180 --> 01:45:54,500
I also understand on Councilmember Sidhuantis and Robelark is efficiency and I appreciate

1222
01:45:54,500 --> 01:46:03,160
your story about the senior center so maybe I'm not comfortable with the $200,000 threshold.

1223
01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:09,760
maybe we could come down a bit, maybe, you know, what was it, when you mentioned, like 116 with the highest

1224
01:46:09,760 --> 01:46:16,020
Part of one of the purchases, maybe 120, maybe 130 to speed up the process, but I

1225
01:46:17,180 --> 01:46:19,470
understand both sides, if

1226
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:25,020
If it stands the way it is, if we can't make that adjustment, I'm

1227
01:46:25,020 --> 01:46:31,460
I'm gonna have to stay with leaving it the same. I'm not comfortable with the $200,000 threshold

1228
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:34,940
So, you know, that's where I stand on the issue.

1229
01:46:35,520 --> 01:46:35,660
Thank you.

1230
01:46:36,200 --> 01:46:36,660
Thank you.

1231
01:46:36,780 --> 01:46:38,340
Council Member, Council Member Procone.

1232
01:46:38,640 --> 01:46:38,980
Thank you, Mayor.

1233
01:46:39,140 --> 01:46:39,720
I'll be brief.

1234
01:46:40,060 --> 01:46:41,600
I see both sides of this.

1235
01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:47,600
I do think it's, I definitely resonate with what Council Member Mills shared about that we are elected to make these decisions.

1236
01:46:47,740 --> 01:46:50,300
And when we go to neighborhood meetings, we get yelled at and held accountable.

1237
01:46:50,300 --> 01:46:51,480
And when we get yelled out here too.

1238
01:46:51,880 --> 01:46:56,780
And get held accountable for things that sometimes we don't have any control or say in.

1239
01:46:56,920 --> 01:47:01,160
So I think there's a complicated piece of, well, yes, we want to move quickly.

1240
01:47:01,160 --> 01:47:04,880
and I think our main objective, and I think a lot of what the voters want is we have to

1241
01:47:04,880 --> 01:47:12,740
get stuff through this very clunky and way down bureaucracy of a city government, but

1242
01:47:12,740 --> 01:47:17,600
then so I recognize the need for moving things forward and I would appreciate that, but

1243
01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:22,740
I also know that we're the ones that I think need to be making as many decisions as possible

1244
01:47:22,740 --> 01:47:26,240
because that's what the voters expect from us, or we get held accountable for things that

1245
01:47:26,240 --> 01:47:27,160
we have no control over.

1246
01:47:27,160 --> 01:47:33,940
So I think everyone agrees on efficiency just always comes down to how what is what is efficiency and how do we get there

1247
01:47:33,940 --> 01:47:42,060
I think is what it is everyone on in theory can agree with that no matter what someone's perspective may be but I think we people disagree on what that looks like

1248
01:47:42,660 --> 01:47:43,100
so

1249
01:47:44,180 --> 01:47:47,040
You know, I I'm kind of think I'm leaning more towards

1250
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:53,080
Surveyes and Robelard here, but but but can definitely see both sides as councilman Hernandez it's here. Thank you mayor

1251
01:47:53,740 --> 01:47:55,520
Thank you comes remember him and we

1252
01:47:57,450 --> 01:48:07,810
Well, it seems like there's a bit of uncertainty here, so sometimes that means there's a little bit more work to do.

1253
01:48:08,050 --> 01:48:15,250
If it would be useful to send this to the Finance Committee for more fleshing out, I'd be happy to take it and do some more work.

1254
01:48:15,370 --> 01:48:16,150
I would second back.

1255
01:48:16,770 --> 01:48:24,050
And if other certain folks have an interest to sit in that space in the substitute in, be happy to have that happen as well.

1256
01:48:24,050 --> 01:48:30,190
So, it sounds like there was an appetite, so I'll move that we move, take this to finance

1257
01:48:30,190 --> 01:48:36,850
committee for more vetting, apologies for all the work in delay, but I think that might

1258
01:48:36,850 --> 01:48:39,830
be the better route than to try and make decisions on the fly up here.

1259
01:48:41,450 --> 01:48:44,050
Could I possibly bring something to your attention?

1260
01:48:44,270 --> 01:48:48,290
There are several other items on the recommendations.

1261
01:48:48,290 --> 01:48:54,810
There are some amendments that include fleet exceptions, the canine exception, clarifying

1262
01:48:54,810 --> 01:48:56,810
some of the language in the change order.

1263
01:48:57,190 --> 01:49:00,650
It doesn't change the requirements of change orders coming to you all.

1264
01:49:01,150 --> 01:49:03,550
It just clarifies and makes it clearer for a read.

1265
01:49:03,810 --> 01:49:10,170
So there is a couple of other recommendations that I would like to consider other than the

1266
01:49:10,170 --> 01:49:13,210
city manager authority and the bidding thresholds.

1267
01:49:15,150 --> 01:49:21,570
Do you have a list of those, because I do think it's something that this council has

1268
01:49:21,570 --> 01:49:26,070
to decide on the diet, so it's always a very difficult thing to do to parse out, which

1269
01:49:26,070 --> 01:49:27,990
is why I think they want to study it in committees.

1270
01:49:28,450 --> 01:49:34,230
So the number one is to adopt, approve and adopt the technical and administrative amendments

1271
01:49:34,230 --> 01:49:40,190
to the purchasing resolution, including revised definitions, purchasing exceptions and corrections

1272
01:49:40,190 --> 01:49:47,530
to the resolution. Option two was regarding the bidding thresholds and option three, which is the city manager approval.

