[5:33] Go ahead and call this meeting to order. The time is now 432. If we could please have roll call.

[5:45] Oh, oh, I'm sorry. Yes, if we could please stand for the pledge of allegiance.

[5:55] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty, indios, it's a roll.

[6:15] And now that I can follow the sequence of the agenda order now, we now we will go to roll call.

[6:23] Mayor Sorris?

[6:24] President.

[6:25] Vice Mayor Matulie?

[6:27] Vice President Flores?

[6:29] Trustee Gun.

[6:33] President.

[6:33] We have a corn.

[6:36] Thank you for that.

[6:36] Moving on to our next item is community form.

[6:39] Anyone wishing to address the committee on any matter for which another opportunity to speak is not provided on the agenda.

[6:46] and which is within the jurisdiction of the committee to resolve is requested submit a completed speaker card to the secretary.

[6:53] When called upon each speaker should step to the podium, skate his or her name and address for the record.

[7:00] Each speaker is limited to three minutes pursuant to Valleo Municipal Code Section 2.20.30.

[7:07] And many of you could start the two minute clock.

[7:11] Thank you for getting down a minute and a half now.

[7:16] uh... chair we do already have two speakers signed up in public uh... to speak in public

[7:22] uh... and no speakers currently online

[7:24] excellent if we can call the first speaker that be greatly appreciated first speaker

[7:27] Oscar polio

[7:30] Uh, or polio, and then followed by Julio Escobar.

[7:38] Good afternoon, everyone. And you can raise that podium in the lower right hand corner, there's a toggle switch, and you can go raise your lower.

[7:46] Okay, is everybody able to hear me fine?

[7:48] Yes, I think we can't go ahead.

[7:50] Okay, thank you.

[7:52] So today, I am here part of the Leo, you know, of the Leo soccer club.

[7:58] Baleo United, one of the things that we wanted to, we had to brought up to the attention of the city.

[8:04] Prior was access to soccer fields.

[8:08] And we were told to work with the local program right now, which is...

[8:19] I'm just not coming to one.

[8:21] GBRD?

[8:21] GBRD.

[8:22] So with GVRD, the one thing is that it is a public school space for everyone.

[8:30] So one of the things that we want to do is offer safety to the kids that do play for our league, our team.

[8:37] And one of the things that I wanted to address today on this two by two was having access to a space at either schools that are currently open or schools that are closed.

[8:50] And that's one of the things, because we do service the kids here for Veleo, we provide a service for them to be able to learn to be able to understand and be able to play a sport.

[9:08] I did have some information that I wanted to bring up to you guys, is that one of the things is that we are main focus is for families that are under

[9:19] And within a certain income, typically playing a competitive sport can cost up to about $4,000

[9:26] a year for families.

[9:29] We keep it well under that budget of $1,400 yearly.

[9:34] Because of that, we do tend to have a limited amount of money that we can spend for fields.

[9:42] And in order to continue to grow and give each kid an opportunity that wants to join,

[9:47] We wanted to get this proposal placed and I wanted to get your guys' opinions on what you guys think we should do to be able to provide this service for kids.

[10:03] And so this is the fact this is a community form. If you have any questions or ways to coordinate that you have for this for either school district or for GBRD, I would recommend you submit that an email and they would be able to get back to you.

[10:16] I think Superintendent Aurelio would have someone that you could contact and they would be able to send you...

[10:22] Oh, there you go. The people out there. I see Mr. Fernandez out there.

[10:26] So he may be able to provide some information for you and it can be a collaborative type of conversation

[10:31] and have follow up discussions with them. Hopefully that helps.

[10:35] All right. Thank you so much for your time.

[10:37] You're welcome.

[10:42] Next speaker Julio Escobar?

[10:52] Yes, near me.

[10:53] Alright, hi guys. My name is Julio Escobar. I'm serving as the vice president for

[10:57] below United Soccer Club. So I'm here with Oscar. Just kind of wanted to continue off.

[11:02] Why we believe this proposal will be beneficial for both us as well as the students of

[11:08] Leo.

[11:09] Sorry, sorry to interrupt you. Mr. Julio, if you could have, if you wanted to have a conversation,

[11:13] if you could have an outside, so we can hear Mr. Escobar that would be greatly appreciated.

[11:18] So right now we have 375 registered players of which 66% of them are within VCUSD schools.

[11:30] And then 31 are within the authorized charter schools within VCUSD.

[11:35] Honestly we had to turn some kids away just because there was a lack of field space and lack

[11:39] of coaches.

[11:40] We often had to result in sandwiching about like five teams at our local fields.

[11:49] We believe that Dan Foley right now is the only quality field that we can utilize for the kids.

[11:56] So just kind of to reiterate what Oscar was saying.

[12:00] We believe that this partnership would greatly benefit both the city as well as its students.

[12:06] and I think with that that's all I want to discuss.

[12:11] Thank you for that and I think based on the conversations and questions that have been

[12:14] asked I think with all the facilities out there and with the collaboration that that's

[12:19] available to you through GBRD and through the school there I would like to

[12:23] think there's a viable solution to help both sides on this one.

