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A very good evening.

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Back back, this is the regularly scheduled city council meeting in city of Backeville.

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It's Tuesday, June 9, 26, 6pm.

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May I have a roll?

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Council agency authority member, Socton.

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Here.

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Here.

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Temperature.

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Wiley.

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Here.

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Greenout.

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Vice-nervice chair.

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Sola.

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Mayor chair.

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Here.

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I do believe the vice mayor is attempting to be on the line tonight.

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So we'll figure that out.

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All right.

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We did not have close session.

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So what I would like to do now is if you're able to please rise for a moment of silence followed by the pledge.

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Please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

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Can people be bubbly for which it stands?

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Why nation?

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I'm now indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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All right.

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So we'll move on to approval of the agenda.

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Any changes to tonight's agenda?

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No changes, Mayor.

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All right.

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With that, do I have a motion?

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We have a motion a second.

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All in favor.

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Actually, I can't do that because we've got an online.

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So we're going to have to roll calls on that.

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So nice.

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Nice.

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Nice shirt.

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Nice, Mayor.

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I love it.

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So we'll go ahead and do a roll call on everything tonight.

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Councilmember Staffton.

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Yes.

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Councilmember Ritchie.

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Councilmember Chapman.

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Councilmember Prima.

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Councilmember Wiley.

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Vice Mayor Silva.

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We can hear him.

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And for the audience.

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There'll be an item on tonight's agenda, which really is going to be a change.

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And so what you're starting to see is we will be adjusting.

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And so we have instead of just a dial in tonight.

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The Vice Mayor is also testing the fact that this will be a new system that you will see presentations.

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And those who will be attending online in the future.

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So just bear with us with some of the technical difficulties tonight.

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We'll move on to reports of the city council.

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And I am looking for the microphones.

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And I don't see anything.

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Chorick to the back room.

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I don't have anything on my screen as far as microphones.

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Like I said, this is a dry run.

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So here we go.

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We're going to have to do it the old fashioned way.

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You have to look down.

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And I'm just going to have to manage this.

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Any member of the council reporting anything out tonight.

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You just have to.

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So I'm going to go with the.

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Council member, gentlemen.

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Thank you.

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Let's see.

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Let's see.

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Let's see.

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I'm going to try.

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I'm going to try.

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I'm going to try this.

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And see if it's you.

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There's no names.

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So we are.

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Speaking list.

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Let's.

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Good evening, everyone.

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I really don't have anything to report out on.

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There was a two by two Travis.

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I'm going to find school just two by two meeting that I was not able to attend

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break down communication there.

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But I would like to ask the council if we could adjourn

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in public thoughts for the family and the youth that was killed don't seem yet

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a graduation that's last week.

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Yes, it's fine.

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We're also adjourn in memory of the.

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Of the student.

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No, no, actually of the ecology employee that was killed this last week.

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But we can also add that to the next.

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Please don't.

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I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Okay, anyone else?

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I'll be trying to.

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I'll probably fast.

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Just attended the TCC's Travis community consortium.

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It was more of update in regards to kind of some of the work on a big macro project.

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Regional regional event.

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In regards to energy, just the base.

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And a few things outside of the presentation by buzzos was pretty interesting.

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The big things stuck to me was still the out.

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The hand up and request for the communities to help the base with one of those important items.

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It's helping their children and youth and daycare.

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I think it sounds crazy, but that was one of the biggest concerns with two wars going.

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It's supporting the people the base and daycare and find a way to help support in the community.

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I'm shout-out to our fire department for executing amazing burn as one is not going so well.

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So I'm very proud.

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You practice practice.

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Be perfection.

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And so a lot of respect for how they did it flawless.

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The last one is.

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I got a call for my.

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I'll have a my boss my wife.

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And I got to hide you list the meal the day.

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I'm driving down main.

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I'm a mystery.

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Montavista.

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It was a mess.

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The cones are out.

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And all people I see this car park the mills street.

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Literally mills street.

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It was our chief and police.

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And I just honked new wave.

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And like for me.

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That was the end to the sys of what back was all about.

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It's not about machines, the cities, the buildings.

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It's the people.

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And when I saw our chief pulled over and on the spot.

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Just jumped in.

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It was a cool scene.

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I'm a way to my honey to list.

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So thank you.

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And it's just reminds you.

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It's back.

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It's about the people's not the machines.

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The building equipment.

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It makes.

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It makes.

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It makes.

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May Madamแลbon.

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I just can't wait to ask for the call.

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Thank you.

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People.

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Sir.

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Well, ladies.

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A man contact

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How can I ask for guests?

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Can I ask for the number?

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Please.

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Navier.

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Cool.

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Can I ask.

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A person.

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I think it's about hearing calls.

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Me.

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As well as Councilwoman Dawson from Sassum will be on that panel.

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So if anybody has questions about that, please reach out.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Just a couple of quick things.

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Councilmember Richie mentioned the child care issue and I was on a Zoom call through

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CalCities a week ago and it was something that we started at the last meeting.

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Just a group of people that I want to see what can we do to improve child care through

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the region.

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And so I talked about the base too.

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So if there's things that come up or if you know any great things, suggestions for child care,

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I can work on that committee through that.

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And then tomorrow morning we have the yellow Solana air quality meeting, which we will finally

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prove the the grants that I mentioned last time.

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And then as a fun thing I got to attend the 20 to 150 years for a heroist or

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history at the Great Development Freedom Center a couple of weeks ago.

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Many of you are also there, but it was a great event.

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And then fourth of all, does anyone else, can you get the agenda on your thing?

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Because my agenda keeps just saying,

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So we've got, so while we're testing the level, you've had enough.

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Okay, so you're not allowed to, so you're not allowed to work.

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Okay, so hopefully we will be able to get them up then.

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Well, I'm going to ask you, and I'm going to try to report the agenda that this is, you can troubles you.

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Okay, so.

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Well, this is important.

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So.

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Good evening Mayor.

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Mayor, vice mayor, council members and community members. I do have three key announcements.

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Do welcome three of our newest staff members.

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We're thrilled to welcome Heather Zuk to the city attorney's office as our newest assistant city attorney.

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She fills the vacancy that was left by the retirement of our beloved Melinda Stewart.

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Bringing over 25 years of legal experience spanning both public and private sectors.

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And most recently she was with Cal fire and she arrives with a wealth of knowledge and breadth of experience.

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Which will complement our team and strengthen our city attorney's office ability to serve the legal needs for the city.

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Is Heather here if you can just raise your hand.

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Thank you.

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Also our assistant public work director Robert Armillo.

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He brings over 30 years of engineering experience.

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Most recently serving as the city engineer for city of Tracy and assistant director of public works for the city of Richmond.

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He has extensive expertise in project design and delivery as well as working with private development.

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Robert, are you here?

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Thank you.

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Welcome.

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And also last but not the least our new assistant finance director shall be Miller and if you can raise your hand please.

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She has over 10 plus years of financial and municipal financial experience in budgeting financial reporting and auditing.

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And she previously served as chief fiscal administrative officer for the Yolo County.

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And she started her government career here at Salana County about a decade ago.

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So welcome new team members.

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That's my report.

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Welcome to you all.

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You're joining I think of a fabulous team and so we're excited for you to bring your experience and also to help sharpen our skills as well.

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So thank you for joining us.

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With that I'll go ahead and move on.

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We do not have a presentation tonight.

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So any member of the council or actually.

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Vice Mayor Sylvera you on the line.

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All right.

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All right.

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We'll go ahead and move on to consent calendar.

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Is there any member of the council or the public wishing to pull a nine for discussion.

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So 9 a through 9 f do I have a motion.

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Motion to agree.

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Second of a motion a second roll call.

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Council member.

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Red team.

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Council member.

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Tettman.

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Yes.

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Council member.

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Yes.

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Council member Wiley.

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Yes.

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Council member.

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Yes.

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Vice Mayor Sylva.

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Yes.

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Chair.

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Yes.

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We'll go ahead and we'll move on to business from the floor.

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This is not for 20 for the public to address the council and 9.

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That are not on the agenda.

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But that are in our jurisdiction of purview.

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Give you three minutes.

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So come share please come forward.

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And just bear with me because I can't control that mic.

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So I'm going to ask our team who's listening to there you go.

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So maybe you have to control the mic.

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Sir.

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I may never let it turn off.

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Okay.

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Council members.

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Okay.

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I know you don't want to hear from me.

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Three minutes.

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Take a nap.

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Okay.

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Last week.

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I got a little.

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He did and baby said something.

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So a little more harshly than was effective.

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I spent 22 years in the in the fleet.

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And 18 years locked up in counting jail.

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Maybe I'm not the most.

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I'm not going to be the most nice person when I get heated and talk about things.

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But I'm going to talk about the same thing again.

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Here's our condensed version of the county staff report from 2024.

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That talks about how much California forever will cost taxpayers.

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Billions of dollars, $49 billion just in infrastructure cost.

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$2.7 billion in the loss of Travis Air Force base, which would likely happen.

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And here's the billions of dollars and years it would take to actually put in a shipyard at Collinsville,

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which is once again from the county staff reported 2024.

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None of this has changed.

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No one from California forever wants to address this because it's real.

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They've never ever addressed it.

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This is a neat flyer.

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They sent to actually to my wife about a month or two ago talking about the Solano shipyard.

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Okay, we've gone through this before.

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There is no way that anybody is building ships that are not built by the government on the west coast of the United States.

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The only people building merchant ships in the United States is either nascoe in San Diego or Hauwa,

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which is at the old Philly shipyard on the east coast.

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And they build them under the as auspices of the US Maritime Administration.

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And the only reason those four or five ships a year get built is because of the Jones Act,

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which we will not go into right now because I know that you don't care.

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The point is this is that there is not not going to be a shipyard here in Solano County.

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So anyone who told you that that somehow somehow there's that

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Sardonic or Seronic is going to build anything here is lying to you.

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They've already invested over $300 million into Franklin, Louisiana where they bought an existing shipyard.

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And if they want to expand further, they got room in Franklin.

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If they wanted another shipyard, hey, guess what, there's 300 shipyards up and down the Mississippi River, the Gulf Coast.

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That all have the same capability.

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They're not coming to Solano County.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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As it.

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Okay.

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My point though is is that California forever is nothing more than a land company.

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They don't build anything.

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They'd market property.

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Thank you.

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That's it.

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Seeing no one else.

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I'll go ahead and close business from the floor and we'll move on to the public hearings.

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We have.

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Item 11A.

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Manchunford.

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Yes.

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This is a resolution to affirm the Main Street entertainment zone is exempt from environmental review.

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President to the California Environmental Quality Act guidelines and of ordinance.

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To amend title 12 of the backfill.

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Municipal code by adding chapter 12.34 entitled entertainment zones to create new policies, procedures, and standards for establishing and regulating entertainment zones within the city of Africa.

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And associate planner to Mayor Powell and.

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Could you tell it, but director, you're more as are here to present.

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Mayor, before we move on, if you need these stuff on the tablets, we might need five minutes recess to reset them.

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Is everyone on a reset now or could you want to do it after.

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We'll take five minutes.

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We'll go ahead and we'll just we'll reset all reset this computer.

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So you got a five minute break.

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So thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right, we're going to go ahead and reconvene the meeting. It is 6.42 and we will pick

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up where we left off on the item that is, I believe, 11.8. We'll go ahead and get started. Good

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evening Mayor Carly, members of the Council and all those in attendance. Tonight's request

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is to amend Title 12 of the City of Vacabill Municipal Code by adding Chapter 12.34 entitled

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Entertainment Zones to create new policies, procedures, and standards for establishing and

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regulating entertainment zones in the City of Vacabill. And for a brief overview on this project,

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we presented the topic to the City Council on January 13 where staff was directed to proceed

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with outreach and developing the program. This program was authorized by SB 1969 and 2024,

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which authorized the cities to establish entertainment zones, which are areas that allow

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alcohol to be consumed on public streets sidewalks or public rights avoid within a zone

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boundary. Entertainment Zones typically are comprised of two components, which include an

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ordinance and a management plan. And the goal of Entertainment Zones programs, particularly

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the one for Vacabill, that we developed, is to activate the mainstream and prominent public

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spaces in downtown Vacabill, increased revenue for downtown businesses, catalyzed a broader

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economic stimulus in the City, create vibrant hope, expaces, increased social activity, and enhanced

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community culture. Here is the project timeline. As I mentioned, the project kicked off in January,

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we began outreach in early February. We conducted two community engagement meetings in February as

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well. We held a study session with the City Council on March 24th, and we posted a public review

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draft of the ordinance and management plan. And we went to City Council on May 19th. And here

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we are on June 9th for the first hearing with the City Council. And we will turn again on June 23rd

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for a second hearing. And the Entertainment Zones or an Arts and Management Plan is anticipated to be

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in effect on July 23rd should the City Council pass it. As for our approach for the Entertainment

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Zones program, it is called the Main Street Entertainment Zones due to its location. We are currently

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proposing to have a pilot program, which will have Entertainment Zones operations run for the

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2020-26 Creek World Cancer Series. This will sunset in January 1st on January 1st, 2020-27,

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unless the City Council will work to approve an extension. The ordinance has several requirements for

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Entertainment Zones operations. Everything will be conducted through a special event permit application,

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where applicants will be able to check that they would like the Entertainment Zones operations

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occur. A management plan will be required to be submitted, which we have prepared for your review.

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Entertainment Zones hours are generally allowed from a window, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. but this will be

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further restricted and scrutinized with the submission of a special event permit application for each event.

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General liability insurance will be required and there are provisions for violations and penalties

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should there be any new senses or behavior that violates the ordinance. A biennial review will be

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required to be presented to the City Council every two years to describe how Entertainment Zones operations

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are occurring, addressing any problems that may arise and to come back with any modifications I need to be made.

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As for the management plan, the management plan outlines the fact that this is a pilot program

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that identifies an Entertainment Zones lead will be the main staff liaison or contact between staff

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and businesses that would like to participate in the program. The management plan will identify the

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participating businesses and the City approval will be required that will identify new events,

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activation and programming and it will also identify health and safety measures generally and then

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maybe further scrutinized and added with a submitto of a security plan when the application is submitted.

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This is the Entertainment Zones boundary that is proposed for the pilot program and for after the pilot

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program as well for events that would like to include Andrews Park. When we last met with City Council,

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it was limited to this area here just a long main street and including the park. It has been

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expanded to include this portion of merchant street here extending down to Parker due to feedback that we

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received from the Planning Commission and City Council. Similarly, there is an alternative boundary

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for events that would like to operate but not include Andrews Park and this is what that map looks like

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and City Council requests. We also identified that the town square could be called out to have operations

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only occur in that specific area as well. And again, just to recap some of the outreach methods that

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we underwent in this initiative to community meetings where held at the McBride Senior Center in February.

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We went through an extensive and thorough outreach program including Flyers, posting on the City Calendar,

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newsletter, social media posts, creating a project web page, going door to door with handouts and conducting

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stakeholder interviews with businesses and organizations downtown. We did receive survey responses and

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these have been updated as of April, but 29 out of 37 were in favor of the entertainment zone program.

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There were some concerns in comments such as street closures, monitoring patrons and public safety

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and business participation and causing the streets with alcohol. As for street closures, no additional closures

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are being proposed at this time only events with existing closures would be considered after the pilot program.

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As for monitoring patrons, this will occur with a police assessment with a management plan on a case

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by case basis. There could be several strategies such as hiring private security or having staff that

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will monitor to see who is wearing their wristband when patrons come in and out.

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So for the City Council study session that was held on March 24th, we did hear from you all several

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concerns and comments. The first about the pilot program if we can end it early if there are any issues

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and yes that is an option if we're noticing problems within the first two events or so then we can

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go ahead and cancel operations. As for the application process, one application is required per event,

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permits don't exceed one calendar year. There is no cost to apply, but a fee is being considered based on

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events size and other conditions. And as for town square events, as I mentioned, some events that

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are focused in the square should have operations zones restricted to this area and staff updated the management

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plan with this option. For enforcement of zone operations and any ordinances or local regulations,

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the police department has a full authority to enforce all local laws and regulations related to

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alcohol consumption. Businesses that create a new sense or violate regulations may be excluded from

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zone operations, find or face other civil penalties. And again, as for the boundary, we heard from

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me all that we'd like us to expand it. And we can consider expanding it further or creating new zones in the

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future as well. The planning commission had similar concerns and comments. They also were interested in

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expanding the zone boundary, possibly exploring new zones in the city in the future. So that is something

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we can start and look into and how will monitor safety and fiscal impacts to city staff and resources.

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So that would be tracked in the city council as well. And they suggested that we consider adding fees

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for business participation. And lastly, to track the benefits of the program, see if we can track

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revenue generated during zone operations for each of the businesses that are participating as well as

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others that are in the area. They see an uptick in business activity. And as for the sequel for this project,

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it is exempt under the common sense exemption. No new regulations will be created. No, the new

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regulations, excuse me, will not create new impacts and regulations will require project specific analysis.

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And to conclude the city council hold a second reading on June 23rd, 2026. And the ordinance

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management plan will be effective on July 23rd, 2026. And before I move to the recommendation,

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a letter was submitted to you all today from the downtown back of the business improvement district.

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I would like to note that many of the comments and questions were addressed in our previous study session

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with the city council, but we can revisit any of the comments or questions that are in the letter.

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The only one that was not discussed previously was they suggested using a town square as the pilot

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area instead of the Creek Walk concert series. There's already an existing town square program,

507
00:58:52,880 --> 00:59:02,640
town square music series, and state law allowed an extension of the current alcohol activity to occur.

508
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:09,360
So based on staff's assessment, we think that Creek Walk concert series would be a better opportunity

509
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:15,120
to assess a new program and see how this would really operate with a broader boundary.

510
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:23,040
So our recommendation is to, by simple motion, recommend that the city council, excuse me,

511
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:27,360
this is for the city council too, adopt the resolution of the city council of the city of

512
00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:34,400
including the entertainment zone ordinances exempt from environmental review, pursuant to section 15061 B3

513
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:39,680
of the California Environmental Quality App Guidelines and introduced an ordinance of the city council

514
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:46,320
of the city of the city of Vacabill, amending the Vacabill Municipal Code by adding chapter 12.34 entitled Entertainment Zones

515
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:52,640
to create new policies, procedures, and standards for establishing and regulating entertainment zones with the city of Vacabill.

516
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:55,840
Any questions or comments?

517
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,840
Thank you. This is a public hearing, so I want to check and see if the council has any

518
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:04,000
Any questions before I open up to the public to start the city?

519
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,000
Any questions?

520
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,000
All right, go ahead.

521
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,000
Thank you.

522
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,000
Thank you for the updates.

523
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:16,000
On the security, have you mentioned doing your report about possibly obtaining

524
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:22,000
traffic security, would that be at the expense of the vendors participating in the

525
01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:27,000
entertainment zone and not a cost to the city?

526
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,000
That's correct. It would be at the expense of the business owners.

527
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:41,000
City staff could explore some other alternatives because the city does hire its own security for some events.

528
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:44,000
But that would be assessed on a case by case basis.

529
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,000
Okay. Thank you.

530
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:50,000
All right. Thank you very much.

531
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:55,000
Can I have a customer, Vice Mayor Silva, can you hear me?

532
01:00:55,000 --> 01:01:01,000
Yes. I just want to ask if you had any questions before I open up to the public for this public hearing.

533
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:04,000
I just need a two questions.

534
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:10,000
One, and two parts to what are measurements of the expense of measurements of not successfully?

535
01:01:10,000 --> 01:01:15,000
And then number two, I need a little bit more clarification on the accounts for where area.

536
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:19,000
They want the biggest challenges there is that when there isn't event there.

537
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,000
There are different borders that are going to look at.

538
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:30,000
And I think there's, you know, two goals out of this is to make sure that the business that are put on event there,

539
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:35,000
whatever event that a lot more easy to do that and a lot less cumbersome.

540
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:38,000
So, I just need a clarification on those two items.

541
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:40,000
Thank you.

542
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:45,000
For the first item, some ideas that we received from both the planning commission,

543
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:51,000
as well as a downtown back of a business improvement district are the number of attendees and participants

544
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:55,000
are hosting an uptick and that people want to come out and participate.

545
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:00,000
Public safety, so looking at the number of code enforcement or police responses,

546
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:04,000
provisitor, that's a metric that we could use to monitor safety.

547
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:13,000
The economic impact could be assessed by the amount of sales generated for all businesses in the operation.

548
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:20,000
And the downtown back of a business improvement district also had a good idea of looking at any news,

549
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:26,000
or at least if there's any negative coverage or a concern from the public moderating those as well,

550
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,000
and presenting those.

551
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:35,000
And Council Member Silva, could you please reiterate your second question for me one more time?

552
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,000
I mean, we'll confuse on the town square.

553
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:48,000
I think the ultimate goal is to make that much more streamlined and easy for those neighboring businesses put on in that particular space.

554
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:52,000
The only clarification is to help ease that.

555
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:55,000
Those boundaries for their, some of the,

556
01:02:55,000 --> 01:03:01,000
those help ease the boundaries for open up the boundaries and in what way to help ease up that process.

557
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,000
Thank you.

558
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:04,000
Thank you, Vice-Morselberg.

559
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,000
I'll take a stab at answering this question.

560
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:12,000
So currently under law that the State of California has that is good to 29.

561
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:17,000
The town square is able to put on the events like they do on Thursday nights within the boundaries of the square.

562
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:21,000
And they don't need to go through an entertainment zone process for that.

563
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:23,000
That's a standard special event permit process.

564
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:25,000
It's not an entertainment zone.

565
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:28,000
So it's not subject to some of these new program requirements.

566
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:32,000
And that will be able to be allowed under State Law through 29.

567
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,000
If the council was forward with this ordinance and program,

568
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:43,000
if there was a desire for an event organizer to do an event in town square and create an entertainment zone that goes beyond the boundaries of the square,

569
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:50,000
this would allow them to do that through this special event permit process.

570
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Thank you.

571
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,000
That's when we're stuck.

572
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,000
Thank you.

573
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Thank you for the presentation.

574
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,000
I just, you're like, it's on.

575
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,000
Is it okay?

576
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:01,000
I think can you hear me?

577
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,000
All right.

578
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:03,000
I'll speak loudly.

579
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:06,000
Can you go back to, yes, where the zones are.

580
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:12,000
This like area right now that's highlighted orange on the screen.

581
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:19,000
Is it all or nothing or can that be shrunk down into subcategories within that square?

582
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:25,000
Or do we have to have it open on merchant street if we only want to open on Main Street?

583
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,000
Yeah, that's an option that we can, that we can do.

584
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:40,000
So that could be added on today or is that included in what you're presenting.

585
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:47,000
Through a special event permit to utilize some area within this gold area and with an entertainment zone activated,

586
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,000
that organizer would show the boundaries of where the zone would be.

587
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:51,000
So it's not an all or nothing.

588
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,000
They don't have to activate merchant if that's not part of their plan.

589
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:59,000
But they'd be presenting an operation plan, a safety plan, a boundary plan, etc.

590
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,000
That would address the area that they were going to utilize.

591
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,000
Perfect.

592
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:04,000
Thank you.

593
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:09,000
And those could be demarcated during the actual events with Fencing and Signage and Things.

594
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,000
All right, thank you very much. I'm going to go ahead and open the door.

595
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:14,000
I have one more.

596
01:05:14,000 --> 01:05:15,000
Sorry.

597
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:16,000
Council member.

598
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:17,000
Wiley.

599
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,000
Thank you.

600
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,000
Thanks for the information.

601
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:24,000
And I just have a question about the whole, how is it all work.

602
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:34,000
So if we get to prove to July then will the Creekwalk have to apply for the whole thing or is Creekwalk in it?

603
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,000
Because we've been talking about Creekwalk.

604
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,000
That is a great question. Council member Wiley.

605
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:49,000
So we're, if the Council approves the ordinance of the program and the second reading happens, that allows for Creekwalk to have an entertainment zone.

606
01:05:49,000 --> 01:05:59,000
But the city would be looking for a partner to spearhead adding the entertainment zone to Creekwalk and to work through logistics of that first entertainment zone permit.

607
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:04,000
And that's something that following tonight's council meeting is the Council introduces this ordinance.

608
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:14,000
Our new economic development manager will be partnering with planning and other staff to really do a deeper dive into the logistics for this year's Creekwalk series.

609
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:18,000
And so I don't go to Creekwalk very often.

610
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:21,000
So but alcohol is sold at Creekwalk is that correct.

611
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,000
And I thought it was only like in a certain area.

612
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:33,000
So is the area expanded to all of Andrews Park like the blue sign up there or are they still only allowed to have alcohol in a certain spot.

613
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:40,000
Still the same boundary. This is the current boundary for the Creekwalk Concert series. And there's no proposed change for this program.

614
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:43,000
So the alcohol can be throughout the park then is that correct?

615
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:49,000
No, just within this blue area. There's, these are currently fence boundaries. Yeah.

616
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:53,000
Okay. So that's basically the down before you up the hill to then that park.

617
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:54,000
Okay.

618
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:55,000
All right. Thank you.

619
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:59,000
And I just have the time frame, you know, 10 to 10.

620
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:05,000
It seems like it would be hard to, okay, now it's 10 o'clock to really crack down on that.

621
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:10,000
So it seems like it's going to be a bigger monitoring program.

622
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,000
Problem that it might be.

623
01:07:12,000 --> 01:07:18,000
Especially if they do have, you know, in Thursday night event and then a Friday night event and then Saturday night.

624
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:21,000
And, you know, people are going to think, oh, I do that.

625
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:29,000
I have a wristband and just, I mean, so it has not all work with who does the wristband things that all part of everyone has.

626
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:36,000
And whoever's participating has to figure out what their color is and one night is one color and one night is another.

627
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:44,000
Correct. Yes. When they submit for this special event permanent application, they'll need to note all that have that information ready for staff to review.

628
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:52,000
There will be unique wristbands and colors for each event. So no one's using old wristbands and things like that.

629
01:07:52,000 --> 01:08:07,000
The police department will work with the business owners as well as entertainment's only to help identify monitoring strategies as well to ensure that no one is consuming alcohol.

630
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:19,000
So I'm glad it's a pilot program so that we can work through this and see if it does indeed need all the goals without overburdening the police department or the business owners to try to monitor that.

631
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:23,000
Thanks.

632
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:25,000
All right. Now I'm going to.

633
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,000
Does anyone else have a question?

634
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:32,000
All right. I won't go ahead and open up the the public hearing to the public.

635
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:47,000
And with the bid. I just have a couple of questions. I think the letter was it was fun to write.

636
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:58,000
But you'd mentioned fee for businesses. So is that a fee that the businesses who are already paying a bid fee have to pay to be a part of the event or is it the business that's putting on the event.

637
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:04,000
And how will the amount of trees be managed in Creekwalk? It's such a vast area with a lot of.

638
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:13,000
The yesterdays has to put up a fence. We have to put up a fence for certain ABC events. So what does that look like on an ongoing week to week basis.

639
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:22,000
And currently there are no bars or restaurants on merchant streets. So I like that is being included, but just might want to keep that in mind as well.

640
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:32,000
And again, going back to keeping it in town square, there are five bars and restaurants in town square that will have viable changes.

641
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:36,000
They will be the ones who easily be able to.

642
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:48,000
Measure whether or not this is going to be a successful business rather than at Creekwalk. Now you've got people walking from town square where most of the restaurants are all the way down to Creekwalk.

643
01:09:48,000 --> 01:10:04,000
And then by more in over consumption becomes an issue. And so just kind of want to think through all of those things and how best we can help manage the program.

644
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:10,000
All right, seeing no one else from the public, I'm going to go ahead and bring this public hearing back to the council.

645
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:16,000
And if there's maybe if we could just address that, I think there needs to be some clarity.

646
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:24,000
The boundaries that can exist are the broad scope of what could be applied for.

647
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:32,000
But it could be a small town square. So I think it would address that. So it's inclusive of the broader boundary.

648
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:41,000
And so I don't believe from what I'm hearing that it would preclude anyone from saying other than the events on Thursday night.

649
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:48,000
There's the opportunity to draw some different boundaries that is maybe around towns where that doesn't impact.

650
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,000
Especially if you are a vendor saying who's going to pay for the security.

651
01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:56,000
Doesn't really need to be all of downtown all of Main Street all of our district.

652
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:00,000
But it could be. But they would have to go through the application process.

653
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:03,000
Is that correct? Can you just bring some clarity to that?

654
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:07,000
I just want to bring clarity to the point that's related and also related to a comment.

655
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:11,000
There are costs associated with activating the entertainment zone.

656
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:15,000
And those costs are determined once a boundary is figured out.

657
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:21,000
And once it's looked at where are the barricades, where are the signs, how much of this cups costs,

658
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:26,000
those wristbands, and there could be security requirements that security had to be paid for.

659
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:34,000
To put it clearly whoever's promoting that entertainment zone component is responsible for those costs.

660
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:40,000
How those costs are paid, whether it's the bid paying for those costs to help out their businesses,

661
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:44,000
whether the business owners themselves are contributing toward those costs.

662
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:49,000
That's going to be kind of up to the organizer and the activator of the zone.

663
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,000
I think as a staff we're willing to work with people and figure things out,

664
01:11:52,000 --> 01:12:00,000
but we've brought you a program that does depend on a partner to partner with the city to bring the resources to make the zone happen.

665
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:08,000
So for example, the bid itself could be working with the businesses in a smaller area around town square,

666
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:13,000
where there are extra restaurants in bar, there's a concentration of them to say,

667
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,000
this is a boundary that we could create.

668
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:19,000
I think that flexibility is there.

669
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:26,000
And I just want to make that clear to the bid that it doesn't preclude the bid from activating the town square.

670
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:28,000
Is that correct?

671
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:32,000
At this point, there is no need for an entertainment zone to activate town square,

672
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:36,000
and it's current configuration because there's already a state law that's allowing that.

673
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:40,000
Okay, but if they wanted to expand what is that town square, then they would.

674
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:41,000
Okay.

675
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:45,000
Yeah, if they wanted to then they could they can identify that in that occasion.

676
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:54,000
And and also in the pilot, I know that when there are the creek walks, there's fencing up and it's put up and then it's taken down.

677
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,000
But yet a town square, not everything is about fencing.

678
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:04,000
It's about barricades and sometimes they're invisible barriers, but it's like do not go beyond this point,

679
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,000
which could affect the costs, right?

680
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:10,000
You don't necessarily need fencing if you're creating an entertainment zone.

681
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,000
You don't want it to feel like I can't.

682
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,000
I don't want to go there because there's fences around it.

683
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:18,000
You want it to actually be appealing for people to come.

684
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,000
So not everything is going to have a fence around it.

685
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:28,000
I just want to be clear that a lot of the parameters of implementing the zones based on the program, but also based on input from the Faculty of Police Department.

686
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:29,000
All right.

687
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:31,000
Thank you very much.

688
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:32,000
I don't have any further questions.

689
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:35,000
Does anyone else on the council have any comments?

690
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:36,000
Yes.

691
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:37,000
Council member Fremel.

692
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,000
Yes.

693
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:46,000
So the additional security cost would be $1348 which would go on to.

694
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:51,000
Those costs would be incurred by the Creekwalk, right?

695
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:54,000
Then $9,435.

696
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:56,000
Does that sound right?

697
01:13:56,000 --> 01:14:05,000
At this point, those the city does not have a budget to pay for the costs associated with adding an entertainment zone to Creekwalk.

698
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:09,000
So if the council adopts this ordinance introduces it, it gets adopted.

699
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,000
And we have this program.

700
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,000
The city would be either looking for a partner to cover those costs.

701
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:19,000
Or we'd have to come back to council with a budget augmentation for the city to cover this costs.

702
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Okay.

703
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:21,000
Yep.

704
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:27,000
And then the security that we're talking about, that's security for the individual businesses that want to participate.

705
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:30,000
So they have to have additional security.

706
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:39,000
It's an estimate about what the city staff feel it would take to ensure safety within the zone that incorporates the Creekwalk and the outer business area.

707
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,000
And it will it will be scrutinized further.

708
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,000
We'd be looked at further if we find a partner in a room moving forward.

709
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:53,000
But we want to be transparent with the council in the community that adding an entertainment zone to Creekwalk does have costs that would have to be paid by somebody.

710
01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:54,000
Yeah.

711
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:58,000
I guess the reason that I'm asking this is because I know that.

712
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,000
If in this entertainment zone.

713
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,000
Members own, if people are able to go to town square or to one of the establishments at downtown, by the wristband, by the drink, walk down to Creekwalk. I think that that's kind of the point of this a little bit, because I know that a lot of people have shared with me their frustrations about being at Creekwalk and standing in line for 10 or 15 minutes to get a ticket, and then go over to the beer line and stand for 10 or 15 minutes instead of being out on the dance floor. So I think that's what I was trying to get at that point.

714
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:37,000
But the additional cost, so we don't know what that really is yet. Okay, thank you.

715
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:40,000
That's all. Yeah, Councillor Restoctone.

716
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:59,000
Yeah, so with Creekwalk as a great example, some of the surrounding businesses, if they want to expand into the order zone that's outside of Andrews Park, would they be, would they be able to like piggyback off of the city or would they just for instance?

717
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:09,000
There's like the opera house and the restaurant right there. If they wanted to expand just that short portion, would they have to just cover like the square footage of where they're at?

718
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:20,000
I mean, I guess those are some of the questions that I'm going to, that I have, and then the other question I have is, while the bid can apply, not everybody has to go through the bid for approval to do this correct.

719
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:31,000
The second question is totally correct. This could be an event promoter who comes to the city within event and wants to activate an entertainment zone, that's that's an option. It doesn't have to be the bid.

720
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:46,000
As far as all the detailed logistics of implementing this, and I want, we have our expert on the special event permit process here in the building, but when the special event is proposed in the entertainment zone is activated, really at that point it should be decided who's participating.

721
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:54,000
There's not really a scenario where random other businesses kind of try to jump in. It has to be figured out by the event coordinator in a cohesive fashion.

722
01:16:54,000 --> 01:17:03,000
But again, I think our as a staff were prepared to get into more of the implementation details if we have an ordinance to implement will be diving into that topic.

723
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:10,000
I think what I'm getting at is is we're trying to help the local businesses that are just outside of that operating area in the park.

724
01:17:10,000 --> 01:17:16,000
It would be good if there was some way to notify them and include them if they want to be included, right?

725
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:23,000
And surely if their business is like four down, you probably have to talk to a multitude of different business owners, see if they wanted to contribute.

726
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:28,000
Unless that person just wanted to cover the added expense to expand it outside of the enterprise park.

727
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:36,000
I guess that's I just want to make sure that that's something that we think about and that while we're going through this trial trial period,

728
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:50,000
that we can look at way to maybe not put them on the hook for the entirety of the park with just adding on to it if that's something to come.

729
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,000
All right, thank you.

730
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:58,000
At this time, this would be a good opportunity for someone to make a motion.

731
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,000
We have a motion, a second roll call.

732
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,000
All right, could you comment? Yes. Thanks, Mayor.

733
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:13,000
Sorry, guys. Just looking at it and it's really something that's more of a deterrent to activate our downtown.

734
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:18,000
I think both of me goal is to find ways to activate our downtown.

735
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:23,000
It's a streamlined hypothesis, not at most spirit practice beds.

736
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:33,000
And kind of taking back by just that that level of complexity that's been added to this whole process.

737
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:45,000
So for me, it just sounds like, you know, if our goal is to activate our downtown by providing more foot traffic, more entertainment, supporting our restaurant.

738
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,000
It sounds like we're going to have more of a burden to do that.

739
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,000
Am I wrong?

740
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:53,000
Am I making something here?

741
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:54,000
Okay.

742
01:18:54,000 --> 01:19:01,000
Well, I think let's staff answer that, but I would offer that this allows for the process to do it right now.

743
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,000
It's not, it's not allowed.

744
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:10,000
So this is why it's the pilot, but if staff wants to maybe comment on the vice mayor's comment.

745
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:13,000
Thank you, my vice mayor for that comment.

746
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:31,000
What I would say is that community and economic development staff and the police department have collaborated with a lot of our community members to try to come up with a program, a first year program that balances economic activity and all the excitement of a brand new state law that we're going to test out with public safety.

747
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:43,000
And I think that's why you see, and I understand respect of on this, you see a pretty cautious program that also is implementing some pretty complex state regulations about what the city has to include in the program.

748
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:47,000
So that I would say that's where this is coming from is a cautious approach.

749
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:54,000
Well, still an optimistic one to allow alcohol to be sold in different ways in downtown.

750
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:58,000
So here that here you correctly that street blocks would now be responsible.

751
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,000
There'll be an added cost to put on first and third and third and third and third.

752
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,000
That we can't put on.

753
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,000
So does that mean?

754
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:08,000
Quick walk is happening.

755
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,000
The quick walk is happening.

756
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:11,000
The quick walk is happening.

757
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:17,000
What staff was transparent about in the staff report is if there's a partner that wants to activate the entertainment zone during

758
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:18,000
Quick walk.

759
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:25,000
There are additional costs and they will need to go through the special event permit process to add that and identify funding for that.

760
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:28,000
The quick walk is on as it has been.

761
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:31,000
But where it's included from security.

762
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:36,000
The city is actually included from that added cost.

763
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:43,000
I may need to have the park structure to help me out a little bit here, but there is already security and city resources on Quick walk.

764
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:44,000
There's a budget for Quick walk.

765
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:57,000
The additional security that would be required to operate in their team and zone during Quick walk does not currently have a funding source.

766
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,000
Thank you.

767
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:06,000
And if I understand it right, maybe this will help clarify it.

768
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:15,000
I need to look for a partner to help potentially work through this pilot would likely have to bear the burden of the cost.

769
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:22,000
Unless this comes back to a council within a pilot program to say, here's some ideas that may require some cost.

770
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:26,000
Is the council willing to carry the burden in this particular case?

771
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:35,000
It may be Quick walk or maybe something else, but this allows us to step into the testing of the pilot of the entertainment zone.

772
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,000
There's work to be done in details to be worked through.

773
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:39,000
Is that fair?

774
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:40,000
Okay.

775
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,000
All right.

776
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:42,000
Vice-merceller.

777
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Is that provide some clarity?

778
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:47,000
Yeah, just.

779
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:48,000
It does.

780
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:52,000
But it seems like we should have that kind of clarity flesh out right now.

781
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:57,000
I mean, if there's going to be a huge data cost of security for any event, would by accident,

782
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:01,000
an entertainment zone then, I mean, I guess that's the data we're looking for.

783
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:02,000
It doesn't happen.

784
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:06,000
Or we have both the claim that A is just can't happen to the top security.

785
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:12,000
We'll be here that with some of the other things that people are trying to act to be, you know, get down in our city.

786
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:19,000
So it just sounds like we added a lot more steps to be able to promote, you know, different cultural gains,

787
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:26,000
or whatever it is that also into, you know, the main thing here of alcohol cells.

788
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:28,000
Yeah.

789
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:32,000
Better understand the consequences of the file that I understand, you know, improving property,

790
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,000
that is an open edit point we get a little further along in half.

791
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:39,000
All right.

792
01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:40,000
Yeah.

793
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:41,000
Thank you for your comments.

794
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:42,000
I think I understand it.

795
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:45,000
And this allows us to step into the process.

796
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:51,000
The goal isn't to actually add complication, but we don't even have an entertainment zone right now.

797
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:54,000
So it's moved point for anyone to even apply for it.

798
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,000
We're going to have to learn through this process.

799
01:22:56,000 --> 01:23:01,000
Hopefully that staff can really help guide and direct and partner with our downtown partners.

800
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:08,000
And to make sure that we've got some clarity on on what the first ones might look like.

801
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:15,000
And again, the goal is to create that entertainment zone that activates it and doesn't become an obstacle.

802
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:18,000
So we have a motion in the second.

803
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:19,000
Roll call.

804
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Councilmember Stockton.

805
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,000
Yes.

806
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:23,000
Councilmember Richie.

807
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:24,000
Yes.