1273
01:49:48,110 --> 01:49:59,970
And then option four is to repeal the purchasing resolution 2401 and then to direct staff is number four to come back at 12.

1274
01:50:00,500 --> 01:50:29,240
So, I mean, only one then would need to be. I guess it would, it would be option one that we would request that you consider. Just just clean up language. Yes, please. Yeah, so I approve item one and the remainder is two through four, two, three, and four will go to committee. That would be. That would be my motion. Second, that motion. All right, Councillor, are you clear on what you're voting for? Okay. Yeah.

1275
01:50:29,240 --> 01:50:30,980
I said a quick question if I may.

1276
01:50:31,060 --> 01:50:31,180
Sure.

1277
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:39,780
Is there a reason why that piece can't wait until, I mean, is there something pending

1278
01:50:39,780 --> 01:50:42,800
that we need to do today?

1279
01:50:43,100 --> 01:50:44,300
I mean, we can't bring the whole thing back.

1280
01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:49,900
I'm not real big on slicing things up and I'm really not big on unelected bureaucrats

1281
01:50:49,900 --> 01:50:50,640
making decisions.

1282
01:50:51,240 --> 01:50:56,240
But if you can tell me, if there's a reason why we need it.

1283
01:50:56,240 --> 01:51:01,880
Absolutely, so one of the items that is the fleet exception.

1284
01:51:02,600 --> 01:51:07,800
So we have had a real struggle with purchasing vehicles and I know that a lot of departments

1285
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:10,760
are waiting currently for us to be able to do that for them.

1286
01:51:11,360 --> 01:51:15,580
So that was one of the main areas that we're concerned with for item one.

1287
01:51:17,910 --> 01:51:22,470
I would, I agree with it to say Councilor Mail, but in the instance of fleet, poor general

1288
01:51:22,470 --> 01:51:26,130
services, we need to help these people, we need to help general services get stuff across

1289
01:51:26,130 --> 01:51:26,750
the finish line.

1290
01:51:26,750 --> 01:51:30,150
and that's one department that this, that this I think would help.

1291
01:51:31,610 --> 01:51:36,510
All right, so are we modifying the motion or are we keeping it where it is or are we waiting?

1292
01:51:40,290 --> 01:51:43,270
It would be, okay, so counts.

1293
01:51:43,410 --> 01:51:43,910
One in three.

1294
01:51:44,190 --> 01:51:44,270
One in three.

1295
01:51:44,790 --> 01:51:45,450
It would be one in three.

1296
01:51:45,770 --> 01:51:46,450
It doesn't affect that.

1297
01:51:46,610 --> 01:51:46,790
Okay.

1298
01:51:48,830 --> 01:51:55,010
I don't know if we can repeal the previous resolution that we have something to fill it, right?

1299
01:51:56,070 --> 01:52:21,110
We would reject the, so the way that the red lines are, city clerk can recruit me if I'm wrong, but the red lines do have the options of the thresholds that apply to item number two and three, but we would still need to repeal 2401 to do the other item number one because they are combined.

1300
01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:27,480
When we say repeal, essentially, we just mean...

1301
01:52:27,960 --> 01:52:30,560
Repeal the current one, modify it to create a new one.

1302
01:52:30,560 --> 01:52:33,720
With the new language amend, I'm ready to modify it.

1303
01:52:33,860 --> 01:52:38,040
I'm hearing, let me let our city attorney weigh in very quickly here.

1304
01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:39,260
I think he has a suggestion.

1305
01:52:40,320 --> 01:52:42,560
Yes, Mayor and Council, I think for purposes of clarity,

1306
01:52:42,820 --> 01:52:47,360
what we'd recommend is to maybe table this for an hour or two.

1307
01:52:47,820 --> 01:52:50,040
Red line exactly what this would be.

1308
01:52:50,040 --> 01:52:56,480
We go in a closed session, come back to the item, and then everyone can see in writing what this would be.

1309
01:52:56,840 --> 01:53:04,060
So I'm hearing basically that the will of the council may be to prove and adopt the testing on Mr.

1310
01:53:04,160 --> 01:53:08,600
David amendments, the pose resolution, and basic postpone everything else.

1311
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:14,220
So we could kind of put that in writing, come back to you, you could see it, and vote on that.

1312
01:53:14,940 --> 01:53:17,120
Or are you okay with the original motion?

1313
01:53:19,800 --> 01:53:27,740
My gut says why don't we then have this the portion that you would like that has to do

1314
01:53:27,740 --> 01:53:31,000
with the clean up.

1315
01:53:31,760 --> 01:53:37,260
Why doesn't that come back to the next council meeting as its own approval, where folks

1316
01:53:37,260 --> 01:53:40,860
will have time to get through and read it and then the other stuff will go to committee.

1317
01:53:41,380 --> 01:53:45,280
I feel like that's probably cleaner than us trying to do stuff on the fly unless there's

1318
01:53:45,280 --> 01:53:50,580
The urgent urgent thing in the next two weeks are three is there anything urgent is there time sensitive on this

1319
01:53:50,580 --> 01:53:55,980
The fleet vehicles is time sensitive that would be in the main item

1320
01:53:55,980 --> 01:53:59,940
And I think my suggestion to be then is that we just break these up into two votes

1321
01:53:59,940 --> 01:54:03,740
So that if we could see if there's a majority that's a was willing to support item one

1322
01:54:03,740 --> 01:54:08,260
We take a vote on it and then we vote on the item that's on the tape the tape motion for the rest

1323
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:14,840
So sorry, I'm not trying to belabor this. I think that's what the motion was already is to

1324
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:21,020
move one through and put the rest but it seems like there's language embedded in the resolution

1325
01:54:21,900 --> 01:54:30,160
that needs three to go through on some level but not fully. We need to rewrite the recommendations

1326
01:54:30,160 --> 01:54:39,020
I think to reflect that is what City Attorney recommended. Okay that's fine. Okay thank you City

1327
01:54:39,020 --> 01:54:50,260
Thank you for that one. No, it's to continue to after close. Perfect. Sorry. Thank you. Yes. All right. Do we need to take a vote on that?