[12:27] So if you have those conversations I think that would go quite far.

[12:32] Perfect, thank you.

[12:32] You're welcome.

[12:34] Man, do we have any more speakers?

[12:38] Through the chair.

[12:39] Yes, there's one more speaker.

[12:42] That speaker is manual angel.

[12:48] I'm going to speak in my own capacity as a member of the public.

[13:05] Hi.

[13:06] Good afternoon.

[13:08] I'm manually enjoying speaking as a resident of Leo, not as an employee.

[13:13] I wanted to speak on a specific idea,

[13:16] considering all the creative work that's being done here

[13:20] at the city to elevate the layout and our community.

[13:25] I noticed that we do have a lot of unfortunate news

[13:29] within the last couple of years with the closing of schools.

[13:32] And I know that there is a lot of value with the materials

[13:37] and the stuff that are at those properties.

[13:39] And I was curious if the board has considered looking

[13:44] into some alternative options into donating some of those place structures that are just sitting

[13:50] there and getting them installed into community parks that currently maybe not. Don't have one.

[13:56] An option that maybe can be explored. I know Councilmember Matthias thought of ways to think

[14:02] outside the box to, you know, make some magic happening. I walk by Penny Cook all the time. So I'm

[14:08] just like, hey, there's a couple of structures over there. Not Grant Mahoney, but the one next

[14:14] County, County Hempool does not have a place or actually currently right now, so that's it. Thank you so much.

[14:20] Thank you for that. And anticipating that there are no more, no more speakers. So I will go ahead and close the community forum at this time and move on to the consent calendar and approval of the agenda.

[14:33] And the chair is open for emotion.

[14:38] If there's if there's no comment which I doubt there is, I'll go ahead and move approval of the agenda and consent calendar.

[14:45] Thank you for that, and we'll just go ahead and do a voice.

[14:49] All those in favor, please say aye.

[14:52] All those opposed?

[14:54] All those any abstentions?

[14:56] Seeing none, the motion passes unanimously.

[15:00] Now, moving on to item number 6, presentations and commendations. I see we have a recognition of September 26, 2026, as public schools month, and I believe mayor source has a, as a, has a presentation to do.

[15:20] Come on up, Mr. Beppen, and please join the podium.

[15:22] So briefly, how are you doing today?

[15:25] Good to see you again.

[15:27] So as we did not have a two-by-two meeting in September,

[15:29] we are this October 1st,

[15:32] retroactively naming September 2026 as public schools month

[15:36] and Mr. Batman and the Masons.

[15:38] This is something that they have championed for many, many years

[15:41] and over a century, actually.

[15:44] And I know that VCSD already did a proclamation

[15:46] at one of their board meetings.

[15:48] So on behalf of my office and the mayor's office

[15:51] and myself and the vice mayor,

[15:52] We wanted to offer the same from the city just again recognizing September 26th as public schools month and I'll read a couple of the clauses and just say

[16:02] It where so whereas we celebrate the power and promise of America's public school system, which is empowered so many students to realize their full potential

[16:09] And whereas our system of universal free public education provides the opportunity for strengthening America's future by educating our youth to become responsible and caring humans

[16:18] And we're as we are grateful for the commitment of teachers and staff in our

[16:21] Vallejo Public Schools who ensure that our classrooms are full of hope and possibilities.

[16:27] And we're as in 1920 Public Schools Week was initiated by the Grand Lodge of

[16:32] Free and Accepted Masons in California and our local nations continue to advocate for

[16:37] public education.

[16:38] Now they're for a beer proclaim that I and resource mayor of the city of Vallejo here

[16:43] recognize September 2026 as public schools month and going forward, not just in September,

[16:49] encourage all residents to attend school board meetings and participate in school-related

[16:53] activities to support our goals collectively as a city, students, teachers, administrators,

[16:59] board members, and our broader community. And as a educator, I am obviously a tremendous

[17:05] proponent of public education and happy to present this population to you, Mr. Beppen.

[17:13] Do you want to say anything here?

[17:16] One of the century, all those kids would be in some kind of labor, terrible conditions.

[17:22] The public schools took most of them out and put them in schools where they could upgrade themselves

[17:29] and their families.

[17:31] This used to be a real labor camp.

[17:33] And now we're educating all of our children.

[17:36] They're not commodities by their parents to go out and work on a slave-a-day labor sometimes.

[17:40] But we've got to be a service and we want to best public and private education and California and all around this country is many stems, many

[17:55] many paths, the public schools and schools system biggest is probably the military, but private schools are there.

[18:06] The public schools are free. Of course, we all have to ship in for materials and everything.

[18:12] But there's there for everybody that can get themselves off the couch and come.

[18:18] It's got to be serious.

[18:19] Thank you.

[18:19] Very much.

[18:23] Thanks for having us.

[18:25] And thank you.

[18:26] I'll pull you up to the class to the other part.

[18:28] Oh yeah, of course.

[18:36] Thank you.

[18:37] Thank you for that very nice proclamation.

[18:39] So moving on to the next agenda item of item number seven,

[18:42] the Leo Police Department of Base. I see Sergeant Hollis up here, so feel free to join us

[18:50] up at the podium, sir.