808
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,000
Yes.

809
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:26,000
Councilmember Freemouth.

810
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:27,000
Yes.

811
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:28,000
Councilmember Wiley.

812
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:29,000
Yes.

813
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,000
Vice Mayor Silva.

814
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,000
Yeah.

815
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,000
Mayor Carly.

816
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:34,000
Yes.

817
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:35,000
Thank you for that.

818
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:37,000
And we'll do the second.

819
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:40,000
The second reading will come to the council for the next council meeting.

820
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:44,000
It will take 30 days and that's why we'll go into effect.

821
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:45,000
In July.

822
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:46,000
July 23.

823
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,000
July 23.

824
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:50,000
So thank you very much for the presentation.

825
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,000
We'll move on to item 11B.

826
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,000
Madam Chair.

827
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:58,000
11B is a resolution of moving adjustments to the city's service and facility rental fee schedule,

828
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:01,000
including consumer price index and market rate updates.

829
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:06,000
And establishing new parks and recreation fees and management analysts crystal wealthy.

830
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:11,000
And assist finance director Ken Matsumaya are here to present.

831
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:19,000
Good evening, Mr.

832
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:22,000
Mayor, Vice Mayor, and members of the council.

833
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:26,000
This evening, I have a brief presentation regarding updates to the city's service

834
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:31,000
and facility fee schedule for the upcoming fiscal year.

835
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:36,000
The fee schedule is a list of fees that recover all or apart of the cost of providing

836
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,000
city-wide user services.

837
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:41,000
And maintaining the city's rental facilities.

838
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:45,000
Examples include construction permits from community development.

839
01:24:45,000 --> 01:24:50,000
Special police and fire services, as well as facility rentals.

840
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:55,000
The CPI adjustment would not apply to utility rates, business license fees,

841
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:59,000
or taxes that are not part of this schedule.

842
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:04,000
Changes to taxes and utility rates are subject to alternative processes that typically include

843
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,000
voter approval.

844
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:12,000
The service and facility rental fee schedule typically receives annual CPI

845
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:17,000
adjustments to keep pace with the cost of service delivery and facility maintenance.

846
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:22,000
This item was last presented to council on June 25 of 2024.

847
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:26,000
And at that time, we requested a CPI adjustment for one year,

848
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:29,000
because an external fee study was underway.

849
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:35,000
But the request was otherwise consistent with the past practice of being adjusted by 4%

850
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:43,000
which is based on the April 2024 CPI for the San Francisco Oakland Hayward region.

851
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:49,000
This evening, staff is recommending council a crew of a similar two year CPI increase

852
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:55,000
to the service and facility rental fees schedule for fiscal year 25627,

853
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:01,000
which, while a new fee study is completed and public outreach is conducted.

854
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:08,000
A periodic external cost of service or user fee study is a best practice to ensure

855
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:14,000
the city is aware of the true cost of providing the service for each fee and the percentage

856
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:20,000
of cost recovery, which is the best way to ensure that fees do not exceed the reasonable cost

857
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:26,000
of providing a service as required by propositions to 18 and 26.

858
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:32,000
The last comprehensive cost of service study was completed in 2017.

859
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:37,000
And a new study was started in 2022, coming out of the pandemic.

860
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:41,000
And what became evident throughout the fee study process is that a siloed approach

861
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:48,000
that studies cost recovery activities within each department or division rather than across departments

862
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,000
is no longer appropriate for the city of back about.

863
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:55,000
While many efforts were made to update the study to keep pace with an ever changing

864
01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:01,000
organization, the model was not able to reflect city practices around service delivery

865
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:04,000
that had become far more collaborative.

866
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:10,000
Thanks in part to efforts like the citywide development review process improvement initiative,

867
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:12,000
which is nearing completion.

868
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:18,000
While organizational changes and technological advancements like these are necessary and welcome,

869
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:25,000
it does require that studies use a more dynamic model or are completed subsequent to these

870
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:30,000
changes to ensure the conclusions are valid.

871
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:38,000
In addition to the CPI adjustment, the proposed fee schedule for the 26-27 fiscal year includes

872
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:45,000
adjusting parks and recreation fees to align the fee schedule to currently available services and amenities.

873
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:51,000
These include expanding services to include new locations as shown.

874
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:59,000
For example, the alcohol fee was previously available at many locations and would now be available at any

875
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:00,000
permissible location.

876
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:07,000
Likewise, attendance-based facility rental fees, which existed at Lagoon Valley, would now apply to other

877
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:11,000
non-designated park spaces booked for events.

878
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Adjustments and cancellation fees are proposed to be updated to include a $40 booking fee for either

879
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:24,000
and graduated fees for adjustments and cancellations as shown.

880
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:32,000
Currently, renters for fit fees if cancelling within 30 days of the rental date, which would remain unchanged.

881
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:38,000
Finally, the proposed fees schedule includes market rate adjustments rather than CPI.

882
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:45,000
At McBride Senior Center, where rental fees would generally go down approximately 25% to encourage

883
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:53,000
more rentals at this location and market rate adjustments at the back of ill-performing arts theatre to

884
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:58,000
keep the pack competitive with nearby theatres.

885
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:04,000
In addition to the adjustments discussed on the last slide, the following fees would be established for

886
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:12,000
newly available amenities, which include things like a rentable bar cart, kitchen mixer, and outdoor chairs.

887
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:18,000
As shown on the slide, and as further explained in the staff report, and as depicted in the proposed fee schedule.

888
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:24,000
Changes to the structure of parking permits at Lagoon Valley are also proposed, which include

889
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:33,000
moving from a six month pass to an annual pass and offering a discounted parking pass for seniors,

890
01:29:33,000 --> 01:29:37,000
65 and older, which would be $35 per year.

891
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:46,000
Fees for these new services and equipment are being set to make them available to the public as they become available.

892
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:55,000
The recommendation this evening is to apply a two year CPI adjustment, which is approximately 4.95%

893
01:29:55,000 --> 01:30:00,000
to the upcoming fiscal year and adjust the parks and recreation fees as to.

894
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:09,000
If approved, the changes would go into effect, on July 1st of 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter,

895
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:14,000
we are not requesting a CPI adjustment for subsequent fiscal years.

896
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:21,000
An external fee study will be completed to evaluate the cost of service delivery, and percentage of cost recovery,

897
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:26,000
and result will be presented to council upon completion.

898
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,000
That concludes the presentation.

899
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:32,000
We'd be happy to take any questions or comments.

900
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:37,000
Thank you very much for that. I look for any questions.

901
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,000
I have one.

902
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:49,000
So on the last item that you said that there would be a CPI adjust added to these.

903
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:53,000
Would they be added to the new ones that you just said, or the new ones that you just added,

904
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:56,000
is that standing without being increased?

905
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:02,000
Well, is listed in the presentation, is the proposed fee?

906
01:31:02,000 --> 01:31:05,000
So those were not being increased by that. So are all of the other ones.

907
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:09,000
Okay, thank you.

908
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,000
Good question.

909
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:12,000
Your questions.

910
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:13,000
Your questions?

911
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:14,000
Thank you.

912
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,000
Thank you.

913
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:19,000
The injured, I deleted the last slide.

914
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:24,000
But you had mentioned there were increased what seniors to park.

915
01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:30,000
Parks and Rec has asked to change the parking pass from six months to one year,

916
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:37,000
and they're offering, they're asking to offer a discounted senior parking pass.

917
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:43,000
So instead of $70 per year, it would be $35 for seniors ages 65 and over.

918
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:44,000
Okay.

919
01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:47,000
I don't know what I was reading.

920
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,000
But the seniors right now are going through quite a bit.

921
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:58,000
And I know that we have to address, I'll meet throughout these structure.

922
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:05,000
Is there, and I want to make mention of, we have the NAPA Solano Commission on Aging,

923
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:13,000
and they're meeting a lot right now with communities to discuss how seniors are being,

924
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:21,000
and it's hard right now because they're already on a fixed income many of them are.

925
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:39,000
Is there any way we can residents of the city that we could possibly accept them from a parking fee in order to attend events at Lagoon Valley or other areas?

926
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:45,000
We understand the need for us to collect what it's needed for us to operate.

927
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:56,000
However, I would like us to also be considerate of senior community.

928
01:32:56,000 --> 01:33:05,000
So with the fee schedule, and ultimately it's up to council when that's where we get direction on if you wanted to move forward with that.

929
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:11,000
Any amount that isn't recovered is getting subsidized by the general fund and everybody else.

930
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:22,000
If it's council's council chooses to not collect fee for seniors that would be something we ultimately need direction from their entire council on.

931
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:29,000
Do you have any data on what seniors have passed?

932
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:31,000
I have paid in the past.

933
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:37,000
Do we have any data to say, okay, without their participation?

934
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:45,000
What type of impact would that have of the overall?

935
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:52,000
We don't have that data. I'm not sure if Parks and Rack has that data this evening, but we do not have that.

936
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:58,000
Okay, I see someone coming forward from Parks and Rack.

937
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:00,000
Good evening.

938
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:06,000
Good evening council. My name is Christina Santoyo. I'm one of the recreation supervisors for Parks and Recreation.

939
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:13,000
Currently with our parking meters, we are only able to detect the number of sales, but we don't collect any demographic information.

940
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:18,000
Okay, so you're using meters for to collect those funds.

941
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:23,000
All right.

942
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,000
I would like.

943
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:30,000
Yeah, I'm going to direct this to our city manager.

944
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,000
I just want to add one more thing.

945
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:37,000
So the fees that are presented today are only related to facility rentals.

946
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:39,000
The programming portion is separate.

947
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:43,000
We already have a lot of discounted programming for the senior population.

948
01:34:43,000 --> 01:34:44,000
Okay.

949
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:46,000
So these are two separate things.

950
01:34:46,000 --> 01:34:52,000
For the facility rentals, we basically trying to color our fees for the facilities.

951
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:56,000
Of course, the programming is where we, I think overall it's a city.

952
01:34:56,000 --> 01:35:02,000
We only recover about 60% of the cost for all of our programming for Parks and Recreation.

953
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:05,000
So those are two distinct things if that helps.

954
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:11,000
So if, if a senior person comes and attends a program, which is, let's say,

955
01:35:11,000 --> 01:35:16,000
Creekwalk series, they may get a discounted tickets, so that's a program, which is separate from these fees,

956
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:20,000
where they're renting a space in my bright center, for example.

957
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:25,000
And that is also discounted, but at the same time, those are two distinct fees.

958
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:29,000
Right. I understand the facility rental fees.

959
01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:34,000
The parking, the facilities would not be restricted to the parking right now.

960
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:38,000
So maybe we can, I don't want to talk about that.

961
01:35:38,000 --> 01:35:43,000
What I would actually would, since this is, I can appreciate where you're going with this.

962
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:52,000
I think it would probably help if maybe offline, maybe do some research within the programming to see if there are ways that we can assist.

963
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:57,000
Those who are impacted, but looking at it separately, then the council item tonight.

964
01:35:57,000 --> 01:36:04,000
But I see where I hear what you're saying and I agree, it's hard for those who are on fixed income to access it.

965
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:13,000
Hopefully what we have been trying to do is provide discounts to those that we believe are impacted at the same time.

966
01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:21,000
The separation between the rental facilities versus the program costs.

967
01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:26,000
I think that there's so many out there, especially within a bright senior center, that we would have to dive into that deeper.

968
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:30,000
And I would just ask that you do that, maybe directly with the staff.

969
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:31,000
I can do that.

970
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:42,000
I will, one final thing I would say on that is, we have members in all senior community that are currently complaining about what we are offering them.

971
01:36:42,000 --> 01:36:48,000
They're going to our neighboring communities to participate in their programs.

972
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:54,000
So I will discuss what I've learned with Parks and Rec and see what we can do.

973
01:36:54,000 --> 01:37:03,000
And I know I've already mentioned to the city manager that I've also that McBride has been no listed, let me stop there.

974
01:37:03,000 --> 01:37:08,000
Because, yeah, I'll meet with Parks and Rec and continue.

975
01:37:08,000 --> 01:37:10,000
I think that would be a strawberry way to handle it.

976
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:17,000
I mean, like we all have interest in being able to deal with the city staff separately than these costs, yeah.

977
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:20,000
Council member Chairman, excuse me, why leave.

978
01:37:20,000 --> 01:37:25,000
And so the parking that was pretty quick, it was only for parking at Lagoon Valley, correct.

979
01:37:25,000 --> 01:37:27,000
And it had been 25 dollars or six months.

980
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:33,000
So now it's 35 dollars for a year, so it's not a very big increase at the time.

981
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,000
Thanks.

982
01:37:34,000 --> 01:37:35,000
Good.

983
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:36,000
Good.

984
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:37,000
All right.

985
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:42,000
I have to look because I have no indication of somebody's thinking of speaking.

986
01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:46,000
And that goes for you as well, vice mayor.

987
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:49,000
All right.

988
01:37:49,000 --> 01:37:50,000
All right.

989
01:37:50,000 --> 01:37:51,000
All right.

990
01:37:51,000 --> 01:37:52,000
All right.

991
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:54,000
All right.

992
01:37:54,000 --> 01:37:56,000
All right. Yeah. Thank you.

993
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:57,000
All right.

994
01:37:57,000 --> 01:38:01,000
I will open this up to the public for any comment.

995
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:04,000
It is a public hearing.

996
01:38:04,000 --> 01:38:07,000
Seeing that will bring it back.

997
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:13,000
And with that, if there's no other comments, I'll be looking for a motion.

998
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:15,000
We have a motion.

999
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:16,000
Do we have a second?

1000
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:17,000
Second.

1001
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:18,000
We have a motion.

1002
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:19,000
Second.

1003
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,000
Roll call.

1004
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:22,000
Council member Richie.

1005
01:38:22,000 --> 01:38:23,000
Yes.

1006
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:24,000
Council member Chapman.

1007
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:25,000
Yes.

1008
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:27,000
Council member Freemouth.

1009
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:29,000
Yes. Council member Wiley. Yes.

1010
01:38:29,000 --> 01:38:31,000
Council member Stockton. Yes.

1011
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:33,000
Vice mayor Silva.

1012
01:38:33,000 --> 01:38:35,000
Yes.

1013
01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:36,000
Mayor Carly.

1014
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:37,000
Yes.

1015
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:39,000
All right. Thank you very much.

1016
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:41,000
We'll move on to item 11C.

1017
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:45,000
All right.

1018
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:54,000
Item 11C is a resolution of proving the engineers report, confirming diagram and assessment,

1019
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:58,000
and ordering levy of assessments for the city of backville landscape and lighting

1020
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:03,000
maintenance assessment districts for fiscal year 2026 and 2027.

1021
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,000
And public works director.

1022
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:08,000
Right.

1023
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:11,000
And assistant public works director from maintenance.

1024
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:14,000
Take of our red or here to do the presentation.

1025
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:33,000
We're holding the annual landscape and lighting assessment district levy public hearing.

1026
01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:40,000
So the city annually levy and collect special assessment funds for neighborhood parks.

1027
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:45,000
Street landscape areas drainage and detention basins open space and street lighting.

1028
01:39:45,000 --> 01:39:56,000
And these funds are necessary to maintain operate and service improvements at various areas throughout the city.

1029
01:39:56,000 --> 01:40:01,000
So the process is set forth by the landscape and lighting act of 1972.

1030
01:40:02,000 --> 01:40:04,000
And it consists of three distinct steps.

1031
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:10,000
The first step occurred on February 24th, 2026, where the city council approved a resolution,

1032
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:15,000
directing the preparation of the annual engineers report.

1033
01:40:15,000 --> 01:40:18,000
That report was then brought back to council on May 26th,

1034
01:40:18,000 --> 01:40:24,000
2026, where the city granted preliminary approval of the engineer's report and set this public hearing,

1035
01:40:24,000 --> 01:40:30,000
which is the third and final step, which we're here for tonight.

1036
01:40:31,000 --> 01:40:37,000
So the engineer's report for 2627 detailed 139 landscape and lighting districts,

1037
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:43,000
and also set forth the maximum allowable assessment increase of 3.0 percent.

1038
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:47,000
And that increase is tied to CPI for the region.

1039
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:54,000
And is also established in the lighting and landscape act of 1972.

1040
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:59,000
So the district levees of summary, 76 district levees will be increased this year.

1041
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:03,000
21 district levees will remain unchanged.

1042
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:15,000
25 district levees will be decreased and 17 district levees will not be assessed because the improvements identified in those districts won't be completed in the upcoming fiscal year.

1043
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:21,000
The item exempt is exempt from SQL or the California Environmental Quality Act.

1044
01:41:21,000 --> 01:41:27,000
And then talking about the fiscal impact, which is, I'll just go into that here.

1045
01:41:27,000 --> 01:41:33,000
The fiscal year, 2627 assessment total is roughly $5.5 million.

1046
01:41:33,000 --> 01:41:39,000
In addition to that, the general fund subsidizes the districts with approximately $1.69 million.

1047
01:41:39,000 --> 01:41:42,000
That funding is made up of two distinct parts.

1048
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:48,000
The first is a mandatory 10 percent neighborhood park district citywide use contribution.

1049
01:41:48,000 --> 01:41:54,000
And that accounts for the fact that residents throughout vacival may visit other parks that are funded by the levees.

1050
01:41:54,000 --> 01:42:00,000
And in addition to that, there is a 1.265 million dollar district short fall amount.

1051
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:08,000
And this is the amount that is the difference between the operating costs of maintaining the districts and all the improvements that are in there and the amount that is assessed and levee.

1052
01:42:08,000 --> 01:42:13,000
So, in comparison to the fiscal year 2526,

1053
01:42:13,000 --> 01:42:24,000
at our last council meeting when I presented this last year, there was some comments about looking into the costs and understanding the general position in the budget this year.

1054
01:42:24,000 --> 01:42:30,000
Staff did some work to look at how we could reduce the impact to the general fund.

1055
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:39,000
And we were able to reduce the total assessment by our cost to the general fund by approximately $400,000 or just under 20 percent.

1056
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:46,000
And we did so by pausing contributions to the equipment replacement fund for the LLADs or the landscape and mining assessment districts.

1057
01:42:46,000 --> 01:42:55,000
This equipment replacement fund funds the replacement of things like mowers, tractors, work trucks, that type of thing that are necessary for staff to be able to maintain the districts.

1058
01:42:55,000 --> 01:43:08,000
But after we looked at the data of our existing inventory and equipment that we have out there, we felt that we could pause this contribution without negatively affecting service to the public.

1059
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:14,000
What we were looking for was ways to reduce this or reduce the cost without affecting the overall service.

1060
01:43:14,000 --> 01:43:20,000
The second way that we were able to do that was through correcting the water rate estimates.

1061
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:32,000
As you remember last year, there was a water rate increase and we conservatively estimated the cost impact that was going to be given to the lighting and landscape assessment districts and over estimated the impact that was there.

1062
01:43:32,000 --> 01:43:40,000
So based on the cost that we realized in the last year, we adjusted that down to the cost that we expected to be in this next year.

1063
01:43:40,000 --> 01:43:59,000
The staff has also been looking at ways that if we were forced to down the path to reduce reduced service quality and what our quantity and that type of motion which would be less service, less time, less water, that type of thing, but we have not gone down that path at this point with this assessment.

1064
01:43:59,000 --> 01:44:09,000
So the strategic goals are initiative to be to manage impacts from growth as the city continues to grow and initiative for a to ensure fiscal sustainability of the districts to maintain service to the public.

1065
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:20,000
Our recommendation tonight is by simple motion to adopt the subject amended resolution and our director Brian Oxley and I are here to answer any questions.

1066
01:44:20,000 --> 01:44:24,000
Thank you for the presentation and I think it's.

1067
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:36,000
It's not lost on us that general fund is subsidizing this and there are those that are clearly benefiting from the fact that their.

1068
01:44:37,000 --> 01:44:54,000
The rate does not cover their park and it is what it is we have a lot of the districts I wish we didn't have as many and I wish this thing this could get stabilized but I don't believe that now's the time to do it and so but I appreciate the presentation.

1069
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:56,000
Yeah, Council member.

1070
01:44:56,000 --> 01:45:00,000
Thanks so you said there's a 139 lighting landscaping.

1071
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:15,000
And we have a lot of areas of city that aren't covered. So about what percentage of the city is covered by lighting landscaping?

1072
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:20,000
I don't have an exact percentage of that.

1073
01:45:20,000 --> 01:45:35,000
I would say that that is approximate, yes, about half. And so, and you said you haven't gone down the path of reducing services to because of our budget shortfall.

1074
01:45:35,000 --> 01:45:42,000
But if we were to go down that path, I would assume that it would be for the people, the parts of the city that aren't covered.

1075
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:51,000
Because what our general fund is covering, the approximately 50% of the city that doesn't pay into lighting and landscaping.

1076
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:59,000
That's correct assessment. So the people that are paying are really, they would not be reduced because they're already paying.

1077
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:06,000
Yeah, that's correct. If the lighting and landscape district was solvent, we wouldn't be reducing the services at that point.

1078
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:13,000
And just to bring some clarity, what we're talking about here are neighborhood parks, a lot of those districts.

1079
01:46:13,000 --> 01:46:18,000
We have six lighting districts that we can't cut from for safety for the public.

1080
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:23,000
And then only five of those districts are set back landscapes.

1081
01:46:23,000 --> 01:46:30,000
So you're talking about neighborhood parks around the city primarily that are funded by these lighting and landscape districts.

1082
01:46:30,000 --> 01:46:35,000
Okay, thanks for the clarification.

1083
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:45,000
Hearing no more questions from the council, I'm going to go ahead and open up this public hearing to the public.

1084
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:50,000
Seeing none, I will go ahead and bring it back to the council.

1085
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:51,000
Any other comments?

1086
01:46:51,000 --> 01:46:56,000
Otherwise, emotion.

1087
01:46:56,000 --> 01:46:57,000
I think that.

1088
01:46:57,000 --> 01:46:58,000
Yeah.

1089
01:46:58,000 --> 01:46:59,000
Motion.

1090
01:46:59,000 --> 01:47:00,000
Okay.

1091
01:47:00,000 --> 01:47:03,000
Any other discussion?

1092
01:47:03,000 --> 01:47:04,000
Motion.

1093
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:05,000
Second.

1094
01:47:05,000 --> 01:47:07,000
We'll do roll call.

1095
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:09,000
Councilmember Chapman.

1096
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:10,000
Yes.

1097
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:11,000
Councilmember Friedman.

1098
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:12,000
Yes.

1099
01:47:12,000 --> 01:47:13,000
Councilmember Wiley.

1100
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:14,000
Yes.

1101
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:15,000
Councilmember Stockton.

1102
01:47:15,000 --> 01:47:16,000
Yes.

1103
01:47:16,000 --> 01:47:17,000
Councilmember Richie.

1104
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:19,000
Yes.

1105
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:23,000
Thank you very much.

1106
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:24,000
Moving on to business item.

1107
01:47:24,000 --> 01:47:25,000
12A.

1108
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:27,000
Man City Park.

1109
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:28,000
Yes.

1110
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:29,000
This is budget.

1111
01:47:29,000 --> 01:47:30,000
Study session number two.

1112
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:35,000
Information update on the development of the fiscal year 202627 budget.

1113
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:38,000
And budget manager John Colett.

1114
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,000
And a finance director.

1115
01:47:40,000 --> 01:48:02,000
Thank you.

1116
01:48:02,000 --> 01:48:07,000
So Mayor, I can get started on this presentation and then I'll pass it on to Ken.

1117
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:10,000
Mayor, vice mayor, council members and community members.

1118
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:14,000
So today we're presenting the second study session for the budget.

1119
01:48:14,000 --> 01:48:16,000
So today we're.

1120
01:48:16,000 --> 01:48:21,000
Before I start this presentation, I just want to thank all of the staff, the department, department heads.

1121
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:25,000
Especially finance staff that has been months putting this budget together.

1122
01:48:25,000 --> 01:48:26,000
It's not easy task.

1123
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:34,000
It starts sometime early January and it takes almost four or five months for us to put the numbers together and make sure all the numbers are matching in the back.

1124
01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:39,000
And departments have done a great job on identifying what the two and a half percent looks like.

1125
01:48:39,000 --> 01:48:48,000
How we can still continue to move forward and provide the services that our community desires from the city without impacting any further reductions at this time.

1126
01:48:48,000 --> 01:48:53,000
So today, if you can move on to the next slide, please.

1127
01:48:53,000 --> 01:48:56,000
This slide kind of gives a roadmap of where we started.

1128
01:48:56,000 --> 01:49:03,000
So first of May, we brought the first budget 101 study session to kind of educate the council as well as our community.

1129
01:49:03,000 --> 01:49:16,000
Members on what the budget process looks like, what are different funding sources for the city, how the city develops the budget, what and what cannot be used or which funds cannot be interchanged among themselves.

1130
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:26,000
Then we came back to council on May of 26th and we provided the quarter three update as well as the study session for our budget.

1131
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:32,000
So today we're presenting the second study session and at the next council meeting, we will be bringing the final document for adoption.

1132
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:35,000
Next slide, please.

1133
01:49:35,000 --> 01:49:42,000
So the summary of the budget parties, you know, we are compromised of multiple pieces when it comes to our budget.

1134
01:49:42,000 --> 01:49:53,000
There are many departments, you can consider them as individual companies and then we have to bring all the budget together and funds are into put into one general fund.

1135
01:49:53,000 --> 01:50:00,000
So today we're focusing on general fund aspect of it, but the departments will be going over their individual departments and talking about that.

1136
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:09,000
So the way we develop our budget is really rely on the prior years budget and then we build off of that we do not do zero based budgeting.

1137
01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:11,000
We do not do program based budgeting.

1138
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:23,000
We take the data from the last year because now we have sequential data from multiple years to do projections and that helps us develop more close to projections for our budget.

1139
01:50:24,000 --> 01:50:29,000
In addition, you know, when we prioritize our budget, we also are responsive to our strategic plan.

1140
01:50:29,000 --> 01:50:42,000
This is a unique year where our current strategic plan will be concluding in June of 2026 and we are going to implement a new strategic plan which will also be brought to the city council at the next meeting.

1141
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:52,000
So that strategic plan serves as the guiding document for our staff and departments on identifying the goals and initiatives that we spend our efforts on.

1142
01:50:52,000 --> 01:51:02,000
We also address our immediate or long-term areas of concern that are either brought by the community or the council members, obviously everything is approved at the council level.

1143
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:10,000
And then we also look at whether we're going to maintain current and existing programs or if we are looking at expanding any of those programs.

1144
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:15,000
And all of this is being done by being fiscally responsible. Next slide please.

1145
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:24,000
So the fiscal year 2526 the current fiscal year, you know, we continued with the fiscal Econservative Approach. We did the two and a half percent cut.

1146
01:51:24,000 --> 01:51:28,000
We brought back quarterly updates who are constantly monitoring our budget.

1147
01:51:28,000 --> 01:51:34,000
And as again, you know, with inflation or costs are increasing, so that is continuing our fiscal deficit.

1148
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:38,000
It is causing that gap between our expenditures and the revenues.

1149
01:51:38,000 --> 01:51:48,000
And there is there is a big risk of reserves that are falling below the policy level. Our current policy says 16 to 25% as of the last presentation.

1150
01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:56,000
My end of this fiscal year will be at about 28 to 29% but then there will be a sharp decline of the fiscal deficit continues.

1151
01:51:56,000 --> 01:52:00,000
So in about four years we're looking at going down to almost 3%.

1152
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:06,000
So our proposed focus for this budget includes again continuing to look at the big picture.

1153
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:09,000
Looking at all the reductions we have done so far.

1154
01:52:09,000 --> 01:52:14,000
Two and a half percent reductions we had three FTEs that were frozen.

1155
01:52:14,000 --> 01:52:22,000
We started with 22 positions that were identified for delayed and back in February Council allowed us to restore six of the firefighter positions.

1156
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:26,000
So that delayed position count is down to 16 at this time.

1157
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:35,000
Again, we paused a lot of measure and pilot programs as well as we reduce the capital improvement program funding for some of the projects moving on.

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So our approach for the upcoming fiscal year 2627 is fiscal, you know, be real about our fiscal situation.

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So we're calling it in a theme fiscal reality and sustainability.

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And our proposed focus of the budget will include limit new augmentation requests to only essential things for the operations as well as needed at the time of the start of the year.

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We will utilize reserves to maintain existing service levels and programs that are benefiting our community.

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We'll continue to move future initiatives in the growth area planning and housing.

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We will be continuing to work on our economic development strategy.

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As well as starting July 1st, we would have a centralized hiring.

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We'll be presenting a case to the city manager before we hire any new positions.

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So we will be evaluating staffing as you know employees retire or move on to other jobs.

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Is that the right position?

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Can we add more duties?

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Can we reduce the position?

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Can we merge or consolidate positions?

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We'll be evaluating all of those things as part of that process.

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Next slide please.

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And so with this, you know, I will be giving it back to Ken on taking on for the next steps.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good evening Mr. Mayor.

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Vice Mayor.

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Members of the council.

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Before we start with tonight's study session number two.

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We just wanted to provide a brief recap of study session number one.

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A lot of which was covered in the previous slides.

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And so as study session number one, we let off with an updated projection of the next fiscal year.

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So the way things currently stand our projection this upcoming year is that there's a gap of about $11 million with their general fund between our revenues and expenses.

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So we're continuing that deficit spending that we've seen over the last couple of years.

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We talked about the budget actions taken from fiscal year 2425 to current.

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And so a lot of that being the cost savings measures deferring and pausing on a lot of the capital improvement projects and maintenance efforts.

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The city manager mentioned the previous slides.

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The school year 27 is going to be continuing of those cost saving measures.

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And in the last study session, we also provided an update on some items that were added to the base budget either where there's a fiscal impact to it.

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Or an operational change that being the fire academy that will be coming up in this upcoming year.

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The consolidation of risk management under the city attorney's office and then budget augmentations.

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There's about $30,000 to the general fund.

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And then with the five year forecast, we pre, because it's ended up day to five year forecast where by the end of fiscal year 27.

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So next year we anticipate still being within our reserve at 20% but given the deficit spending that we will be below our policy by the end of fiscal year 28.

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Next slide.

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And so tonight's agenda is going to be a couple slides on the operating budget summary of that.

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Then we'll jump into department presentations and then the second part of this item is an update on the capital improvement program and the fleet update that we done by our public works department.

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And with that I'll pass it on to our budget manager.

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Thanks, Ken.

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The next two slides on the proposed operating budget and how the operating budget is allocated amongst the city's departments.

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The city's proposed operating budget for fiscal year 27 is $321 million, $783,247.

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The successor agency operating budget to pay down the annual obligations of the former redevelopment agency is $5,906,583.

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The pie chart on the right shows the percentage of the total operating budget that resides within each respective department.

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Starting at the top will work clockwise elected and administration is 7%.

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And this would include departments such as the city manager's office, city attorney, human resources, economic development and finance.

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The housing and successor agency is 12%.

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Parks and Recreation 4%.

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Just a real quick note here.

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The pie chart of the operating budget doesn't include large capital improvements such as the measure and park improvements.

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That budget would be included in the capital improvement program budget later this evening.

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Police, 19% fire department, 15% public works, 10% utilities, 29% community development, 3% and non-department tool, 1% of the operating budget.

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In summary the proposed operating budget for fiscal year 27 is $321.8 million.

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On this slide the chart on the left shows the operating budget based on fun type.

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The general fund in the blue is 169.4 million or 52%.

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And again this is the main operating fund for the city or the main checking account for the city it's the most flexible.

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The enterprise funds which are grey, 93.5 million or 28% of the operating budget and this would include utilities operations.

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So sewer and water as well as transit services.

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Special revenue funds in the orange 58.9 million are 18% and this would include departments funded by revenues restricted for particular purpose such as grants.

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And this would include housing and community services and community development.

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And then last we have the successor agency at 5.9 million or 2%.

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And then if we look to the chart at the right, this chart is similar to the one we saw on the previous slide.

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But specifically related to the general fund so how is the 169.4 million allocated out to the departments.

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Starting again at the top city administration 13% non-departmental 3% public works 10% police 37% parks and recreation 7% in the fire department 37%.

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One last note on the general fund of the proposed budget of 169.4 million for fiscal year 27.

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This is it's an approximate 2.9% increase over the current fiscal year or fiscal year 26.

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So even with the continued cost savings measures from the current year, we're going to see some increases in some areas.

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For example, benefits have seen increased costs for general liability and workers comp of almost 30%.

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We don't have control over these costs. They're tied to our actual actual aerial reports that we receive.

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Another area would be salaries related to council, council approved MLUs earlier in fiscal year 26 related to fiscal year 27.

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So while we're continuing with citywide cost savings measures from fiscal year 26 into fiscal year 27, we won't see dollar for dollar cost savings because we have increased cost and other categories.

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To summarize the total proposed operating budget for fiscal year 27 is 321.8 million and of that the general fund portion is 169.4 million.

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And with that, I will pass it over to our city attorney Andrea Borba to kick off the department presentations.

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Thank you, John. In terms of the city attorneys department overview, we are a full service legal department supporting the city council.

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All of the commissions in every city department.

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We consist of a lean high performing team that delivers broad legal support risk management and administrative services throughout the city.

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Our total operating budget is 2.2 million dollars with no measure and funding being utilized.

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In terms of staff.

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We have five legal professionals, the city attorney, a senior assistant, city attorney and three assistant city attorneys.

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We have five support team members, a legal services and risk manager, a principal risk analyst, paralegal executive assistant and risk technician.

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This structure, a staffing structure supports both the volume and the complexity of the city's legal needs in-house.

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This year, we have begun the integration of risk management into the city attorney's office.

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The risk management division will be fully integrated to our department, July 1 of 2026.

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This ensures that claims management, segregation and workers compensation and litigation operates under a unified legal oversight.

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Hopefully this will have the intended result of improving coordination and accountability and financial recovery outcomes for the city.

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Our key accomplishments, you know, the amount of legal work that's generated from our law office is significant.

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It's hard to detail everything we've done but some key things that have come to the council this year is the sidewalk vendor and battery storage system ordinances,

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which were key ordinances regulating important issues within the city.

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We provided legal support for the sales tax measure efforts and ensure full election compliance during the election season,

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and will continue to through November.

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We have advanced the implementation of a contract life cycle management system that will modernize how the city prepares and tracks its contracts,

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which serves to do a lot of risk transferred to the city and it saves us a lot of money and potential claims exposure.

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We also completed a city-wide legal service survey to better align our legal support with the department of needs

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and we are continuing to make operational changes to improve efficiency and provide a higher level and a higher quality of legal service delivery.

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In terms of fiscal responsibility, the city attorney's office has achieved the two and half percent cost savings by making reductions in certain outside legal services, training and general supplies.

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Again, we have zero measure and funding use.

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We are fully generally, general fund supported the 2.2 million budget for the quantity and quality of legal services provided reflects responsible stewardship of the city's resources.

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Looking ahead, we plan to fully roll out and implement the contract life cycle management system,

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continue to build out the integrated risk management program and focus on more proactive legal support,

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improve contract oversight and stronger loss prevention across city departments.

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And that is my presentation. I will pass it to Georgia and for the city managers presentation.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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The city manager's office has a number of different divisions starting with the administrative arm which really ensures things rent smoothly.

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The budgets are met, bills are paid on time and they provide an excellent really high level of customer service to the public every time they connect with us.

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The city clerk's division is responsible for a wide variety of duties including city council support,

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compilation and distribution of city council agenda packets, elections administration and records management.

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The city clerk also administers germocratic processes such as access to records and legislative actions ensuring transparency to the public.

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The public relations division coordinates the city's communications, public information and community engagement efforts.

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And this division helps your timely accurate and accessible information supports consistent messaging across departments,

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manages media and community relations and strengthens public understanding of city program services and initiatives.

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Our special programs division focuses on citywide programs such as measure M, backval neighbor associations,

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the legislative platform, strategic planning and our broad band initiative.

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We have quite a few highlights from the city manager's office.

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Our public relations team has and will continue to implement the city's community engagement strategy and communications plan to strengthen internal coordination and improve consistency in public information

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and expand meaningful opportunities for community input.

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This includes supporting departments without reach planning, public messaging, social media, emails and the new city newsletter, website content,

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video highlights, community updates, media materials and other tools that help residents stay informed and engaged.

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These efforts will continue to support more transparent, inclusive and responsive local government.

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The fiscal year, the city council, as you all know, recently adopted a legislative platform that outlines the council's priorities, principles and policy decisions to guide advocacy efforts.

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And informed stakeholders of key resident needs the platform itself.

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I'm happy to report and all of the supporting and oppose actions are available on the city's website for the public.

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As you know, the council has also adopted a draft new strategic plan.

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The city manager was just speaking about that.

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Covering fiscal years 27 through 29 will be bringing the final plan for adoption to you at the next meeting.

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The plans really organized around five course strategic goals that represent our highest areas of focus.

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Organizational culture, economic development, quality of life, public safety and infrastructure.

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And the plan is designed to align our collective efforts in achieving our mission while reflecting our mission and our values.

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We've also been working really hard on the broadband initiative for several years now.

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I'm happy to report that over the last year we've been focused on a public private partnership.

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I'm not only provide another option for residents, but also into the debris anticipated.

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Bring several million dollars of in kind investment to the city.

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And then items should be coming to you soon.

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Really excited about that one.

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Our back of the neighborhood association team has expanded its reach.

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Now with 23 registered associations after starting with zero.

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The goal of the DNA program is to establish a vision in each neighborhood and identify its priorities.

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Utilizing and increasing the neighborhood's capacity.

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It's a very successful at really creating connections, not only between our community members, but also between residents in the city.

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And I expect that to continue in the new year, even though we have reduced funding for that program.

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As a city that's been participating in the Bloomberg's mayors and senior leadership program.

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We have the opportunity to have a Bloomberg Harvard fellow with us for the next two years.

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Hopefully starting at the end of July.

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I'm working with them over the past couple weeks to try to make that work.

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And to specifically work on the homeless action plan.

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There is no cost of the city for the fellow who will help really implement and support the important work of that action plan.

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For cost saving measures, the city manager office has reduced a number of administrative line items.

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Things from professional services, training, repairs and maintenance, consulting, and general supplies to achieve our two and a half percent savings.

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The city manager's office does have one program manager.

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This position that's funded through measure M with a small, very small supply budget.

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And the total operating budget for the department is 4.2 million.

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And I believe next up is Erin Morris with Community and Economic Development.

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Good evening, Erin Council.

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I'm happy to present the Community and Economic Development Department.

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As the Council is aware, we now consist of five divisions.

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The planning division, which processes current development applications from private developers and the advanced planning division,

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which works on public policy and ordinance and other complex development projects.

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The building division consists of planner view.

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I'm proud to announce we're continuing to keep most of that in-house with the staff that we have.

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But also building inspection, which is a significant activity in our department.

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Economic development, I will touch on the next slide as a new addition.

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I think they got their own, we got our own slide for that.

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And then we have the administration and planning commission divisions.

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The department has been working very hard over the last several years on some of these longer-term projects,

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but I'll just share a few highlights.

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The east of leisure town specific plan funded by developers should come to council for final action next year,

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but is well-long its way toward a release of a plan.

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We're very excited about that.

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The northeast growth area planning study is coming to council in July.

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That first phase work is completed and is going to planning commission,

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so we're coming toward the end of that first phase.

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As the council is aware, we're working on the municipal services review,

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which is literally what allows faculty to grow consistent with our general plan.

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We have several major development applications, which I will not go through tonight.

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We're in year four, almost year five, of implementing the city's eight-year housing element

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in partnership with Housing and Community Services.

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So that's some work on going and future work.

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Rapping at Process Improvements phase one, heading into a new project called Process Improvements phase two,

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in the new fiscal year, and then we're preparing for a land use and development code update

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like we do every year, but this new year is going to have an economic development focus.

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I'm trying to make it easier for business and back of it to stay here and grow.

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On the topic of cost savings measures,

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we primarily got R2.5% cut by reducing outside service contracts.