1328
01:54:50,920 --> 01:54:52,060
No, we're just continuing.

1329
01:54:53,880 --> 01:54:55,140
Do we have to vote to continue?

1330
01:54:57,570 --> 01:54:59,890
I think if the will is just to continue, we can simply

1331
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:20,160
We'll note that we're continuing and come back. Okay. Let's do that then. All right, council. We're going to bring this back and City Attorney's going to have a look at it and give you a written thing. Thank you, Julie. Thank you. Thank you. Council, we have a public hearing at 3 p.m. Let's just take a five minute break and then we'll come back.

1332
01:56:41,590 --> 01:56:48,850
We have returned from our break and we are now at our 3 p.m. public hearing. And this is a

1333
01:56:51,630 --> 01:56:57,850
agreement with great fine development and for the sale of a housing authority property.

1334
01:56:59,190 --> 01:57:05,690
Just a note, Councilmember Cervantes has recused herself from this vote because of a monetary

1335
01:57:06,070 --> 01:57:12,370
or financial interest from donor, but we will open public comment for this item.

1336
01:57:13,070 --> 01:57:18,270
Public comment is now open for this item, available in both English and Spanish.

1337
01:57:18,690 --> 01:57:24,750
Call 9-5-1-826-8686 and follow the prompts to access the meeting in either language.

1338
01:57:25,290 --> 01:57:27,650
To request to speak, press star 9.

1339
01:57:28,210 --> 01:57:29,690
You can also join the Zoom.

1340
01:57:30,130 --> 01:57:33,390
The meeting ID for both languages can be found on the agenda.

1341
01:57:34,070 --> 01:57:38,470
Okay, and I have Agrippina, I don't see where Agrippina go.

1342
01:57:38,850 --> 01:57:39,450
She was here.

1343
01:57:44,970 --> 01:57:48,570
I'm going to do my best to wing it, Michelle's not answering her phone, Agripean is not

1344
01:57:48,570 --> 01:57:48,750
here.

1345
01:57:51,950 --> 01:57:56,290
I know a little bit about the issue, so I'll do my best to help present and I will pinch

1346
01:57:56,290 --> 01:57:58,090
it and talk slow until they get here.

1347
01:58:00,050 --> 01:58:05,890
So thank you, Councilmember and Mayor and Councilmembers, I'll do my best to present this item.

1348
01:58:05,890 --> 01:58:13,580
The Housing Authority owns a development site at 2882 Mission in Avenue.

1349
01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:20,820
The size of the property is 9900 square feet, public work street dedication will reduce

1350
01:58:20,820 --> 01:58:23,180
the site to approximately 7,000 square feet.

1351
01:58:25,700 --> 01:58:32,820
By way of background, in 2006, it was a former redevelopment agency property acquired, 2731

1352
01:58:32,820 --> 01:58:39,360
to 2871 University Avenue, Successor Agency properties, seven contiguous parcels of

1353
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:41,600
the vacant land consisting of 1.9 acres.

1354
01:58:43,020 --> 01:58:46,900
In 2008, the former redevelopment agency acquired 2882

1355
01:58:46,900 --> 01:58:49,660
mission and avenue, also housing authority property,

1356
01:58:50,020 --> 01:58:54,020
which included .22 acres, former single family dwelling,

1357
01:58:54,200 --> 01:58:56,260
was destroyed by a fire and demolished.

1358
01:59:02,040 --> 01:59:05,360
In July of 2019, the County Oversight Board approved a purchase

1359
01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:08,180
and development agreement with grapevine economic development fund.

1360
01:59:08,780 --> 01:59:13,780
The proposed concept was for a mixed-use retail and multi-family housing project.

1361
01:59:13,780 --> 01:59:19,620
In December of 2019, escrow was canceled after the required security deposit was not submitted.

1362
01:59:20,380 --> 01:59:27,860
And then in April of 2022, the Economic Development Placemaking Committee reviewed grapefines

1363
01:59:27,860 --> 01:59:29,080
revised proposal.

1364
01:59:30,180 --> 01:59:35,600
And the Committee unanimously authorized staff to negotiate a disposition and development

1365
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:36,740
agreement with grapefine.

1366
01:59:39,640 --> 01:59:42,240
There's a requirement for surplus land act compliance.

1367
01:59:42,240 --> 01:59:49,800
In October of 2019, AB 46 expanded to include Successor Agency in Housing Authority land.

1368
01:59:50,360 --> 01:59:55,480
In April of 2020, Successor Agency declared the University of New Parsles surplus.

1369
01:59:57,180 --> 01:59:58,760
I'll let you get the next slide.

1370
01:59:59,420 --> 02:00:00,320
May of 2021.

1371
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:08,400
2020, initial 60-day notice, NOA was issued, and the NOA required at least 25% of proposed residential

1372
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:14,620
units to be affordable to lower income households subject to applicable requirements. There were

1373
02:00:14,620 --> 02:00:20,760
no interested buyers responded to the NOA deadline in May of 2023, HCD acknowledged compliance

1374
02:00:20,760 --> 02:00:27,400
with the applicable requirements for the proposed disposition. With that, I'm going to turn

1375
02:00:27,400 --> 02:00:28,920
over to Michelle who's going to tap dance.

1376
02:00:29,680 --> 02:00:32,940
Sorry, I apologize, I have the other staff person filling in and they got delayed.