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That's been possible because we are staffed up in some of our core functions that we used to

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contract for.

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Measure em funding.

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Our department is not receiving measure em funding for planning building an admin,

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and we also do not receive general fund money.

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The $8.8 million operating budget is funded by the fees that developers pay

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when they come in to do building and planning permit activity in our city.

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Next slide.

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Economic development division, I kept this slide pretty simple.

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There's a lot going on, especially with our new economic development manager on board week five.

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It's going very well so far.

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Economic development focuses on business retention expansion and attraction,

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and I cannot emphasize enough what a fluid space that is.

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It is a call late at night and a meeting in the car on the way,

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and it's been really a very active activity.

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I'm again pleased to have some staffing to help support those activities.

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We're really participating in regional efforts.

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We're working with our partners with the Sloan of EDC,

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and with the partners with other cities to really look at bringing business to Sloan of County's

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a whole and also to back of them.

1363
02:10:45,000 --> 02:10:50,000
And then we're really economically taking the lead on promoting a lot of the city's

1364
02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:54,000
process improvements changes and touting those and sharing those and doing that

1365
02:10:54,000 --> 02:10:59,000
storytelling, the true storytelling of how we're making easier to do business and back of

1366
02:10:59,000 --> 02:11:00,000
it.

1367
02:11:00,000 --> 02:11:01,000
And some highlights.

1368
02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:05,000
We're currently working on the economic development strategic plan,

1369
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:08,000
and that will be coming to council on the fall of this year.

1370
02:11:08,000 --> 02:11:11,000
It is an active effort with our economic development advisory committee,

1371
02:11:11,000 --> 02:11:15,000
and a lot of just a lot of input from our important players.

1372
02:11:15,000 --> 02:11:19,000
We'll be working on creating an incentive program to bring the kinds of businesses we want

1373
02:11:19,000 --> 02:11:22,000
here, and that's a project for the next fiscal year,

1374
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:26,000
and then also working to support energy resilience efforts and back of it.

1375
02:11:26,000 --> 02:11:28,000
Cost savings and economic development.

1376
02:11:28,000 --> 02:11:32,000
We reduce some of our national advertising and a little bit of our professional services

1377
02:11:32,000 --> 02:11:34,000
to achieve the 2.5 percent.

1378
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:38,000
Economic development is 100 percent funded by Measure M.

1379
02:11:38,000 --> 02:11:42,000
So that's an important distinction from the rest of my department and the total operating budget

1380
02:11:42,000 --> 02:11:44,000
is 730,000.

1381
02:11:44,000 --> 02:11:46,000
And I believe I'm handing it back to Ken.

1382
02:11:46,000 --> 02:11:47,000
Thank you.

1383
02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:48,000
Thank you.

1384
02:11:49,000 --> 02:11:52,000
So in the finance department, we have 30 full-time employees,

1385
02:11:52,000 --> 02:11:55,000
amongst the division services listed,

1386
02:11:55,000 --> 02:11:58,000
administration, budgeting, accounting, utility billing,

1387
02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:01,000
revenues, accounts payable, purchasing, which falls under

1388
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:02,000
disbursements.

1389
02:12:02,000 --> 02:12:06,000
Our highlights in the current year are updating the TOT ordinance,

1390
02:12:06,000 --> 02:12:09,000
which had not been updated for a number of years,

1391
02:12:09,000 --> 02:12:11,000
as well as with issuing our financial statements.

1392
02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:16,000
We were able to issue that three months quicker sooner than we did in the prior fiscal year.

1393
02:12:16,000 --> 02:12:20,000
And the upcoming fiscal year, some of the initiatives will be working on

1394
02:12:20,000 --> 02:12:23,000
our updating our procurement policy to modernize that,

1395
02:12:23,000 --> 02:12:26,000
line it with the national best practices and add some efficiency

1396
02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:30,000
and more internal control control to that process.

1397
02:12:30,000 --> 02:12:34,000
Similar to the TOT ordinance that was updated this fiscal year,

1398
02:12:34,000 --> 02:12:38,000
we will be taking an item to Council on August to also update our business license

1399
02:12:38,000 --> 02:12:39,000
ordinance as well.

1400
02:12:39,000 --> 02:12:44,000
And then we will also be engaging with a consultant to update our cost

1401
02:12:44,000 --> 02:12:47,000
allocation planning user fee study, which is discussed as part of the

1402
02:12:47,000 --> 02:12:48,000
fee schedule item.

1403
02:12:48,000 --> 02:12:51,000
This is one of the public hearing in the earlier this evening.

1404
02:12:51,000 --> 02:12:55,000
With our cost savings measures, a majority of that is in our non-full-time

1405
02:12:55,000 --> 02:12:58,000
or part-time budget that we eliminated.

1406
02:12:58,000 --> 02:13:00,000
And so the main impact here is really to our front counter,

1407
02:13:00,000 --> 02:13:02,000
staffing, utility billing.

1408
02:13:02,000 --> 02:13:05,000
So the areas that are most engaging with the public,

1409
02:13:05,000 --> 02:13:11,000
we've had to reduce hours in our front counter because of the lack of the part-time funding.

1410
02:13:11,000 --> 02:13:15,000
And then we've also had to reduce our training to supply

1411
02:13:15,000 --> 02:13:17,000
as budget as part of those cost savings measures.

1412
02:13:17,000 --> 02:13:20,000
And the finance department doesn't receive any measure on funding

1413
02:13:20,000 --> 02:13:23,000
and our total operating budget is 6.1 million.

1414
02:13:23,000 --> 02:13:25,000
And I'll pass it on to Tamara Koldiner,

1415
02:13:25,000 --> 02:13:28,000
housing which means services director.

1416
02:13:28,000 --> 02:13:37,000
The housing and community services department is comprised of four divisions.

1417
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:41,000
The administration division, which focuses on internal operations for

1418
02:13:41,000 --> 02:13:46,000
the department, as well as financial activities for the department.

1419
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:51,000
The housing division, which is comprised mostly of the

1420
02:13:51,000 --> 02:13:54,000
Vacaville Housing Authority and Solano County Housing Authority.

1421
02:13:54,000 --> 02:13:59,000
Community services, which houses programs like our community

1422
02:13:59,000 --> 02:14:04,000
development program, as well as special projects.

1423
02:14:05,000 --> 02:14:09,000
In the upcoming years, our focus will be on continuing to implement

1424
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:12,000
the homeless action plan and activities surrounding that,

1425
02:14:12,000 --> 02:14:15,000
advancing housing element programs,

1426
02:14:15,000 --> 02:14:19,000
primarily focusing on affordable housing unit development

1427
02:14:19,000 --> 02:14:23,000
and collaboration with the community and economic development department.

1428
02:14:23,000 --> 02:14:28,000
And launching our Vacaville Housing Authority project move-up program,

1429
02:14:28,000 --> 02:14:35,000
which was approved in April for the upcoming annual plan and that program,

1430
02:14:35,000 --> 02:14:41,000
holds aside five vouchers specifically to support those moving out of homelessness

1431
02:14:41,000 --> 02:14:44,000
and collaboration with an identified partnership

1432
02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:46,000
provides supportive services around that.

1433
02:14:46,000 --> 02:14:51,000
These efforts are intended to expand housing opportunities,

1434
02:14:51,000 --> 02:14:57,000
improve system coordination and help residents move towards greater housing stability.

1435
02:14:57,000 --> 02:15:00,000
The total operating budget reflects primary.

1436
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:04,900
Additionally, Administration of the Vacivell housing authority housing choice voucher program, and this

1437
02:15:04,900 --> 02:15:10,560
Elano County小louth choice voucher program, again, that is administered on behalf of

1438
02:15:10,560 --> 02:15:16,020
Elano County but it also includes administration of smaller programs, against such as our community

1439
02:15:16,020 --> 02:15:22,180
development, block grant program, or permanent local housing allocation programs. To

1440
02:15:22,180 --> 02:15:27,160
help address the city's fiscal challenges, and really the department's fiscal challenges, we

1441
02:15:27,160 --> 02:15:32,800
have implemented cost saving measures by delaying the hiring of three full-time positions.

1442
02:15:32,800 --> 02:15:37,640
That includes the assistant director position, a housing administrator management position,

1443
02:15:37,640 --> 02:15:40,480
and a housing technician position.

1444
02:15:40,480 --> 02:15:47,400
While these actions help reduce cost in the short term, they do limit our capacity to be able

1445
02:15:47,400 --> 02:15:54,480
to launch new programs, pursue additional initiatives, and expand services beyond core compliance

1446
02:15:54,480 --> 02:15:57,840
and operational responsibilities.

1447
02:15:57,840 --> 02:16:04,640
The Department also, in collaboration with the Finance Department, oversees the activities

1448
02:16:04,640 --> 02:16:07,480
of this successor housing agency.

1449
02:16:07,480 --> 02:16:12,240
And with that, I'll turn it over to Jessica Boe's, the Human Resources Director.

1450
02:16:12,240 --> 02:16:13,240
Good evening.

1451
02:16:13,240 --> 02:16:20,640
The Human Resources Department has made up of several divisions, including our administrative

1452
02:16:20,640 --> 02:16:23,320
division, payroll and benefits.

1453
02:16:23,320 --> 02:16:28,600
We also process payroll for this long transportation authority, and recruitment and classification

1454
02:16:28,600 --> 02:16:31,640
is another division along with labor and employee relations.

1455
02:16:31,640 --> 02:16:35,640
Some of our upcoming highlights are our leadership Academy graduation.

1456
02:16:35,640 --> 02:16:43,760
This is our 2526 year leadership program, and we're hoping to bring those graduates to you

1457
02:16:43,760 --> 02:16:46,360
at a council meeting later in the fiscal year.

1458
02:16:46,360 --> 02:16:47,360
The new fiscal year.

1459
02:16:47,800 --> 02:16:52,680
We've also developed a benefits roadshow, which is to educate our employees on all the current

1460
02:16:52,680 --> 02:16:55,280
benefits they have, and how to utilize those.

1461
02:16:55,280 --> 02:17:00,040
We find that new hires are overwhelmed with what they learn upon being hired, and they don't

1462
02:17:00,040 --> 02:17:03,200
always need those benefits until later in their career.

1463
02:17:03,200 --> 02:17:09,400
So we are out going to departments in different areas, explaining the benefits they may not remember

1464
02:17:09,400 --> 02:17:11,120
or know about.

1465
02:17:11,120 --> 02:17:13,840
We're also looking at updating policies in the coming year.

1466
02:17:13,840 --> 02:17:20,400
We heard that that is needed citywide across most of our departments, so we are looking

1467
02:17:20,400 --> 02:17:22,800
at working on that a lot in the new fiscal year.

1468
02:17:22,800 --> 02:17:26,680
Our cost saving measures include the elimination of an office assistant position, and that was a

1469
02:17:26,680 --> 02:17:31,120
full-time position, and a reduction in our citywide training budget.

1470
02:17:31,120 --> 02:17:37,040
We do not have any measure in funding, and our total operating budget is 4.5 million.

1471
02:17:37,040 --> 02:17:39,040
I'll turn it over to Keith McDonald from IT.

1472
02:17:43,840 --> 02:17:50,120
Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Council members.

1473
02:17:50,120 --> 02:17:56,120
Tonight I'll be summarizing the IT department fiscal year 2627 budget, highlight key initiatives

1474
02:17:56,120 --> 02:18:01,040
underway and share cost saving measures that are we're implementing to be good stewards of public

1475
02:18:01,040 --> 02:18:02,040
funds.

1476
02:18:02,040 --> 02:18:05,600
I also want to note, two significant organizational milestones.

1477
02:18:05,600 --> 02:18:10,640
First, the information technology has transitioned from operating early the city manager's office

1478
02:18:10,640 --> 02:18:13,360
to standing alone as an independent city department.

1479
02:18:13,360 --> 02:18:19,600
So, as a recognition of this strategic role, it also recognizes a strategic role that plays

1480
02:18:19,600 --> 02:18:22,760
in the serving the city back real.

1481
02:18:22,760 --> 02:18:28,480
Second, our new IT director will be joining us July 6, bringing dedicated executive leadership

1482
02:18:28,480 --> 02:18:33,880
to support our team and to the Council's technology priorities.

1483
02:18:33,880 --> 02:18:42,560
What we do, the IT department operates four core services, and we're supporting over approximate

1484
02:18:42,560 --> 02:18:45,520
800 users across 12 different city departments.

1485
02:18:45,520 --> 02:18:50,800
We have a help desk customer support division, who is the first point of contact for all technology

1486
02:18:50,800 --> 02:18:52,880
issues related to the city.

1487
02:18:52,880 --> 02:18:56,760
Frontline support for police fire in all of the city departments.

1488
02:18:56,760 --> 02:18:58,840
Applications, this is a new developing area.

1489
02:18:58,840 --> 02:19:03,560
We have support applications in the past, but we're going to take it up a notch and be supporting

1490
02:19:03,560 --> 02:19:08,760
it at the next level, and that includes the enterprise planning software permitting finance

1491
02:19:08,960 --> 02:19:13,840
public, the records management system as well as other things that are coming about in the city.

1492
02:19:13,840 --> 02:19:19,400
And then we have infrastructure and infrastructure, service with servers, networking equipment, cyber security

1493
02:19:19,400 --> 02:19:26,560
type of communications that it also includes public safety radio system, and of course we have our GIS division.

1494
02:19:26,560 --> 02:19:33,200
Some key initiatives that are happening in 2067 is the digital strategic plan, multi-year technology roadmap

1495
02:19:33,280 --> 02:19:42,000
is aligning with the city manager's priorities and also drives data and form decisions across all the departments.

1496
02:19:42,000 --> 02:19:50,600
A cyber resiliency plan, comprehensive cyber security strategic plan protecting the city operations and residents data.

1497
02:19:50,600 --> 02:19:57,840
Includes also ransomware, tabletop exercises, incident response plan protocols and staff training.

1498
02:19:57,840 --> 02:20:04,240
And also we're supported by the specialized cyber security firm contracts with that.

1499
02:20:04,240 --> 02:20:10,840
So the GIS master plan, again we have a master plan that's going on and that's to expanding the GIS tools.

1500
02:20:10,840 --> 02:20:17,440
Also, including the note, your candidates and know your city council story maps, integration for public works, project management,

1501
02:20:17,440 --> 02:20:22,440
EZCIP to improve the capital program visibility.

1502
02:20:22,440 --> 02:20:30,440
And of course we've got the void implementation so we can modernize our phone system and that is the zoom system that we're currently working on.

1503
02:20:30,440 --> 02:20:36,440
This will improve our reliability, reduce long-term costs and support remote work capabilities.

1504
02:20:36,440 --> 02:20:41,440
And of course as we discussed earlier, the broadband initiative.

1505
02:20:41,440 --> 02:20:52,440
Again, once that contract hopefully does go for it, we'll be working with the vendor to improve the connectivity across all the city facilities.

1506
02:20:52,440 --> 02:21:03,440
And of course the governance and data security or data strategy establishing data governance policies to protect sensitive information like PII and C just data.

1507
02:21:03,440 --> 02:21:10,440
And then AI governance framework guiding responsible use for emergency technologies.

1508
02:21:10,440 --> 02:21:19,440
So cost measure cost savings measure that we're doing is basically in response to the city's budget reduction in targets.

1509
02:21:19,440 --> 02:21:24,440
IT department is identified savings across several key categories.

1510
02:21:24,440 --> 02:21:30,440
Professional services repairs the maintenance training consulting services in general supplies.

1511
02:21:30,440 --> 02:21:35,440
All these things will help hit that target that we're hitting for right now for the 2.5.

1512
02:21:35,440 --> 02:21:44,440
Note further reductions beyond these current targets carry does carry a measurable cybersecurity risk and may impact services service levels in the future.

1513
02:21:44,440 --> 02:21:56,440
We are not funded by measure M and in closing the IT department remains committed to delivering reliable secure cost effective technology services to the back of residents and staff.

1514
02:21:56,440 --> 02:22:01,440
We're building a stronger, more resilient digital foundation for the city's future.

1515
02:22:01,440 --> 02:22:05,440
And thank you and I'll turn it back again.

1516
02:22:05,440 --> 02:22:06,440
Thanks Keith.

1517
02:22:06,440 --> 02:22:12,440
So the non-departmental budget is meant for funding or budgeting for operating costs that are not tied to a specific department.

1518
02:22:12,440 --> 02:22:19,440
Some examples of that would be the county fees related to property tax administration, animal control and sheltering costs.

1519
02:22:19,440 --> 02:22:21,440
The radio system.

1520
02:22:21,440 --> 02:22:27,440
Memberships and contributions and some examples being the back of the museum Sloan OEDC Chamber of Commerce.

1521
02:22:27,440 --> 02:22:32,440
Homeless or house remediation and then contribution from measure I for the library.

1522
02:22:32,440 --> 02:22:40,440
And so for the highlights and cost savings measures, the fiscal year 2627 budget is going to be a continuation of what was budgeted for 2526.

1523
02:22:40,440 --> 02:22:46,440
With the new item being the last bullet point funding for the upcoming November Brewer election.

1524
02:22:46,440 --> 02:22:49,440
And that's at $390,000 amount under highlights.

1525
02:22:49,440 --> 02:22:59,440
For measure and funding, the homeless or houseless remediation services are funded through measure M and the total operating budget for the non-departmental count is 5.1 million.

1526
02:22:59,440 --> 02:23:04,440
Now pass it on to our parks and director.

1527
02:23:04,440 --> 02:23:10,440
All right. Good evening, Council.

1528
02:23:10,440 --> 02:23:12,440
Some of you have parks and recreation budgets.

1529
02:23:12,440 --> 02:23:16,440
So again, I'll start with the divisions and services.

1530
02:23:16,440 --> 02:23:20,440
So one of those is our recreation programs and activities.

1531
02:23:20,440 --> 02:23:23,440
And then we have our facility operations.

1532
02:23:23,440 --> 02:23:31,440
So this is operating all of our community centers, the pool and activating all of our sports fields and things like that.

1533
02:23:31,440 --> 02:23:45,440
And then we have our park planning division, which helps to renovate existing parks and also expand expansion of existing parks and the new parks that come on with future development as well.

1534
02:23:45,440 --> 02:23:50,440
And then as well administration for as one of the areas.

1535
02:23:50,440 --> 02:24:00,440
Some of the highlights for this coming year will be the completion of Sierra Vista Park, which was one of those existing parks that we are renovating.

1536
02:24:00,440 --> 02:24:04,440
Upgrade to the McBride computer classroom.

1537
02:24:04,440 --> 02:24:10,440
And then where we can, we'll still try to expand recreation programs for possible.

1538
02:24:10,440 --> 02:24:20,440
An example of that is we have a new girls outdoor basketball league, which we are working with an independent contractor to bring forward.

1539
02:24:20,440 --> 02:24:23,440
Some of the cost saving measures that we've had to bring forward.

1540
02:24:24,440 --> 02:24:31,440
Continuing from last fiscal year is a reduction in our non full-time staff.

1541
02:24:31,440 --> 02:24:38,440
We have a reduction in our performing arts theater city sponsored programs.

1542
02:24:38,440 --> 02:24:47,440
And we've had some reductions in funding for special events and funding for marriage and main and some reduction in use services.

1543
02:24:47,440 --> 02:24:53,440
That is really like cuts to services supplies where we can for some for programming.

1544
02:24:53,440 --> 02:24:56,440
As far as measure M funding, we do get some funding.

1545
02:24:56,440 --> 02:25:09,440
So our use scholarship program is funded through measure M and then out of our 26 full-time staff, we do have four full-time positions that are funded through measure M.

1546
02:25:09,440 --> 02:25:12,440
And our total operating budget is 11.9 million.

1547
02:25:12,440 --> 02:25:26,440
I will just say that that is offset with about $5 million in revenue from all the fees from the programs, rentals, those kinds of things for budgets.

1548
02:25:26,440 --> 02:25:28,440
So that's parks and recreation.

1549
02:25:28,440 --> 02:25:35,440
And I'll turn it over next to Chief Drayton for fire.

1550
02:25:39,440 --> 02:25:43,440
Will we have a sub tonight?

1551
02:25:43,440 --> 02:25:44,440
Yes.

1552
02:25:44,440 --> 02:25:47,440
Mayor Vice Mayor Online Council staff.

1553
02:25:47,440 --> 02:25:50,440
Thank you for letting me present on behalf of Chief Drayton.

1554
02:25:50,440 --> 02:25:54,440
So your fire department broken into a few different divisions.

1555
02:25:54,440 --> 02:25:58,440
Your operations division, the suppression and ambulances.

1556
02:25:58,440 --> 02:26:02,440
Everybody that's out there running the 911 calls is our biggest division.

1557
02:26:02,440 --> 02:26:07,440
We also have our fire prevention that also oversees the load enforcement.

1558
02:26:07,440 --> 02:26:11,440
Our administration team and then we also have a training division.

1559
02:26:11,440 --> 02:26:17,440
Some of the highlights that's coming up in the next fiscal year is we have another recruit academy.

1560
02:26:17,440 --> 02:26:22,440
So you all approved the academy that we have going on right now with 14 personnel.

1561
02:26:22,440 --> 02:26:29,440
Eight more personnel is what we're looking at with anticipated retirements and some vacancies that we still have.

1562
02:26:29,440 --> 02:26:39,440
That academy is broken up between the EMS academy where we oversee the paramedics and make sure that their skills are up to the standards that we have here in vacabill.

1563
02:26:39,440 --> 02:26:44,440
And then we move into an operations academy where we dropped our recent firefighter one requirement.

1564
02:26:44,440 --> 02:26:51,440
And we now give the firefighter one and firefighter two that allows for more people to apply for our agency.

1565
02:26:51,440 --> 02:27:00,440
We also have the rims asry, which is our CAD dispatching system is going to link up with our GIS and it provides avial dispatching.

1566
02:27:00,440 --> 02:27:05,440
It's going to let us get the closest unit based off of where the incident is happening.

1567
02:27:05,440 --> 02:27:13,440
Our closest units will now be responding decreasing our response times, which is going to be a great addition to our fire department.

1568
02:27:13,440 --> 02:27:19,440
Our budget is also going to include the SB 660, which is the California Data Exchange framework.

1569
02:27:20,440 --> 02:27:25,440
This is a state mandated EMS and a Robert ability initiative.

1570
02:27:25,440 --> 02:27:27,440
It's going to allow for data sharing.

1571
02:27:27,440 --> 02:27:32,440
So if you're not at your primary care provider, you're going to still be able to have all of the information that's needed.

1572
02:27:32,440 --> 02:27:34,440
It's going to increase patient care.

1573
02:27:34,440 --> 02:27:38,440
So we're going to absorb the integration costs in this fiscal year.

1574
02:27:38,440 --> 02:27:48,440
This next fiscal year that we're presenting will have an annual cost associated with that to make sure that we're in compliance with the state and that we still receive funding.

1575
02:27:48,440 --> 02:27:52,440
We also have an over time budget allocation.

1576
02:27:52,440 --> 02:28:02,440
Here, this is where our partners and finance are going to be able to hold us accountable as well as you guys as well, increasing our over time budget.

1577
02:28:02,440 --> 02:28:09,440
The cost savings measures, we did brownout medic 72 as you all are aware on May 1st of this year.

1578
02:28:09,440 --> 02:28:15,440
Looking at just May 1st to May 31st, we will beat the 2.5% reduction.

1579
02:28:16,440 --> 02:28:21,440
The measure in funding, we still have the up staffing of medic 73.

1580
02:28:21,440 --> 02:28:26,440
So at that time, when measure in was passed, we were cross staffing and engine in an ambulance.

1581
02:28:26,440 --> 02:28:30,440
And we added six firefighters with the measure in funding.

1582
02:28:30,440 --> 02:28:34,440
Our total operating budget is $50.1 million for this fiscal year.

1583
02:28:34,440 --> 02:28:38,440
And I'll pass it along to our partners in public safety.

1584
02:28:45,440 --> 02:28:51,440
But evening Mayor Vice Mayor City Council, thanks for allowing me to present to you.

1585
02:28:51,440 --> 02:28:57,440
We have two divisions in the police department and we have a lot of different services within those divisions.

1586
02:28:57,440 --> 02:29:05,440
There's a lot of names on here from patrol to personnel and training to our community outreach to our volunteers.

1587
02:29:05,440 --> 02:29:14,440
We have nearly 200 employees coming in and out of the building from volunteers part time full of time coming in in the building every single day.

1588
02:29:14,440 --> 02:29:22,440
One of the areas that we highlighted is our work on our core values and our culture this past year.

1589
02:29:22,440 --> 02:29:24,440
There's a variety of reasons why we went down this road.

1590
02:29:24,440 --> 02:29:28,440
This initiative was really important to me and several others in the organization.

1591
02:29:28,440 --> 02:29:32,440
We needed to identify our mission as an organization again.

1592
02:29:32,440 --> 02:29:43,440
Identify a bold goal which we have and we identified these six core values in this presentation.

1593
02:29:43,440 --> 02:29:51,440
Some of the areas in a very proud of is we had over 75 outreach events this last year and that does not include your command staff going to different events.

1594
02:29:51,440 --> 02:29:59,440
This is just your, this is our command staff down participating out in the community which is pretty remarkable for our organization.

1595
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,000
We continue to evaluate the real-time information center in the success that we're having with that. We are seeing a crime trend down significantly, 18% in property crime, 8% in persons crimes, about 56% reduction in soul and vehicles. So our response rate time is six minutes for priority one. So we are seeing significant success in the organization right now.

1596
02:30:29,000 --> 02:30:45,000
We pride ourselves with a holistic approach in the police department from prevention to enforcement and that will continue as I am your police chief and that has been all my predecessors have felt the same way and hopefully it continues after I leave.

1597
02:30:45,000 --> 02:31:07,000
Some of our cross-saving measures, we had to freeze four police officer positions. We remove the over-hire program and as you are aware, we had to suspend our community response unit. So we sent four of those officers back to patrol along with one sergeant to assist with our staffing levels and the budget.

1598
02:31:07,000 --> 02:31:29,000
Measure M is a big funding source for the police department. We support our basic need services through measure M through our FRC program. We also support a office assistant position at the FRC. We also support police activities leagues programs and support three staff positions through that.

1599
02:31:29,000 --> 02:31:53,000
Something that was done many years ago through measure M when there was approved and it still exists today. Thanks for partners and finance. We have eight police officers that were funded and we have one captain that is funded through measure M. And in total we have a $63.8 million budget and that concludes my presentation. I will turn over to our public works director, Ryan Oxley.

1600
02:31:59,000 --> 02:32:18,000
Good evening, Mayor Rice, Mayor and council members. Our public works is organized under the four divisions, engineering services, traffic engineering maintenance and administration that includes transit and office of environmental sustainability.

1601
02:32:18,000 --> 02:32:36,000
The department is responsible for maintaining infrastructure, delivering capital projects, maintaining city coach, ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations while remaining focus on implementing cost effective strategy strategies to support the city's long term financial stability.

1602
02:32:36,000 --> 02:32:54,000
Maintenance is focused on maintaining state regulatory requirements by updating the routine maintenance agreement with fishing wildlife, researching and implementing non functional turf compliance, defining a strategy for advanced clean fleet and trash amendment compliance.

1603
02:32:54,000 --> 02:33:14,000
Maintenance staff is also proceeding with facility and parking improvements including basketball court, resurfacing at Canon station and trower parks, fault protection at central garage and security upgrades at critical facilities just to mention a few of their projects.

1604
02:33:14,000 --> 02:33:43,000
The engineering staff is prioritizing the delivery of major capital projects for the advertisement in 2026 and 2027 including backaballi i505 intermodal project the gypsum parkway face three widening project and the ranch of the lug and its detention basin face to support listening impacts to the general fund that department has implemented cost saving measures by holding vacant positions for public works manager.

1605
02:33:44,000 --> 02:33:57,000
The maintenance worker in streets and the part time parks laborer public works administers major m funding for community services and infrastructure program including traffic safety.

1606
02:33:57,000 --> 02:34:03,000
Street and concrete maintenance maintenance administration play for all fleet and equipment replacement.

1607
02:34:03,000 --> 02:34:22,000
Caltrans landscape maintenance and operations at the Walter Graham aquatic center and the department's total operating budget is 38.4 million dollars and it turned the time over to the just and coal or utility structure.

1608
02:34:22,000 --> 02:34:37,000
The utility department budget across both water and wastewater continued focus on system performance regulatory compliance and planned infrastructure investment.

1609
02:34:37,000 --> 02:34:44,000
Both utilities are enterprise funds meaning they're funded through utility revenues and structured structure to be self-sustaining.

1610
02:34:44,000 --> 02:34:56,000
Projected revenues and expenditures in this budget are consistent with adopted rates study from last year reflecting the financial framework previously established by this council and like many utilities statewide.

1611
02:34:56,000 --> 02:35:07,000
We continue to experience cost pressures associated with construction inflation regulatory requirements aging infrastructure which are all reflected in our long term planning assumptions.

1612
02:35:07,000 --> 02:35:14,000
So the water budget we have several divisions with support our mission of delivering high quality drinking water to our residents.

1613
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:19,000
This past year we delivered over five billion gallons of potable water to our community.

1614
02:35:19,000 --> 02:35:25,000
We advanced several long term water supply reliability projects.

1615
02:35:26,000 --> 02:35:37,000
We're also advancing the Fairfield Vacaville waterworks project which is expansion of the co-owned water treatment plant between us in the city of Fairfield.

1616
02:35:37,000 --> 02:35:44,000
We also were able to complete a one-time sale of surplus state project water.

1617
02:35:44,000 --> 02:35:52,000
The $2,900 that money goes directly into our CIP accounts to fund actual infrastructure projects.

1618
02:35:52,000 --> 02:36:01,000
Our cost savings measures associated is really associated with freezing positions and reducing overtime.

1619
02:36:01,000 --> 02:36:14,000
The savings are $273,000 on the water fund and the positions are broken down between sewer and water so you'll see some savings on the sewer side from those frozen positions as well.

1620
02:36:14,000 --> 02:36:22,000
The department receives no measure in funding and our total operating budget on the water side is 42.9 million dollars.

1621
02:36:22,000 --> 02:36:29,000
This includes transfers to our CIP projects and other transfers out of the fund.

1622
02:36:29,000 --> 02:36:32,000
On the wastewater side.

1623
02:36:32,000 --> 02:36:38,000
We treated over three billion gallons of wastewater from our residents and businesses in our community.

1624
02:36:38,000 --> 02:36:46,000
Last year we were able to complete a $5 million megawatt solar system, which is projected to save the city about $25 million over the next 20 years.

1625
02:36:46,000 --> 02:37:01,000
And a big lift by city staff was updating our miserable code and modernizing our construction standards to help streamline future development projects and get us in compliant with some regulations that were upcoming.

1626
02:37:01,000 --> 02:37:10,000
So our cost savings measures on the wastewater side is nearly a half million dollars from freezing or holding those positions and again reducing non-meditory overtime.

1627
02:37:10,000 --> 02:37:20,000
First staff we don't receive measure in funding and our total operating budget is $45.1 million and again that includes our CIP project transfers and other transfers out of the fund.

1628
02:37:20,000 --> 02:37:28,000
And in closing, this budget reflects the continued emphasis on operational efficiency infrastructure investment and reflects the council guidance.

1629
02:37:28,000 --> 02:37:32,000
And with that I'll turn it back over to our finance director Ken.

1630
02:37:32,000 --> 02:37:36,000
Thanks Justin, so that concludes our operating budget portion of this item.

1631
02:37:36,000 --> 02:37:41,000
And so before we jump into the CIP and fleet update if there are any questions or comments, we happy to take them.

1632
02:37:41,000 --> 02:37:44,000
Yeah I'm certain there's going to be some.

1633
02:37:44,000 --> 02:37:49,000
Looking around to see if anybody here has any questions or comments.

1634
02:37:49,000 --> 02:37:54,000
All right, vice versa.

1635
02:37:54,000 --> 02:38:05,000
All right, well thank you to staff for for comprehensively covering all that so there weren't questions so we'll move on to the fleet.

1636
02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:35,000
Okay once again good evening mayor vice mayor and members of the council.

1637
02:38:35,000 --> 02:38:44,000
I've been asked to come and provide an update on the equipment replacement fund status as well as a 10 year capital for replacement forecast for the city's fleet.

1638
02:38:44,000 --> 02:38:59,000
This presentation is going to focus on the general fund portion of the fleet as opposed to fleet related to other funds like the enterprise fund or special district type fund.

1639
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:13,000
140 of the 683 total equipment units and the fleet currently are funded by the general fund and to give some examples of what this what these different pieces of equipment are this are fire and police vehicles.

1640
02:39:13,000 --> 02:39:21,000
Engines, medics, petroleum and its construction vehicles, dump trucks, pavers, grinders, bucket trucks, that type of thing.

1641
02:39:21,000 --> 02:39:28,000
As well as our lighting medium duty, admin vehicles, work trucks, vans, the things that.

1642
02:39:28,000 --> 02:39:40,000
And then miscellaneous things like crack seal machine maintenance types type items and these are the pieces of equipment that are required for staff to manage our programs maintain infrastructure.

1643
02:39:40,000 --> 02:39:49,000
Provide critical public safety services and meet the performance metrics that are set by council.

1644
02:39:49,000 --> 02:40:05,000
So to talk on some of the funding and some of the challenges that we've had with growth since 2018 we've had 2.3 million dollars per year allocated for fleet replacement activities and that has stayed static since 2018.

1645
02:40:05,000 --> 02:40:12,000
So during that time we've experienced some significant inflation as you all know.

1646
02:40:12,000 --> 02:40:24,000
An average of 3.67% per year has gone up for light and medium duty vehicles in the industry according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in December 25.

1647
02:40:25,000 --> 02:40:40,000
So just to give you an example you know if allocations to the general or to the equipment replacement fund were to keep up with that inflation we would expect approximately 3.1 million dollars per year to be going to the equipment replacement fund as opposed to the 2.3 that's currently going there.

1648
02:40:40,000 --> 02:40:53,000
Unfortunately the news is worse for emergency vehicles and heavy duty equipment inflation just to give some examples a police patrol unit in 2019 cost of city approximately $60,000 per unit.

1649
02:40:53,000 --> 02:41:09,000
Currently we're looking at approximately $94,000 per unit which is 56% increase for fire engines in 2019 we paid roughly 700,000 for a fire engine in 2025 we paid 1.2 million that's a 71% increase for a fire engine.

1650
02:41:09,000 --> 02:41:24,000
And in construction a dump truck in 2018 we paid $176,000 for a dump truck and our recent quote in 2025 for the similar dump truck for an internal combustion engine was 390,000 so that's a 75% increase.

1651
02:41:24,000 --> 02:41:30,000
So you could see that you know the inflation is clear and the impact to the budget is real.

1652
02:41:30,000 --> 02:41:41,000
Over the same period of time from 2019 we've also grown as a city so we've expanded parks and streets and service areas and programming.

1653
02:41:41,000 --> 02:41:50,000
And so we've gone from 593 units, equipment units in 2019 to now we're at about 683 units so.

1654
02:41:51,000 --> 02:42:03,000
So considering that the funding has been flat since 2018 some of the strategies that we're using to manage the funds that we've been allocated and make sure that we're able to provide the services to the city without any drop.

1655
02:42:03,000 --> 02:42:18,000
We've extended equipment life so you know if we have a vehicle that has lived its life in one of our departments and is ready to move on we will move that to like a part time vehicle for parks maintenance some and get a second life out of that vehicle.

1656
02:42:18,000 --> 02:42:22,000
You know if it has low mileage and it makes sense for the city to do so.

1657
02:42:22,000 --> 02:42:33,000
We've looked at efficiency models so if we when we come up for replacement on a vehicle we'll look at that replacement in the usage and how it's being used and if we need to replace that unit or if we can.

1658
02:42:33,000 --> 02:42:41,000
Reallocated to a different service and so an example of that is with our public works manager when we had one retire in the last year.

1659
02:42:41,000 --> 02:42:53,000
And we heard that position back we made the agreement that we would pull vehicle that position and have them be able to either use one of the other vehicles that was there or use a pool vehicle so we do evaluate those as we go to replace.

1660
02:42:53,000 --> 02:43:02,000
We're looking at EV grants for you know alternative funding that are out there for things like electric motors or you know if we qualify for electric vehicles.

1661
02:43:02,000 --> 02:43:13,000
We use a smooth replacement model so when you have 2.3 million in allocation and if you had you know two fire trucks come up at 1.2 million dollars per fire truck you would quickly eat up that budget so.

1662
02:43:13,000 --> 02:43:26,000
What we tend to do is kind of look at focus years what would buy one one big unit and then a couple smaller units and then spread out that those purchases over the years so we can plan ahead and put some money aside and when that when that.

1663
02:43:26,000 --> 02:43:30,000
And purchase comes up we have the money ready for it.

1664
02:43:30,000 --> 02:43:40,000
But probably most important is our management of the data so each year we go through a fleet life cycle report to prioritize replacements based on the condition of all the units that are out there.

1665
02:43:40,000 --> 02:43:51,000
So we look at the age of the units the mileage that they've accumulated and also the cumulative maintenance costs that we put into those vehicles over those life of life of those vehicles so we're not.

1666
02:43:51,000 --> 02:44:01,000
So that have had a lot of use and a lot of wear and that we've had to do a lot of service on we're not continuing to put a lot of extra money into those vehicles and so each one of those.

1667
02:44:01,000 --> 02:44:10,000
You know metrics will then result in what we call the green yellow red model where green means the vehicles in good shape and doesn't need to be considered for replacement.

1668
02:44:10,000 --> 02:44:17,000
Yellow means that we should evaluate that in the next couple years for replacement and red means that it should be considered in the current fiscal year for replacement.

1669
02:44:17,000 --> 02:44:22,000
It doesn't mean that we're going to replace it but that that one should be up for consideration for replacement.

1670
02:44:22,000 --> 02:44:32,000
And we've also increased collaboration with our key stakeholders so we meet monthly with fire and with police to identify what their needs are and look at.

1671
02:44:32,000 --> 02:44:40,000
You know where we might be able to extend life on a vehicle or if something needs to move forward and we have a collaborative approach that really helps meet the needs of the stakeholders.

1672
02:44:41,000 --> 02:44:50,000
So the results are speak for themselves most of our current fleet is in the green and not overdue for replacement we're in a good spot with our fleet right now.

1673
02:44:50,000 --> 02:45:00,000
And I'll talk to some of the future as we look into the 10 year program here so being asked to provide a 10 year forecast I had to make some assumptions in what.

1674
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:12,000
How are we going to derive the data for this? And so we use the current purchase price that we're seeing in real time to kind of set a baseline for the vehicles that the current purchase price.

1675
02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:20,000
And then for the ones that we didn't have a current one on, we asked for quotes and recent quotes that we've gotten, we use those to some of the baselines.

1676
02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:28,000
We assume up four and a half percent per year inflationary rate, which is a bit higher than the 3.67 percent that we've seen for light and medium duties.

1677
02:45:28,000 --> 02:45:36,000
But it's consistent with the fire fleet study that we presented to council a couple years back, and we wanted to keep the data consistent across departments.

1678
02:45:36,000 --> 02:45:48,000
We assumed replacing light for light on equipment units. So if an F150 came up for replacement, we would replace that truck with an F150, not with an F250 and didn't assume that there'd be an operational change there.

1679
02:45:49,000 --> 02:45:58,000
And as I spoke about earlier, we assume extending the equipment wife were advantageous to the city, so not putting additional money into an old vehicle that's had a lot of.

1680
02:45:58,000 --> 02:46:17,000
We're in terror and not just replacing based on the fiscal year or a fixed year. So if we assume 15 years out of a maintenance truck, for example, if we got to that 15 years and we looked at that truck and I had low mileage, we would continue to maintain and keep that truck until it made sense to replace it.

1681
02:46:18,000 --> 02:46:30,000
We did not assume growth in the fleet for the 10 year projection because we don't know what the growth in the city looks like in 6 to 10 years. We only know what we have now and what we need to replace over that time.