1377
02:00:33,300 --> 02:00:37,960
So they RFP selected development process on July 21st.

1378
02:00:38,380 --> 02:00:42,320
The successor agency issued an RFP for the development of the University Avenue property.

1379
02:00:43,100 --> 02:00:47,000
The RFP did require 15% of the residential units to be affordable.

1380
02:00:47,920 --> 02:00:51,900
On October 21, five proposals were received and evaluated.

1381
02:00:52,280 --> 02:00:55,740
Great Vine Development LLC was selected as a preferred developer.

1382
02:00:55,740 --> 02:01:01,060
and then the proposed overall project, 64 residential units within a mixed use development

1383
02:01:01,060 --> 02:01:04,660
were being required, and the proposal included 10 affordable units.

1384
02:01:06,580 --> 02:01:13,660
In front of you is the proposed grapevine development, it's okay, you're not fired.

1385
02:01:16,640 --> 02:01:21,140
Sorry I don't have my glasses, as you get older you get blind, so in front of you is the site

1386
02:01:21,140 --> 02:01:26,360
design for the 10 units on the corner. There is, we did work with the developer to identify

1387
02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:28,540
the setbacks that will be required on the properties as well.

1388
02:01:29,960 --> 02:01:34,640
The proposed project is, again, the 10 affordable units will be at 2882 Mission and Avenue,

1389
02:01:34,940 --> 02:01:38,420
which will be conveyed to Great Fight, pursuant to a disposition and development agreement

1390
02:01:38,420 --> 02:01:46,580
for $1.00. The housing authority land right down is $245,000, $867, $60.76, based on

1391
02:01:46,580 --> 02:01:48,160
and recent comparable property sales.

1392
02:01:48,660 --> 02:01:51,520
And then the land right down, we are going to recognize it

1393
02:01:51,520 --> 02:01:54,540
and use it as home investment partnership program home match.

1394
02:01:54,700 --> 02:01:56,640
Our home grant does require that we have to provide

1395
02:01:56,640 --> 02:01:58,980
a match obligation, so this will help us fill that match.

1396
02:01:59,420 --> 02:02:01,580
10 of the affordable units will be developed

1397
02:02:02,140 --> 02:02:03,280
on the housing authority property.

1398
02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:06,440
Two of the units will be restricted at 50% AMI.

1399
02:02:06,740 --> 02:02:08,180
Eight units will be restricted to households

1400
02:02:08,180 --> 02:02:10,040
at or below 60% AMI.

1401
02:02:10,380 --> 02:02:11,820
And the affordability will be secured

1402
02:02:11,820 --> 02:02:14,020
through a regulatory agreement for 55 years,

1403
02:02:14,300 --> 02:02:16,080
which our housing authority staff does monitor.

1404
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:17,180
on the annual basis.

1405
02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:25,880
Sources and uses, total development cost, the sources is approximately 5.7 million.

1406
02:02:26,500 --> 02:02:28,740
The private permit loan is approximately 1.8 million.

1407
02:02:29,060 --> 02:02:32,200
There could be a applying for low-income housing tax credits for 2.2 million.

1408
02:02:32,720 --> 02:02:37,080
Home investment partnerships, they will be seeking a grant from the city, which we will have

1409
02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:39,760
to bring back to City Council for approval at a later date.

1410
02:02:39,820 --> 02:02:44,640
They are also seeking permanent local housing allocation of 250,000, which is not included

1411
02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:45,660
in today's request.

1412
02:02:45,660 --> 02:02:52,760
A deferred developer fee of $250,000 and then a sponsor equity from grapevine for $178,000.

1413
02:02:53,380 --> 02:02:56,100
So the total development cost is $5.7 million.

1414
02:02:57,520 --> 02:03:02,940
The current agreement approvals on January 6th of 26th, the Successor Agency approved

1415
02:03:02,940 --> 02:03:06,640
the separate, purchased cell and development agreement for the University Avenue property.

1416
02:03:07,120 --> 02:03:11,700
On January 15th, the County Oversight Board did approve the University Avenue agreement.

1417
02:03:11,700 --> 02:03:16,020
So, the current action today is for City Council on the Housing Authority Board to consider

1418
02:03:16,020 --> 02:03:22,320
a DDA for the sale of 2882 Mission Inn and, again, the purpose is to convey the property

1419
02:03:22,320 --> 02:03:25,240
for a dollar and establish requirements for the ten affordable units.

1420
02:03:26,720 --> 02:03:31,220
So, right at this time, I'm asking the Housing Authority Board to conduct a public carrying

1421
02:03:31,220 --> 02:03:36,480
pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section, 3431-2.3 regarding the proposed

1422
02:03:36,480 --> 02:03:41,300
Those conveyance of 2882 Mission in Avenue to Great Vine Development LLC for $1.

1423
02:03:41,440 --> 02:03:43,940
Approved disposition and development agreement with Great Vine.

1424
02:03:44,360 --> 02:03:49,500
Development LLC for the sale of Housing Authority Property located at 2882 Mission Avenue for $1.

1425
02:03:49,740 --> 02:03:53,200
To facilitate the development of a 10-unit affordable housing project.

1426
02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:57,840
And to authorize Executive Director, or his designated to execute the DDA with Great Vine,

1427
02:03:58,340 --> 02:04:01,040
including making minor and unsubstantive changes.

1428
02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:05,180
And that concludes my presentation and we're available to answer any questions.

1429
02:04:05,180 --> 02:04:07,360
Thank you to all the pinch hitting.

1430
02:04:08,020 --> 02:04:08,780
Thank you.

1431
02:04:09,480 --> 02:04:10,560
You guys did great.