1682
02:46:30,000 --> 02:46:41,000
And finally, we did not try to incorporate unforeseen market dips or inflationary costs that are going to hit because we don't know where that's going to hit the next few years and we didn't.

1683
02:46:41,000 --> 02:46:53,000
Try to guess at what the regulatory impacts for seems things like advanced clean fleet and how those would hit the budget. We did not consider those we considered like for like so with all that said.

1684
02:46:53,000 --> 02:47:06,000
Here is the general fund capital forecast over the next 10 years. The top line is the general fund budget needed based on all of the equipment that we have and where we assume the replacement will fall in the next 10 years.

1685
02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:16,000
The second line is the current allocation to the equipment replacement fund from the general fund 2.3 million assuming it's static over the next 10 years.

1686
02:47:16,000 --> 02:47:23,000
And the final line is the gap between what our current funding is and our current and our current need.

1687
02:47:23,000 --> 02:47:33,000
And so as you can see in the next 5 years we're in a pretty good space as I mentioned most of our vehicles are in the green and not up due for replacement.

1688
02:47:33,000 --> 02:47:47,000
Over the next 5 years our total funding gap is 2.86 million dollars. So as I spoke about earlier with the funding gap if we had been increasing it with inflation up to this point that would have covered that 2.86 million dollar gap.

1689
02:47:47,000 --> 02:47:53,000
After the 5 years though you can see the numbers jump quite drastically.

1690
02:47:53,000 --> 02:48:09,000
We'd be looking at over 10 years a almost 23 million dollar gap. And some of the numbers after you hit that first 5 years the reason why some of those jumps happen is we do have some big purchases coming like additional fire trucks additional paper and grinder.

1691
02:48:09,000 --> 02:48:19,000
And it also when you're doing a projection this way with a 4.5% increase the numbers rise quite rapidly as you get back to to the back of a 10 year projection.

1692
02:48:19,000 --> 02:48:33,000
So a car now that is costing $90,000 if you continue to add that 4.5% in 10 years that cars in the 140,000 dollar range. So you can see how some of the numbers reflect that difference.

1693
02:48:33,000 --> 02:48:55,000
So to solve that gap if you were to fund fully based on our projections an increase of $572,000 annually to cover the next 5 years would be necessary over 10 years 2.3 million dollars per year additional which is roughly what's being put into the fund currently.

1694
02:48:55,000 --> 02:49:01,000
To summarize the majority of the fleet funded by the general fund is not currently due for replacement or in a good spot.

1695
02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:08,000
And we're meeting public service needs the staff is managing replacements using a collaborative data driven process.

1696
02:49:08,000 --> 02:49:23,000
We've recently installed new software that's going to make it easier for us to have data readily available for projections and provide updates to the city managers office and to council is necessary and also make maintenance more efficient for our staff.

1697
02:49:24,000 --> 02:49:33,000
We manage our funds through a life cycle analysis and preventative maintenance and repair and that is resulted in extended use for life of our vehicles.

1698
02:49:33,000 --> 02:49:41,000
And lastly to continue to maintain and replace the fleet at the current service levels additional funding is going to be necessary to keep up with inflation and growth of the city.

1699
02:49:41,000 --> 02:49:43,000
So with that I'll pass it on a Brian.

1700
02:49:44,000 --> 02:49:53,000
Okay, thank you. Again, good evening Mayor Vice Mayor and council members.

1701
02:49:53,000 --> 02:50:07,000
As my part of our presentation tonight is the proposed capital improvement program budget for fiscal year 202627 and I will also provide an update on the five year capital improvement program.

1702
02:50:07,000 --> 02:50:20,000
The CIP budget is based on funding requests submitted by sponsoring departments and based on these requests various funding sources are identified and evaluated to support the proposed project.

1703
02:50:20,000 --> 02:50:35,000
Council then reviews and approves funding for these individual projects and the CIP budget reflects these approved appropriations and adopted annually and the CIP budget represents allocation by funding source.

1704
02:50:35,000 --> 02:50:43,000
Which have been approved by city council and is a formal authorization of funding for capital improvement projects.

1705
02:50:43,000 --> 02:50:52,000
This year CIP budget is approximately $39.1 million and this chart shows the percentages of various funding.

1706
02:50:52,000 --> 02:51:14,000
A very funds being allocated to projects from the proposed budget impact fees are the largest fund source with 53% utility funds include 14% for water and 9% for sewer gas taxes 13% measure M6% and general fund grant and other funds make up to remaining 5%

1707
02:51:15,000 --> 02:51:21,000
This slide shows the amount of available development impact fees for budgeting over the last five years.

1708
02:51:21,000 --> 02:51:37,000
The defund that is available for projects for this fiscal year is approximately $24.2 million and these amounts are directly correlated to the amount of private development that occurred within the city over the last fiscal year.

1709
02:51:37,000 --> 02:51:47,000
The department responsible for managing the different impact fees decide the funding allocation to individual projects.

1710
02:51:47,000 --> 02:51:53,000
This slide shows the amount of general fund that is allocated for CIP projects over the last five years.

1711
02:51:53,000 --> 02:51:59,000
The general fund allocated to projects this year is $1.75,000.

1712
02:51:59,000 --> 02:52:14,000
350,000 of the general fund allocated to projects for this fiscal year is derived from the unapplied interest from the capital improvement program budget as well as savings from recently closed out CIP projects.

1713
02:52:14,000 --> 02:52:20,000
As a result, only 725,000 is new general fund costs.

1714
02:52:20,000 --> 02:52:33,000
Of the $39.1 million for post for allocation in this budget, $1.1 million is proposed to fund 26 new CIP projects.

1715
02:52:33,000 --> 02:52:42,000
100,000 in traffic impact fees are budget to conduct the city's travel demand model which is needed to update the traffic impact fee.

1716
02:52:42,000 --> 02:52:45,000
Two new wells are being added to the CIP.

1717
02:52:45,000 --> 02:52:55,000
5 million is proposed for well-24 to fund the replacement of an existing well in the Amira Road Christine Drive area.

1718
02:52:55,000 --> 02:53:05,000
Additional 100,000 is budgeted for initial funding for a new well but that location for this new well has not been determined at this time.

1719
02:53:06,000 --> 02:53:13,000
The remaining $27 million being proposed in the budget will be allocated to 20 existing CIP projects.

1720
02:53:13,000 --> 02:53:24,000
Approximately 353,000 of park impact fees are budgeted for the master planning design and construction of the Unity Meadows Park Master Plan.

1721
02:53:25,000 --> 02:53:37,000
The CIP budget also includes an allocation of 300,000 in traffic impact fees for the initial funding to design and construct the existing around about onjeps and parkway and Foxboro Parkway.

1722
02:53:37,000 --> 02:53:47,000
And this concludes the discussion regarding the annual CIP budget and would like to now provide an update on our five year CIP program.

1723
02:53:47,000 --> 02:53:56,000
As we discussed at the April 28 council meeting the five year CIP program is a multi-year planning tool for implementing CIP projects.

1724
02:53:56,000 --> 02:54:06,000
And this program includes key elements such as determining infrastructure and facility needs of the community and prioritizing those needs on an annual basis.

1725
02:54:06,000 --> 02:54:15,000
Creating and tracking capital projects, identifying appropriate funding sources and creating a schedule for the project implementation.

1726
02:54:15,000 --> 02:54:21,000
This has been utilizing the city's new easy CIP software to create this document.

1727
02:54:21,000 --> 02:54:26,000
This is the first time that the five year CIP program will be compiled in this format.

1728
02:54:26,000 --> 02:54:34,000
And the packet that you received is the draft five year CIP program document and includes only the financial information.

1729
02:54:34,000 --> 02:54:41,000
However, the document includes all of the current CIP projects included in the program.

1730
02:54:42,000 --> 02:54:48,000
Here is a summary of the funding sources included in the five year CIP and the current funding amounts.

1731
02:54:48,000 --> 02:54:56,000
The report you have breaks down the five year CIP by projects listed by department category and funding sources.

1732
02:54:56,000 --> 02:55:07,000
The report also includes future projects and those future projects are defined as projects that have been submitted by the departments have been approved by the city's planning commission.

1733
02:55:07,000 --> 02:55:14,000
But we're not approved due to not receiving funding in this year's annual CIP budget.

1734
02:55:14,000 --> 02:55:19,000
However, these projects will remain in the five year CIP while awaiting funding.

1735
02:55:19,000 --> 02:55:34,000
The future and complete five year CIP will include additional information for each project such as project description, general plan consistency, justification and strategic goal and funding information.

1736
02:55:34,000 --> 02:55:40,000
And this document will be a very useful tool for the city to track and plan individual projects.

1737
02:55:40,000 --> 02:55:50,000
The final five year CIP will be brought before council in December for approval and then will be placed online for viewing by the public.

1738
02:55:50,000 --> 02:55:53,000
And this concludes our presentation.

1739
02:55:53,000 --> 02:55:56,000
We're happy to answer any questions you may have.

1740
02:55:56,000 --> 02:55:57,000
Thank you.

1741
02:55:57,000 --> 02:56:03,000
Appreciate the updates, especially on the CIP and the fleet in addition to the budget.

1742
02:56:03,000 --> 02:56:09,000
I do remember those guides annually. They're very detailed and you could.

1743
02:56:09,000 --> 02:56:15,000
It was interesting getting through the great recession and then to look at our fleet and then how to actually manage it.

1744
02:56:15,000 --> 02:56:21,000
So for the public who's never seen it any department head and staff who's seen it.

1745
02:56:21,000 --> 02:56:29,000
It's comprehensive to manage it and I can test to the fact that inflation has gone up.

1746
02:56:29,000 --> 02:56:34,000
But that number has not maintained to actually capture that.

1747
02:56:34,000 --> 02:56:39,000
Just a quick question on the fleet though because the rest of that was already comprehensive.

1748
02:56:39,000 --> 02:56:46,000
Do we think that these numbers are the new norm because 4% is high.

1749
02:56:46,000 --> 02:56:53,000
But the numbers that hit in the last few years is like an engine almost doubling.

1750
02:56:54,000 --> 02:56:58,000
Is there any is there any settling or reset of some of these costs.

1751
02:56:58,000 --> 02:57:03,000
Or is this just the new inflationary impact post.

1752
02:57:03,000 --> 02:57:05,000
2020.

1753
02:57:05,000 --> 02:57:08,000
Because I mean it just it went through the route.

1754
02:57:08,000 --> 02:57:11,000
And the hope was that somehow it's going to settle.

1755
02:57:11,000 --> 02:57:18,000
Well, I don't know specifically on the fleet part of it but I know in speaking of regarding construction.

1756
02:57:19,000 --> 02:57:25,000
That there is that we're seeing the same type of inflation and construction.

1757
02:57:25,000 --> 02:57:28,000
In speaking with other agencies.

1758
02:57:28,000 --> 02:57:39,000
Contractors developers the thought is that eventually is the economy slows some of those numbers are going to have to come down.

1759
02:57:39,000 --> 02:57:43,000
Not sure though exactly how much or when.

1760
02:57:43,000 --> 02:57:45,000
That would happen.

1761
02:57:45,000 --> 02:57:57,000
This is what my my my sentiments and frustration that at some point these impacts are are born into the way we make decisions.

1762
02:57:57,000 --> 02:58:03,000
And then ultimately it affects you know future projection programming and planning for budgets.

1763
02:58:03,000 --> 02:58:05,000
And it's like how do you make ends meet.

1764
02:58:05,000 --> 02:58:09,000
I know we we can probably feel this in our personal lives but.

1765
02:58:09,000 --> 02:58:14,000
This is a municipal corporation that's getting closer and closer to a third of a billion dollars.

1766
02:58:14,000 --> 02:58:19,000
And it's not getting any cheaper to run run a business or a government.

1767
02:58:19,000 --> 02:58:22,000
So a lot of this inflation.

1768
02:58:22,000 --> 02:58:28,000
Kind of started back in the in the covid years and some of the supply chain issues that we're going on.

1769
02:58:28,000 --> 02:58:31,000
I can't speak to the future where it's going to head.

1770
02:58:31,000 --> 02:58:38,000
But I can I can say that in some of the turnaround times and the the lead times for how long it's taken to build some of the equipment.

1771
02:58:38,000 --> 02:58:48,000
And those times are starting to come back down and starting to normalize and I would hope that with that normalization of some of the turnaround times that the cost also.

1772
02:58:48,000 --> 02:58:55,000
Follow suit, but it's it's hard to sit here and and projector can you have to do conjecture on that.

1773
02:58:55,000 --> 02:58:57,000
Yeah, thank you.

1774
02:58:57,000 --> 02:59:00,000
Any comments your questions.

1775
02:59:00,000 --> 02:59:12,000
I mean, that was very.

1776
02:59:12,000 --> 02:59:29,000
I'm going to use to work that you'll me because you want to make assumptions in order to do adjust analysis and you did that and I just have to commend you on on on your assumptions.

1777
02:59:29,000 --> 02:59:35,000
The other thing I appreciate is seeing the grants included in your in your presentation.

1778
02:59:35,000 --> 02:59:40,000
I was going to ask that of the other departments for the city.

1779
02:59:40,000 --> 02:59:45,000
I didn't see grants included in their budget, you know.

1780
02:59:45,000 --> 02:59:50,000
Because I know it does comprise part of make big up a budget as well.

1781
02:59:50,000 --> 02:59:58,000
And so it would be good to help information on how well we're doing in soliciting grants by department.

1782
02:59:58,000 --> 03:00:00,000
I think it is.

1783
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:10,000
So our assistant city manager, she's working on a document where we will be tracking all of the grants that we apply for. So we will have more information in the next year.

1784
03:00:10,000 --> 03:00:18,000
We're planning to have a more streamlined process on tracking grants when are we applying with the matching funds are and all of those things.

1785
03:00:18,000 --> 03:00:23,000
But on an average, the city does get about $42 million worth of grants every year.

1786
03:00:23,000 --> 03:00:33,000
Okay, great. And I notice in this presentation, I think over the five year period you've gone from the million down to maybe $200,000.

1787
03:00:33,000 --> 03:00:42,000
And I know many grants you have to reapply or there are only for a specific time frame like a three or five year grant.

1788
03:00:42,000 --> 03:00:52,000
So with that, because I see, I mean, it's evident that you showed here on your presentation, how is declining.

1789
03:00:52,000 --> 03:00:59,000
Do we, do you have, or do we have a grant writer, who looks at, I'm sorry, I need to wait.

1790
03:00:59,000 --> 03:01:08,000
I will stop here because it's been addressed right now by the assistant city manager. It's all whole, I'm not going to further with that.

1791
03:01:08,000 --> 03:01:09,000
Thank you.

1792
03:01:09,000 --> 03:01:10,000
Thank you.

1793
03:01:10,000 --> 03:01:11,000
Thank you.

1794
03:01:11,000 --> 03:01:12,000
Thank you.

1795
03:01:12,000 --> 03:01:13,000
Thanks for covering some of the police stuff.

1796
03:01:13,000 --> 03:01:17,000
I think you're so able to talk to me about some of that as well.

1797
03:01:17,000 --> 03:01:27,000
Who are we currently getting our fleet units from like, not necessarily the specialized equipment and, you know, back hose and different stuff like that.

1798
03:01:27,000 --> 03:01:32,000
I'm talking about like the cars, the trucks, the SUVs and the stuff that our staff is using.

1799
03:01:32,000 --> 03:01:34,000
Yeah, our standard process.

1800
03:01:34,000 --> 03:01:35,000
Good question. Thank you.

1801
03:01:35,000 --> 03:01:45,000
Our standard approach to replacing light and medium duty vehicles and that type of thing is to use cooperative purchasing agreements where either it's, you know,

1802
03:01:45,000 --> 03:01:50,000
California awarded agreements that are already bit out and they provide efficiency for the city.

1803
03:01:50,000 --> 03:01:54,000
So we don't have to go and bid every single time through. We know we're getting a good price for the city.

1804
03:01:54,000 --> 03:02:04,000
We're also primarily a floor fleet. So we try to do that for efficiency purposes in terms of our staff training parts inventories.

1805
03:02:04,000 --> 03:02:14,000
Knowledge about the vehicles, those types of things and and so the depending on the grant or the contract that was awarded.

1806
03:02:14,000 --> 03:02:23,000
Through the cooperating cooperative purchasing agreement process, then we will usually go to those dealerships and ask for for the quote from there to start.

1807
03:02:24,000 --> 03:02:29,000
So if it's not available there, then we will look for another another location. Sorry to interrupt.

1808
03:02:29,000 --> 03:02:39,000
Oh, you're okay. So do we have any local cooperative purchasing agreement dealerships in our area.

1809
03:02:39,000 --> 03:02:46,000
So yes, they're located around the area. I think one is in downtown Ford and Sacramento.

1810
03:02:46,000 --> 03:02:50,000
There are none in the back of bill directly that I'm aware of.

1811
03:02:50,000 --> 03:02:52,000
What about the Sloan County?

1812
03:02:52,000 --> 03:03:00,000
I would have to go back through and look, but I don't believe that the ones that are awarded through the major dealerships like Ford and Chevy are in Sloan County.

1813
03:03:00,000 --> 03:03:08,000
So I guess my next question would be, how do we know that we are getting the best deal by going through these groups rather than.

1814
03:03:09,000 --> 03:03:20,000
Looking at or at least opening that bidding process to some of our local dealerships here knowing that you know sometimes when we invest in local or at least regional.

1815
03:03:20,000 --> 03:03:26,000
Businesses and companies that there that money seems to you know kind of circulate through our economy.

1816
03:03:26,000 --> 03:03:28,000
Yeah, that's a good question.

1817
03:03:28,000 --> 03:03:36,000
So we will start usually with the cooperative bid purchasing agreement, but in some cases the build processes up to six months for some of these.

1818
03:03:36,000 --> 03:03:41,000
And if that's not going to meet the operational need, then we will do bids from local dealerships that are around.

1819
03:03:41,000 --> 03:03:46,000
And we do see the real time prices of bids that we collect versus what the cooperative bid agreements are.

1820
03:03:46,000 --> 03:03:51,000
And we see that the cooperative bid agreements are generally lower lower costs.

1821
03:03:51,000 --> 03:03:56,000
Sometimes with a dealership has something that's on the lot and they want it to move it.

1822
03:03:56,000 --> 03:03:59,000
Then we can get a better deal on it or they'll have a promotion.

1823
03:03:59,000 --> 03:04:01,000
And sometimes we'll take advantage of that.

1824
03:04:01,000 --> 03:04:05,000
But generally speaking, the cooperative bid purchasing agreement is the best price for the city.

1825
03:04:05,000 --> 03:04:10,000
And certainly want to make sure that we're getting the best deal that we can.

1826
03:04:10,000 --> 03:04:18,000
But I'm curious whether or not by opening or re-evaluating that if we might be able to help some local businesses.

1827
03:04:18,000 --> 03:04:26,000
At least attempt to you know to get some of those sell some of those vehicles if not.

1828
03:04:26,000 --> 03:04:32,000
And then how many how many maintenance workers do we have actually working on.

1829
03:04:32,000 --> 03:04:37,000
You said six hundred and eighty three units.

1830
03:04:37,000 --> 03:04:39,000
So how many maintenance workers do we have.

1831
03:04:39,000 --> 03:04:44,000
And are we getting any sort of maintenance package from any of these.

1832
03:04:44,000 --> 03:04:47,000
Dealerships that we're purchasing these vehicles from.

1833
03:04:47,000 --> 03:04:48,000
Yeah, thank you for that question.

1834
03:04:48,000 --> 03:04:55,000
And I we don't get to spend enough time in a presentation like this when we're talking about the equipment replacement fund to highlight our staff.

1835
03:04:55,000 --> 03:04:59,000
But we have a very highly trained.

1836
03:04:59,000 --> 03:05:04,000
You know, skilled go get our staff that really gets things done in our garage.

1837
03:05:04,000 --> 03:05:10,000
At the corporate yard, we have six full-time mechanics and the supervisor as well as a part time.

1838
03:05:10,000 --> 03:05:19,000
And we have two office positions there that support in the the billing and the purchasing and the end of the work order side of things.

1839
03:05:19,000 --> 03:05:25,000
They turn out incredible amount of work over four thousand work orders in the last year.

1840
03:05:25,000 --> 03:05:38,000
And we do utilize outside service agreements quite frequently actually because despite having a full service garage that's there and we maintain everything from fire engines and we have EVT trained technicians there.

1841
03:05:38,000 --> 03:05:45,000
To, you know, to our tractors are police units all these things, but we don't specialize in everything.

1842
03:05:45,000 --> 03:05:53,000
So for updates of police units will send those out and have those up fit for specialized fire apparatus repairs will send those out.

1843
03:05:53,000 --> 03:06:02,000
If it's a tractor repairs can take us too much time in the in the garage to do that will send it out or for just short staff for some reason if some, you know, and we need to turn something around.

1844
03:06:02,000 --> 03:06:05,000
We'll use outside service vendors that are local to the back.

1845
03:06:05,000 --> 03:06:10,000
Okay, and the updating that's done it's done through different company.

1846
03:06:10,000 --> 03:06:11,000
It's done.

1847
03:06:11,000 --> 03:06:17,000
Generally, we have a, we have a cooperative, a agreement through Lear that does most of our up fitting for our police vehicles.

1848
03:06:17,000 --> 03:06:22,000
Okay, and is that go out into a bidding process or is that a contract that we already have established.

1849
03:06:22,000 --> 03:06:27,000
So there are two options for that we did do a cooperative or we did do a bit outreach in 2023.

1850
03:06:27,000 --> 03:06:32,000
I believe it was and then we also there's a cooperative purchasing agreement that's available.

1851
03:06:32,000 --> 03:06:34,000
So we did our own process in the city.

1852
03:06:34,000 --> 03:06:39,000
I can 23 and there's also a cooperative purchasing agreement available if we wanted to utilize that avenue.

1853
03:06:39,000 --> 03:06:43,000
Okay, and you said that we're primarily afford fleet.

1854
03:06:43,000 --> 03:06:51,000
Is there any cost saving by looking at, you know, other auto manufacturers and trying to see whether or not.

1855
03:06:52,000 --> 03:06:58,000
We can get these vehicles maybe quicker or get the turnaround faster while we're having them service.

1856
03:06:58,000 --> 03:07:01,000
When's the last time that we looked at that.

1857
03:07:01,000 --> 03:07:05,000
We look at it on a case by case basis, depending on operational needs.

1858
03:07:05,000 --> 03:07:07,000
So for example, doesn't have a sedan.

1859
03:07:07,000 --> 03:07:20,000
So if we needed to, if we had a department that was looking to replace a sedan, then we may explore Chevy or Dodge or one of the other manufacturers to see if there's a way for us to meet the operational need and then be able to turn that.

1860
03:07:20,000 --> 03:07:24,000
You know, and then be able to turn that, you know, and then be able to get that.

1861
03:07:24,000 --> 03:07:33,000
We're not actively looking at the turnaround times for light and medium to do vehicles because they don't have the extended lead times of things like fire trucks and and that type of things.

1862
03:07:33,000 --> 03:07:39,000
And I totally understand that with like the pierce fire trucks and I know that's a nightmare to get those things when you need them.

1863
03:07:39,000 --> 03:07:44,000
So when when you're looking for these sedans or specialized units, you know,

1864
03:07:44,000 --> 03:07:50,000
or sorry, non specialized units, it does that go through the same company.

1865
03:07:50,000 --> 03:07:56,000
The cooperative purchasing agreement company orders that go out to bid to local dealerships.

1866
03:07:56,000 --> 03:08:06,000
Typically with light and medium duty vehicles will start with the cooperative purchasing agreement price and reach out and see what the availability is and if that meets the projection of the operational need then we'll move forward with that.

1867
03:08:06,000 --> 03:08:09,000
And if not, then we'll look at it on other options.

1868
03:08:09,000 --> 03:08:12,000
Okay, and then do we own these vehicles or do we lease them?

1869
03:08:12,000 --> 03:08:14,000
We own our vehicles.

1870
03:08:14,000 --> 03:08:21,000
The primarily there's been some limited exceptions where there's been leased vehicle here and there, but for the most part we own vehicles and city values.

1871
03:08:21,000 --> 03:08:27,000
Is there reason why we do one over the other as far as what the maintenance or availability of.

1872
03:08:27,000 --> 03:08:29,000
You know, because I understand some police.

1873
03:08:29,000 --> 03:08:31,000
So I have a background in law enforcement.

1874
03:08:31,000 --> 03:08:39,000
I understand that when we lease some of these vehicles, sometimes they can replace the vehicle while the other ones being fixed and we're not having a unit that's down.

1875
03:08:39,000 --> 03:08:43,000
Especially if some of these are anywhere from 60 to 94,000 dollars.

1876
03:08:43,000 --> 03:08:49,000
Is that something that might be able to save the city some money if we look at lease option on some of these vehicles.

1877
03:08:49,000 --> 03:08:54,000
So this is a topic that's come up in the past and has been extensively researched by city staff.

1878
03:08:54,000 --> 03:08:55,000
There is there are files on that.

1879
03:08:55,000 --> 03:08:57,000
I'm not prepared to speak on this specific stuff.

1880
03:08:57,000 --> 03:09:03,000
I'm now, but the decision but I believe it was 2019 and then there was another look at it in 2020.

1881
03:09:03,000 --> 03:09:07,000
Who I believe I'd have to don't quote me on the day.

1882
03:09:07,000 --> 03:09:13,000
But that has been looked at multiple times and the decision has always been that it's more efficient and cost effective and better.

1883
03:09:13,000 --> 03:09:21,000
The bottom line is it's easier for us to serve our stakeholders within the city by owning and maintaining the vehicles.

1884
03:09:21,000 --> 03:09:22,000
We have more control.

1885
03:09:22,000 --> 03:09:29,000
We can turn things around faster and we provide better internal service to our internal stakeholders, which in turn provides better service to the citizens.

1886
03:09:29,000 --> 03:09:31,000
This is a back of all.

1887
03:09:31,000 --> 03:09:32,000
Okay.

1888
03:09:32,000 --> 03:09:35,000
And then I had a question for the police chief.

1889
03:09:35,000 --> 03:09:38,000
Are we going back, how far back are we going on on this?

1890
03:09:38,000 --> 03:09:39,000
This is open.

1891
03:09:39,000 --> 03:09:41,000
Well, this is open for all of the budget Berlin.

1892
03:09:41,000 --> 03:09:42,000
Okay.

1893
03:09:42,000 --> 03:09:44,000
Just a couple questions chief.

1894
03:09:44,000 --> 03:09:50,000
I will full court press you like I did these guys.

1895
03:09:50,000 --> 03:09:52,000
I'm sorry.

1896
03:09:52,000 --> 03:10:05,000
You know, I know that we have with cost reductions remove the crew team and the four police positions and the four trainee positions.

1897
03:10:05,000 --> 03:10:15,000
What is what is the cost that it would be needed to bring those back?

1898
03:10:15,000 --> 03:10:17,000
We're dealing with percentages, right?

1899
03:10:17,000 --> 03:10:19,000
I'm trying to think what the real world cost.

1900
03:10:19,000 --> 03:10:21,000
Can you get your mic?

1901
03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:22,000
Sorry.

1902
03:10:22,000 --> 03:10:25,000
I don't have control.

1903
03:10:25,000 --> 03:10:34,000
So we estimated the the crew team rotating back to patrol cost savings of over time to be around 350,

1904
03:10:34,000 --> 03:10:38,000
360,000 dollars annually.

1905
03:10:38,000 --> 03:10:41,000
But I think what we have to remember.

1906
03:10:42,000 --> 03:10:54,000
Given the vacancies that we have and on top of the injuries that we have, we were seeing a burden on our patrol staff that we were having to manage.

1907
03:10:54,000 --> 03:10:59,000
So we're going into vacations season along with our injuries along with our vacancy rate.

1908
03:10:59,000 --> 03:11:07,000
We had to reduce the burden on the overtime of our police officer working too much.

1909
03:11:07,000 --> 03:11:10,000
So crew also helped offset that burden that we were facing.

1910
03:11:10,000 --> 03:11:19,000
So to answer your question, we're anticipating 350 to 350 to 360,000 dollars just for the budget side of it.

1911
03:11:19,000 --> 03:11:20,000
Okay.

1912
03:11:20,000 --> 03:11:28,000
And then what about for the officers as well, because that's got to be generating some overtime as well by not having, I think it's like eight positions correct.

1913
03:11:28,000 --> 03:11:31,000
We have eight, we have eight.

1914
03:11:31,000 --> 03:11:39,000
So four positions that are frozen and then we reduce that we eliminated the over higher portion of this temporarily.

1915
03:11:39,000 --> 03:11:47,000
But so they, they positions that are frozen or that we're not utilizing.

1916
03:11:47,000 --> 03:11:48,000
And we back up.

1917
03:11:48,000 --> 03:11:54,000
So the four positions that are frozen, then the eight vacancies that we have.

1918
03:11:54,000 --> 03:11:58,000
And then on top of that is the ten injuries that we have.

1919
03:11:58,000 --> 03:12:07,000
So all of those in combination were, you know, it's a daily, is a day of the obstacle to make sure our patrol teams are functioning.

1920
03:12:07,000 --> 03:12:11,000
What the, what the needed bodies out on the street every day.

1921
03:12:11,000 --> 03:12:12,000
Okay.

1922
03:12:12,000 --> 03:12:20,000
I'm just trying to figure out if we exceed the projections, you know that the doomsday projections that we have, what it would take to at least get crew back.

1923
03:12:20,000 --> 03:12:23,000
I know that they've done an incredible job.

1924
03:12:23,000 --> 03:12:26,000
The pit count went from 240.

1925
03:12:26,000 --> 03:12:28,000
Incredible, which is outstanding.

1926
03:12:28,000 --> 03:12:33,000
And so I know that's a service that a lot of our local businesses are worried about being gone.

1927
03:12:33,000 --> 03:12:36,000
And so I'm just trying to figure out.

1928
03:12:36,000 --> 03:12:42,000
You know what if we exceed projections, right, or if we were, we're, we're able to find that money somewhere.

1929
03:12:42,000 --> 03:12:44,000
What would take to get them back?

1930
03:12:44,000 --> 03:12:47,000
And if you don't have the answers that right now, it may be offline.

1931
03:12:47,000 --> 03:12:49,000
We can, we can chat about it.

1932
03:12:49,000 --> 03:12:53,000
I'm just, I know I've had a lot of people reach out to me about them specifically.

1933
03:12:53,000 --> 03:12:58,000
Yeah, I'm worried about crew not being functioning at some degree as well.

1934
03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:01,000
I just, we need to find some solutions to make this thing happen.

1935
03:13:01,000 --> 03:13:05,000
And I think we can get there as a city if we unite behind it.

1936
03:13:05,000 --> 03:13:07,000
But I think we can get there.

1937
03:13:07,000 --> 03:13:11,000
It's just, it's going to be a challenge as we navigate the vacancies.

1938
03:13:11,000 --> 03:13:14,000
We navigate the overtime budget, et cetera, et cetera.

1939
03:13:14,000 --> 03:13:22,000
But I do believe that we need to get crew functioning in some capacity sooner than later.

1940
03:13:22,000 --> 03:13:29,000
One of the concerns I'm worried about is the cost of having to go back and clean it up again, right?

1941
03:13:29,000 --> 03:13:34,000
And so, you know, we, we get there, or we, we find services for our on-house.

1942
03:13:34,000 --> 03:13:37,000
We're doing a very good job of finding those services.

1943
03:13:37,000 --> 03:13:43,000
And now, when we start seeing more people needing our service, it's going to be a catch-up time for us.

1944
03:13:43,000 --> 03:13:47,000
We're going to have to spend more time and more money to give them the resources that they need.

1945
03:13:47,000 --> 03:13:50,000
So it's, it's a double ed store that we're trying to battle right now.

1946
03:13:50,000 --> 03:13:55,000
So hopefully we can, we can unite and find a way.

1947
03:13:55,000 --> 03:13:56,000
Thank you.

1948
03:13:57,000 --> 03:13:59,000
Just a quick question.

1949
03:13:59,000 --> 03:14:10,000
Well, you have any, you have any plan to be able to track if there is the uptake in the challenges that we have the reduction of crew.

1950
03:14:10,000 --> 03:14:15,000
I mean, I recognize the fact that if you don't have the overhead, you don't have the staff at some point.

1951
03:14:15,000 --> 03:14:19,000
You're trying to focus on the essential response of patrol.

1952
03:14:19,000 --> 03:14:23,000
So you're trying to solve multiple problems, not that there's a permanent solution.

1953
03:14:23,000 --> 03:14:29,000
But as far as the homeless response, that city of act will have been very successful.

1954
03:14:29,000 --> 03:14:36,000
And, you know, how do we, how do we monitor that and how do we know when all of a sudden we're losing?

1955
03:14:36,000 --> 03:14:40,000
So we still, certain stuff in areas still engage.

1956
03:14:40,000 --> 03:14:47,000
The lieutenant of a co-a still engaged are three of our officers that were on crew on day shift patrol.

1957
03:14:47,000 --> 03:14:52,000
So they're doing their best to monitor and provide the resources.

1958
03:14:52,000 --> 03:14:56,000
I'm just not on a full time basis, basically on a case by case basis.

1959
03:14:56,000 --> 03:14:58,000
So we're, we're paying attention to it.

1960
03:14:58,000 --> 03:15:00,000
We are seeing a bit of an increase.

1961
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:14,000
But we're still trying to deal with it more on a part-time basis than on a full-time basis, because those officers are really committed to making sure the on-house get the services that they need.

1962
03:15:14,000 --> 03:15:19,000
But it's just not out the quality that we expect from our police department.

1963
03:15:19,000 --> 03:15:21,000
Thank you.

1964
03:15:21,000 --> 03:15:25,000
All right. I'm going to put back to you.

1965
03:15:25,000 --> 03:15:27,000
I just got one for the fire.

1966
03:15:27,000 --> 03:15:30,000
Well, do you have seats up here? Let's go ahead.

1967
03:15:30,000 --> 03:15:31,000
Can you keep you here, sir?

1968
03:15:31,000 --> 03:15:32,000
Yes, sir.

1969
03:15:32,000 --> 03:15:33,000
I'm back to you.

1970
03:15:33,000 --> 03:15:34,000
Yes.

1971
03:15:34,000 --> 03:15:39,000
I know that it's hard to put a number on it, but I personally have seen new faces in town.

1972
03:15:39,000 --> 03:15:40,000
Me too.

1973
03:15:40,000 --> 03:15:44,000
I'm aware of vehicles dropping people off in town now.

1974
03:15:44,000 --> 03:15:50,000
And I've seen it firsthand on Alamo and 80, or our car poles up, and people are getting out.

1975
03:15:50,000 --> 03:15:54,000
And that's, so I know the numbers are going back up.

1976
03:15:54,000 --> 03:15:57,000
And I'm already hearing about it downtown.

1977
03:15:57,000 --> 03:16:00,000
I'm hearing about it. I've seen it in the park.

1978
03:16:00,000 --> 03:16:09,000
I'm back to people saying, I don't want to take my kids down to the park anymore, because it's happening again.

1979
03:16:09,000 --> 03:16:13,000
So we went from 270 to 40.

1980
03:16:13,000 --> 03:16:20,000
It's a credit to our, to Tamera, to the old house, and to our outreach team.

1981
03:16:20,000 --> 03:16:21,000
Yeah.

1982
03:16:21,000 --> 03:16:29,000
So I guess what I'm curious about is the uptick in the additional cost for you guys now.

1983
03:16:29,000 --> 03:16:37,000
I mean, I hate to put a number on a person, but it's going to be more first responders.

1984
03:16:37,000 --> 03:16:40,000
It's going to be more time, you know, it is.

1985
03:16:40,000 --> 03:16:53,000
And then right now, we have budget constraints and cutbacks and cutting back is, I just don't see that as the pathway to the future.

1986
03:16:53,000 --> 03:17:02,000
But, you know, when I look at everything and the cost of, you know, I'm listening to the great, you know, just a great record of what you guys just laid down in front of us.

1987
03:17:02,000 --> 03:17:10,000
And just knowing, you know, that five years ago, you know, to buy steer tires for a big rig.

1988
03:17:10,000 --> 03:17:16,000
You know, one of your dump trucks or whatever steer tires were, you know, five or six hundred dollars, those same steer tires.

1989
03:17:16,000 --> 03:17:20,000
Five years later, a thousand dollars, another nine hundred to a thousand dollars now.

1990
03:17:20,000 --> 03:17:24,000
You know, so we've got six hundred and thirty vehicles.

1991
03:17:25,000 --> 03:17:32,000
And if you just go to the an average of say 25 gallons of vehicle, that is, I just put some number.

1992
03:17:32,000 --> 03:17:36,000
That's about 15,000 gallons of fuel a week that the city is using.

1993
03:17:36,000 --> 03:17:41,000
That used to cost us four years ago, say three and a half bucks a gallon.

1994
03:17:41,000 --> 03:17:53,000
That was twenty two thousand five hundred dollars, four or five years ago, and now that same load of fuel coming in with eight thousand or nine thousand gallons on it.

1995
03:17:53,000 --> 03:17:59,000
It is almost upwards of ninety thousand dollars now and how do we keep up with this, right?

1996
03:17:59,000 --> 03:18:07,000
So, you know, I'm really happy that we are trying to drive a new business in and we're trying to raise our.

1997
03:18:07,000 --> 03:18:13,000
Our increase in revenue from promoting business and getting business friendly, but I just don't.

1998
03:18:13,000 --> 03:18:18,000
I don't see how these are all just bandies on a broken leg right now.

1999
03:18:18,000 --> 03:18:22,000
I'm just really concerned for our city right now.

2000
03:18:22,000 --> 03:18:30,000
You know, I don't want to see our parks starting to turn brown because we have to turn to water off because we can't mow there anymore and impact.

2001
03:18:30,000 --> 03:18:35,000
Homeless and the impact of more people that can't afford to live and all of these things.

2002
03:18:35,000 --> 03:18:42,000
So, we have to find resources and find ways to bring more money into the city and I applaud all of our department heads.

2003
03:18:42,000 --> 03:18:46,000
I have all of our staff that have done a really good job in the reductions.

2004
03:18:46,000 --> 03:18:56,000
You know, and I was, you know, I'm a kind of guy that's, you know, just always fiscally mindful of, you know, our taxpayers money.

2005
03:18:56,000 --> 03:19:02,000
You know, and but watching for the last two and a half year and a half that I've been on city council.

2006
03:19:02,000 --> 03:19:07,000
I've watched everybody tighten their belts and doing a lot with a little.

2007
03:19:07,000 --> 03:19:14,000
And so I just applaud everybody and just on board with trying to help with the solutions that.

2008
03:19:14,000 --> 03:19:18,000
And basically, we just need to figure out how to get more money into our city.

2009
03:19:18,000 --> 03:19:21,000
My final comment last year I said questions for me.

2010
03:19:21,000 --> 03:19:23,000
You know, I rambled on a poll.

2011
03:19:23,000 --> 03:19:27,000
I've sat around this our department heads and we've, we've done everything we can.

2012
03:19:27,000 --> 03:19:29,000
You know, we have cut where we can cut.

2013
03:19:29,000 --> 03:19:36,000
We have done based on what our city manager wanted us to do is, you know, let's figure out a way to do this together.

2014
03:19:36,000 --> 03:19:42,000
And they have come together and they have, they have presented to you what they can, what they can do.

2015
03:19:42,000 --> 03:19:46,000
And so we are now at a point where we have to figure out as a city what's next.

2016
03:19:46,000 --> 03:19:47,000
Yeah.

2017
03:19:47,000 --> 03:19:51,000
And becoming a united city is, is what we do best.

2018
03:19:51,000 --> 03:19:53,000
And it's time.

2019
03:19:53,000 --> 03:19:55,000
Thanks, Chief.

2020
03:19:55,000 --> 03:19:56,000
Thank you.

2021
03:19:56,000 --> 03:19:58,000
Councilor Stalkney, another question.

2022
03:19:58,000 --> 03:19:59,000
Yeah.

2023
03:19:59,000 --> 03:20:00,000
I had a question for.

2024
03:20:01,000 --> 03:20:04,000
So, Chief for now.

2025
03:20:04,000 --> 03:20:05,000
Chief for now.

2026
03:20:05,000 --> 03:20:10,000
Sorry to call you on the spot.

2027
03:20:10,000 --> 03:20:12,000
But it's the same question.

2028
03:20:12,000 --> 03:20:15,000
Medic 72 is in the heart of our city.

2029
03:20:15,000 --> 03:20:19,000
It's closest to probably some of the.

2030
03:20:19,000 --> 03:20:22,000
More senior neighborhoods in our community.

2031
03:20:22,000 --> 03:20:25,000
And it's it's being ground out right now.

2032
03:20:25,000 --> 03:20:28,000
How much money is needed if you know.

2033
03:20:29,000 --> 03:20:32,000
And in order for us to reopen that.

2034
03:20:32,000 --> 03:20:36,000
And then a sub question of that if it's related to staffing.

2035
03:20:36,000 --> 03:20:38,000
Or a combination of the two.

2036
03:20:38,000 --> 03:20:41,000
Will the recruit academy with the eight people.

2037
03:20:41,000 --> 03:20:47,000
Give us any hope of whether or not 72 might be able that that ambulance might be able to be reopened.

2038
03:20:47,000 --> 03:20:49,000
Yeah, thank you for the question.

2039
03:20:49,000 --> 03:20:51,000
Currently we're.

2040
03:20:51,000 --> 03:20:53,000
We're projected to.

2041
03:20:54,000 --> 03:20:57,000
Be at that type that 2.5% reduction.

2042
03:20:57,000 --> 03:21:02,000
It's about ninety seven thousand dollars and overtime costs that we're saving a month.

2043
03:21:02,000 --> 03:21:06,000
By having medic 72 browned out is just over a million dollars.

2044
03:21:06,000 --> 03:21:09,000
In the cost savings for the year.

2045
03:21:09,000 --> 03:21:11,000
To have medic 72 browned out.

2046
03:21:11,000 --> 03:21:14,000
So that's what we'd be looking at to bring back a possible.

2047
03:21:14,000 --> 03:21:18,000
The staffing level with those recruits that are they're coming out.

2048
03:21:18,000 --> 03:21:20,000
We would be able to staff back up.

2049
03:21:20,000 --> 03:21:25,000
We would be able to do that at 72 with that but again it's it's just like what she pulling was saying.

2050
03:21:25,000 --> 03:21:31,000
We have to unite we have to be able to define the funding to be able to upstaff it again.

2051
03:21:31,000 --> 03:21:35,000
The personnel will will be there with the academy graduation.

2052
03:21:35,000 --> 03:21:40,000
But we really need to be able to have the money really back to upstaff the medic unit.

2053
03:21:40,000 --> 03:21:44,000
Okay, and then I got to talk a little bit about fleet with these two gentlemen.

2054
03:21:44,000 --> 03:21:48,000
I know that that was something that we've talked about extensively.

2055
03:21:49,000 --> 03:21:55,000
As far as your fleet goes, are you able to meet the needs of the city as it stands or we still.

2056
03:21:55,000 --> 03:22:01,000
Behind with with some of the units and apparatus that you need just like the team presented.

2057
03:22:01,000 --> 03:22:06,000
Jake has it as the majority of our fleet is in the green we.

2058
03:22:06,000 --> 03:22:13,000
We were able to make a acquisition of a used fire engine that kind of bridge the gap from several of our units that were that were down.

2059
03:22:13,000 --> 03:22:22,000
We do have some peer sentient companies that are on order that the council has approved as to be able to purchase as well as a truck company.

2060
03:22:22,000 --> 03:22:29,000
So our fleet within the next three to four years is going to be in that green completely for the fire department.

2061
03:22:29,000 --> 03:22:39,000
And we should be able to operate without any kind of issues and hopefully we can continue to to get that budget allocation you know up to the what the matrix study said.

2062
03:22:39,000 --> 03:22:49,000
So currently budget at 700,000 so our gap in the fire department is about 500,000 right now in our fleet.

2063
03:22:49,000 --> 03:22:50,000
You know the questions.

2064
03:22:50,000 --> 03:22:51,000
It's all I have for the chief.

2065
03:22:51,000 --> 03:22:54,000
I have some perspective and I'll let other people talk.

2066
03:22:54,000 --> 03:22:55,000
Thank you.

2067
03:22:55,000 --> 03:22:57,000
All right.

2068
03:22:57,000 --> 03:23:01,000
Any other questions from the council.

2069
03:23:01,000 --> 03:23:02,000
All right.

2070
03:23:02,000 --> 03:23:06,000
All right.

2071
03:23:06,000 --> 03:23:10,000
We have any.

2072
03:23:10,000 --> 03:23:18,000
Large job providing revenue generating businesses in the pipeline or that we are actively talking to to try to.

2073
03:23:18,000 --> 03:23:29,000
Assist with some of this budgetary shortfall that we can discuss with the public.

2074
03:23:29,000 --> 03:23:42,000
I have to check with the city attorneys I give me a minute.

2075
03:23:42,000 --> 03:23:45,000
So there were a few items that are in the pipeline.

2076
03:23:45,000 --> 03:23:50,000
I don't think we can discuss all of the details because we'll have to go through the closed session process.

2077
03:23:50,000 --> 03:23:56,000
But yes, there is interest in some property purchases that are we're looking at.

2078
03:23:56,000 --> 03:23:59,000
We're also negotiating with you know the premium outlets.

2079
03:23:59,000 --> 03:24:03,000
We're working with tower investment that manages our nutry.

2080
03:24:03,000 --> 03:24:06,000
They are also looking at attracting some businesses.

2081
03:24:06,000 --> 03:24:09,000
We're developing a new economic development strategy.

2082
03:24:09,000 --> 03:24:14,000
As of my monthly update I at the end of every month that I share with the council.

2083
03:24:14,000 --> 03:24:17,000
I share the story map that we have started generating.

2084
03:24:17,000 --> 03:24:21,000
Not only for retail but also for different types of industry.

2085
03:24:21,000 --> 03:24:25,000
We mapped out all of our business parks based on the sales tax data.

2086
03:24:25,000 --> 03:24:32,000
So now we have a clear data on where we're having or seeing increases and where we're seeing the downside.

2087
03:24:32,000 --> 03:24:37,000
So for example and that's something I can share like our golden hills business park.

2088
03:24:37,000 --> 03:24:44,000
Had a reduction of almost 20% in their sales tax versus our downtown saw an increase of 4.3%.

2089
03:24:44,000 --> 03:24:52,000
We also implemented a new software called co-star which has given more tools to our community and economic development director.

2090
03:24:52,000 --> 03:25:01,000
And the team and then they can not only look at what the properties are available for the city but also at all of the real estate data.

2091
03:25:01,000 --> 03:25:10,000
That we can publish on this story map once it's finalized so that would show in a particular business area which properties available for sale.

2092
03:25:10,000 --> 03:25:18,000
We have also done extensive research on for example our outlets are number 77 in the nation and number 65 in California.

2093
03:25:18,000 --> 03:25:27,000
And they are making or generating twice the sales tax in comparison to federal, legal, rural and false and outlets.

2094
03:25:27,000 --> 03:25:36,000
So we are collecting a lot of this data that would help us market our city help us have a data informed decision making.

2095
03:25:36,000 --> 03:25:41,000
But that's the extent to the information that I can share publicly at this time.

2096
03:25:41,000 --> 03:25:46,000
But I'm more than happy to discuss a few things as they come up in the close session.

2097
03:25:46,000 --> 03:25:55,000
Okay. Thank you. And the last thing I wanted to do is just to thank you. I know that this is never a topic that anybody wants to deal with.

2098
03:25:55,000 --> 03:26:02,000
And I just know that you have really approached this with a very collaborative effort.

2099
03:26:02,000 --> 03:26:15,000
I know that you and the directors of these different departments have worked and analyzed everything and come up with whatever you could come up with to try to maintain the essential services that we exist to provide.

2100
03:26:16,000 --> 03:26:20,000
While making some really difficult decisions about how we move forward and we do that.

2101
03:26:20,000 --> 03:26:25,000
And so I just wanted to thank you city manager and I wanted to thank all of the staff that was involved in this.

2102
03:26:25,000 --> 03:26:29,000
I know that this is a lot. It's a lot for us to process as well.

2103
03:26:29,000 --> 03:26:32,000
And I know we have a lot of questions, sorry, fleet people.

2104
03:26:32,000 --> 03:26:37,000
But I really do appreciate all the effort that went into providing this analysis.

2105
03:26:37,000 --> 03:26:42,000
I know when we did our last budget session we looked at to what two and a half percent looked like.

2106
03:26:42,000 --> 03:26:52,000
We looked at what five percent looked like. And it sounds like the city is still going after businesses doing our best to kind of maintain what we have now.

2107
03:26:52,000 --> 03:26:56,000
And then looking at whatever we can do in the future to try to better our situation.

2108
03:26:56,000 --> 03:27:03,000
And so I just wanted to thank everybody and staff under your leadership city manager for everything that you're doing.

2109
03:27:03,000 --> 03:27:12,000
I appreciate that and in the closing statement I would like to recognize our staff because as you know chief mentioned we have gone through extensive process since January.

2110
03:27:12,000 --> 03:27:16,000
In preparing and analyzing all of the data presenting this budget.

2111
03:27:16,000 --> 03:27:23,000
And the decision that we discussed this evening I would say these are more than just budgets and projects for us.

2112
03:27:23,000 --> 03:27:32,000
These are the investments that the city provides in services infrastructure or maintaining the quality of life for our residents so it really means a lot to us.

2113
03:27:32,000 --> 03:27:46,000
It takes a long time to come up with reductions because we have to evaluate how we can continue to maintain those services and quality of life for our residents while reducing budget and impacting our decision making process.

2114
03:27:46,000 --> 03:27:57,000
And in addition to that I also want to thank our council and our community members because we did go through a lot of participatory and collective feedback through this budget cycle.

2115
03:27:57,000 --> 03:28:01,000
And also collected a lot of data and defining our new strategic plan.

2116
03:28:01,000 --> 03:28:06,000
So I think that strategic plan will also define our parties for the next three years.

2117
03:28:06,000 --> 03:28:11,000
So really looking forward to advancing all of those parties and thanks to everyone.

2118
03:28:11,000 --> 03:28:15,000
Yeah, thank you.

2119
03:28:15,000 --> 03:28:18,000
Yes.

2120
03:28:18,000 --> 03:28:26,000
So if I woke up tomorrow morning city matters of chatter and my dreams came true and all the things that.

2121
03:28:26,000 --> 03:28:32,000
All the people in this room are working on right now and economic development to bring new businesses in.

2122
03:28:32,000 --> 03:28:39,000
If I woke up tomorrow morning and those businesses were starting tomorrow and going to start working in January business.

2123
03:28:39,000 --> 03:28:47,000
How much would that cut into our deficit I mean we have a $9 million deficit right now would it affect it my half.

2124
03:28:47,000 --> 03:28:55,000
25% I'm not going to hold you to the number of course but I'm just wondering.

2125
03:28:55,000 --> 03:29:05,000
I'm I'm just trying to really get a handle on where we out is a city and I know that everybody that's on the city council is.

2126
03:29:05,000 --> 03:29:10,000
We all want the same thing economic development a good tax base that.

2127
03:29:10,000 --> 03:29:14,000
I don't think there's any year and t's on economic development we always make efforts and try to attract different industries.

2128
03:29:14,000 --> 03:29:18,000
As you saw in our community economic development director's presentation.

2129
03:29:18,000 --> 03:29:21,000
We are going to start looking at incentive programs.

2130
03:29:21,000 --> 03:29:25,000
We're going to start looking at different industries and retail.

2131
03:29:26,000 --> 03:29:30,000
We can attract them but those are traction efforts like as part of our leadership program.

2132
03:29:30,000 --> 03:29:43,000
One of the group projects would be how to market city of back of the better it will be all marketing strategy which are public relations manager.

2133
03:29:44,000 --> 03:29:47,000
As part of our leadership program.

2134
03:29:47,000 --> 03:29:55,000
One of the group projects would be how to market city of back of the better it will be all marketing strategy which are public relations manager.

2135
03:29:55,000 --> 03:29:58,000
Joanna as well as our community economic development director.

2136
03:29:58,000 --> 03:30:00,000
Erin and Amanda are new.

2137
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:08,000
We're going to be guiding the team. We're going to work with businesses and identifying what the needs are, how we can market ourselves better.

2138
03:30:08,000 --> 03:30:16,000
But to give a hypothetical example for a typical restaurant, it brings about $8 to $10,000 in additional revenue to the city.

2139
03:30:16,000 --> 03:30:22,000
A typical gas station brings about $20 to $25,000 in revenue on an animal basis.

2140
03:30:22,000 --> 03:30:36,000
A typical store like Home Depot or one of our higher top 10 or 25 businesses, they will bring anywhere from, I would say, $100,000 to $200,000.

2141
03:30:36,000 --> 03:30:51,000
So it depends on the business, it depends on the market, and again we can't control the economics, what is happening politically, but we are doing our best effort to attract businesses and looking at all different types of businesses.

2142
03:30:52,000 --> 03:30:53,000
I applaud you.

2143
03:30:53,000 --> 03:30:54,000
Thank you.

2144
03:30:55,000 --> 03:30:58,000
I'm just checking with Vice Mayor.

2145
03:30:58,000 --> 03:31:02,000
Silvia, are you there?

2146
03:31:02,000 --> 03:31:08,000
I think the main thing kind of is going to help from our doctors point.

2147
03:31:08,000 --> 03:31:13,000
I think we really need to dig in to look at what we can do.

2148
03:31:13,000 --> 03:31:18,000
We circulate our funds back more than just not in our city, but in the region.

2149
03:31:18,000 --> 03:31:25,000
And you know, a lot more practice now, you're in the economic development, you know, all the other questions.

2150
03:31:25,000 --> 03:31:27,000
Yeah, thank you.

2151
03:31:27,000 --> 03:31:36,000
To be officially I will open this up to the public for any comment because I've not done that yet.

2152
03:31:36,000 --> 03:31:45,000
Seeing that I'll bring it back and I'll just add my final thanks to staff thanks to our city manager as you're approaching your first year you stepped in.

2153
03:31:45,000 --> 03:31:48,000
But I applaud the team for pulling together.

2154
03:31:48,000 --> 03:31:51,000
It's not an easy thing to do.

2155
03:31:51,000 --> 03:31:57,000
Having been on staff during difficult years, it's a challenge to start and say where you cut.

2156
03:31:57,000 --> 03:32:00,000
And what services do you give up?

2157
03:32:00,000 --> 03:32:05,000
And for me personally, I remember starting crew.

2158
03:32:05,000 --> 03:32:12,000
It's hard to see something that you know is very supportive and very powerful and very effective.

2159
03:32:12,000 --> 03:32:18,000
But at the same time, I also, I can appreciate every department trying to figure this out.

2160
03:32:18,000 --> 03:32:25,000
And so thank you for working together as a leadership team, but also the team behind you.

2161
03:32:25,000 --> 03:32:33,000
Because if you aren't working within your department to get this done, what you're presenting along with our city manager,

2162
03:32:33,000 --> 03:32:38,000
you wouldn't be a full package on how we're going to step into this next year.

2163
03:32:38,000 --> 03:32:40,000
We know that we're in a structural deficit.

2164
03:32:40,000 --> 03:32:42,000
We know that we're in a fiscal deficit.

2165
03:32:42,000 --> 03:32:50,000
I can see through all these presentations, the rigorous effort and I think the entire council can see that.

2166
03:32:50,000 --> 03:32:52,000
So thank you.

2167
03:32:52,000 --> 03:32:53,000
Appreciate it.

2168
03:32:53,000 --> 03:32:57,000
Before we wrap up, I would really like to acknowledge our finance department.

2169
03:32:57,000 --> 03:33:00,000
Yes, we all worked a lot, but they worked.

2170
03:33:00,000 --> 03:33:04,000
I would say tenfold of what everybody else worked on.

2171
03:33:04,000 --> 03:33:07,000
So we couldn't have done collectively without their efforts.

2172
03:33:07,000 --> 03:33:10,000
I mean, they did spend lots of weekend hours doing this work.

2173
03:33:10,000 --> 03:33:11,000
Thank you.

2174
03:33:11,000 --> 03:33:12,000
Thank you.

2175
03:33:12,000 --> 03:33:13,000
Appreciate it.

2176
03:33:13,000 --> 03:33:14,000
Thank you.

2177
03:33:14,000 --> 03:33:15,000
Thank you.

2178
03:33:15,000 --> 03:33:16,000
Yeah.

2179
03:33:16,000 --> 03:33:17,000
Councilor Richie.

2180
03:33:17,000 --> 03:33:18,000
Sorry.

2181
03:33:18,000 --> 03:33:20,000
It's hard on the mother's office.

2182
03:33:20,000 --> 03:33:21,000
Well, just if you go ahead.

2183
03:33:21,000 --> 03:33:26,000
Sorry, I'm going to turn.

2184
03:33:26,000 --> 03:33:30,000
I've just sat here and listened pretty passionately to everyone.

2185
03:33:30,000 --> 03:33:31,000
It's been amazing.

2186
03:33:31,000 --> 03:33:32,000
It's been amazing.

2187
03:33:32,000 --> 03:33:36,000
The hard work you guys did all year.

2188
03:33:36,000 --> 03:33:39,000
I feel like it's trying to take a perfect circle.

2189
03:33:39,000 --> 03:33:40,000
It's not too hard to figure it out.

2190
03:33:40,000 --> 03:33:43,000
Can't really mess it up.

2191
03:33:43,000 --> 03:33:45,000
It's like metaphorically.

2192
03:33:45,000 --> 03:33:47,000
We're grabbing sand their hands.

2193
03:33:47,000 --> 03:33:49,000
But you guys are going to grab it.

2194
03:33:49,000 --> 03:33:50,000
You're holding on to it.

2195
03:33:50,000 --> 03:33:52,000
It's going to slip away.

2196
03:33:52,000 --> 03:33:54,000
And that's what the answer is.

2197
03:33:54,000 --> 03:33:56,000
We've got to grow or die.

2198
03:33:56,000 --> 03:33:58,000
We've got to create revenue.

2199
03:33:58,000 --> 03:34:02,000
You have to do an amazing job to find cuts.

2200
03:34:02,000 --> 03:34:06,000
I find ways to make this work better more efficiently and less with more.

2201
03:34:06,000 --> 03:34:09,000
But if we don't come to rationality that we don't grow, we're going to die.

2202
03:34:09,000 --> 03:34:11,000
We're going to run the group of cities.

2203
03:34:11,000 --> 03:34:13,000
Newport and below.

2204
03:34:13,000 --> 03:34:14,000
We need to grow.

2205
03:34:14,000 --> 03:34:17,000
We need to create revenue through a business.

2206
03:34:17,000 --> 03:34:19,000
We come to development and just revenue creation.

2207
03:34:19,000 --> 03:34:24,000
If we spend all our time like ostriches that head to sand, trying to find that worm.

2208
03:34:24,000 --> 03:34:27,000
And we've got to figure out, look up.

2209
03:34:27,000 --> 03:34:28,000
We need to face reality.

2210
03:34:28,000 --> 03:34:29,000
We need to create revenue.

2211
03:34:29,000 --> 03:34:33,000
We can only cut so much before we go extinct.

2212
03:34:33,000 --> 03:34:35,000
We have to create revenue.

2213
03:34:35,000 --> 03:34:36,000
We're going to perish.

2214
03:34:36,000 --> 03:34:43,000
I think the passionate presentation we had to meet everything I heard was very redundant.

2215
03:34:43,000 --> 03:34:45,000
It's very kitsky, simple stupid.

2216
03:34:45,000 --> 03:34:47,000
We have to raise revenue.

2217
03:34:47,000 --> 03:34:49,000
Or else we're going to fail.

2218
03:34:49,000 --> 03:34:52,000
I think you have done an amazing job to work that we have.

2219
03:34:52,000 --> 03:34:53,000
But we need more.

2220
03:34:53,000 --> 03:34:55,000
And so I think it's a very good development job.

2221
03:34:55,000 --> 03:34:56,000
I think it's a job.

2222
03:34:56,000 --> 03:34:57,000
Great revenue.

2223
03:34:57,000 --> 03:35:00,000
I can't wait to knit the next item.

2224
03:35:00,000 --> 03:35:01,000
Yeah.

2225
03:35:01,000 --> 03:35:02,000
Thank you.

2226
03:35:02,000 --> 03:35:03,000
All right.

2227
03:35:03,000 --> 03:35:07,000
We'll go ahead and move forward to our next item.

2228
03:35:07,000 --> 03:35:09,000
Madam Cityvert.

2229
03:35:09,000 --> 03:35:13,000
So item 12B is an informational update on voter survey results.

2230
03:35:13,000 --> 03:35:17,000
And resolution directing in the city manager to return with an ordinance and

2231
03:35:17,000 --> 03:35:21,000
posing a 1% transaction and use tax for consideration at the June 23rd.

2232
03:35:21,000 --> 03:35:24,000
City Council meeting and Assistant City Manager.

2233
03:35:24,000 --> 03:35:31,000
George Annemaker Smith is here to make a presentation.

2234
03:35:31,000 --> 03:35:32,000
Good evening, Mayor.

2235
03:35:32,000 --> 03:35:34,000
Vice Mayor and Council as Michelle mentioned.

2236
03:35:34,000 --> 03:35:37,000
We're here tonight to share the results of a tracking poll.

2237
03:35:37,000 --> 03:35:38,000
We recently did.

2238
03:35:38,000 --> 03:35:40,000
And the Ask Council direction.

2239
03:35:40,000 --> 03:35:45,000
Ask for Council direction on bringing back a sales tax ordinance at the June 23rd meeting.

2240
03:35:45,000 --> 03:35:50,000
We're trying something new tonight with having our consultant on Zoom.

2241
03:35:50,000 --> 03:35:51,000
We're not seeing him.

2242
03:35:51,000 --> 03:35:53,000
So I'm not sure he's there.

2243
03:35:53,000 --> 03:36:00,000
Adam are you there.

2244
03:36:00,000 --> 03:36:01,000
All right.

2245
03:36:01,000 --> 03:36:02,000
Give me just a second.

2246
03:36:02,000 --> 03:36:05,000
Let's see if we can get him on.

2247
03:36:05,000 --> 03:36:06,000
Coring.

2248
03:36:06,000 --> 03:36:07,000
Any help?

2249
03:36:07,000 --> 03:36:08,000
I don't.

2250
03:36:08,000 --> 03:36:09,000
I'm here with you.

2251
03:36:09,000 --> 03:36:10,000
Do you hear me?

2252
03:36:10,000 --> 03:36:11,000
I don't see you.

2253
03:36:11,000 --> 03:36:12,000
But I can hear you.

2254
03:36:12,000 --> 03:36:13,000
So that's great.

2255
03:36:13,000 --> 03:36:14,000
Okay.

2256
03:36:15,000 --> 03:36:19,000
So tonight I have Adam Rebelsky from Babelsky Research on the Zoom.

2257
03:36:19,000 --> 03:36:20,000
We're on the line.

2258
03:36:20,000 --> 03:36:22,000
And who will be walking you through the poll results.

2259
03:36:22,000 --> 03:36:27,000
And we also have William Berry, a William Berry campaigns in the audience to answer any questions you might have.

2260
03:36:27,000 --> 03:36:30,000
I have a few background slides to frame the conversation.

2261
03:36:30,000 --> 03:36:33,000
And then we'll jump into the poll results.

2262
03:36:33,000 --> 03:36:38,000
So as the budget team has been sharing with you quarterly and through this budget process,

2263
03:36:38,000 --> 03:36:42,000
the city has a structural budget deficit of $11 million.

2264
03:36:42,000 --> 03:36:44,000
This is an improvement.

2265
03:36:44,000 --> 03:36:47,000
If any of the community members had been to some of the community meetings we've done.

2266
03:36:47,000 --> 03:36:48,000
We were talking 12, 12 million.

2267
03:36:48,000 --> 03:36:50,000
So there's a little bit of improvement there.

2268
03:36:50,000 --> 03:36:52,000
Due to property taxes.

2269
03:36:52,000 --> 03:36:57,000
And I think it's important to note that we didn't jump right to considering a sales tax measure.

2270
03:36:57,000 --> 03:37:02,000
We've been working to address the budget with program and department reductions as you've just heard,

2271
03:37:02,000 --> 03:37:05,000
which in some cases means we froze in our delayed positions.

2272
03:37:05,000 --> 03:37:10,000
We haven't included CPI in the current or next year's budget for supplies.

2273
03:37:10,000 --> 03:37:14,000
We've deferred maintenance and we've looked at other ways to generate revenue.

2274
03:37:14,000 --> 03:37:21,000
The reductions that we've been talking about have amounted to do about $9 million for the current fiscal year.

2275
03:37:21,000 --> 03:37:31,000
So looking at the timeline, staff presented and received direction from council on issuing an RFP for voter opinion and public education services.

2276
03:37:31,000 --> 03:37:38,000
We selected and hired consultants and presented the results from the initial statistically valid poll of likely voters in February.

2277
03:37:38,000 --> 03:37:48,000
Based on those results, council did direct staff to begin a community education and outreach effort on a possible one since sales tax measure.

2278
03:37:48,000 --> 03:37:55,000
From February council meeting to now, we've been working to share information with the community and a variety of ways.

2279
03:37:55,000 --> 03:38:03,000
One of the key ways we've done that is by creating a website called choosing a path.net, a successful right from the city's home webpage.

2280
03:38:03,000 --> 03:38:11,000
The choosing a path website includes data on the sees budget, both general fund and revenues, a budget forecast.

2281
03:38:11,000 --> 03:38:16,000
It also includes a link to the city's financial transparency portal and information on measure in.

2282
03:38:16,000 --> 03:38:22,000
It also has links to all of the city council staff reports and presentations on cost safety measures.

2283
03:38:22,000 --> 03:38:29,000
Of course, funds from the city manager, police chief and fire chief and slide decks and recordings from our community meetings.

2284
03:38:29,000 --> 03:38:39,000
Only ask questions are there as well and a link to a community questionnaire that we've been trying to generate some input and feedback from the community on their thoughts on this.

2285
03:38:39,000 --> 03:38:51,000
So our goal was really to meet people where they are and we held a hybrid town hall meeting on a possible sales tax measure in the city's financial situation to offer a remote opportunity for those that prefer that option.

2286
03:38:51,000 --> 03:39:02,000
We also held 12 community meetings with two in each district on different days and times to try and provide an opportunity that worked for anyone who is interested in coming.

2287
03:39:02,000 --> 03:39:07,000
We also met with local organizations and we're willing to meet with others as well.

2288
03:39:07,000 --> 03:39:17,000
The city manager and police chief also did a podcast with the community group and we've also shared information through the city's newsletter, emails to residents and social media.

2289
03:39:17,000 --> 03:39:29,000
So even with all of those efforts, you'll hear from Adam shortly that we really didn't reach as many people as we'd hope it's really hard to reach people these days everybody gets their information in a variety of places.

2290
03:39:29,000 --> 03:39:35,000
And so with that I will turn it to over to Adam Probelsky to walk us through the poll results.

2291
03:39:36,000 --> 03:39:40,000
Okay, thank you very much.

2292
03:39:40,000 --> 03:39:45,000
You can go to the slide that you're perfectly fine.

2293
03:39:45,000 --> 03:39:50,000
What I'll say is this is a very typical process.

2294
03:39:50,000 --> 03:39:52,000
You are unique.

2295
03:39:53,000 --> 03:40:12,000
The process we went through to get here is very typical for every city in California that goes through situations where they need to revenue and go through a process of looking for new revenue and see if the public was supported.

2296
03:40:12,000 --> 03:40:19,000
So very, very typical process. The poll is very similar to the original poll we did, where we talked to 400 people.

2297
03:40:19,000 --> 03:40:24,000
Again, for context, state wide we do about 900, so we're a thousand.

2298
03:40:24,000 --> 03:40:28,000
So very robust for a city that you have your size.

2299
03:40:28,000 --> 03:40:35,000
8% of your likely voters, which is who we talked to, chose to talk to us in Spanish.

2300
03:40:35,000 --> 03:40:45,000
And we talked to people on the telephone, landline mobile, and then most people, of course, talk to us online with a to an email or a text and went through the survey.

2301
03:40:45,000 --> 03:40:48,000
So with that, let's get to some of the numbers here.

2302
03:40:48,000 --> 03:40:54,000
First off, we asked them, you know, open in the question, what's top of mind, what's the top issue.

2303
03:40:54,000 --> 03:40:58,000
And the key there is nothing dramatically stands out.

2304
03:40:58,000 --> 03:41:01,000
Nothing that is, is off the charts.

2305
03:41:01,000 --> 03:41:04,000
It's really just kind of disparate all throughout.

2306
03:41:04,000 --> 03:41:12,000
So that, I think, is more telling than you know, I wouldn't read too much into these numbers because they're really small.

2307
03:41:12,000 --> 03:41:21,000
Moving forward to the next slide, we asked the question about overall quality of license back about 99%, right?

2308
03:41:21,000 --> 03:41:29,000
Everybody said that if you're good or fair, and we don't put a value judgment on fair, so it's really, really strong.

2309
03:41:29,000 --> 03:41:31,000
And this is not normal.

2310
03:41:31,000 --> 03:41:36,000
People are very, very appreciative of the life they get to live in down.

2311
03:41:36,000 --> 03:41:42,000
So really strong numbers, and that's increased since we blasted the survey.

2312
03:41:42,000 --> 03:41:45,000
All right, we can go to next.

2313
03:41:45,000 --> 03:41:52,000
And we talk about satisfaction with the services the city provides.

2314
03:41:52,000 --> 03:41:55,000
We really, really strong numbers, and I'm going to keep saying that.

2315
03:41:55,000 --> 03:41:59,000
But, you know, these numbers could be 40, 50, 60%.

2316
03:41:59,000 --> 03:42:06,000
Like your peers, and it would still be good, but you are really in a dramatically different position.

2317
03:42:06,000 --> 03:42:09,000
The numbers are much stronger for your city.

2318
03:42:09,000 --> 03:42:13,000
And again, those numbers improved since the last time we took the poll last year.

2319
03:42:13,000 --> 03:42:18,000
We can keep going to another really positive number.

2320
03:42:18,000 --> 03:42:24,000
Fire gets a really strong satisfaction rating in, you know, 80% plus.

2321
03:42:24,000 --> 03:42:26,000
And very few people.

2322
03:42:26,000 --> 03:42:32,000
The one thing we look at is that delta between the unsatisfied and satisfied, and it's a powering number.

2323
03:42:32,000 --> 03:42:34,000
So really strong numbers.

2324
03:42:34,000 --> 03:42:37,000
We'll keep going and we'll see next at police.

2325
03:42:37,000 --> 03:42:44,000
Similar numbers, 76% small number of people who are really happy for whatever reason.

2326
03:42:44,000 --> 03:42:47,000
Next, we can go to public works.

2327
03:42:47,000 --> 03:42:49,000
Great, 79%.

2328
03:42:49,000 --> 03:42:57,000
Again, not really normal, because most of the time cops and firefighters have a much greater advantage

2329
03:42:57,000 --> 03:42:59,000
when it comes to these kind of numbers.

2330
03:42:59,000 --> 03:43:01,000
But not true in back and out.

2331
03:43:01,000 --> 03:43:03,000
You've got, you know, public works is right up there.

2332
03:43:03,000 --> 03:43:05,000
They can pat themselves on the back.

2333
03:43:05,000 --> 03:43:11,000
Next, we have partial recreation, even better than everybody else, in a really strong position.

2334
03:43:11,000 --> 03:43:14,000
They're really happy what you're doing there.

2335
03:43:14,000 --> 03:43:16,000
Numbers improved since last time.

2336
03:43:16,000 --> 03:43:23,000
So preparing for emergencies, a little bit less of a number still a really strong majority.

2337
03:43:23,000 --> 03:43:25,000
Why are we not so strong?

2338
03:43:25,000 --> 03:43:28,000
And we have gone up because you've talked to them about what you're doing.

2339
03:43:28,000 --> 03:43:32,000
But there's a big group of unsure because they're just not, you know, context for it.

2340
03:43:32,000 --> 03:43:34,000
They're not following it, they're not paying attention.

2341
03:43:34,000 --> 03:43:35,000
And that's okay.

2342
03:43:35,000 --> 03:43:43,000
But you definitely have improved those numbers since last year because you've been talking about your work and what you're doing.

2343
03:43:43,000 --> 03:43:50,000
And then we asked if they agree or disagree with the fact that you managed to taxpayer money responsibly.

2344
03:43:50,000 --> 03:43:53,000
Here we have what we call mixed numbers.

2345
03:43:53,000 --> 03:43:55,000
You have a plurality that agree.

2346
03:43:55,000 --> 03:43:58,000
And that number has improved a little bit.

2347
03:43:58,000 --> 03:44:07,000
That is being depressed by kind of that national narrative that's being told to us from the right end of the left.

2348
03:44:07,000 --> 03:44:10,000
It doesn't really matter what media you're consuming.

2349
03:44:10,000 --> 03:44:13,000
That thing that government isn't doing a good job.

2350
03:44:13,000 --> 03:44:16,000
And that's really reflective of that national concern.

2351
03:44:16,000 --> 03:44:22,000
It really isn't local, but it's affecting all of us, even on the local level.

2352
03:44:22,000 --> 03:44:27,000
But still, you have a plurality that agree that you're doing a good job managing taxpayer money responsibly.

2353
03:44:27,000 --> 03:44:28,000
All right.

2354
03:44:28,000 --> 03:44:36,000
Next we can look at another degree this is a re-saving that the city has transparent in how you operate and spend taxpayer money.

2355
03:44:36,000 --> 03:44:42,000
Again, your numbers here really impressively have crossed have improved.

2356
03:44:42,000 --> 03:44:47,000
And I know maybe it doesn't feel so good to have less than the majority saying may agree.

2357
03:44:47,000 --> 03:44:50,000
And a big group of people saying you disagree.

2358
03:44:50,000 --> 03:44:56,000
But this is evidence that the conversations you've been having are getting through to some degree.

2359
03:44:56,000 --> 03:45:00,000
They are understanding that you are being very...

2360
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:15,000
Open with how you talk about your budget and your process and your expenses. They are right here telling us they appreciate that. That number is really dramatically improved since 2025.

2361
03:45:15,000 --> 03:45:29,000
And then another degree of degree statement, we say that it's smarter to pay for things now, making the structure, rather than later, because it's going to cost more later.

2362
03:45:29,000 --> 03:45:38,000
The clear idea that inflation is going to make those costs go on. And this is a very clear message that they truly understand.

2363
03:45:38,000 --> 03:45:47,000
If you make those expenditures today, that are going to last 50 years, 100 years of whatever infrastructure building, they understand that that better.

2364
03:45:47,000 --> 03:45:53,000
And so numbers are very similar to past years, a really strong compelling piece you can make.

2365
03:45:53,000 --> 03:46:06,000
All right. The city is facing a budget deficit, and making cuts, but you still need more funds to maintain services.

2366
03:46:06,000 --> 03:46:16,000
Here again, a very clear indicator that your message is getting through, you are not in any way advocating for a boat, there is no election anyway.

2367
03:46:16,000 --> 03:46:24,000
But more importantly, you're just telling the community about what the needs are, and how you hope to accomplish it, what you could accomplish with more revenue potentially.

2368
03:46:24,000 --> 03:46:31,000
And they are really getting that message as a strong, strong message coming through to that.

2369
03:46:32,000 --> 03:46:36,000
All right. And here's where we ask the question.

2370
03:46:36,000 --> 03:46:53,000
And this is the mock ballot question. Essentially, what is very close to what your voters would see, what you would all see, sitting in your kitchen table as you're filling out your ballot or if you go to the voting booth you see on the screen or on the paper.

2371
03:46:53,000 --> 03:47:04,000
And we asked the question about the sales tax measure, and we give details about what you could accomplish with it, of course, and other general things.

2372
03:47:04,000 --> 03:47:21,000
And you have a morality support at 47%, similar to the previous survey, up just a bit, and similar to the people who say no, you still have about 12% who are unsure.

2373
03:47:21,000 --> 03:47:26,000
And we can go to some messages that we test.

2374
03:47:26,000 --> 03:47:38,000
And here we say that, you know, every dollar generates this tax is going to stay in, in Dr. Hill, the county can't take it, the state can't take it.

2375
03:47:38,000 --> 03:47:50,000
And this is moving to people 55% are more likely to be supportive, having this understanding that those money are yours, and nobody else gets to take it.

2376
03:47:50,000 --> 03:48:05,000
If we go to the next message, we have another message that moves people to be more supportive, 52% more likely, knowing that the measure would require independence, oversight, and mandatory financial audits, and nearly reporting.

2377
03:48:05,000 --> 03:48:18,000
All the things that you would naturally do, but you're expressing that overtly, that you are going to be very open in everything you do, they're appreciating that significantly.

2378
03:48:18,000 --> 03:48:36,000
All right. Next, we tell them that the self-examperature given down to us, there may be some consequences, real consequences, with services, and we kind of detail some of those.

2379
03:48:36,000 --> 03:48:55,000
This is less, less compelling, the idea of losing something is oftentimes a big motivator. In this case, we didn't find that entirely, and so this is not necessarily something that's going to be so compelling.

2380
03:48:55,000 --> 03:49:03,000
It's certainly something you'd want to talk about and explain, because that's transparency, but the truth is it's not like a big compelling message that's going to move people necessarily.

2381
03:49:03,000 --> 03:49:07,000
But it is more compelling to the yes side than this in the no-size.

2382
03:49:07,000 --> 03:49:26,000
All right, and then 36% or more likely to know, knowing about the self-tax limit, so the idea that there's this limit to where you could potentially go, and if another agency goes and grabs that,

2383
03:49:26,000 --> 03:49:45,000
the ability to tax, it restricts your ability, they are not buying it. It's just not interesting or compelling, or that message is hard to understand, probably, because most of us are not spending much of our time talking about taxes and tax policy.

2384
03:49:45,000 --> 03:49:53,000
So, not one that's really going to be part of your conversation that's really not really too relevant to the voters.

2385
03:49:53,000 --> 03:50:17,000
Another one that is, because we have to kind of test what the real world could look like, we talk about the fact that you're reading costs to people, at a time where gas and groceries and all these other things are higher, not that you know, then utility, utilities are all higher, that this might be the wrong time to do it.

2386
03:50:17,000 --> 03:50:27,000
And this is kind of a statement that you may hear out there in the public, anyone in the voter to come out and say, you know, this just doesn't feel right.

2387
03:50:27,000 --> 03:50:41,000
And that is, you know, significant to people, 49%, more likely to be able to know hearing that, but not as significant as some of those messages that can help people go, yes, okay.

2388
03:50:41,000 --> 03:50:49,000
So, here you're going to see that line up, where it's, you know, 5% and 50% and some of those numbers that can help people to be more supportive.

2389
03:50:49,000 --> 03:50:56,000
And then that one message that is a little around there of what people like to say negatively and how that might impact the vote.

2390
03:50:56,000 --> 03:51:01,000
So, more messages on the positive side really are more compelling.

2391
03:51:01,000 --> 03:51:07,000
Next, we retest, we asked the question again, and we can't get the same answer.

2392
03:51:07,000 --> 03:51:16,000
We basically have a plurality and we still have a significant number of people who are unsure.

2393
03:51:16,000 --> 03:51:32,000
And in the world of statistics, we would tend to allocate those unsure proportionally to the different areas.

2394
03:51:32,000 --> 03:51:42,000
And so you would probably see a majority voting yes, but it is close together.