1432
02:04:10,900 --> 02:04:11,580
Did work out there.

1433
02:04:11,700 --> 02:04:12,060
Well done.

1434
02:04:13,560 --> 02:04:14,240
Let's see.

1435
02:04:14,500 --> 02:04:20,580
Let me see if we have any collars for public comment.

1436
02:04:20,860 --> 02:04:21,740
We have no collars.

1437
02:04:21,900 --> 02:04:22,880
So we'll close public comment.

1438
02:04:23,040 --> 02:04:24,280
We've received nothing in chambers.

1439
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:26,460
And I will come back to council council member Mil.

1440
02:04:26,760 --> 02:04:27,340
Thank you, Mayor.

1441
02:04:27,640 --> 02:04:31,860
And, you know, Michelle, I'm just after sitting here and saying,

1442
02:04:31,960 --> 02:04:33,280
oh, Michelle's always there.

1443
02:04:33,280 --> 02:04:59,960
And then when we go, we give you all the, all these, you know, the, the gave you your flowers and then thank you, thank you, you know, as, as a member of the homeless and housing committee, we've been chopping at the bit for this project for, for quite a some, quite some time, I know, Council Member Robelard, seeing it and our colleague, Council Member Chavantes, we've been seeing this for, I'm back.

1444
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:29,660
I'm two plus years, every meeting at the end of the housing homes committee meeting, that slide would come up and I like, okay, when is it coming? I am so excited that we are here today that we're finally, it's here before the entire council. You know, I strongly support this project. It's going to transform under, under utilized public property in a new housing that we most definitely need in the city. It's going to bring 10 affordable units that are going to be affordable for at least the next 55 years hopefully.

1445
02:05:29,660 --> 02:05:37,320
fully, you know longer. You know, I think this is an amazing use of a public land. Again,

1446
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:44,520
it adds much needed housing, creates long-term affordability in our community. So I'm very

1447
02:05:44,520 --> 02:05:50,160
pleased to support it. And I asked Council Member Falconi if he didn't mind. I would love,

1448
02:05:50,420 --> 02:05:55,140
as someone who's seen this project time and time again, I'd like to make a motion that we approve

1449
02:05:55,860 --> 02:06:00,780
staff's recommendations and bring this project to the City of Riverside.

1450
02:06:01,320 --> 02:06:05,240
All right, thank you Bush and his second council member Calcone.

1451
02:06:05,700 --> 02:06:08,480
Thank you mayor. Thank you council member Mill. Happy to second that.

1452
02:06:08,840 --> 02:06:12,160
I just am appreciative to both great Vine as well as the team that make this happen.

1453
02:06:12,340 --> 02:06:15,500
I want to share what I always share when we have projects that come before us.

1454
02:06:15,520 --> 02:06:21,100
This is again proof that when people come down here and tell us that we don't book that there's no affordable housing happening in ward one.

1455
02:06:21,220 --> 02:06:23,580
That ward one's not doing any of this. That it's fake news.

1456
02:06:23,580 --> 02:06:30,460
It's misinformation board one has the most so to all the the news agencies in our city that love to share

1457
02:06:31,100 --> 02:06:35,280
Misinformation about that we don't build anything and that we don't approve anything. This is another

1458
02:06:35,980 --> 02:06:43,060
I think a strike against that because this is proven that it does happen and it is true and very very happy to support it. Thank you

1459
02:06:43,600 --> 02:06:48,600
Thank you councillor Verkonda. Michelle. Could you have back to the dollar slide? I think it was two slides before this

1460
02:06:53,780 --> 02:06:57,900
So for the, it's $5.7 million for the 10 units.

1461
02:06:58,300 --> 02:06:58,600
Correct.

1462
02:06:58,800 --> 02:06:59,540
Just for the 10 units.

1463
02:06:59,580 --> 02:07:00,180
Just the 10 units.

1464
02:07:00,180 --> 02:07:03,480
This doesn't include the success agency sites.

1465
02:07:03,820 --> 02:07:05,400
That was a separate deal.

1466
02:07:06,740 --> 02:07:11,540
This is the 10 affordable units will meet the requirement obligation of the affordable housing

1467
02:07:11,540 --> 02:07:12,660
units for the other site.

1468
02:07:13,820 --> 02:07:14,060
Okay.

1469
02:07:14,780 --> 02:07:20,060
Well, I mean, I'm just trying to do a simple math if I take $5.7 and divide it by 10 $570,000 per

1470
02:07:20,060 --> 02:07:20,620
unit.

1471
02:07:22,000 --> 02:07:28,400
We include prevailing wage and the consultant fees and legal fees when you're playing for all the other funding sources that come into play.

1472
02:07:29,140 --> 02:07:31,600
That's what increases all those development costs.

1473
02:07:35,480 --> 02:07:36,720
Yeah, I hear a million in Los Angeles.

1474
02:07:37,080 --> 02:07:39,200
Yeah, I'd be scared for that cost for you in it.

1475
02:07:41,560 --> 02:07:42,740
You're halfway there.

1476
02:07:42,960 --> 02:07:46,380
I go to MoValium, you know, and buy a three-bedroom house for that cost.

1477
02:07:47,740 --> 02:07:48,780
All right, thank you.

1478
02:07:49,600 --> 02:07:49,820
All right.