2395
03:51:42,000 --> 03:51:51,000
And here we, we end up with a message where before those questions were things that people mostly don't talk about.

2396
03:51:51,000 --> 03:51:57,000
They don't talk about tax policy necessarily, they're not talking about things like that on a radio or basis.

2397
03:51:57,000 --> 03:52:05,000
This is what we do, the conversation that people might have is they're pulling their garage, their garbage can down to the curb, you know, two neighbors.

2398
03:52:05,000 --> 03:52:14,000
You know, Gomez says, you know, that, you know, the future is places, places I want to live.

2399
03:52:14,000 --> 03:52:18,000
This is what we can do with more money, I'm okay spending a little bit more money.

2400
03:52:18,000 --> 03:52:21,000
And then, Duran says, you know, the opposite.

2401
03:52:21,000 --> 03:52:26,000
And Duran does get a little bit more support than think of as that.

2402
03:52:26,000 --> 03:52:34,000
And so, the idea here is we do identify some weakness and some need to continue outreach on the subject.

2403
03:52:35,000 --> 03:52:39,000
Okay, we ask about choosing a path.

2404
03:52:39,000 --> 03:52:48,000
And you have adoption, right, you have 32% or more likely to vote you have or recognizing of the brand.

2405
03:52:48,000 --> 03:53:00,000
So, you know, that I think again, you might feel like you wish that number was bigger, but you don't have the marketing budget that, you know, a big corporation tab.

2406
03:53:00,000 --> 03:53:10,000
And so, your outreach and your conversation with the public has reached a good number of people, most of 30 population, just not the majority.

2407
03:53:10,000 --> 03:53:18,000
And I'll quickly speak to this, you know, I want to make sure, but you understand, we didn't talk to residents, your census make up.

2408
03:53:18,000 --> 03:53:24,000
We didn't even talk to voters, which is kind of a very, you know, a smaller group and more finite group.

2409
03:53:24,000 --> 03:53:34,000
We talk to likely voters, people who we expect is the, almost the secret sauce of what me and and build very do.

2410
03:53:34,000 --> 03:53:37,000
As consultants, we kind of identify who is likely to turn out.

2411
03:53:37,000 --> 03:53:41,000
And so that's what this profile is people we expect to turn out.

2412
03:53:41,000 --> 03:53:50,000
That's why you're going to see differentiation between council district or, you know, make see a different profile of residents that looks a little bit different.

2413
03:53:50,000 --> 03:53:56,000
You know, because these are finite group of likely voters.

2414
03:53:56,000 --> 03:54:00,000
And I know that with a lot of data, so I'm happy right now to take questions.

2415
03:54:00,000 --> 03:54:08,000
I know Bill is there to kind of take it from here and speak to the data and his impression.

2416
03:54:08,000 --> 03:54:17,000
And certainly going forward, we are on team to get you whatever you need.

2417
03:54:17,000 --> 03:54:20,000
Yeah, thank you.

2418
03:54:20,000 --> 03:54:29,000
So just the final slide is really the recommendation, which is to receive the presentation on the voter survey results and provide direction to staff to return with an ordinance and posing a 1%

2419
03:54:29,000 --> 03:54:36,000
Transex and then use tax also known as the sales tax for consideration of the June 23rd, 2026 the council meeting.

2420
03:54:36,000 --> 03:54:45,000
And we've gotten some questions about, you know, why 1% why not half a percent just wanted to point out a 1% sales tax is expected to generate approximately 28 million dollars annually.

2421
03:54:45,000 --> 03:54:56,000
So it would not only address our current structural deficit and that also provided additional revenue to help me ongoing service infrastructure and really long term and financial obligations.

2422
03:54:56,000 --> 03:54:59,000
Yeah, thank you for the presentation.

2423
03:54:59,000 --> 03:55:06,000
I'm going to go ahead and open up to the public for any comment.

2424
03:55:06,000 --> 03:55:13,000
And seeing them, I'll bring it back for any comments from the council.

2425
03:55:13,000 --> 03:55:19,000
I want to help I'll start off by saying I know when this whole process started.

2426
03:55:19,000 --> 03:55:27,000
This was okay, what do we know and having lived through a structural deficit in my my prior career on staff.

2427
03:55:27,000 --> 03:55:35,000
It's important to know what the details are and I believe what we've seen it's been projected for the last several years.

2428
03:55:35,000 --> 03:55:46,000
Where we have been deficit spending but what we have done as a council policy is initially just some careful monitoring of our five year projections.

2429
03:55:46,000 --> 03:55:58,000
And I know what we have seen the last, you know, two to three years is revenues are flat and I think some of the presentations and even having attended.

2430
03:55:58,000 --> 03:56:14,000
One of the community meetings raised really good questions, but I was also very impressed with watching our our team and staff actually make the case for where we're at part of this is.

2431
03:56:14,000 --> 03:56:21,000
And unfortunately a national narrative that do do we trust government to be spending our dollars wisely.

2432
03:56:21,000 --> 03:56:31,000
And then secondly, is there is there is there there towards is there money that's not being spent wisely.

2433
03:56:31,000 --> 03:56:43,000
I can appreciate having been on staff and also what it means to come forward with a budget and looking at every dollar every employee, every service.

2434
03:56:43,000 --> 03:56:55,000
And there isn't any other funds, there's there just there just there just isn't we talk a lot about looking for grants we certainly have focused and I've heard this council speak about.

2435
03:56:55,000 --> 03:57:02,000
Economic development and so I do appreciate it's easy start looking at well one business will equate to what.

2436
03:57:02,000 --> 03:57:20,000
Even if you had that tomorrow and I said it previously we have we have a current fiscal deficit that we also have a structural deficit with the shift of the cost of government that isn't changing anytime soon.

2437
03:57:20,000 --> 03:57:27,000
And I know when this came to council last year and it was a discussion about what would our options be.

2438
03:57:27,000 --> 03:57:42,000
I appreciated that we hired the consultants that we did and to perform the surveys and also to understand what our community might expect or what do they understand.

2439
03:57:42,000 --> 03:57:54,000
And so I mean for that reason I I see it here today because I've often said it raising raising a tax should never be a first it should always generally be a last resort.

2440
03:57:54,000 --> 03:58:09,000
We had previous discussions tonight on CIP on fleet there the I can I can appreciate respect the fact that if all these things have gone up in price and there's there's no way to meet that objective.

2441
03:58:09,000 --> 03:58:29,000
And as much as we are about as aggressive as any city in this county and beyond in trying to attract economic development it doesn't change the bottom line the same way as a you know as a my own personal life or anyone who's running a business would look at this and say well what are we going to do.

2442
03:58:29,000 --> 03:58:45,000
So right now we're we're basically just getting by and it isn't it's a short term response it's not a long term solution and we're finally here so I appreciate the work that's gone into this.

2443
03:58:46,000 --> 03:58:57,000
You know I for one believe that it's time for this to go to the community they the choose your path it looks like not everybody knows it maybe looks like there's going to be in my estimation.

2444
03:58:57,000 --> 03:59:03,000
Some clear messaging but that's what a that's what a tax measure is once it's put on the ballot.

2445
03:59:03,000 --> 03:59:09,000
I am in support of putting it on the ballot I do believe that the people should be able to be.

2446
03:59:09,000 --> 03:59:21,000
Critical but also believe that they should get to decide because the this is a real corporation facing real deficits and there's there's no more revenue out there.

2447
03:59:21,000 --> 03:59:30,000
And so for that I just want to say thank you to staff for getting to this point it's not easy and it's certainly not easy trying to convince the public.

2448
03:59:30,000 --> 03:59:46,000
When there's state and federal narratives that don't necessarily show your your local budget but we're here locally and this is a local would be a local measure and I believe that we've been as transparent as we possibly can.

2449
03:59:46,000 --> 04:00:00,000
And unfortunately there are times when the community is just not involved and I do agree that half the time people are not interested until it's a crisis and that's just the reality and people people are caught.

2450
04:00:00,000 --> 04:00:18,000
I think the survey, you can go ahead and hit the lights, or I can't control it.

2451
04:00:18,000 --> 04:00:26,000
Hit the light? There we go. The survey was good, but I think the survey misses a lot.

2452
04:00:26,000 --> 04:00:32,000
Not anything bad on you, sir. It was done well. Thank you.

2453
04:00:32,000 --> 04:00:44,000
But I think other important surveys are ones that we can all ask ourselves.

2454
04:00:44,000 --> 04:00:56,000
Aging population in back of ill. And the average cost I believe of this is around $500.

2455
04:00:56,000 --> 04:00:59,000
A household is that sound about correct?

2456
04:00:59,000 --> 04:01:03,000
Yeah, it's about $550 to $650.

2457
04:01:03,000 --> 04:01:08,000
I know that there's a lot of people that are struggling just to make ends meet right now.

2458
04:01:08,000 --> 04:01:14,000
I don't take that lightly, but there are other questions that I would ask of myself.

2459
04:01:14,000 --> 04:01:21,000
That would be questions like a couple of years ago.

2460
04:01:21,000 --> 04:01:26,000
Some don't mean, you know, kind of chased my wife down the street and she was scared.

2461
04:01:26,000 --> 04:01:30,000
And yelling, you know, get out here and she ran to a house.

2462
04:01:30,000 --> 04:01:35,000
I'm knocked on the door and they called back of ill police and they responded immediately.

2463
04:01:35,000 --> 04:01:44,000
The guy got away, but eventually they caught a couple hours later across town out of Starbucks, harassing young girls at the high school.

2464
04:01:44,000 --> 04:01:58,000
But what's that worth to get great responses like that from our first responders or your house is on fire or your kid is choking on a marble.

2465
04:01:58,000 --> 04:02:09,000
And, you know, if we have a decline in services or just all the problems that happened that all these different departments work with like you got a bad neighbor.

2466
04:02:09,000 --> 04:02:20,000
And, you know, maybe it's a drug house and you got problems and you don't know what to do and you call and we have a community that responds to that.

2467
04:02:20,000 --> 04:02:24,000
So I guess I would ask the people that don't want to spend the extra $500.

2468
04:02:24,000 --> 04:02:42,000
What would it take for you to spend that $500 would be a loss of a loved one, would it be the loss of a child or would it be a stroke that maybe it took a little bit longer to get our first responders there or would it be a really bad neighbor that you can't handle without the help of the city.

2469
04:02:42,000 --> 04:02:51,000
There's questions like this that I think are far more important than some of the other questions that were asked not that they're not important not that they're.

2470
04:02:51,000 --> 04:03:03,000
But I know that there's like myself I'm getting a little bit older and I want to know that you know some years down the road when call goes out that I'm going to be taking care of and it's not just that.

2471
04:03:03,000 --> 04:03:11,000
I've got I've got kids I've got I got a kid in high school I've got a daughter this 18 years old and.

2472
04:03:11,000 --> 04:03:15,000
The community they're going to move up the safety of our community.

2473
04:03:15,000 --> 04:03:26,000
The the my kids spend a lot of time at the parks playing basketball my kids spend time at the parks they they're out in the community they're involved in the community.

2474
04:03:26,000 --> 04:03:33,000
And to have safety for my children and to have good parks for my kids to go to and to have.

2475
04:03:33,000 --> 04:03:44,000
A structure community that that we can rely on so I guess it goes to me is if something goes really bad and it was preventable.

2476
04:03:44,000 --> 04:03:47,000
What wouldn't I pay would it be.

2477
04:03:47,000 --> 04:03:56,000
Would it be a hundred thousand would it be a million would it be a hundred bucks what would it be I guess it depends on the severity of whatever it is that I was dealing with at the time.

2478
04:03:56,000 --> 04:03:59,000
But I am I am.

2479
04:03:59,000 --> 04:04:06,000
Very cognizant again of people that can't afford another five hundred dollars right now, but.

2480
04:04:06,000 --> 04:04:14,000
But I'm also really happy with the city that I live in.

2481
04:04:14,000 --> 04:04:18,000
The response from.

2482
04:04:18,000 --> 04:04:27,000
All that makes our community all the different departments that make our community and all the money that is spent you know and and we're so intertwined with.

2483
04:04:27,000 --> 04:04:31,000
What the state tells us we have to do and spend money on the county.

2484
04:04:31,000 --> 04:04:41,000
The federal government you know and it's and it's a big it's a big ball it's a big it's a big mess you know but we are where we're at and so I'm.

2485
04:04:41,000 --> 04:04:51,000
I'm in favor of moving this forward and let the people decide what they want to do I just know that I love back a bill I love.

2486
04:04:51,000 --> 04:05:00,000
Our community I think we provide great services to our community and I'm willing to do anything I can to support.

2487
04:05:00,000 --> 04:05:05,000
To get the ship off of the sand bar.

2488
04:05:05,000 --> 04:05:10,000
Thank you.

2489
04:05:10,000 --> 04:05:12,000
Thank you so much.

2490
04:05:12,000 --> 04:05:14,000
I just listening to.

2491
04:05:14,000 --> 04:05:20,000
Mayor Carley in a council and free mouth speak it can actually by passions and he actually.

2492
04:05:20,000 --> 04:05:22,000
We haven't we didn't talk ahead.

2493
04:05:22,000 --> 04:05:24,000
But.

2494
04:05:24,000 --> 04:05:33,000
It reminded remind me something that you guys probably don't remember but nine months ago I just like broke down start crying and I ran out.

2495
04:05:33,000 --> 04:05:41,000
And that's something I think either think Mayor Carley is a trust and government there's lack of it there is.

2496
04:05:41,000 --> 04:05:51,000
But we have a huge expectation in the back of public safety at the back of public works and back of the first spot and it's like there's a lack of trust and government.

2497
04:05:51,000 --> 04:05:54,000
I'm telling you why every day and back of all.

2498
04:05:54,000 --> 04:05:57,000
We have this conscience or subconscious.

2499
04:05:57,000 --> 04:06:11,000
Super high expectation in our impact of it and what the national narrative is not the faculty narrative like we expect the best we expect this and I think a lot of people don't realize.

2500
04:06:11,000 --> 04:06:13,000
How much we take for granted.

2501
04:06:13,000 --> 04:06:14,000
I mean.

2502
04:06:14,000 --> 04:06:18,000
Living in one sandals I realized like I.

2503
04:06:18,000 --> 04:06:19,000
Had to raise that here.

2504
04:06:19,000 --> 04:06:23,000
Just run brother safe because they're writing down in street and I know.

2505
04:06:23,000 --> 04:06:37,000
Bobby speedy when you get there they're not they want to get there in time they don't have the responsibility like I know exactly where we are where we have and I and tell you.

2506
04:06:37,000 --> 04:06:41,000
And tell you truly understand that I think a lot of people have this false.

2507
04:06:41,000 --> 04:06:44,000
All perception I don't realize how good we have it.

2508
04:06:44,000 --> 04:06:51,560
Like, just like three-scope, my dad passed out fell, crashed to an island, pet smart.

2509
04:06:51,560 --> 04:07:00,080
I mean, the faculty permanors are so fast that he's already in the room at North Bay.

2510
04:07:00,080 --> 04:07:06,400
They probably take him in two-day of a grant, I mean, like, the speed, the speed is amazing.

2511
04:07:06,400 --> 04:07:11,760
And like, that just doesn't have an asset, it's practice, practice, practice, and professionals.

2512
04:07:11,760 --> 04:07:17,320
Like, my dad, my dad is an older, he's starting to have some of my dimension issues, now it's holding a story.

2513
04:07:17,320 --> 04:07:24,520
But I, I'm seeing too much now the level of service in the quality that we expect.

2514
04:07:24,520 --> 04:07:37,880
And I know that, you know, once that leaves, the certain things happen, like, once they realize we're understaffed, we're underpreciated, we lose our response time.

2515
04:07:37,880 --> 04:07:40,560
Like, people are going to like, pray on us as a soft target.

2516
04:07:40,560 --> 04:07:51,160
Like, I know it's going to happen, and it's like, we've an amazing city, the pit counts below, like, it's going to take a hard time to get it back to this level, if we slip.

2517
04:07:51,160 --> 04:08:02,800
And I don't, I don't pay a dime more, I mean, I'm in a rural state, but I don't pay anything more, but I know the cost of not is greater than the cost of not doing it.

2518
04:08:02,800 --> 04:08:11,920
Because I will find a way to, for the, for the, for the great to go to my family, like, I made a comment to think cheap whole Monday, like, I'm going to have us all day down town.

2519
04:08:11,920 --> 04:08:30,240
I never worry about my son, ride around as a bike, my daughter, I mean, like a young black male, and back to film, and being profiled, or getting, you know, I, that is something that is very unique, I know the public safety here are amazing people.

2520
04:08:30,240 --> 04:08:59,720
Like, there are certain things that the level of service from this chief to this chief, who they hire in the city matters too, it's not just like, I mean, this, the level of standard, it just, it's more than just something on a piece of paper, like, I never had that feeling, I'm being worried, I'm going to have some, I guess, because I know the people in the uniform are amazing, because we, because we make sure that we hold into a standard, it's like, this, me is,

2521
04:08:59,720 --> 04:09:07,720
this is so serious, and we have, we don't find the way to keep this around the, is it, it's like cancer is harder rid of, once it once,

2522
04:09:07,720 --> 04:09:15,720
problem said him, like, I, I, that's one, really think it's better than just raising expenses, it's keeping what we have, cold.

2523
04:09:16,720 --> 04:09:19,720
Councilmember Stockton.

2524
04:09:21,720 --> 04:09:31,720
I don't want to use, like, scare tactics to talk about this, and I know a lot of us and a lot of our community have huge expectations.

2525
04:09:31,720 --> 04:09:42,720
But I think what we really need to do is give people realistic expectations, and I think that's what we've kind of started to do tonight by addressing kind of the status of where we're at what we've done.

2526
04:09:42,720 --> 04:09:53,720
A two and a half percent reduction, a legislative platform to address anti-business issues happening at the state level.

2527
04:09:53,720 --> 04:10:09,720
I think everybody up here recognizes that gas prices are up, electrical costs are up, water went up, groceries are up, and we have a lot of people living on fixed incomes are living paycheck to paycheck.

2528
04:10:09,720 --> 04:10:26,720
But I do think that the people in back of it live here for a reason and a lot of that is based upon the quality of life here and a lot of that quality of life here is because of the people in this room that talked to us today about how they're going to cut their departments to an 1% just to sustain what they're doing.

2529
04:10:26,720 --> 04:10:36,720
So while I'm all for giving the community, you know, the option to decide whether this is the direction that they want to go.

2530
04:10:36,720 --> 04:10:51,720
I think that we owe it to them to make sure we're giving them realistic expectations about what it looks like for a yes or no to approve or to approve a tax measure if that's what the council decides.

2531
04:10:52,720 --> 04:10:56,720
But I also want to make sure that we're.

2532
04:10:56,720 --> 04:11:03,720
That we're being sensitive to some of the folks that that this really is going to impact I don't I'm not a millionaire out make a million dollars.

2533
04:11:03,720 --> 04:11:11,720
I work full time job. This is something I do on the side and there are a lot of people that are struggling.

2534
04:11:11,720 --> 04:11:36,720
And so I hear things like grant funding that's just a synonym for taxpayer funding right so I I really have a lot of concern about whether or not this is going to pass and I guess my next question for staff because I believe that you've given us some realistic expectations about what we can expect if we have to continue with the reductions.

2535
04:11:36,720 --> 04:11:49,720
Is what assurances what realistic assurances can we give the public that this money if they do decide to invest in vacabill is going to be spent responsibly.

2536
04:11:49,720 --> 04:12:05,720
Right what what what what does that look like because right now you know we talk about oversight but what does that look like how how how do we know that that is going to be as transparent or more transparent than what we experience measure and.

2537
04:12:05,720 --> 04:12:17,720
I think people deserve to have those answers before they make this decision because the reality is this is a general fund sales tax this is not a special sales tax because it would require higher percent.

2538
04:12:17,720 --> 04:12:33,720
And I think there's an education component and one of the things in the survey that is glaring to me is the fact that they're talking about how there's a there's a lack of understanding when it comes to the 10% sales tax.

2539
04:12:34,720 --> 04:12:57,720
Right and there are other entities of the county just talked about a tax measure other other groups like you know a bag the association of air governments are talking about tax incentives and we're at I think it's 8.125% right now if those other if those other entities.

2540
04:12:57,720 --> 04:13:07,720
Let's look at the association of Bay Area governments there we're one of nine Bay Area counties if every Solano County voter voted no but the other eight counties.

2541
04:13:07,720 --> 04:13:14,720
Had a vast majority to get over that threshold to impose the tax on us they would get that money.

2542
04:13:15,720 --> 04:13:29,720
And if that brought us all the way up to that cap we couldn't even go to our voters to ask for more money and we'd have no control over the money that what they did with the money that they took and that's just one group the counties and other group there's.

2543
04:13:29,720 --> 04:13:40,720
Infrastructure needs I can see something like that popping up and I don't know if they will will no very soon I think but we have to make a decision about whether we want to provide this opportunity to our community.

2544
04:13:40,720 --> 04:13:50,720
I think it'd be irresponsible not to provide them with that opportunity but I think that we need to also recognize that what we are looking at is a general fund sales tax.

2545
04:13:50,720 --> 04:14:01,720
Which means that the seven people up here are going to decide how that money gets spent so how do we make sure it doesn't get wasted or used irresponsibly is maybe a better word.

2546
04:14:01,720 --> 04:14:09,720
Those provisions need to be crystal clear to the community if they're going to consider doing this because everybody is hurry.

2547
04:14:09,720 --> 04:14:28,720
And not everybody can can bear what what this 1% is as easily as other people and so I guess I guess moving forward I'm asking for some really clear expectations about what that would look like so that voters and our community members that are going to vote on this can actually make.

2548
04:14:28,720 --> 04:14:34,720
Good decision not based on fear but based on realistic expectations.

2549
04:14:34,720 --> 04:14:39,720
So that's that's that's my ask to our city manager would you like to comment.

2550
04:14:39,720 --> 04:14:42,720
Yeah sure to address the communities concerned.

2551
04:14:42,720 --> 04:14:54,720
So our staff community and as council has provided a lot of great feedback when we did the focus groups back in November we collected data from everybody saying if you know we consider this.

2552
04:14:54,720 --> 04:14:59,720
This possible sales tax how would you like to spend your money and we give them four different categories.

2553
04:15:00,000 --> 04:15:06,000
This infrastructure community programs, internal service funds, and addressing our long-term fiscal

2554
04:15:06,000 --> 04:15:13,000
liabilities around our retirement's and pensions. And the community rated, and at certain tables,

2555
04:15:13,000 --> 04:15:20,000
each, if there are eight community members, each one of them rated, at certain tables, only one average was collected.

2556
04:15:20,000 --> 04:15:29,000
And then as we collected the data, then we had a city council, strategic planning session, and we requested all of you to vote,

2557
04:15:29,000 --> 04:15:35,000
and rate. And there was a gap of one percent between what community expected and what the council expected.

2558
04:15:35,000 --> 04:15:41,000
For example, for infrastructure communities, number was 34 percent, and council was 35 percent.

2559
04:15:41,000 --> 04:15:53,000
So we took all of that data and presented it to the council. I don't remember the exact council meeting date, but I think it was some time in February or March, where we adopted a new general fund reserve policy.

2560
04:15:53,000 --> 04:16:03,000
So if this tax measure were to pass and, you know, in that scenario, how would the city spend the money? And that's how we have categorized it.

2561
04:16:03,000 --> 04:16:08,000
The other step we have taken is as part of our city council, the strategic plan that we're adopting.

2562
04:16:08,000 --> 04:16:16,000
Some of those infrastructure projects are included in the plan, such as, you know, we require major upgrades on our fire stations.

2563
04:16:16,000 --> 04:16:26,000
We require many capital improvement projects across the city. So those are listed in there. Those would be again coming back to the council for prioritization.

2564
04:16:26,000 --> 04:16:35,000
So that's how we are addressing it at this time. We can't talk too much about it because, you know, we have to go through and keep our election guidelines in mind.

2565
04:16:35,000 --> 04:16:45,000
But we have taken steps. We will be looking at an oversight committee, typically based on, you know, looking at how other cities manage it.

2566
04:16:45,000 --> 04:16:52,000
So the oversight committee is typically compromised of three to five individuals that have some financial background.

2567
04:16:52,000 --> 04:17:00,000
And then they meet with your finance team, finance team will provide them how the tax measure language was, how we're spending that.

2568
04:17:00,000 --> 04:17:08,000
And then that independent oversight committee provides, basically, they meet on a quarterly basis and then they provide an annual report.

2569
04:17:08,000 --> 04:17:22,000
Again, the sales tax stays local. Our job is to provide factual and information to the community members. We can't either support or say anything in.

2570
04:17:22,000 --> 04:17:29,000
If it comes across as advocacy, so we can do that. But those are some of the steps we have taken.

2571
04:17:29,000 --> 04:17:35,000
I'm happy to answer any questions.

2572
04:17:36,000 --> 04:17:43,000
I'm not vice mayor. Are you on the line?

2573
04:17:43,000 --> 04:17:48,000
So.

2574
04:17:48,000 --> 04:17:53,000
I have to be looking for a comment or somebody else coming in.

2575
04:17:53,000 --> 04:17:59,000
Yeah, I'm going to be looking for everyone's comment at some point, but I just wanted to check in with you.

2576
04:17:59,000 --> 04:18:03,000
So I just appreciate your latest comments and different perspectives.

2577
04:18:03,000 --> 04:18:08,000
One thing I really want to add, I mean, I agree with a lot of what everybody said with some exceptions.

2578
04:18:08,000 --> 04:18:15,000
I think that it's important to know for everybody that I think we have to be very cognizant for us as elected.

2579
04:18:15,000 --> 04:18:22,000
We have to be very cognizant of what we put out there, what we can put out there, something was mentioned about profiling.

2580
04:18:22,000 --> 04:18:27,000
We still continue to see that within our community, even if somebody is an elected official.

2581
04:18:27,000 --> 04:18:34,000
I mean, you know, we're talking about it. How when will you generate revenue of how we take that reinvest in our communities?

2582
04:18:34,000 --> 04:18:42,000
We need to hold ourselves accountable to that and how we support each other and really show that when we when we all contribute to this pod.

2583
04:18:42,000 --> 04:18:49,000
This pod and itself is something that can go back and help address the different inequities that exist in our community.

2584
04:18:49,000 --> 04:18:59,000
While maintaining the quality of life that we all benefit from that, that's really on my comment. Thank you.

2585
04:18:59,000 --> 04:19:01,000
Any other comments?

2586
04:19:01,000 --> 04:19:03,000
Yeah, Councilor Chairman.

2587
04:19:03,000 --> 04:19:05,000
Thank you.

2588
04:19:05,000 --> 04:19:18,000
We've heard mentioned of the quality of life and we all, I'm going to make a statement that generals generalizing here at that.

2589
04:19:18,000 --> 04:19:30,000
Each of us have used the term quality of life and we each have our own definition or meaning conception of quality of life and what it actually.

2590
04:19:30,000 --> 04:19:44,000
What it actually means to us and hopefully we are rendering and making certain that the residents that we are offering them a great quality of life.

2591
04:19:44,000 --> 04:19:57,000
Whether that's meeting their basic needs, mental, physical, and finding economic in essence when we talk about safety.

2592
04:19:57,000 --> 04:20:13,000
When we're like the city manager was just mentioning, you can't go into detail right now as to what will be offered through this increase through throughout our ask of this one percent.

2593
04:20:13,000 --> 04:20:24,000
It will be revealed and writing if we as the council decide to move forward, let's say, yes, put this on the ballot. Making a ballot, not measure.

2594
04:20:24,000 --> 04:20:36,000
About all else we always put safety, safety first, safety of what does that mean for each of the residents to feel safe.

2595
04:20:36,000 --> 04:20:39,000
I've heard so many things.

2596
04:20:39,000 --> 04:20:48,000
It's to how people define safe. You've expressed about what Nancy, your wife, it's going through.

2597
04:20:48,000 --> 04:21:02,000
To feel safe knowing that the first responders going to get there in time to save one of my children or my husband or come to my need.

2598
04:21:02,000 --> 04:21:08,000
So, safe walking down the street, safely something different to each of us.

2599
04:21:08,000 --> 04:21:23,000
Where I'm going with this is from the survey and we have learned, even though it was very lengthy, but transparency.

2600
04:21:23,000 --> 04:21:36,000
And that's been around a long time and I feel that we have improved, we have improved and being transparent with the implementation of our PI, our public information department.

2601
04:21:36,000 --> 04:21:48,000
We're utilizing all means to communicate now to the community that is critical and I don't know if they understand what it has taken for the city.

2602
04:21:48,000 --> 04:21:54,000
That's ought to be transparent, but it's important to be able to communicate.

2603
04:21:54,000 --> 04:21:59,000
So, with that being said, times are very hard right now.

2604
04:21:59,000 --> 04:22:07,000
And to ask, to go into your pocket, we only need to increase my one percent.

2605
04:22:07,000 --> 04:22:13,000
For each of us we can say, what's one percent? You've even given the figures.

2606
04:22:13,000 --> 04:22:23,000
Can you give a $500 to a household right now? Who is wondering whether or not they're going to have a roof over there here tomorrow?

2607
04:22:23,000 --> 04:22:28,000
Someone has mentioned our age and community.

2608
04:22:28,000 --> 04:22:31,000
They, the pinch is later.

2609
04:22:31,000 --> 04:22:41,000
We are living a new norm since COVID, it was saying, no one knew what that norm was going to look like.

2610
04:22:41,000 --> 04:22:51,000
Right now, here I'm giving it a call to vote, California, how expensive we are with the highest state.

2611
04:22:51,000 --> 04:22:56,000
Cost of living state right now next to New York.

2612
04:22:56,000 --> 04:23:02,000
So, it's going to be a tough decision. I'm going to support putting the amount of the mission on the ballot.

2613
04:23:02,000 --> 04:23:06,000
We need to hear from the people. It's going to be close.

2614
04:23:06,000 --> 04:23:13,000
If it has at all. If it has at all, it's going to be very, very close.

2615
04:23:13,000 --> 04:23:17,000
And we have the need. We have the need.

2616
04:23:17,000 --> 04:23:23,000
And I know that we have increased in so many areas this year.

2617
04:23:23,000 --> 04:23:28,000
Every agenda has probably had a fee increase of some sort.

2618
04:23:28,000 --> 04:23:35,000
We've been going around and around with the developers right now just to get them to pay their fair share.

2619
04:23:35,000 --> 04:23:42,000
I think we're all tired of having to put this out there.

2620
04:23:42,000 --> 04:23:46,000
We need, but the community, we need you right now.

2621
04:23:46,000 --> 04:23:51,000
We're operating at a structural deficit, which is ongoing.

2622
04:23:51,000 --> 04:23:54,000
It's not going to, in tomorrow, it's not a revenue.

2623
04:23:54,000 --> 04:23:58,000
It's going to, it's going to, it's ongoing.

2624
04:23:58,000 --> 04:24:00,000
And we need to nip it now.

2625
04:24:00,000 --> 04:24:05,000
Another thing I want to point out is that it's, and the survey, I believe,

2626
04:24:05,000 --> 04:24:14,000
with survey, it might have been a comment regarding putting infrastructure in a project really.

2627
04:24:14,000 --> 04:24:20,000
The longer we push it out, the more it's going to cost.

2628
04:24:20,000 --> 04:24:25,000
And we have projects that we need to address now.

2629
04:24:25,000 --> 04:24:30,000
It's times like difficult times are very hard.

2630
04:24:30,000 --> 04:24:34,000
So people, it's going to be in the resident's hands.

2631
04:24:34,000 --> 04:24:36,000
It's up to you.

2632
04:24:36,000 --> 04:24:39,000
What tomorrow is going to look like?

2633
04:24:39,000 --> 04:24:41,000
That's all I have.

2634
04:24:41,000 --> 04:24:44,000
All right.

2635
04:24:44,000 --> 04:24:50,000
Can't remember a while.

2636
04:24:50,000 --> 04:24:54,000
All right, just a couple of things say, I feel that,

2637
04:24:55,000 --> 04:25:00,000
the need for a sales tax is a reality.

2638
04:25:00,000 --> 04:25:03,000
It's not something that we're just jumping to.

2639
04:25:03,000 --> 04:25:05,000
Let's, this is the reality.

2640
04:25:05,000 --> 04:25:11,000
And we have a significant gap of 11 million in the current budget.

2641
04:25:11,000 --> 04:25:17,000
And that really is not all would be if we had everything that we wanted.

2642
04:25:17,000 --> 04:25:22,000
The infrastructure that we need, the increased cost of doing business like digging a well

2643
04:25:22,000 --> 04:25:28,000
and doing all the other things, the increased cost of public service and public safety.

2644
04:25:28,000 --> 04:25:34,000
And everything that's going up does come down to a gap in the budget.

2645
04:25:34,000 --> 04:25:38,000
So I do feel like, you know, I attended a couple of community meetings.

2646
04:25:38,000 --> 04:25:42,000
It's unfortunate that more people didn't attend community meetings.

2647
04:25:42,000 --> 04:25:43,000
I think they do.

2648
04:25:43,000 --> 04:25:46,000
We did a good job offering a lot of community meetings.

2649
04:25:46,000 --> 04:25:53,000
But in the final, the final countdown, the voters will decide.

2650
04:25:53,000 --> 04:25:58,000
And we need to work to get that clear message.

2651
04:25:58,000 --> 04:26:00,000
So they hear the message.

2652
04:26:00,000 --> 04:26:02,000
And we also need to get participation.

2653
04:26:02,000 --> 04:26:04,000
We had a recent election.

2654
04:26:04,000 --> 04:26:09,000
Very slow numbers of voters in the soul scheme of who could vote.

2655
04:26:09,000 --> 04:26:13,000
So I am in support of putting it on the ballot.

2656
04:26:13,000 --> 04:26:16,000
We have work to do to get a clear message out.

2657
04:26:16,000 --> 04:26:22,000
So the voters see the real need and don't say things like, oh, I think someone's mismanaging.

2658
04:26:22,000 --> 04:26:24,000
Or I think you're asking for more than you need.

2659
04:26:24,000 --> 04:26:26,000
And that's sort of thing.

2660
04:26:26,000 --> 04:26:29,000
I appreciate those comments.

2661
04:26:29,000 --> 04:26:34,000
This is, yes, go ahead.

2662
04:26:34,000 --> 04:26:41,000
For that, is there ever something that can be passed based on incremental increase?

2663
04:26:41,000 --> 04:26:44,000
It's a clear advice.

2664
04:26:44,000 --> 04:26:58,000
For example, it's throwing out numbers 25 year one, one percent year two, something like that.

2665
04:26:58,000 --> 04:27:03,000
So you're asking if a tax measure can be implemented where it escalates.

2666
04:27:03,000 --> 04:27:09,000
I'm just want to make sure the question is clear.

2667
04:27:09,000 --> 04:27:15,000
So on a sales tax measure, it, because it's going to a voter, we have to tell them the exact amount.

2668
04:27:15,000 --> 04:27:20,000
So having a variable or an increase in amount is really unrealistic.

2669
04:27:20,000 --> 04:27:29,000
Additionally, once a tax measure is approved by the voters, the collection of those taxes is done through the state of California.

2670
04:27:29,000 --> 04:27:33,000
We have to have a agreement with them for that process.

2671
04:27:33,000 --> 04:27:39,000
And so having changes like that is not a realistic approach to this.

2672
04:27:39,000 --> 04:27:41,000
And so that is not advisable.

2673
04:27:41,000 --> 04:27:47,000
And I think we would be subject to legal challenge if we pursued an option like that.

2674
04:27:47,000 --> 04:27:49,000
Thank you.

2675
04:27:49,000 --> 04:27:51,000
Let's be here.

2676
04:27:51,000 --> 04:27:52,000
Oh, yes.

2677
04:27:52,000 --> 04:27:54,000
Council member.

2678
04:27:54,000 --> 04:27:59,000
And I would just say Council member, vice versa.

2679
04:27:59,000 --> 04:28:03,000
There was a discussion whether not to do a half cent versus a cent.

2680
04:28:03,000 --> 04:28:09,000
And if we did a half cent, we would shortly find ourselves in the same position and have to go to the voters again.

2681
04:28:09,000 --> 04:28:23,000
So I believe I'm speaking correctly that the decision was made to go for a full cent to then get us down the road and we would be able to not have to ask again.

2682
04:28:23,000 --> 04:28:29,000
So some of the information I can help put in perspective for the community and we have been sharing that at our presentation.

2683
04:28:29,000 --> 04:28:39,000
So for example, if you round off our budget is about $300 million and for 100,000 population that comes out to be $3,000 per resident.

2684
04:28:39,000 --> 04:28:44,000
If you divide it by 12 months, that's about $250 per resident.

2685
04:28:44,000 --> 04:28:59,000
Now daily basis for $8.30, our residents are getting police, fire, water, sewer, roads, streets, all of that infrastructure for $8.33 per resident.

2686
04:28:59,000 --> 04:29:11,000
So if you take just the general fund portion of it, which is about $164 million, it comes down to $4.50 per resident per day.

2687
04:29:11,000 --> 04:29:22,000
Well, and I certainly believe that the services that are provided in the city and I'm just going to speak from my own personal perspective and that is as back of ill.

2688
04:29:22,000 --> 04:29:25,000
I'm often said it is more than just a place.

2689
04:29:25,000 --> 04:29:27,000
I mean, it is a feeling.

2690
04:29:27,000 --> 04:29:34,000
You live it and you know it when you live here and we can all talk about what it's like to be elsewhere.

2691
04:29:34,000 --> 04:29:42,000
And I don't want to judge us against any particular city, but you know it when you feel like you're getting the service that you want to live in.

2692
04:29:42,000 --> 04:29:47,000
And the concern is the long term structural deficit.

2693
04:29:47,000 --> 04:29:54,000
I believe that giving the voters the opportunity to choose the path is the right path.

2694
04:29:54,000 --> 04:30:00,000
But I think it's going to be important that there is greater clarity of what I love.

2695
04:30:00,000 --> 04:30:08,500
A long-term structural deficit actually looks like, because sometimes what we think in happens to all of us.

2696
04:30:08,500 --> 04:30:16,000
You're trying to make ends meet every month, or then you're trying to look at your annual bill when you have to true up with the state and the IRS.

2697
04:30:16,000 --> 04:30:26,000
But when you start living your life and your ten years down the road and we can drive down the road and we can look at the neighborhood and we can see a house and you go like,

2698
04:30:26,000 --> 04:30:32,000
there's either a structural deficit going on that house. There's too much deferred maintenance and that's where we're at as a city.

2699
04:30:32,000 --> 04:30:39,000
As if you're looking long-term, a business won't last if it can't maintain its trajectory long-term.

2700
04:30:39,000 --> 04:30:47,000
If it's only looking for year one or a pathway to stabilize, you know, the next 36 months.

2701
04:30:47,000 --> 04:30:55,000
It's way different than when you start looking at CIP and you start looking at fleet and you start looking at all the deferred items.

2702
04:30:56,000 --> 04:31:03,000
There's no catch-up to that and I think it's going to be very important that the public actually can see what that is.

2703
04:31:03,000 --> 04:31:13,000
To feel the benefit of what you get to live here, but to see what that long-term is, because the challenge is, sometimes it's easy, like I see in the survey for someone to say,

2704
04:31:14,000 --> 04:31:17,000
almost like it doesn't matter what differences it makes to me.

2705
04:31:17,000 --> 04:31:31,000
Well, I understand that I can appreciate surveys, but the reality is with, you know, if this is presented to the voter, they're going to have to,

2706
04:31:31,000 --> 04:31:37,000
they're going to have to resonate with the voter, what's in it for me.

2707
04:31:37,000 --> 04:31:40,000
And do I believe what I'm being told? Two things.

2708
04:31:40,000 --> 04:31:45,000
And so I appreciate the process to get here.

2709
04:31:45,000 --> 04:31:50,000
It's going to be a lot of work to get, I think, our community.

2710
04:31:50,000 --> 04:32:00,000
A lot of good information is going to take a lot to get the majority of the community to actually say, yep, I see what's in it for me and I'm willing to do it.

2711
04:32:00,000 --> 04:32:10,000
And unfortunately, I think we all can agree, there's going to be those, and it's an average of 500 per household that may be up or down depending upon the household.

2712
04:32:10,000 --> 04:32:12,000
It's still an impact.

2713
04:32:12,000 --> 04:32:18,000
And so I think that it's going to be very imperative that we bridge that gap, but.

2714
04:32:18,000 --> 04:32:29,000
We've heard from all seven, is there a particular process, or because the ask is to bring this back to the next council meeting in two weeks.

2715
04:32:29,000 --> 04:32:32,000
Any further direction that you need?

2716
04:32:32,000 --> 04:32:37,000
No, I think that's the direction we need to bring back the ordinance at the next meeting.

2717
04:32:37,000 --> 04:32:39,000
Okay, would you like that in about.

2718
04:32:39,000 --> 04:32:44,000
Or did you hear clear enough from all seven of us?

2719
04:32:44,000 --> 04:32:48,000
I think we need about just looking for a council direction.

2720
04:32:48,000 --> 04:32:56,000
Well, that's from what I've listened to everyone's comments and I think you have what you need to bring back.

2721
04:32:56,000 --> 04:33:01,000
And this on to the next council meeting for for consideration.

2722
04:33:01,000 --> 04:33:03,000
So.

2723
04:33:03,000 --> 04:33:07,000
I'm sorry, Mayor, we do need a vote because we have a resolution attached.

2724
04:33:07,000 --> 04:33:08,000
I apologize.

2725
04:33:08,000 --> 04:33:09,000
There's a resolution attached.

2726
04:33:09,000 --> 04:33:12,000
Okay, so go ahead and.

2727
04:33:12,000 --> 04:33:14,000
Well, you need a motion.

2728
04:33:14,000 --> 04:33:16,000
Second motion.

2729
04:33:16,000 --> 04:33:18,000
So for a moment motions.

2730
04:33:18,000 --> 04:33:19,000
Second.

2731
04:33:19,000 --> 04:33:21,000
I think he's, he's second.

2732
04:33:21,000 --> 04:33:23,000
So, so chat on second.

2733
04:33:23,000 --> 04:33:25,000
And then roll call.

2734
04:33:25,000 --> 04:33:26,000
Council member Fremo.

2735
04:33:26,000 --> 04:33:27,000
Yes.

2736
04:33:27,000 --> 04:33:28,000
Council member Wiley.

2737
04:33:28,000 --> 04:33:29,000
Yes.

2738
04:33:29,000 --> 04:33:31,000
Council member Stockton.

2739
04:33:31,000 --> 04:33:32,000
Yes.

2740
04:33:32,000 --> 04:33:33,000
Council member Richie.

2741
04:33:33,000 --> 04:33:34,000
Yes.

2742
04:33:34,000 --> 04:33:35,000
Council member Chapman.

2743
04:33:35,000 --> 04:33:36,000
Yes.

2744
04:33:36,000 --> 04:33:38,000
Vice Mayor Silva.

2745
04:33:38,000 --> 04:33:39,000
Mayor.

2746
04:33:39,000 --> 04:33:40,000
Mayor Carley.

2747
04:33:40,000 --> 04:33:41,000
Yes.

2748
04:33:41,000 --> 04:33:43,000
So bring this back to the next council meeting.

2749
04:33:43,000 --> 04:33:44,000
Thank you.

2750
04:33:44,000 --> 04:33:47,000
And with that, we're going to take five minutes for.

2751
04:33:48,000 --> 04:33:49,000
So we're going.

2752
04:33:49,000 --> 04:33:53,000
So I want to.

2753
04:33:53,000 --> 04:33:57,000
Direction starts.

2754
04:33:57,000 --> 04:34:01,000
And the number of five minutes.

2755
04:34:01,000 --> 04:34:02,000
So we're going.

2756
04:34:02,000 --> 04:34:03,000
This is.

2757
04:34:03,000 --> 04:34:04,000
First on.

2758
04:34:04,000 --> 04:34:05,000
So we're going.

2759
04:34:05,000 --> 04:34:06,000
So we're going.

2760
04:34:06,000 --> 04:34:07,000
So we're going.

2761
04:34:07,000 --> 04:34:08,000
This.

2762
04:34:08,000 --> 04:34:09,000
So.

2763
04:34:09,000 --> 04:34:10,000
So.

2764
04:34:10,000 --> 04:34:11,000
So.

2765
04:34:11,000 --> 04:34:12,000
So.

2766
04:34:12,000 --> 04:34:13,000
So.

2767
04:34:13,000 --> 04:34:14,000
So.

2768
04:34:14,000 --> 04:34:15,000
So.

2769
04:34:15,000 --> 04:34:16,000
So.

2770
04:36:46,000 --> 04:36:48,000
You

2771
04:44:46,000 --> 04:44:48,000
You

2772
04:45:30,000 --> 04:45:40,000
.

2773
04:45:40,000 --> 04:45:52,000
.

2774
04:45:52,000 --> 04:46:17,000
.

2775
04:46:17,000 --> 04:46:27,000
We're going to step back into our agenda, but we're moving to item 12D.

2776
04:46:27,000 --> 04:46:32,000
All right, taking notes over here.

2777
04:46:32,000 --> 04:46:46,000
So item 12D is resolution of the city council authorizing the submission of a homekey application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.

2778
04:46:46,000 --> 04:46:56,000
We're funding a 52-bed trend permanent support of housing units within the victory garden support of housing development located at 5763 abandoned road.

2779
04:46:56,000 --> 04:47:02,000
And authorizing the city manager or designate to execute all required application documents and related agreements.

2780
04:47:02,000 --> 04:47:07,000
And housing and community services director Tamara Colvin is here to give the presentation.

2781
04:47:07,000 --> 04:47:10,000
Good evening mayor, vice mayor and council members.

2782
04:47:10,000 --> 04:47:33,000
Tonight, I'm here asking council to adopt a resolution authorizing staff to submit a homekey plus application to the California Department of Housing and Community Development for approximately $45 million to support 52-bed trend housing units within the previously approved victory garden development at 5763 abandoned road.

2783
04:47:33,000 --> 04:47:45,000
We want to take a moment to acknowledge that the initial publication of the staff report had an incorrect amount of $4.5 million and actually the application will be $45 million.

2784
04:47:45,000 --> 04:47:54,000
A little bit of background, this site was identified in the housing element as an opportunity site for affordable housing with a military and veteran focus.

2785
04:47:54,000 --> 04:48:08,000
That time council has approved an exclusive negotiating rights agreement, disposition and development agreement and financing amendments intended to improve competitiveness for state funding programs.

2786
04:48:08,000 --> 04:48:19,000
And may of 2025 the Planning Commission approved the project entitlements allowing the development team to move into starting financing activities.

2787
04:48:19,000 --> 04:48:27,000
Victory gardens is a mixed income affordable housing development and while tonight's request focuses on the 52 veteran units.

2788
04:48:27,000 --> 04:48:37,000
It's important to note that approximately the remaining 75% of project serves working low income military focused families and households.

2789
04:48:37,000 --> 04:48:53,000
The 52 veteran units are supported through are also supported by with project base vouchers through the VACAville Housing Authority and will receive supportive services through insight housing.

2790
04:48:53,000 --> 04:49:07,000
The reason for tonight's request for application to home key to the home key program is that the state recently amended the home key plus program to encourage greater utilization of funding reserve for veterans.

2791
04:49:07,000 --> 04:49:22,000
These changes significantly improve the competitiveness of the project of victory gardens by allowing applications before tax credit awards are secured and by providing additional operating support for veteran housing.

2792
04:49:22,000 --> 04:49:41,000
So we believe the project is well positioned to compete because of its military focus the number of veteran units allocated towards the project the fact that there is the support with the project base based vouchers through the housing authority and its proximity to travel air force base.

2793
04:49:41,000 --> 04:49:51,000
With the project property management will be provided by mutual housing management and supportive services will be coordinated by insight for the 52 units.

2794
04:49:51,000 --> 04:50:20,000
All residents are required to sign leases and are subject to standard property management requirements and residents receiving project base voucher assistance must also comply with housing authority program requirements including ongoing eligibility reviews and the project the project will operate as permanent housing with standard landlord tenant protections and enforcement mechanisms.

2795
04:50:20,000 --> 04:50:45,000
So tonight staff is recommending approval of the resolution and that will allow staff to work with the development team to produce to submit an application to the home key funding source that supports the veteran housing component of the previously approved victory gardens development while minimizing the need for any additional local funding participation.

2796
04:50:45,000 --> 04:50:54,000
An alternative is that council could choose not to adopt the resolution however that's not recommended as this would.

2797
04:50:54,000 --> 04:51:11,000
The development team would lose access to a significant state funding opportunity specifically targeted toward veteran housing and would need to identify alternative funding sources which could delay project implementation and impact the progress towards the city's.

2798
04:51:11,000 --> 04:51:26,000
So with that I'm happy to take any questions or comments from council or the public and the developers here as well and with like to share additional information with council.

2799
04:51:26,000 --> 04:51:30,000
Thank you. I'd like to go ahead and have the developer.

2800
04:51:30,000 --> 04:51:40,000
To provide additional response and any presentation that the developer may have.

2801
04:51:40,000 --> 04:51:54,000
Either way, yeah, you can either come to the podium here and just hit the mic on for me.

2802
04:51:54,000 --> 04:52:07,000
Thank you so much for this opportunity and I'd also like to thank the staff for working with us.

2803
04:52:07,000 --> 04:52:17,000
I'm Rivathi, the project manager from Mutual Housing California. We are good developing big tree gardens with our partner inside housing.

2804
04:52:17,000 --> 04:52:27,000
Mutual housing is a 40 year old non-profit affordable housing developer, owner, manager and resident services provider headquartered in Sacramento.

2805
04:52:27,000 --> 04:52:40,000
Mutual housing management are property management company manages about 25 of our properties in the region around 90% of our residents voluntarily utilize the services that we offer.

2806
04:52:40,000 --> 04:52:53,000
All our properties are well managed. We have never defaulted on any property and drug use is prohibited in our leases. We also undertake strict measures to ensure that our properties are crime free.

2807
04:52:53,000 --> 04:53:05,000
I'd also like to show some pictures of our properties and invite all council members to visit our properties if you want to have a look at it. We would love to organize that.

2808
04:53:05,000 --> 04:53:21,000
Sorry, we are probably having some difficulties.

2809
04:53:21,000 --> 04:53:31,000
These are some of our properties in Sacramento.

2810
04:53:31,000 --> 04:53:37,000
With that, I'll hand it over to Insight Housing to introduce themselves.

2811
04:53:37,000 --> 04:53:48,000
Hello mayor, vice mayor and council members. My name is Blair Fret. I'm a project manager with Insight Housing and thank you all for letting me speak tonight.

2812
04:53:48,000 --> 04:54:05,000
I'm going to speak a little bit to Insight Housing. We're a co-developer with Mutual but also the lead service provider. Insight Housing has been operating continuously since 1970 with a very simple mission of ensuring that everyone in our community has a home.

2813
04:54:05,000 --> 04:54:17,000
We do this both through housing development but also through comprehensive social services provision and would do this across seven northern California counties.

2814
04:54:17,000 --> 04:54:32,000
In the interest of time, I'm going to skip over. We have two slides here about our sort of like flagship developments and interest of time. I'm going to skip those.

2815
04:54:32,000 --> 04:54:38,000
The hopes that are endoight way but we're always welcome to answer questions on these projects.

2816
04:54:38,000 --> 04:54:48,000
And also we would love to offer a tour as well so you can really see how we manage these projects, how we implement our social service provision.

2817
04:54:48,000 --> 04:54:53,000
You go to the next slide.

2818
04:54:53,000 --> 04:55:03,000
All right. So service provision is really insights. It's really our expertise. It's what we do. It's what we've been doing since 1970.

2819
04:55:03,000 --> 04:55:17,000
And we deliver across six core service areas. So from emergency shelter to permanent housing, daily meal services to street outreach, we provide structured wraparound services for all of our participants.

2820
04:55:17,000 --> 04:55:25,000
And we believe this is really what makes us a strong partner with victory gardens both as a code developer but also the lead service provider.

2821
04:55:25,000 --> 04:55:33,000
Our services team is going to be on site every day ensuring that each and every resident of victory gardens is stable, safe and supported.

2822
04:55:33,000 --> 04:55:36,000
Next slide.

2823
04:55:36,000 --> 04:55:46,000
And with that insight housing has a very specific focus on veterans and that's something that we take great pride in serving our veterans.

2824
04:55:46,000 --> 04:55:54,000
So through our road's home program, insight has been delivering wraparound services to veterans since 2011.

2825
04:55:54,000 --> 04:56:05,000
In this year alone, we expect to support over 2700 veterans and their families without reach housing support and other social service navigation.

2826
04:56:05,000 --> 04:56:11,000
And this is something that we're really proud of, but we have a 95% plus housing retention rate across our programs.

2827
04:56:11,000 --> 04:56:19,000
And so this is something that we're really good at. And we also have a high resident satisfaction of over 90%.

2828
04:56:19,000 --> 04:56:27,000
And so with this, we really believe we have the team, the experience, and this proven model to really deliver on victory gardens.

2829
04:56:27,000 --> 04:56:35,000
And believe this is an important next step in expanding our impact. Next slide.

2830
04:56:35,000 --> 04:56:45,000
Also just really wanted to highlight pictured here are some of veterans that are currently housed in insights properties that are similar to victory gardens.

2831
04:56:45,000 --> 04:56:54,000
Again, this is really a cornerstone of what insight does and it's something that we're really proud to be able to support and uplift our veterans.

2832
04:56:54,000 --> 04:56:58,000
And tonight you'll actually be able to hear from a couple of veterans who have.

2833
04:56:58,000 --> 04:57:09,000
We've stayed here for many hours. Really, I think a true testament to the cause and how important this is to them.

2834
04:57:09,000 --> 04:57:17,000
We've that we bring it back to the project next slide.

2835
04:57:17,000 --> 04:57:30,000
I will, Tamara already introduced the project, but I'll just run through the number of units total number of units at 206 of which currently we're talking about the 52 veteran units.

2836
04:57:30,000 --> 04:57:41,000
This is spread across 8.4 acres and we have four buildings, three storied.

2837
04:57:41,000 --> 04:57:51,000
A point that I'd like to note here is that there is no change in the population from the time we provided a response to the city's RFP way back in 2020 forward.

2838
04:57:51,000 --> 04:57:53,000
The next slide.

2839
04:57:53,000 --> 04:58:08,000
Victory gardens with house veterans and families earning up to 65,000 annually and the rent for this average 2 bedroom unit will be merely 1,470 dollars as we can see.

2840
04:58:08,000 --> 04:58:12,000
This is when the community is overall rent burdened.

2841
04:58:12,000 --> 04:58:19,000
We can see the market rents here for a 2 bedroom unit, for an average 2 bedroom market rate to unit.

2842
04:58:19,000 --> 04:58:28,000
It is $2,500 when the average income in Macauville is 130, 130,000.

2843
04:58:28,000 --> 04:58:35,000
Moving on to the funding and the project schedule.

2844
04:58:35,000 --> 04:58:39,000
The funding landscape in California is extremely difficult.

2845
04:58:39,000 --> 04:58:46,000
In spite of great scoring, we were unsuccessful last year in gaining Cal HFAs MIP funding.

2846
04:58:46,000 --> 04:58:55,000
The regulations for home key as Tamara mentioned have changed this year and mutual housing player an important role in the advocacy to make this happen.

2847
04:58:55,000 --> 04:59:02,000
The current version of the program is radically different from the motel conversions that are associated with this program.

2848
04:59:02,000 --> 04:59:11,000
Home key plus can now be used with tax credit financing, which is similar to any other affordable housing funding program.

2849
04:59:11,000 --> 04:59:23,000
This project was originally planned with VHHP funding, which was specifically for the veteran component, but unfortunately that program has since then dried up.

2850
04:59:23,000 --> 04:59:30,000
The home key plus is our best bet at getting this project funded and off the ground.

2851
04:59:30,000 --> 04:59:37,000
The funding is available only till funds last, so that's why it's really important at this stage.

2852
04:59:37,000 --> 04:59:44,000
And with the change in the regulations, applications have been pouring in for this particular program.

2853
04:59:44,000 --> 04:59:55,000
With the home key plus application, we are planning to do the application and June, which will enable us to go in for a tax credit application in September.

2854
04:59:55,000 --> 05:00:00,000
With an award in December, we will actually be able to start construction in June.

2855
05:00:00,000 --> 05:00:09,000
June of next year and the project will be fully leased up by Q1 of 2029. We can go to the next

2856
05:00:09,000 --> 05:00:18,000
line. Here I just want to reiterate a few key features of the home key plus funding program. The first

2857
05:00:18,000 --> 05:00:25,000
being that funding mandates, this funding mandates that apartments are allotted to veterans. So these 52 units

2858
05:00:25,000 --> 05:00:32,000
would definitely be allotted to veterans. Based on market requirements, majority of the units are going to be

2859
05:00:32,000 --> 05:00:38,000
one bedroom units, though we have some studios, two beds and three beds for the veterans.

2860
05:00:38,000 --> 05:00:44,000
The second thing is that this program is not limited to unhoused veterans, as we saw that there are

2861
05:00:44,000 --> 05:00:52,000
units reserved for veterans earning up to 65,000 annually. The third important point is that the

2862
05:00:52,000 --> 05:00:59,000
program comes with the robust operating funds. Tamara mentioned this earlier too and this would be

2863
05:00:59,000 --> 05:01:06,000
important as supportive services and case management will be provided by inside housing. The fourth

2864
05:01:06,000 --> 05:01:14,000
point is that we also have 52 project based vouchers by the VHA, which will be used towards these veteran units.

2865
05:01:14,000 --> 05:01:21,000
And the last being that on top of all of this operating budget always accounts for replacement

2866
05:01:21,000 --> 05:01:28,000
reserves and other reserves to ensure appropriate maintenance of the property.

2867
05:01:28,000 --> 05:01:40,000
Yeah, so of this overall, I would say that the development is going to be for low income families and veterans,

2868
05:01:40,000 --> 05:01:48,000
and I will leave it to Blair to sum it up for us today.

2869
05:01:49,000 --> 05:01:56,000
All right, so in summary, we really believe that Victory Gardens is a place for veterans. Veterans who have served our

2870
05:01:56,000 --> 05:02:02,000
nation and who deserve a stable and supportive place to call home, and we really hope that you'll join us tonight

2871
05:02:02,000 --> 05:02:08,000
and making that possible here in back of it. And in a moment, you're going to hear directly from two of

2872
05:02:09,000 --> 05:02:16,000
insights, current veterans, Mr. Watson and Mr. Dominguez, who have been very patiently waiting

2873
05:02:16,000 --> 05:02:22,000
here to really speak about the impact that a project like Victory Gardens has had on their own life.

2874
05:02:22,000 --> 05:02:27,000
And why we hope that it will be supported tonight. So thank you.

2875
05:02:27,000 --> 05:02:33,000
Yeah, thank you. And we'll hold off on the speakers what we'll do is I'll bring them allow them to come up

2876
05:02:33,000 --> 05:02:38,000
when I opened it up to the public. I just want to make sure that you had the extra time to present.

2877
05:02:38,000 --> 05:02:43,000
So just give us a few more minutes and then you both can come forward and speak.

2878
05:02:43,000 --> 05:02:48,000
Any questions from the council? Councilmember Stockton.

2879
05:02:48,000 --> 05:02:55,000
This property was donated by a family that wanted it to go toward veterans housing is that correct?

2880
05:02:55,000 --> 05:03:01,000
That's correct. The property, the use would have to be to support military families.

2881
05:03:01,000 --> 05:03:08,000
Okay. And would some of the folks like at a youngville qualified to stay in a place like this

2882
05:03:08,000 --> 05:03:11,000
with some of these permanent sort of units.

2883
05:03:11,000 --> 05:03:21,000
So with the 52 veteran units, the part of what we would have to do is with the requirements of home key is have a plan on how

2884
05:03:21,000 --> 05:03:25,000
we would coordinate referrals or entry into those units.

2885
05:03:25,000 --> 05:03:33,000
So if someone from youngville was identified as possibly being successful in like that,

2886
05:03:33,000 --> 05:03:42,000
would this be housing for seniors that would call it like some of the folks that would have qualified for a program like what they're doing

2887
05:03:42,000 --> 05:03:48,000
and young. So as long as they're veterans, then that's the targeted population.

2888
05:03:49,000 --> 05:03:54,000
So my understanding is in youngville that's a project for veterans.

2889
05:03:54,000 --> 05:04:03,000
So if anyone was interested in coming to this project and went through the referral process to coordinate entry into this project,

2890
05:04:03,000 --> 05:04:07,000
then they could preside at victory gardens.

2891
05:04:07,000 --> 05:04:12,000
Thank you.

2892
05:04:13,000 --> 05:04:20,000
Yes. So would it be 52 units at a minimum that would be dedicated to veterans?

2893
05:04:20,000 --> 05:04:26,000
So these 52 units, yes, at a minimum, are reserved specifically for veterans.

2894
05:04:26,000 --> 05:04:30,000
It does not mean that any of the other units would not house veterans.

2895
05:04:30,000 --> 05:04:32,000
It means that these 52 have to.

2896
05:04:32,000 --> 05:04:35,000
That is the targeted population for these units.

2897
05:04:35,000 --> 05:04:37,000
Thank you.

2898
05:04:37,000 --> 05:04:42,000
Vice Mayor Silva, do you have any questions?

2899
05:04:42,000 --> 05:04:44,000
We have Rocky Hill apartment.

2900
05:04:44,000 --> 05:04:47,000
That's dedicated to veteran housing for a minute there.

2901
05:04:47,000 --> 05:04:49,000
There were a lot of vacant fees.

2902
05:04:49,000 --> 05:04:52,000
What happens if there's vacant fees for this site?

2903
05:04:52,000 --> 05:04:57,000
And also, they thought your project was a current demand.

2904
05:04:57,000 --> 05:05:02,000
Do you feel those respective units that are being proposed?

2905
05:05:02,000 --> 05:05:09,000
So for the 52 units, which this funding is targeted for, they have to go to a veteran.

2906
05:05:09,000 --> 05:05:22,000
If there are veterans at the 30% income level that there are not enough veterans to fill those, then the units can be filled by what they called secondary veterans.

2907
05:05:22,000 --> 05:05:27,000
So then it would go next to veterans earning up to 50% of area median income.

2908
05:05:27,000 --> 05:05:30,000
And then after that, it would go up to veterans earning 80%.

2909
05:05:30,000 --> 05:05:34,000
But they have to be veterans.

2910
05:05:34,000 --> 05:05:35,000
All right, thank you.

2911
05:05:35,000 --> 05:05:38,000
I want to make sure we, on our veterans, do not.

2912
05:05:38,000 --> 05:05:39,000
Thank you.

2913
05:05:39,000 --> 05:05:40,000
Thank you.

2914
05:05:40,000 --> 05:05:41,000
Thank you.

2915
05:05:41,000 --> 05:05:43,000
I'm going to go ahead and open up to the public.

2916
05:05:43,000 --> 05:05:48,000
And this would be an opportunity for you to come speak.

2917
05:05:57,000 --> 05:05:59,000
I know you've been waiting a long time.

2918
05:05:59,000 --> 05:06:00,000
Oh, yeah.

2919
05:06:00,000 --> 05:06:01,000
No, it's this fine.

2920
05:06:01,000 --> 05:06:04,000
It's fine.

2921
05:06:04,000 --> 05:06:06,000
This program is really great.

2922
05:06:06,000 --> 05:06:07,000
It has down.

2923
05:06:07,000 --> 05:06:09,000
Just a little site.

2924
05:06:09,000 --> 05:06:11,000
I was sleeping in my truck.

2925
05:06:11,000 --> 05:06:13,000
And I am a kid.

2926
05:06:13,000 --> 05:06:19,000
And I would go sleep in my truck and wait for my job.

2927
05:06:19,000 --> 05:06:21,000
And wait till it worked in the morning.

2928
05:06:21,000 --> 05:06:23,000
You know, I found this program.

2929
05:06:23,000 --> 05:06:27,000
And it's just the best thing to get up happening to me.

2930
05:06:27,000 --> 05:06:29,000
You know, now I'm stable.

2931
05:06:29,000 --> 05:06:31,000
I can get some rest and get up and go to work through it.

2932
05:06:31,000 --> 05:06:32,000
I can go to the morning.

2933
05:06:32,000 --> 05:06:34,000
And I can focus on my job.

2934
05:06:34,000 --> 05:06:36,000
Not worry about my kids.

2935
05:06:36,000 --> 05:06:39,000
You know, I get cut it more.

2936
05:06:39,000 --> 05:06:43,000
It's not as tough anymore.

2937
05:06:43,000 --> 05:06:48,000
You know, life is, life is a lot easier.

2938
05:06:48,000 --> 05:06:52,000
It's lost less stressful.

2939
05:06:52,000 --> 05:06:56,000
You know, and I was telling one of my members that, you know,

2940
05:06:56,000 --> 05:07:03,000
to stand up here and represent this in high organization.

2941
05:07:03,000 --> 05:07:05,000
It's beautiful.

2942
05:07:05,000 --> 05:07:09,000
To show other veterans that there is help out here.

2943
05:07:09,000 --> 05:07:13,000
You know, that we don't have to be homeless.

2944
05:07:13,000 --> 05:07:17,000
We just gotta give it to the footwork because it's here for us.

2945
05:07:18,000 --> 05:07:21,000
And I really appreciate this in high housing.

2946
05:07:21,000 --> 05:07:23,000
You know, and all this stuff on it.

2947
05:07:23,000 --> 05:07:26,000
You know, it really has changed my life.

2948
05:07:26,000 --> 05:07:30,000
You know, my children, you know, they got me a house manager.

2949
05:07:30,000 --> 05:07:33,000
That's right around this corner from the school.

2950
05:07:33,000 --> 05:07:38,000
You know, and it's just, it's just, it's no worry no more.

2951
05:07:38,000 --> 05:07:40,000
You know, it's just getting them and going to work.

2952
05:07:40,000 --> 05:07:42,000
And then my kids come home.

2953
05:07:42,000 --> 05:07:46,000
Instead of me worrying about because like when I first had been,

2954
05:07:46,000 --> 05:07:50,000
I was homeless and I had to find support from my side because I didn't want to

2955
05:07:50,000 --> 05:07:51,000
sit in the truck with me.

2956
05:07:51,000 --> 05:07:54,000
And that was kind of a tough thing to go through.

2957
05:07:54,000 --> 05:07:58,000
But through inside housing, it all just worked out great.

2958
05:07:58,000 --> 05:08:01,000
I mean, you guys, this is beautiful.

2959
05:08:01,000 --> 05:08:07,000
You know, this is, yeah, this is, this is the best thing that could have happened to me.

2960
05:08:07,000 --> 05:08:11,000
You know, and I really appreciate you guys allowing me to speak.

2961
05:08:11,000 --> 05:08:14,000
You know, especially representing inside housing.

2962
05:08:14,000 --> 05:08:19,000
Because I don't know what I would be doing without them, but I still have my truck.

2963
05:08:19,000 --> 05:08:22,000
You know, but here I am.

2964
05:08:22,000 --> 05:08:27,000
And it has helped me tremendously.

2965
05:08:27,000 --> 05:08:36,000
And I want to thank you guys for everything you guys have doing and going to do for us veterans.

2966
05:08:36,000 --> 05:08:42,000
And last but not least, because they always say that there was no help out here for veterans.

2967
05:08:42,000 --> 05:08:46,000
And that's not true because it is all about here.

2968
05:08:46,000 --> 05:08:47,000
Thank you so much.

2969
05:08:47,000 --> 05:08:49,000
And thank you for sharing.

2970
05:08:49,000 --> 05:08:52,000
We're really appreciate it.

2971
05:09:03,000 --> 05:09:04,000
My name is John.

2972
05:09:04,000 --> 05:09:06,000
You're doing this.

2973
05:09:06,000 --> 05:09:09,000
I would like to give a brief history of my family.

2974
05:09:09,000 --> 05:09:12,000
We have to get some credibility.

2975
05:09:12,000 --> 05:09:15,000
My dad's brother is buried in Normandy.

2976
05:09:15,000 --> 05:09:19,000
At that time, my father was Army Eric Corb, a volunteer for Recon.

2977
05:09:19,000 --> 05:09:22,000
He was trapped in to Korea.

2978
05:09:22,000 --> 05:09:24,000
My older brother's marine.

2979
05:09:24,000 --> 05:09:26,000
My mom's family.

2980
05:09:26,000 --> 05:09:29,000
Her uncle is buried in Belgium because the tail gunner had to be 17.

2981
05:09:29,000 --> 05:09:31,000
He got shot down.

2982
05:09:31,000 --> 05:09:35,000
Her brother was a POW in the zone with the Japanese.

2983
05:09:35,000 --> 05:09:38,000
And I'll begin.

2984
05:09:38,000 --> 05:09:41,000
I was what you call a vagabond.

2985
05:09:41,000 --> 05:09:44,000
I got stuck in traveling.

2986
05:09:44,000 --> 05:09:47,000
And I got stubborn about it.

2987
05:09:47,000 --> 05:09:51,000
And then, about a year ago, if something said, you know, you're going to start settling down.

2988
05:09:51,000 --> 05:09:54,000
You're going to be 77 pretty soon.

2989
05:09:54,000 --> 05:10:03,000
And so I went to the VA in San Francisco and luckily, the girl in the guy referred me to the

2990
05:10:03,000 --> 05:10:05,000
Hope Center in Berkeley.

2991
05:10:05,000 --> 05:10:07,000
And I said, I'm up there long time ago.

2992
05:10:07,000 --> 05:10:09,000
So I was like, all right, I like Berkeley.

2993
05:10:09,000 --> 05:10:11,000
So I was drafted.

2994
05:10:11,000 --> 05:10:17,000
I was supposed to be a marine, 1966 out of high school.

2995
05:10:17,000 --> 05:10:20,000
But I was a devil pup when I was 14.

2996
05:10:20,000 --> 05:10:22,000
Because my brother was a marine at that time.

2997
05:10:22,000 --> 05:10:23,000
So the marital mess around.

2998
05:10:23,000 --> 05:10:25,000
So I wasn't in the mood for the marines.

2999
05:10:25,000 --> 05:10:28,000
So I kept telling my friends, they were like, we're going to the marines.

3000
05:10:28,000 --> 05:10:30,000
I said, well, I'm going to get drafted.

3001
05:10:30,000 --> 05:10:31,000
They go, how do you know?

3002
05:10:31,000 --> 05:10:32,000
I just know.

3003
05:10:32,000 --> 05:10:38,000
So anyway, when I got back, one of the reasons I got this is I never looked my age.

3004
05:10:38,000 --> 05:10:41,000
First time I used to go to a vet officer if they're going to help me.

3005
05:10:41,000 --> 05:10:43,000
And I'm like, yeah, you know, I'm going to.

3006
05:10:43,000 --> 05:10:47,000
So for the longest time, I did want nothing to do with a VA.

3007
05:10:47,000 --> 05:10:53,000
But luckily, I had friends that were vests to that said, you have to go and start taking care of your business with a VA.

3008
05:10:53,000 --> 05:10:54,000
Would you like it or not?

3009
05:10:54,000 --> 05:10:58,000
So little by little, I got into going to the vet centers.

3010
05:10:58,000 --> 05:11:05,000
And luckily, I was one in San Francisco, referred me to the Hope Center in Berkeley.

3011
05:11:05,000 --> 05:11:12,000
And it's a program where, you know, for housing and stuff.

3012
05:11:12,000 --> 05:11:14,000
And I had heard about it.

3013
05:11:14,000 --> 05:11:16,000
I didn't really understand it.

3014
05:11:16,000 --> 05:11:23,000
And eventually, I was told about a place in a real vista.

3015
05:11:23,000 --> 05:11:34,000
And I told myself, you know, it's time to start sailing down and start a different kind of life.

3016
05:11:34,000 --> 05:11:38,000
And this place where I'm at has been very, very beneficial.

3017
05:11:38,000 --> 05:11:47,000
Not only to my health, but my mentality, I find it reconnected with who I wasn't one time.

3018
05:11:47,000 --> 05:11:51,000
Because every time I would say, well, you know, I was going to kill my landmine.

3019
05:11:51,000 --> 05:11:55,000
But we trap, I caught malaria, they go, well, you're just, you know, you weren't.

3020
05:11:55,000 --> 05:12:02,000
But now that I finally made an effort to settle down and I've gotten this home thing.

3021
05:12:02,000 --> 05:12:05,000
It's been very, very beneficial to me.

3022
05:12:05,000 --> 05:12:10,000
I've come back to what they used to call a human being.

3023
05:12:10,000 --> 05:12:13,000
And I've always been a happy person.

3024
05:12:14,000 --> 05:12:17,000
I even want to, again, I almost got killed in Vietnam.

3025
05:12:17,000 --> 05:12:21,000
But these programs are very, very beneficial.

3026
05:12:21,000 --> 05:12:27,000
I'm putting this way also because I've talked to a few vets who, well, not talk about Vietnam.

3027
05:12:27,000 --> 05:12:31,000
And I would try to tell them, psychology was my major in college.

3028
05:12:31,000 --> 05:12:33,000
I tell them, you know, it just has to be done.

3029
05:12:33,000 --> 05:12:35,000
I don't want to hear it.

3030
05:12:35,000 --> 05:12:40,000
But for myself, I took that route.

3031
05:12:40,000 --> 05:12:44,000
And, oh, it's, it's, it's very beneficial.

3032
05:12:44,000 --> 05:12:49,000
It's, it's, uh, it's like when you're in the service, you have this camaraderie with people.

3033
05:12:49,000 --> 05:12:52,000
So, and why I'm at, we're all like, it's like a friend, you know.

3034
05:12:52,000 --> 05:12:55,000
Everybody kind of reconnects to their paths.

3035
05:12:55,000 --> 05:13:00,000
As whenever happy at one time, you know, no more this war thing.

3036
05:13:00,000 --> 05:13:07,000
And, uh, it's just, uh, I'm, I'm amazed at how I'm coming back to being happy.

3037
05:13:07,000 --> 05:13:12,000
And, I'm thinking it, you know, in a positive way while we do, but, you know,

3038
05:13:12,000 --> 05:13:15,000
standing at kind of a attitude.

3039
05:13:15,000 --> 05:13:19,000
And, yeah, these, these homes are very, very beneficial.

3040
05:13:19,000 --> 05:13:21,000
They do a lot.

3041
05:13:21,000 --> 05:13:24,000
Uh, give you a chance to sleep in a room by yourself.

3042
05:13:24,000 --> 05:13:29,000
Watch TV, interact with your friends, talk about, you know, things.

3043
05:13:29,000 --> 05:13:32,000
Like, where I'm at, we joke a lot.

3044
05:13:32,000 --> 05:13:34,000
And I forgot I used to be like that.

3045
05:13:34,000 --> 05:13:39,000
So, I even tell them I, well, you guys have brought me back to how I used to be.

3046
05:13:39,000 --> 05:13:44,000
So, for me, these, these, uh, programs are very beneficial.

3047
05:13:44,000 --> 05:13:46,000
They really make a difference.

3048
05:13:46,000 --> 05:13:54,000
Uh, but, again, some, I don't know, which was said would forget combat.

3049
05:13:54,000 --> 05:13:55,000
Some can't.

3050
05:13:55,000 --> 05:13:56,000
I could.

3051
05:13:56,000 --> 05:13:58,000
I guess I'm just a different character.

3052
05:13:58,000 --> 05:14:02,000
But, for me, it's been, uh, amazing.

3053
05:14:02,000 --> 05:14:06,000
It's, um, it's been a lot from my, again, my house.

3054
05:14:06,000 --> 05:14:08,000
I'm, I'm, I'll be 78 in October.

3055
05:14:08,000 --> 05:14:11,000
I don't even believe that, believe me.

3056
05:14:11,000 --> 05:14:16,000
But, it's, uh, probably back to my youth somewhat, in terms of how I used to feel.

3057
05:14:16,000 --> 05:14:18,000
Happy, and hey, I don't want to stop, you know.

3058
05:14:18,000 --> 05:14:20,000
Well, yes, they are beneficial.

3059
05:14:20,000 --> 05:14:24,000
And they do make a difference for vets.

3060
05:14:24,000 --> 05:14:28,000
I've already seen this, but, there's times I've earned vets.

3061
05:14:28,000 --> 05:14:31,000
I've earned vets that were crying out in the street.

3062
05:14:31,000 --> 05:14:33,000
I want to help them, but...

3063
05:14:33,000 --> 05:14:38,000
I thought, we've, we've, we've given up as only one came back like that.

3064
05:14:38,000 --> 05:14:40,000
You know, messed up.

3065
05:14:40,000 --> 05:14:43,000
But a lot of vets do need help.

3066
05:14:43,000 --> 05:14:46,000
And, uh, it'll do some form.

3067
05:14:46,000 --> 05:14:47,000
That's how I look at it.

3068
05:14:47,000 --> 05:14:50,000
It'll, it'll really make a whole difference in their life.

3069
05:14:50,000 --> 05:14:51,000
Some feel unwanted.

3070
05:14:51,000 --> 05:14:53,000
Some feel like they don't want to be heard.

3071
05:14:53,000 --> 05:14:56,000
But, uh, I don't know, it's just,

3072
05:14:56,000 --> 05:14:58,720
I don't know, it's just been very beneficial for me.

3073
05:15:00,000 --> 05:15:05,000
I'm doing this program and we're living here. I'm very, very happy.

3074
05:15:05,000 --> 05:15:14,000
Well, I really appreciate you sharing. I really do. I think your stories both of you are just, they're compelling.

3075
05:15:14,000 --> 05:15:19,000
And so thank you for coming and taking the time to share it with the council. I appreciate it.

3076
05:15:19,000 --> 05:15:25,000
I would just like to leave with this. I'm a direct descendant of the first planners in San Diego.

3077
05:15:25,000 --> 05:15:37,000
I grew up in a tone called Reddons. And that, that, that's telling me a lot about how to be a human being, how to interact with people, how to respect people.

3078
05:15:37,000 --> 05:15:43,000
And appreciate, I could just say that I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you very much.

3079
05:15:43,000 --> 05:15:45,000
Thank you both for your service.

3080
05:15:45,000 --> 05:15:46,000
Yeah.

3081
05:15:49,000 --> 05:16:04,000
Hello and good evening. Mayer Vice Mayor and council members. My name is Dremaine Dowdo.

3082
05:16:04,000 --> 05:16:09,000
I'm a German carpenter and field representative for the North Coast State's carpenter's junior.

3083
05:16:09,000 --> 05:16:12,000
I'm here tonight. Also before I get started, I want to say thank you.

3084
05:16:12,000 --> 05:16:16,000
And I respect and appreciate all our veterans is very important in those words.

3085
05:16:16,000 --> 05:16:23,000
I'm very, very needed and saying that the North Coast State's carpenter's are not in support of this project.

3086
05:16:23,000 --> 05:16:29,000
We've reached out to the developer and we have not had a conversation about if this project is going to be built responsibly.

3087
05:16:29,000 --> 05:16:36,000
We had a lot of conversation up here about the community and about safety and about the things that are going to make this community thrive.

3088
05:16:36,000 --> 05:16:45,000
And if we have a non-responsible carpenter's junior developer come in and take advantage of workers with wage staff, misclassification.

3089
05:16:45,000 --> 05:16:48,000
And possibly not even have workers from this county.

3090
05:16:48,000 --> 05:16:52,000
We'll come in and take the jobs, take the money out of this county and we get nothing.

3091
05:16:52,000 --> 05:16:54,000
Those things hurt us.

3092
05:16:54,000 --> 05:17:02,000
We need to make sure that we take a look at what's going on around us and what these projects that we can make sure we protect our workers and our communities as well.