1479
02:07:49,820 --> 02:07:56,680
Council member Robard. Yes, suspect to those numbers. That's what goes into

1480
02:07:56,680 --> 02:08:02,240
building housing. The majority of that cost what people understand is that the

1481
02:08:02,240 --> 02:08:06,480
carrying cost if you go back to it is because these are affordable units. They are

1482
02:08:06,480 --> 02:08:13,000
offsetting the profits and the rent that you would have been making if it was

1483
02:08:13,000 --> 02:08:17,100
market rate, they're subsidizing that amount. And so when we talk about affordable

1484
02:08:17,100 --> 02:08:21,800
housing that's what it takes to make affordable housing is all that extra money

1485
02:08:21,800 --> 02:08:28,800
that pays the subsidizes that fee and so that's why it's not actual per unit

1486
02:08:28,800 --> 02:08:34,060
cost it's the rent abatement or rent subsidy that is going towards it in the

1487
02:08:34,060 --> 02:08:40,960
future that's what the extra money is for so thank you all right council we had a

1488
02:08:40,960 --> 02:08:44,540
motion a second to approve staff's recommendation please vote

1489
02:08:51,870 --> 02:08:53,270
motion cares

1490
02:08:57,110 --> 02:09:07,570
All right thank you thank you. Now Council leave we're going to close session. And I will

1491
02:09:07,570 --> 02:09:10,190
call on our attorney please to announce our close session items.

1492
02:09:13,580 --> 02:09:18,300
Thank you mayor. Yes we're going to close session. The description of the items is written

1493
02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:23,080
on the agenda so please take a look and we'll come back and report in the report of

1494
02:09:23,080 --> 02:09:23,960
Thank you.

1495
02:09:23,960 --> 02:09:24,040
All right.

1496
02:09:24,240 --> 02:09:24,740
Thank you.

1497
02:09:35,390 --> 02:09:36,730
Vaughn, she's picking them up.

1498
02:09:36,770 --> 02:09:39,230
If I fall and get a man one, she's screaming her head off.

1499
02:09:39,790 --> 02:09:41,170
Lemon again for three.

1500
02:09:42,050 --> 02:09:42,490
Swish!

1501
02:09:43,750 --> 02:09:45,290
Oh, she's fired up.

1502
02:09:46,170 --> 02:09:49,510
Take me back to last season, your game against Utah Valley.

1503
02:09:49,770 --> 02:09:51,010
You scored 39 points.

1504
02:09:51,670 --> 02:09:56,470
Just talk to me about that experience and what it really feels like when you just get into

1505
02:09:56,470 --> 02:09:57,470
the zone as a shooter.

1506
02:11:04,020 --> 02:11:33,500
Everybody? Council is just returning from closed session. And we're going to take up item 30B again, which we continued from the earlier in the afternoon. And our city attorney has helped us with a red line. And I don't see him here. See, he's coming back in. Okay. So he'll be out momentarily. But Jen, sorry, keep on you, Jen.

1507
02:11:33,500 --> 02:11:34,860
and I have a friend named Jen McCoy.

1508
02:11:35,040 --> 02:11:36,120
I go by Jen.

1509
02:11:36,440 --> 02:11:36,580
Yeah.

1510
02:11:38,980 --> 02:11:39,700
And everyone.

1511
02:11:40,040 --> 02:11:44,180
But if you would like to start, can you start

1512
02:11:44,180 --> 02:11:45,040
without city training?

1513
02:11:45,180 --> 02:11:45,760
Would you want to wait for this?

1514
02:11:45,780 --> 02:11:46,320
No, absolutely.

1515
02:11:46,480 --> 02:11:46,640
Okay.

1516
02:11:47,160 --> 02:11:48,140
Let's have you do that, though.

1517
02:11:48,140 --> 02:11:48,640
Thank you.

1518
02:11:48,800 --> 02:11:50,360
Thank you for having me again to go over the

1519
02:11:50,360 --> 02:11:51,860
purchasing resolution modification.

1520
02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:53,640
So I'm going to go page by page.

1521
02:11:53,780 --> 02:11:56,320
So I'm going to point out the significant changes.

1522
02:11:57,400 --> 02:11:58,460
I'll try to make it quick.

1523
02:11:59,660 --> 02:12:02,900
So on page one, when we're just changing the

1524
02:12:02,900 --> 02:12:08,780
resolution number, so there's no modification there. We have a table of contents

1525
02:12:08,780 --> 02:12:11,580
we're updated as far as the page numbers go.

1526
02:12:14,280 --> 02:12:15,000
The

1527
02:12:21,200 --> 02:12:24,440
next change is on page 9, which

1528
02:12:24,440 --> 02:12:31,400
is under the definition sections. We added piggybacking definition, which explains

1529
02:12:32,220 --> 02:12:36,380
what the difference is between there's a piggyback and there's a cooperative, so

1530
02:12:36,380 --> 02:12:38,260
there are two different definitions.

1531
02:12:38,560 --> 02:12:40,420
So I wanted to clarify that for the departments.

1532
02:12:42,840 --> 02:12:45,780
And then we had multiple updates on multiple pages

1533
02:12:45,780 --> 02:12:51,160
due to the addition just modifying the reference

1534
02:12:51,160 --> 02:12:53,760
to what letter it was in order.

1535
02:13:01,280 --> 02:13:04,940
On page 12, under section 201, we had just

1536
02:13:04,940 --> 02:13:06,680
a correction in spacing.

1537
02:13:10,800 --> 02:13:14,500
Same on page 13, letter E.

1538
02:13:14,500 --> 02:13:24,480
We took out the letter A. You'll see on page 14 and section 205, we put that back

1539
02:13:24,480 --> 02:13:31,100
to the $100,000 instead of the change that we discussed earlier.

1540
02:13:36,670 --> 02:13:38,750
On page 18,

1541
02:13:40,840 --> 02:13:43,780
it is the Utilities Exception.

1542
02:13:43,780 --> 02:13:54,700
We added laboratory instruments as an exception to the list and that was requested by our end user

1543
02:13:54,700 --> 02:13:56,060
department.

1544
02:14:11,960 --> 02:14:23,920
On page 22 line 21 through 23, we added language about the professional services

1545
02:14:27,110 --> 02:14:32,670
clarifying for a formal and informal procurement, but it was a clarification.

1546
02:14:34,450 --> 02:14:39,710
So it says, or professional services, if upon opening the bids, provided good services

1547
02:14:39,710 --> 02:14:44,350
or professional services, the manager determines that the actual expenditure, therefore, would

1548
02:14:44,350 --> 02:14:48,950
appear to be 50,000 or less, so the manager may convert the formal procurement to informal

1549
02:14:48,950 --> 02:14:52,010
procurement procedures for a word of contract.

1550
02:14:52,010 --> 02:14:59,870
So that was just a clarification because it was not clear whenever people were interpreting it, the line 24 for

1551
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:24,760
Construction, not subject to provisions of Section 1109 of the city charter. The manager may confer the formal procurement and formal procurement procedures only when the actual expenditure. So we deleted determines the actual expenditure. Out of the word expenditure, therefore, would appear to be 50,000 or less. And we deleted the manager may convert. So it was just a clarification section on

1552
02:15:27,510 --> 02:15:30,930
page 23 section 507.

1553
02:15:33,410 --> 02:15:41,770
We added professional services on line 7 and added or designed build services for clarification.

1554
02:15:42,850 --> 02:15:53,570
On line 11 through 13, we clarified when the purchasing manager can reject all bids.

1555
02:15:54,010 --> 02:15:57,870
There was some confusion with staff of when it's required to come to council and when it's not.

1556
02:15:57,870 --> 02:15:59,550
so that was clarified there.

1557
02:16:10,070 --> 02:16:19,470
On page 27, starting at 21 through 27, we added letter S,

1558
02:16:19,690 --> 02:16:25,230
which is the human resources exception, the employee benefits negotiated,

1559
02:16:26,490 --> 02:16:32,350
where that's an additional exception to procurement and then letter T was added

1560
02:16:32,350 --> 02:16:37,650
of the K-9 City Officers Exception on

1561
02:16:40,820 --> 02:16:42,620
page 28 line 14.

1562
02:16:43,020 --> 02:16:47,840
We added professional services for clarification on

1563
02:16:54,780 --> 02:16:55,740
page 30.

1564
02:16:56,360 --> 02:17:03,520
Starting at number 11, we added professional services to the list for clarification.

1565
02:17:04,300 --> 02:17:07,020
Number line 23 through 24.

1566
02:17:07,840 --> 02:17:16,120
We added the information about acquisition, outfitting operations maintenance or repair for fleet vehicles on

1567
02:17:24,090 --> 02:17:34,810
page 32 line 18 section V. We added services in the word and for clarification to just not just professional services.

1568
02:17:37,540 --> 02:17:41,460
And then there was a punctuation correction on line 26 on

1569
02:17:44,620 --> 02:17:47,140
page 33 starting at line 1.

1570
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:57,520
We added letter X and letter Y, X is for the HR exception, and Y is for the K9 officer

1571
02:17:57,520 --> 02:17:58,040
exception.

1572
02:18:06,130 --> 02:18:13,810
On page 35, on line 5, we added construction services over 50,000 or clarification,

1573
02:18:15,230 --> 02:18:21,190
modified some punctuation, and we also did that on line 6 and line 7.

1574
02:18:22,730 --> 02:18:30,170
On line 18, in section F, we added by piggybacking to clarify the difference between co-operatives

1575
02:18:30,170 --> 02:18:31,050
and piggybacking.

1576
02:18:33,530 --> 02:18:40,130
On page 36, we modified line 11 by deleting a duplicate entry.

1577
02:18:40,510 --> 02:18:45,590
Letter K was a duplicate of the letter I that was already there.

1578
02:18:55,270 --> 02:18:57,710
On page 39, on line 9,

1579
02:18:57,710 --> 02:19:06,100
we added professional services to the list of types of procurement and the same on line 17.

1580
02:19:12,980 --> 02:19:24,640
On page 40 section 1104 change orders starting at line 15, we modified line 16 adding categories

1581
02:19:24,640 --> 02:19:35,180
general just titles. We added general requirements permitted uses. We modified and added letter C

1582
02:19:35,180 --> 02:19:42,240
starting at 25. We basically reverted the whole section so there's modification

1583
02:19:43,440 --> 02:19:47,820
saying prohibitive scope changes, a change order should not be used to add or modify

1584
02:19:47,820 --> 02:19:52,420
goods or services that are not reasonably related to the original scope of the

1585
02:19:52,420 --> 02:19:58,720
contract. And on the following page, page 41 it continues to discuss purchase

1586
02:19:58,720 --> 02:19:59,900
disorders as determined by the

1587
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:07,320
Manager, such good works are sure this shall require a separate procurement of an applicable exception, so the competitive procurement.

1588
02:20:09,540 --> 02:20:29,940
The sections all the way through on page 41 was a complete rewrite of the section but there were no modifications to the requirements. It was just making it clearer because the interpretation was often hard to understand whenever we brought, we were requiring a change.

1589
02:20:29,940 --> 02:20:35,820
order to come to Council for approval. On page 42 it continues.

1590
02:20:40,100 --> 02:20:42,900
We deleted it on starting

1591
02:20:42,900 --> 02:20:51,480
on page 42 line 26 through 27 following on page 43. We deleted the whole original

1592
02:20:51,480 --> 02:20:55,420
section of the change orders since it was a complete rewrite.

1593
02:21:04,240 --> 02:21:05,200
That is it.

1594
02:21:07,550 --> 02:21:08,130
Any questions?

1595
02:21:09,170 --> 02:21:10,090
Thank you.