3093
05:17:02,000 --> 05:17:06,000
As the North Coast State's carpenter's we also have helmets or har hats.

3094
05:17:06,000 --> 05:17:10,000
We definitely appreciate and lift our veterans.

3095
05:17:10,000 --> 05:17:11,000
It's a program that we go by.

3096
05:17:11,000 --> 05:17:18,000
I have a lot of young men and women on our helmets or har hats program that we do help day to day in and day out.

3097
05:17:18,000 --> 05:17:25,000
And I want to say I do appreciate our veterans again, but we have to make sure that these projects are built responsibly and that we're looking into these.

3098
05:17:25,000 --> 05:17:30,000
These jobs sites to make sure that our workers are taking care of especially when they're prevailing wage.

3099
05:17:30,000 --> 05:17:36,000
Thank you very much. I appreciate to demand out there again and again the North Coast State's partners do not support this project.

3100
05:17:36,000 --> 05:17:37,000
Thank you.

3101
05:17:45,000 --> 05:17:51,000
Good evening Mayor and Council members. My name is Angela Uffshaw and I am the Chief Operating Officer at Inside Housing.

3102
05:17:51,000 --> 05:17:57,000
And I just want to thank again our veterans for coming and speaking and really appreciate them.

3103
05:17:57,000 --> 05:17:59,000
It shows their dedication and my team.

3104
05:17:59,000 --> 05:18:01,000
Thank you all to them.

3105
05:18:01,000 --> 05:18:08,000
But I'm here tonight in strong support of the city moving forward with our home key plus application for victory gardens.

3106
05:18:08,000 --> 05:18:13,000
Inside housing has been committed to ending veteran homelessness for over a decade.

3107
05:18:13,000 --> 05:18:18,000
In Solano County we operate programs that connect veterans and their families to housing.

3108
05:18:18,000 --> 05:18:22,000
Employment, health care and stability that they have earned.

3109
05:18:22,000 --> 05:18:25,000
Our real vista home which you heard a little bit about tonight.

3110
05:18:25,000 --> 05:18:31,000
So a smaller project in scale stands as a powerful a proof of what's possible.

3111
05:18:31,000 --> 05:18:37,000
When veterans have safe and affordable and housing that they can thrive in.

3112
05:18:37,000 --> 05:18:40,000
And so do the communities around them.

3113
05:18:40,000 --> 05:18:45,000
Victory gardens represents an opportunity to expand that promise at a meaningful scale.

3114
05:18:45,000 --> 05:18:50,000
Faculty can be a part of a growing and proven national effort to in veteran homelessness.

3115
05:18:50,000 --> 05:18:53,000
And this home key plus application or funding is critical.

3116
05:18:53,000 --> 05:18:59,000
It's a critical bridge that gets us from just a project vision to actual construction.

3117
05:18:59,000 --> 05:19:06,000
I also want to speak to the stigma that sometimes surrounds affordable housing because this is personal for me.

3118
05:19:06,000 --> 05:19:12,000
I never served in the military but my family and close friends have from Vietnam to Afghanistan.

3119
05:19:12,000 --> 05:19:16,000
I know what service and sacrifice looks like up close.

3120
05:19:16,000 --> 05:19:21,000
I also know what homelessness looks like up close because I've lived it.

3121
05:19:21,000 --> 05:19:25,000
Affordable housing was my path out of homelessness and disability.

3122
05:19:25,000 --> 05:19:28,000
It changed the trajectory of my life.

3123
05:19:28,000 --> 05:19:31,000
And the evidence bears this out broadly.

3124
05:19:31,000 --> 05:19:34,000
Affordable housing strength and families.

3125
05:19:34,000 --> 05:19:40,000
It stabilizes local communities and economies and makes communities healthier and more resilient.

3126
05:19:40,000 --> 05:19:43,000
And as council member Richie mentioned earlier tonight,

3127
05:19:43,000 --> 05:19:50,000
I'm going to express that back of Bill is about the people in the community and that shows who is project and what we're trying to do here.

3128
05:19:50,000 --> 05:19:58,000
The people who will call victory gardens home come from different backgrounds and different roles to this moment.

3129
05:19:58,000 --> 05:20:01,000
But they share something profound.

3130
05:20:01,000 --> 05:20:03,000
They serve this country.

3131
05:20:03,000 --> 05:20:08,000
They deserve dignity and a safe and affordable and decent place to call home.

3132
05:20:08,000 --> 05:20:15,000
Approving this application opens a door that could change everything for dozens of veterans and their families.

3133
05:20:15,000 --> 05:20:17,000
So I urge you tonight to support.

3134
05:20:17,000 --> 05:20:18,000
Thank you so much.

3135
05:20:18,000 --> 05:20:19,000
Thank you.

3136
05:20:19,000 --> 05:20:26,000
All right, I'll go ahead and bring it back to the council as I see anyone else.

3137
05:20:26,000 --> 05:20:29,000
Anyone else wishing to speak?

3138
05:20:29,000 --> 05:20:34,000
Yes, let me bring it back to the council.

3139
05:20:35,000 --> 05:20:37,000
Council member Stockton.

3140
05:20:37,000 --> 05:20:44,000
Yeah, I'm just wondering if the developer would sit down at the gentleman from the Carpeter Union at least give him a chance to explain why.

3141
05:20:44,000 --> 05:20:55,000
We want to talk to you about this project.

3142
05:20:55,000 --> 05:21:01,000
Can you hit the button, sorry.

3143
05:21:02,000 --> 05:21:03,000
There you go.

3144
05:21:03,000 --> 05:21:04,000
Yeah.

3145
05:21:04,000 --> 05:21:13,000
Typically, it is the GC the general contractor who appoints the subcontractors and that is not something that the developer does.

3146
05:21:13,000 --> 05:21:17,000
Also, we are currently in a really early stage of the project.

3147
05:21:17,000 --> 05:21:20,000
We're gathering funding for the development.

3148
05:21:20,000 --> 05:21:26,000
So we are not that far along that we would be able to actually appoint the subcontractors.

3149
05:21:26,000 --> 05:21:33,000
That's the only reason why we have sort of, you know, be did this conversation.

3150
05:21:33,000 --> 05:21:34,000
Yeah.

3151
05:21:34,000 --> 05:21:37,000
And I'm not telling you that you have to use them.

3152
05:21:37,000 --> 05:21:41,000
But but at least to offer them an opportunity to talk about this.

3153
05:21:41,000 --> 05:21:45,000
It sounds like they have programs that help veterans that they try to utilize.

3154
05:21:45,000 --> 05:21:49,000
And if that's what you're all trying to do it might it might lead to something productive it might not.

3155
05:21:49,000 --> 05:21:52,000
But you'll never know if we don't, you know, talk about it.

3156
05:21:52,000 --> 05:21:53,000
Absolutely.

3157
05:21:53,000 --> 05:21:56,000
Can you, can you, are you willing to exchange information with the gentleman in the back?

3158
05:21:56,000 --> 05:21:57,000
Yes.

3159
05:21:57,000 --> 05:21:58,000
Sure.

3160
05:21:58,000 --> 05:21:59,000
Thank you.

3161
05:21:59,000 --> 05:22:00,000
Yeah.

3162
05:22:00,000 --> 05:22:01,000
Thank you.

3163
05:22:01,000 --> 05:22:04,000
I appreciate you addressing that.

3164
05:22:04,000 --> 05:22:06,000
And I think it's important also.

3165
05:22:06,000 --> 05:22:07,000
Yes.

3166
05:22:07,000 --> 05:22:08,000
Go ahead.

3167
05:22:08,000 --> 05:22:11,000
I didn't, I have no control of anyone's mind.

3168
05:22:11,000 --> 05:22:12,000
I know.

3169
05:22:12,000 --> 05:22:13,000
Okay.

3170
05:22:13,000 --> 05:22:14,000
All right.

3171
05:22:14,000 --> 05:22:18,000
I normally, here's an example of why this straight guy doesn't work.

3172
05:22:18,000 --> 05:22:21,000
Because it can't.

3173
05:22:21,000 --> 05:22:22,000
All right.

3174
05:22:22,000 --> 05:22:24,000
So to my monitors to the right.

3175
05:22:24,000 --> 05:22:26,000
Apparently, I can't remember.

3176
05:22:26,000 --> 05:22:28,000
Finally, you were first.

3177
05:22:28,000 --> 05:22:29,000
Okay.

3178
05:22:29,000 --> 05:22:30,000
Thanks for the information.

3179
05:22:30,000 --> 05:22:34,000
I just have one question because in looking at that first picture, you know, it's a pretty elaborate

3180
05:22:34,000 --> 05:22:37,000
apartment complex.

3181
05:22:37,000 --> 05:22:41,000
And so usually those are done in phases.

3182
05:22:41,000 --> 05:22:47,000
So if phase one is, are all the 52 veteran units going to be first.

3183
05:22:47,000 --> 05:22:52,000
Or are you going to be like 10 of them in phase one and then 10 of them in phase two?

3184
05:22:52,000 --> 05:22:55,000
Do you can you answer that question?

3185
05:22:55,000 --> 05:22:59,000
I think I can answer and then maybe, if I don't get it right, you can correct me.

3186
05:22:59,000 --> 05:23:03,000
But so this project is being approved in phases.

3187
05:23:03,000 --> 05:23:07,000
However, the first phase is all 206 multifamily units.

3188
05:23:07,000 --> 05:23:13,000
And then if you remember the second phase is 15 additional single family units around the outside.

3189
05:23:13,000 --> 05:23:20,000
So the 52 veteran units are a part of the full 206 that will be constructed at the same time.

3190
05:23:20,000 --> 05:23:21,000
Okay.

3191
05:23:21,000 --> 05:23:22,000
Thank you.

3192
05:23:22,000 --> 05:23:28,000
And I just want to add additional information that the project is already approved.

3193
05:23:28,000 --> 05:23:33,000
What we're asking for tonight is moving forward with a home key application.

3194
05:23:33,000 --> 05:23:36,000
And that the annual ward of federal funding.

3195
05:23:36,000 --> 05:23:42,000
I'm sorry, any award of public funds, including the 52 project base vouchers,

3196
05:23:42,000 --> 05:23:47,000
requires prevailing wage to be paid during the construction of the project.

3197
05:23:47,000 --> 05:23:48,000
Okay.

3198
05:23:48,000 --> 05:23:50,000
Thanks.

3199
05:23:50,000 --> 05:23:51,000
All right.

3200
05:23:51,000 --> 05:23:53,000
So I think you were next.

3201
05:23:53,000 --> 05:23:55,000
I mean, that's all.

3202
05:23:55,000 --> 05:23:57,000
Somebody's planned with me.

3203
05:23:57,000 --> 05:23:58,000
Thank you.

3204
05:23:58,000 --> 05:24:00,000
My question was the same.

3205
05:24:00,000 --> 05:24:05,000
I just wanted to know of understanding about lack of communication with the

3206
05:24:05,000 --> 05:24:07,000
contractor, union.

3207
05:24:07,000 --> 05:24:10,000
And so understanding, you know, the preliminary work.

3208
05:24:10,000 --> 05:24:14,000
However, you are open to communicating with.

3209
05:24:14,000 --> 05:24:17,000
Okay.

3210
05:24:17,000 --> 05:24:24,000
And there was an exchange of information I believe.

3211
05:24:24,000 --> 05:24:25,000
Okay.

3212
05:24:25,000 --> 05:24:28,000
And you know, you handle your own business.

3213
05:24:28,000 --> 05:24:33,000
But I would hope that you are, you know, someone reaching out to you at least.

3214
05:24:33,000 --> 05:24:35,000
Respond, reply to them.

3215
05:24:35,000 --> 05:24:41,000
If you're not, you see, they come to the council and we have no jurisdiction at that time.

3216
05:24:41,000 --> 05:24:43,000
Okay.

3217
05:24:43,000 --> 05:24:44,000
All right.

3218
05:24:44,000 --> 05:24:46,000
Vice Mayor Silva.

3219
05:24:46,000 --> 05:24:49,000
Any questions or comments?

3220
05:24:49,000 --> 05:24:53,000
No, my question was just going to be, you've already asked about clarifying public

3221
05:24:53,000 --> 05:24:54,000
rather than wage.

3222
05:24:54,000 --> 05:24:55,000
Yeah.

3223
05:24:55,000 --> 05:24:56,000
Good to go.

3224
05:24:56,000 --> 05:24:57,000
Yeah.

3225
05:24:57,000 --> 05:24:58,000
And I was aware of that.

3226
05:24:58,000 --> 05:24:59,000
Thank you for bringing it up.

3227
05:24:59,000 --> 05:25:01,000
It is important to understand.

3228
05:25:01,000 --> 05:25:05,000
If you've agreed it's early on tonight's action isn't a final approval.

3229
05:25:05,000 --> 05:25:10,000
It's the city has to participate in a lending opportunity.

3230
05:25:10,000 --> 05:25:13,000
So we're very preliminary in any process.

3231
05:25:13,000 --> 05:25:17,000
However, it would require prevailing wage.

3232
05:25:17,000 --> 05:25:21,000
It's, it's all by the mandate, but if you have part of the benefit is,

3233
05:25:21,000 --> 05:25:26,000
and I can appreciate the perspective is every time we have projects,

3234
05:25:26,000 --> 05:25:33,440
we have projects, the goal is to try to advocate for our local workforce and as a developer you're

3235
05:25:33,440 --> 05:25:38,800
not the one's doing the building and so obviously that becomes the pass through but the key here

3236
05:25:38,800 --> 05:25:43,040
is you know how do we care for the very people who are trying and we know that people live here

3237
05:25:43,040 --> 05:25:48,480
and they're driving hours to go to work every day so the key is how do we stop that and we work

3238
05:25:48,480 --> 05:25:55,120
with our local professionals and so hopefully this can be a process where you can talk but if

3239
05:25:55,120 --> 05:26:04,320
successful this has to come back to the council anyway so I appreciate it the action on this item is

3240
05:26:07,040 --> 05:26:12,160
my simple motion to adopt a subject resolution I'm entertained in a motion at this one

3241
05:26:14,560 --> 05:26:24,240
motion a second roll call council member Stockton council member Riti council member Chapman yes

3242
05:26:24,320 --> 05:26:30,640
council member Fremo council member Wiley yes vice mayor Silva yeah

3243
05:26:31,360 --> 05:26:37,840
Mayor Carly yes I appreciate this this is the veterans housing is long overdue this has

3244
05:26:37,840 --> 05:26:43,040
been a project has been set aside but this is not the this is not the final action that the

3245
05:26:43,040 --> 05:26:49,600
council will take this is just to apply for the home key funds with that we will go ahead and move to item 12c

3246
05:26:49,600 --> 05:26:56,720
thank you all for coming to our bets thank you for your service and the the stories that are real

3247
05:26:56,720 --> 05:27:02,560
for you or heartfelt and I appreciate you taking the time and sorry that it took so long to get to to this item

3248
05:27:03,760 --> 05:27:11,360
so we'll move on to item 12c mmc. So this is a report on the upcoming brown act teleconferencing

3249
05:27:11,360 --> 05:27:17,280
in public access requirements and a resolution adopting a disruption of telephonic or internet service

3250
05:27:17,280 --> 05:27:23,840
during meetings policy and accordance with Senate bill 707 and public relations manager Joanna Leal

3251
05:27:23,840 --> 05:27:33,280
is here to assist me in presenting this item so Senate bill 707 was adopted in late 2025

3252
05:27:34,000 --> 05:27:40,720
going into effect in January of 2026 because it was such a heavy lift under technology and some other

3253
05:27:41,280 --> 05:27:50,080
items that cities had to had to be able to to do to meet the requirements some of these portions

3254
05:27:50,080 --> 05:27:56,400
are going into effect in July of 2026 so we're going to be focusing mostly on those the other items

3255
05:27:57,280 --> 05:28:04,560
are mostly cleanup items that we're in the bill and or have already gone into effect so Senate bill sorry

3256
05:28:04,560 --> 05:28:10,320
Senate bill 707 modernizes the brown act to reflect technology changes to promote greater public

3257
05:28:10,320 --> 05:28:17,360
access including requirements for specific legislative bodies. I need to adopt the disruption policy changes

3258
05:28:17,360 --> 05:28:25,840
to teleconferencing rules and cleanup and other minor updates next slide. One of the things SB 707 did was

3259
05:28:25,840 --> 05:28:37,920
create a new description under the SB 707 eligible legislative bodies are defined as a city with a population

3260
05:28:37,920 --> 05:28:45,040
over 30,000 which is what we are so that's why we will be adopting the 707 regulations. Next slide

3261
05:28:45,120 --> 05:28:56,880
Okay. 707 required us to provide access and comment opportunity to our public via a two-way

3262
05:28:56,880 --> 05:29:05,840
telephonic service also known as teleconferencing so that is effective July 1st and our public relations

3263
05:29:05,840 --> 05:29:10,880
team has been working very diligently to get the technology in place in this room so that we can meet

3264
05:29:10,880 --> 05:29:18,320
that mandate of whatever our first meeting in July is. My understanding is that we might have one

3265
05:29:18,320 --> 05:29:26,800
prior to July 28 but anyway certainly we'll have that all up and running the way we should. The city is

3266
05:29:26,800 --> 05:29:32,800
required to post and provide the call in option for the platform on the meeting agenda and also have a

3267
05:29:32,800 --> 05:29:44,240
dedicated page on the website that talks about how the public can participate. And SB 707 requires

3268
05:29:44,240 --> 05:29:50,720
that if the service the teleconferencing service we use provides captioning that that must also be

3269
05:29:50,720 --> 05:29:58,160
made available to the public. Next slide. There are some excluded meetings to this so one is when

3270
05:29:58,160 --> 05:30:08,160
the body is meeting at a location.

3271
05:30:00,000 --> 05:30:15,000
That does not accommodate teleconferencing, so if we had to have a meeting in another facility for some reason, and there was not access to internet or teleconferencing, we would not have to provide that option.

3272
05:30:15,000 --> 05:30:29,000
The others are very unlikely types of meetings that we have, but if the council was to inspect real or personal property, where the topic of the meeting would be limited to items directly related to that property.

3273
05:30:29,000 --> 05:30:47,000
We would not have to have teleconferencing, or if we were to meet in the or near facility owned by the city, where the meeting topic is limited to items again directly related to that facility, we would not need to provide teleconferencing.

3274
05:30:47,000 --> 05:31:04,000
There are times when the body might be have to meet for federal or state elected or appointed officials solely to discuss legislative or regulatory issues affecting the local agency and within the jurisdiction of that elected appointed official.

3275
05:31:04,000 --> 05:31:06,000
That would not have to be teleconferenced.

3276
05:31:06,000 --> 05:31:11,000
Judicial or administrative hearing or the local agency as a party would not need to be teleconferenced.

3277
05:31:11,000 --> 05:31:22,000
And then if the city were to have to have an emergency meeting, most brown act requirements including the teleconferencing would not be, would not be required because of the state of emergency.

3278
05:31:22,000 --> 05:31:25,000
Next slide.

3279
05:31:25,000 --> 05:31:37,000
So we are required to adopt a policy on the disruption of service, including good faith attempts to restore service for at least one hour or until the.

3280
05:31:37,000 --> 05:31:43,000
If if earlier, the the service disruption is is solved.

3281
05:31:44,000 --> 05:31:47,000
The city must announce the service disruption.

3282
05:31:47,000 --> 05:31:59,000
If if there is one council is required to take a recess and if there is a closed session agenda is the council can can be an enclosed session for during that recess.

3283
05:31:59,000 --> 05:32:03,000
And during the recess the city must be making good faith attempt to restore the service.

3284
05:32:03,000 --> 05:32:08,000
Next slide.

3285
05:32:08,000 --> 05:32:11,000
We are able to remedy this disruption within an hour.

3286
05:32:11,000 --> 05:32:16,000
The city may further extend the recess to restore service.

3287
05:32:16,000 --> 05:32:24,000
We may adjourn the meeting or we may reconvene an open session, but we must adopt a finding by roll call vote that.

3288
05:32:24,000 --> 05:32:35,000
Good faith efforts were taken to restore the service and the public interest in continuing the meeting outweighs the public interest in remote public access.

3289
05:32:35,000 --> 05:32:41,000
So in the disruption policy there is a part where if a virtual comment or disrupts the meeting.

3290
05:32:41,000 --> 05:32:47,000
And a disruption is defined as rendering infeasible the orderly conduct of a meeting.

3291
05:32:47,000 --> 05:32:55,000
A warning consistent with brown act indicating behavior is actually disrupting the meeting and if they fail to cease the behavior it will result in removal.

3292
05:32:55,000 --> 05:33:07,000
And then if the commentator persists the speaker will be put on mute or removal from the platform if muting does not stop the disruptive behavior.

3293
05:33:07,000 --> 05:33:13,000
So the city is required to engage in unrepresented communities.

3294
05:33:13,000 --> 05:33:16,000
Engaged with unrepresented communities.

3295
05:33:16,000 --> 05:33:24,000
So we I'm going to let Joanna talk a little bit about how we're going to reach out to those communities.

3296
05:33:24,000 --> 05:33:25,000
Thank you.

3297
05:33:25,000 --> 05:33:26,000
Good evening.

3298
05:33:26,000 --> 05:33:30,000
So we do a number of ways that we already reach out to our community.

3299
05:33:30,000 --> 05:33:33,000
Folks can sign up to receive the agenda directly via email.

3300
05:33:33,000 --> 05:33:38,000
We posted social media posted on the website and of course outside on the board.

3301
05:33:38,000 --> 05:33:43,000
So in addition to that what our plan or intention is to increase the email.

3302
05:33:43,000 --> 05:33:48,000
The number of emails that would receive this we have several lists within the city's email database.

3303
05:33:48,000 --> 05:33:53,000
Where we would expand to ensure that we're reaching more of our unrepresented communities.

3304
05:33:53,000 --> 05:33:59,000
And then we would also continue to do the efforts that are are already underway.

3305
05:33:59,000 --> 05:34:02,000
And just to ensure that that access is there.

3306
05:34:02,000 --> 05:34:06,000
And then as far as the web pages.

3307
05:34:06,000 --> 05:34:09,000
We do also have translation on the web pages.

3308
05:34:09,000 --> 05:34:16,000
So we're going to be working more closely with eScribe just to ensure that translation is also going to reach those communities.

3309
05:34:16,000 --> 05:34:26,000
So that we can ensure that all of the languages spoken within the community are also receiving that.

3310
05:34:26,000 --> 05:34:28,000
Thank you, Joanna.

3311
05:34:28,000 --> 05:34:43,000
So the S S B 707 has a lot of requirements for us on our website to provide plenty of access and information for the public on how to engage with the agendas and the meeting materials.

3312
05:34:43,000 --> 05:34:46,000
Most of those things we already have there.

3313
05:34:46,000 --> 05:34:51,000
We probably have to just reorganize where they are because they do have to be.

3314
05:34:51,000 --> 05:35:01,000
A lot of them have to be visible from the city's main webpage and has to have a little bit more explanation on how to get the agendas and information on that.

3315
05:35:01,000 --> 05:35:08,000
So we will be doing a bunch of cleanup on our on our website to make sure that we have it all very clear for the public.

3316
05:35:08,000 --> 05:35:12,000
Next slide.

3317
05:35:12,000 --> 05:35:27,000
The other new mandate is that we must provide a readily accessible physical space near where we already post our agendas for the public to provide other translated agendas.

3318
05:35:27,000 --> 05:35:30,000
So the.

3319
05:35:31,000 --> 05:35:40,000
The posting board outside of the council we have found another board that we weren't utilizing very much since we've gone ahead and put that out there there is a.

3320
05:35:40,000 --> 05:35:51,000
There is script on there that allows people to understand that this is solely for using for translated agendas and that any other materials posted there would be removed.

3321
05:35:51,000 --> 05:36:07,000
And that we are not liable for the actual proper translation of the agendas so we don't have to double check the agendas that somebody post there that are translated in another language but we also are not.

3322
05:36:07,000 --> 05:36:12,000
Responsible for what is posted on those agendas.

3323
05:36:12,000 --> 05:36:22,000
And then we talked about already the making efforts to invite groups that do not usually participate and we can go to the next slide.

3324
05:36:22,000 --> 05:36:34,000
So we are required to accommodate translation interpretation requests which means that we have to provide assistance to anybody who wants to have a translation services at the meeting.

3325
05:36:34,000 --> 05:36:43,000
So if somebody is hoping to have translation services at the meeting we have to help them find a space where a translator would be able to assess them.

3326
05:36:43,000 --> 05:36:52,000
We need to slow the meeting down enough so that translation can occur properly for the for the individual making the request.

3327
05:36:52,000 --> 05:36:59,000
And maybe have a little bit extra time at the podium if they were making public comment.

3328
05:36:59,000 --> 05:37:09,000
We also there is a mandate to translate in post agendas if you have a language spoken by more than 20% of your jurisdiction.

3329
05:37:09,000 --> 05:37:14,000
As outlined by the American Community Survey published by the US Census Bureau.

3330
05:37:14,000 --> 05:37:23,000
The city does not meet that threshold at this time however our website does have the capability for most of it to be translated.

3331
05:37:23,000 --> 05:37:33,000
Unfortunately our section where our agendas are posted actually goes out to another provider and right now it doesn't have the capability of being translated.

3332
05:37:33,000 --> 05:37:38,000
But if anybody were to contact us and we will put information on the website.

3333
05:37:38,000 --> 05:37:44,000
If anybody were to contact us we would make our best effort to give them translated agenda.

3334
05:37:45,000 --> 05:38:00,000
There are new updates to teleconferencing requirements so the classic teleconferencing remains the same whereas if if accounts remember were.

3335
05:38:00,000 --> 05:38:14,000
Attending remotely such as vice versa is tonight the agenda must be posted at the location where he is he is attending from the public must be able to attend the location that he is at.

3336
05:38:14,000 --> 05:38:27,000
And all of the agendas that we have posted wherever we normally post them what have the information on where the location is that that other meeting is a consider that another meeting site where that is occurring.

3337
05:38:28,000 --> 05:38:36,000
And a quorum of the body must participate from the agency's jurisdiction and all those be taken by roll call as we did tonight.

3338
05:38:36,000 --> 05:38:52,000
So that remains the same the new the new legislation allows teleconferencing as a reasonable accommodation for a disability and that changes a little bit from remote participation under classic so.

3339
05:38:52,000 --> 05:39:08,000
The member must participate through both audio and visual technology whereas in the classic remote you only have to you can you can do both but you at the minimum can be on telephonic.

3340
05:39:08,000 --> 05:39:21,000
The that requirement would not stand if the person had a physical condition related to their disability so they would not have to be on video and if that was part of their disability.

3341
05:39:21,000 --> 05:39:32,000
And before any action can be taken the member must disclose if anyone 18 or older is in the room with them and the nature of the relationship to that person.

3342
05:39:33,000 --> 05:39:46,000
Their their attendance would be treated like they were at a quorum with the rest of the council and then all the other classic requirements do not apply to that individual.

3343
05:39:47,000 --> 05:40:11,000
So some miscellaneous updates on this AB 992 made several social media restrictions for elected officials who have pages where you could not you could not make comments or post likes or reactions on those pages that had a sunset date which has now been removed.

3344
05:40:12,000 --> 05:40:21,000
We are required annually by January 1st to provide elected officials with copies of the Brown Act which we did earlier this year.

3345
05:40:23,000 --> 05:40:28,000
And a few other little things there are no special meetings for.

3346
05:40:29,000 --> 05:40:40,000
Consideration of legislative bodies salary or benefits we already had restrictions on that for other executive salaries and benefits and now that extends to the legislative body as well.

3347
05:40:40,000 --> 05:40:57,000
And the prior language of the removal of disruptive virtual IT attendees did not acknowledge it did not acknowledge virtual attendees it only acknowledged in person attendees so that was added.

3348
05:40:57,000 --> 05:41:02,000
And that is pretty much all of it as quickly as I could go.

3349
05:41:03,000 --> 05:41:17,000
Sorry I took over myself a lot there but anyway so the recommendations where you received the report which you just did and adopt a resolution of policy of disruption of telephonic or internet service during meetings.

3350
05:41:18,000 --> 05:41:24,000
Thank you for the presentation. I don't have any questions I'm sure there's going to be questions as we implement this.

3351
05:41:25,000 --> 05:41:33,000
You can already see changes that according to the team or starting like with the screen in the back and what we started to experience on the front end.

3352
05:41:34,000 --> 05:41:41,000
I was assured that the technical difficulties in the computer had nothing to do with where we're going but it's going to be a little bit bumpy but.

3353
05:41:42,000 --> 05:41:48,000
You know we fall within that guideline so we're making progress and I appreciate the update so.

3354
05:41:49,000 --> 05:41:52,000
With that I'm going to open up to the public for any comment on this.

3355
05:41:53,000 --> 05:41:56,000
That's getting late seeing no one.

3356
05:41:57,000 --> 05:41:58,000
Everyone's tired.

3357
05:41:59,000 --> 05:42:02,000
Bring it back. This does require council action item.

3358
05:42:03,000 --> 05:42:06,000
If there's no other comments all in your team of motion.

3359
05:42:06,000 --> 05:42:22,000
I mean someone could also ask for a sign language interpreter as well that would be the same as a translation.

3360
05:42:23,000 --> 05:42:30,000
So if someone needs something they have to make the request and was there a certain timeframe they had to make the request before the meeting.

3361
05:42:31,000 --> 05:42:42,000
So there are we already have that in place for hearing assisted or ASL or you know for people who need.

3362
05:42:43,000 --> 05:42:45,000
So we're here.

3363
05:42:46,000 --> 05:42:56,000
So on the translation that the SB 707 doesn't give us a timeframe we could set our own.

3364
05:42:56,000 --> 05:43:03,000
I did not want to really put a restriction on it. I think we will probably try to feel that out.

3365
05:43:04,000 --> 05:43:10,000
I think that we could accommodate somebody all the way up to 24 hours prior after that.

3366
05:43:11,000 --> 05:43:19,000
It's it's a little bit more difficult but we definitely would try and insist if somebody came along and asked for us to provide the agenda translated.

3367
05:43:19,000 --> 05:43:24,000
There's no requirement for all the agenda packet materials to be to be translated.

3368
05:43:25,000 --> 05:43:30,000
Even if you are a city that meets that threshold. It's just the agenda itself.

3369
05:43:31,000 --> 05:43:38,000
I think we'll we'll try and see how that plays out before we put any restrictions on it because we want to be as accommodating as we.

3370
05:43:39,000 --> 05:43:41,000
I have two questions.

3371
05:43:42,000 --> 05:43:45,000
Yeah.

3372
05:43:45,000 --> 05:43:50,000
So there's a mandate coming from the state what.

3373
05:43:51,000 --> 05:43:56,000
What is the cost to a city like us on annual basis do we have any idea.

3374
05:43:57,000 --> 05:44:01,000
I think the cost varies depends on the depending on the city and what equipment they already had.

3375
05:44:02,000 --> 05:44:07,000
I think Joanna might have a little bit of an idea of what the costs have been to us and.

3376
05:44:08,000 --> 05:44:12,000
She can explain how the funding for that was handled.

3377
05:44:13,000 --> 05:44:20,000
It depends annually so I would say one of the one of the biggest ongoing costs is staff time.

3378
05:44:21,000 --> 05:44:29,000
So we do need an extra staff member to ensure to basically manage the zoom room and support the mayor letting people speak and so on and so forth.

3379
05:44:30,000 --> 05:44:34,000
So there's a management aspects for every single council meeting that we have to take into account.

3380
05:44:35,000 --> 05:44:41,000
As far as the hardware there's a combination of things that we have like a zoom license which is pretty nominal annually.

3381
05:44:42,000 --> 05:44:47,000
And some of the hardware that you visually see some of the work that happened behind the scenes.

3382
05:44:48,000 --> 05:44:52,000
Public works was fantastic. They came in and helped you a bunch of the wiring for us.

3383
05:44:53,000 --> 05:44:54,000
A lot of that one time cost.

3384
05:44:55,000 --> 05:45:00,000
I don't have an exact dollar amount because we're also not done with it yet, but we do is.

3385
05:45:00,000 --> 05:45:05,000
It's not general fund dollars for the most part. There's some licensing and software costs that are general

3386
05:45:05,000 --> 05:45:11,000
fund required that are most of it comes through pay, which is our government channel funding, very specific

3387
05:45:11,000 --> 05:45:19,000
funding that can only be used for hardware for excess, you know, making meetings like this accessible to the public.

3388
05:45:19,000 --> 05:45:26,000
So we're using that funding. Part of it is going to be dependent upon some of the issues that experience tonight.

3389
05:45:26,000 --> 05:45:31,000
So we have to kind of re-row a lot of the systems that I could not get technical with.

3390
05:45:31,000 --> 05:45:36,000
But if there's a lot of work that needs to be done, so that we can make this fully zoom room capable.

3391
05:45:36,000 --> 05:45:41,000
So that's kind of in addition to SB 707 and kind of the direction we're going with council chambers.

3392
05:45:41,000 --> 05:45:49,000
So as far as dollar amount, if we have to purchase the captioning, because there's a captioning requirements.

3393
05:45:49,000 --> 05:45:55,000
If you have to purchase captioning hardware, we're probably in total looking upwards of 80 to 100,000.

3394
05:45:55,000 --> 05:46:01,000
The captioning is really expensive. It's very pricey to have that like real time captioning.

3395
05:46:01,000 --> 05:46:13,000
If we don't have to do that, it gets a lot, you know, maybe in the 30 to 40 range depending upon that again, the hardware and how much it will cost for the consultant to come in and do all the back in programming on the system.

3396
05:46:13,000 --> 05:46:25,000
Thank you. And I guess the next thing would be like what I'm thinking about is controversial issues where you're going to have 60 people lined up on the phone to make comments.

3397
05:46:25,000 --> 05:46:33,000
And the added expense that that's going to be for each one of these cities, because now it's going to be so easy to line up 100 people.

3398
05:46:33,000 --> 05:46:42,000
And so can we limit, can we change our, can we limit the amount of time that somebody can have on it till a conference instead of going to three.

3399
05:46:42,000 --> 05:46:52,000
If we know there's 30 people stacked up on a phone, can we limit them to a minute, or is there, is there some hope that we can get out here before 4 o'clock in the morning?

3400
05:46:52,000 --> 05:47:07,000
Yeah, and I'll let you can go ahead and answer that, but those are the things that we're already discussing, because in some cities where that could be complicated, you can actually change business from the floor.

3401
05:47:07,000 --> 05:47:18,000
You wouldn't necessarily deny people right to be able to speak. What you can do is pull cards, have them have a coordinated so that it's controlled.

3402
05:47:18,000 --> 05:47:32,000
In some cases, just say there's an x amount of time for business from floor and beyond that it goes to the end of the meeting. There's nothing that says that that business from the floor has to occupy itself and you can't go past it.

3403
05:47:32,000 --> 05:47:35,000
So there's there's things that we can explore.

3404
05:47:36,000 --> 05:47:40,000
Thank you. Those are, those are things that we're looking at.

3405
05:47:40,000 --> 05:47:44,000
That's when we're stuck, and I think tonight's saw you down there.

3406
05:47:44,000 --> 05:47:46,000
I was just going to make a motion to prove.

3407
05:47:46,000 --> 05:47:48,000
Okay, so you motion.

3408
05:47:48,000 --> 05:47:51,000
I've tried to fix this. I was having some technical difficulties.

3409
05:47:51,000 --> 05:47:53,000
He's been technical difficulties.

3410
05:47:53,000 --> 05:47:55,000
I'm not asking at me.

3411
05:47:55,000 --> 05:47:59,000
So we have a motion, a second roll call.

3412
05:47:59,000 --> 05:48:01,000
Councilmember Richie.

3413
05:48:01,000 --> 05:48:02,000
Yes.

3414
05:48:02,000 --> 05:48:03,000
Councilmember Chapman.

3415
05:48:03,000 --> 05:48:04,000
Yes. Councilmember Frino.

3416
05:48:05,000 --> 05:48:06,000
No.

3417
05:48:06,000 --> 05:48:08,000
Councilmember Wiley.

3418
05:48:08,000 --> 05:48:09,000
Yes.

3419
05:48:09,000 --> 05:48:10,000
Councilmember Stockton.

3420
05:48:10,000 --> 05:48:11,000
Yes.

3421
05:48:11,000 --> 05:48:13,000
Vice Mayor Silva.

3422
05:48:13,000 --> 05:48:14,000
Michael.

3423
05:48:14,000 --> 05:48:15,000
Mayor Carly.

3424
05:48:15,000 --> 05:48:16,000
Yes.

3425
05:48:16,000 --> 05:48:18,000
Well, I appreciate it.

3426
05:48:18,000 --> 05:48:22,000
That's the last of our items before we adjourn.

3427
05:48:22,000 --> 05:48:27,000
I had said this, and I appreciate we'll have to follow up with what you're asked for us.

3428
05:48:27,000 --> 05:48:33,000
But in tonight's adjournment is going to be in memory of.

3429
05:48:34,000 --> 05:48:36,000
Chris Piazlin.

3430
05:48:36,000 --> 05:48:39,000
He was the ecology employee that.

3431
05:48:39,000 --> 05:48:43,000
I hadn't even worked for for ecology for a year.

3432
05:48:43,000 --> 05:48:46,000
He was tragically killed last last Friday.

3433
05:48:46,000 --> 05:48:55,000
And I know that one of the things that working with city staff and also with our city manager was to

3434
05:48:55,000 --> 05:49:00,000
allow the company to all assemble on the same day.

3435
05:49:00,000 --> 05:49:02,000
So, adjusting the schedule.

3436
05:49:02,000 --> 05:49:07,000
So, it will affect the ecology pick up and in back of the next week.

3437
05:49:07,000 --> 05:49:09,000
But it's unfortunate.

3438
05:49:09,000 --> 05:49:11,000
These accidents do happen.

3439
05:49:11,000 --> 05:49:12,000
And it was tragic.

3440
05:49:12,000 --> 05:49:15,000
I remember I was driving through through Dixon.

3441
05:49:15,000 --> 05:49:18,000
And just seeing the, you know, the license.

3442
05:49:18,000 --> 05:49:23,000
I'm not realizing I was driving right by where the man had passed.

3443
05:49:23,000 --> 05:49:26,000
So, it's a tragic unfortunate accident.

3444
05:49:26,000 --> 05:49:27,000
But tonight we're going to adjourn.

3445
05:49:27,000 --> 05:49:32,000
And in his honor and keep his family and our thoughts and prayers.

3446
05:49:32,000 --> 05:49:35,000
So, with that, can I back of it?

3447
05:49:35,000 --> 05:49:37,000
We'll adjourn 1143.

3448
05:49:37,000 --> 05:49:39,000
Wait, there's one more.

3449
05:49:39,000 --> 05:49:41,000
Well, okay.

3450
05:49:41,000 --> 05:49:43,000
Yeah.

3451
05:49:43,000 --> 05:49:45,000
Okay.

3452
05:49:45,000 --> 05:49:47,000
I knew nothing about it.

3453
05:49:47,000 --> 05:49:49,000
Normally it's coordinated in advance.

3454
05:49:49,000 --> 05:49:50,000
Okay.

3455
05:49:50,000 --> 05:49:53,000
So, we and I can, we can dis,

3456
05:49:54,000 --> 05:49:56,000
for the next week.

3457
05:49:56,000 --> 05:49:59,000
It would just be a lot easier.

3458
05:49:59,000 --> 05:50:00,000
Okay.

3459
05:50:00,000 --> 05:50:03,000
No, I forgot.

3460
05:50:03,000 --> 05:50:04,000
No.

3461
05:50:04,000 --> 05:50:05,000
No, I forgot.

3462
05:50:05,000 --> 05:50:07,000
So, anyways, can I back of them?

3463
05:50:07,000 --> 05:50:08,000
Okay.

3464
05:50:23,000 --> 05:50:25,000
Thank you.