1596
02:21:11,210 --> 02:21:18,370
Anybody have any questions for in or do you?

1597
02:21:19,530 --> 02:21:22,790
If we can go back to the recommend staff recommendations page because I think that's

1598
02:21:22,790 --> 02:21:28,570
what we had to go back to now that we know that the changes are in the resolution.

1599
02:21:32,850 --> 02:21:33,850
Could you repeat that?

1600
02:21:33,990 --> 02:21:34,250
I'm sorry.

1601
02:21:35,110 --> 02:21:41,430
They need to go back to the staff recommendation for this item because there's four different pieces

1602
02:21:41,430 --> 02:21:43,630
is to that recommendation, this is just one of those pieces.

1603
02:21:44,010 --> 02:21:46,630
Okay, so can we get the staff recommendation

1604
02:21:46,630 --> 02:21:51,490
for the original item 30B back up, is it B?

1605
02:22:00,770 --> 02:22:01,030
All right.

1606
02:22:01,890 --> 02:22:06,250
Okay, and so essentially what we just went over is the number one,

1607
02:22:06,370 --> 02:22:09,190
which is all the changes that were made to the resolution,

1608
02:22:10,010 --> 02:22:12,190
and then in order to adopt those changes,

1609
02:22:12,550 --> 02:22:14,790
we have to do number three, which is the repeal.

1610
02:22:14,930 --> 02:22:15,450
Is that correct?

1611
02:22:15,610 --> 02:22:15,970
That's correct.

1612
02:22:15,970 --> 02:22:23,390
Okay. Okay. And then number four, again, still move forward because that's still be relevant

1613
02:22:23,390 --> 02:22:27,330
whether or not we increase the authority purchase authority, correct?

1614
02:22:28,510 --> 02:22:33,430
Yes. And it's not a change requirement. We already do that. So it would be just a reaffirming.

1615
02:22:33,650 --> 02:22:39,090
And so essentially, the council member, I mean, way is still proposing this is to bring

1616
02:22:39,090 --> 02:22:45,830
number two back for further discussion to the finance committee is that okay I

1617
02:22:45,830 --> 02:22:52,870
understand that so if you want to clarify your motion yeah what you just said no

1618
02:22:52,870 --> 02:23:00,030
I'm kidding then I guess we'll move staff recommendations for one three and

1619
02:23:00,030 --> 02:23:07,490
four directing two to finance committee second review okay everybody clear on

1620
02:23:07,490 --> 02:23:09,350
What the motion is, you have a question?

1621
02:23:09,530 --> 02:23:10,010
I'll turn it on.

1622
02:23:10,230 --> 02:23:20,290
I think going back to my questions earlier, we talked about potentially, because if section 2 is passed,

1623
02:23:21,310 --> 02:23:29,650
I had some questions about coming back more often than like quarterly as opposed to yearly.

1624
02:23:30,130 --> 02:23:30,250
Yes.

1625
02:23:30,250 --> 02:23:38,490
So if we vote on number four to date, do you want number four to say quarterly instead of 12 months?

1626
02:23:39,890 --> 02:23:40,730
Because it depends.

1627
02:23:41,650 --> 02:23:44,690
I'm fine with this saying at 12 months if we don't make the big changes.

1628
02:23:44,950 --> 02:23:53,830
But if we're making changes that are proposed in section two, that's when I would like it to come back to us more often.

1629
02:23:53,830 --> 02:24:00,370
So that's why, for me, in order to say, yeah, I'm good with number four, I have to see what happens with number two.

1630
02:24:03,200 --> 02:24:15,700
So I think maybe if we're bringing it back to Finance Committee and we bring it back, then we could make a new recommendation to bring it back quarterly, or more often depending on what the Finance Committee decides.

1631
02:24:16,700 --> 02:24:17,020
That's fine.

1632
02:24:17,260 --> 02:24:17,360
Okay.

1633
02:24:17,740 --> 02:24:17,920
Okay.

1634
02:24:18,900 --> 02:24:19,880
Everybody clear on that?

1635
02:24:20,360 --> 02:24:20,560
All right.

1636
02:24:20,900 --> 02:24:22,260
So go ahead and vote please.

1637
02:24:29,220 --> 02:24:30,400
Motion here's unanimous.

1638
02:24:30,880 --> 02:24:31,240
Thank you.

1639
02:24:31,240 --> 02:24:34,160
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your patience, appreciate that.

1640
02:24:34,980 --> 02:24:42,300
All right, item number 41, I will call on our city attorney, please to report on our closed session decisions.

1641
02:24:43,140 --> 02:24:45,740
Thank you mayor, there are no approval actions this time.

1642
02:24:46,060 --> 02:24:49,840
All right, thank you, council members, any items for future agenda?

1643
02:24:50,520 --> 02:24:58,660
Yes mayor, I have an item I'd like to request that we establish a three member council working group on artificial intelligence strategy and policy.

1644
02:24:58,660 --> 02:24:59,920
with the appointments.

1645
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:28,640
This brought back to council at our September 15th meeting. I envision the working group taking a comprehensive look at AI, not only policy governing the city's use of artificial intelligence, but also the broader implications for economic development, workforce development, data centers, infrastructure, land use, energy, and water, cybersecurity, education, and our local economy. These issues cross the jurisdictions of several of our standing committees. So I think it working group is the best way to develop a comprehensive strategy.

1646
02:25:28,640 --> 02:25:34,980
Once that work is complete, the recommendations proposed framework would come back to the full council for consideration.

1647
02:25:35,660 --> 02:25:45,980
All right. Thank you. Anybody else? Any other items? All right. Thank you. We will see you all on September 15th, I think. Yeah. Okay. Bye-bye. We are adjourned.