[19:04] Greetings, everybody. I'm Sergeant Hollis with the Leo Police Department,

[19:07] and I just wanted to talk about a few of our upcoming events that we're excited about and some

[19:12] of our accomplishments. Upcoming we have on October 3rd, the Waterfront Weekend, we will be

[19:24] in Huff will be in the splash chair so anyone who wants to splash and don't cap

[19:32] in Huff we encourage you to participate in the activities. On October 13th we'll

[19:40] be working with Steffen Manor Elementary we will assist their resource night

[19:45] which is always a great event when the families come out and we can introduce

[19:51] ourselves and participate and bring a more welcoming environment with the police department,

[19:57] you know, building those relationships. On October 30th, we are going to join forces with

[20:03] GVRD with their trick or treat nightmare on Glen Street. It's going to be located on

[20:09] Syllogens Wonderland, which I believe is the 400 block of Amdor Street. And then on October 31st,

[20:17] Halloween night we're going to be joining Sean West with his trunk or treat from 2 p.m.

[20:24] to 6 p.m. at Food and Max, which is 1740 to Wallermen Street, a great opportunity and he

[20:31] always has, well, both the Nightmare Glen Street and Sean West's trunk or treat always

[20:37] have a very large participation with the community, so anything to get back with the community

[20:44] we're excited about. We just had our gun buyback program that went very well. We were able

[20:53] to collect 29 pistols, 15 shotguns, 14 long rifles, two assault rifles and one ghost gun,

[21:03] which is a unmarked weapon that we definitely need to keep off our streets. And one gun even

[21:10] back stolen. So this was a no questions asked by that program that was very successful.

[21:16] We provided everyone with a $50 gift certificate from Target. So we want to think Target

[21:23] for helping us with that as well. And then of course coming up soon on Tuesday, which is October

[21:31] 3rd, we have the National Night Out. This is something that is always a fan favorite here in

[21:40] communities that have signed up and this allows our police officers, our professional staff,

[21:50] our dispatchers, just pretty much the police department's enjoying with the city of

[21:53] Valleo and just go and meet with our community members. A lot of times we tend to talk to

[22:01] our community when they are experiencing crisis. So a lot of times we don't get a chance to really

[22:07] and get to know them on a more personal and understanding level.

[22:11] It's hard to build rapport when people are going through their crisis.

[22:16] But this allows us not only to go into the community, for them to meet the people behind

[22:21] the badge and for us to meet the people that we've represented in our community.

[22:25] So it's always a beautiful thing, and we have...

[22:30] And last but not least, I want to talk about the LVT, our live view technology. We have seven cameras. And we are just calling on the community to let us know, especially business owners, if you want us to place LVT camera on your property, the more areas that we can put into our database of log, which are available, opportunities and available locations for us to place these cameras, you know, the quicker we can get to.

[22:58] and we're not promising that everybody's going to get a camera,

[23:00] but we do want to know what are some of the available locations

[23:04] when we start rotating the cameras more frequently.

[23:10] Any questions?

[23:13] Lieutenant, really?

[23:14] Just double checking.

[23:15] What time are we starting national night out?

[23:18] What's the start?

[23:18] Yes, so I sent out an email, but the national night out

[23:22] we're going to meet up at Building 400 Mayor Island.

[23:26] At 430, we're going to take pictures at 445,

[23:30] and we're going to deploy and set the community at five.

[23:33] Great, thank you.

[23:35] And as a point of clarification,

[23:36] I know you said Tuesday,

[23:39] it's not October 30, it's October 6th,

[23:41] is the F.L. date for it.

[23:44] And so just to make sure everybody has the

[23:46] have it, has it correct on their calendar?

[23:48] It's October 6th.

[23:50] October 3rd.

[23:52] I'm positive.

[23:53] October 3rd is the waterfront.

[23:54] Yes, October 6th.

[23:56] It's national and I don't, yes, yes.

[23:58] So thank you for that.

[23:59] And I challenge, I know you mentioned Sergeant Huff being in the splash tank.

[24:04] I would challenge because I will be in the splash tank also, so I will be challenging

[24:08] Sergeant Huff with a short to make sure that we'll pass them.

[24:14] Thank you, Vett.

[24:14] Any questions for Sergeant Hullis?

[24:18] Trusty Young.

[24:23] I would like to know where, or who, or how, can we get block parties established in certain

[24:33] communities. I'm used to do that years and years ago. And also the other question,

[24:41] like my community asks, how do we establish block, I guess, observation or a block

[24:50] association. And we're going to watch this. Yeah. How is that established? And do we

[24:55] have guidelines and procedures and protocols that go along with that establishing that?

[25:02] Those are the two things that I would like to know and give in direction on which way to go with that.

[25:10] Well, I'm your gentleman. So, if you can reach me via telephone, which is my work cell is 707-567-4233,

[25:22] or you can email me at Rashad RASHD.Hallus, H-O-L-L-L-I-S, City of the Layout.net.

[25:34] You got it? Okay, I appreciate it.

[25:37] So yes, we are always looking to broaden our neighborhood watch

[25:43] and our business watch programs.

[25:47] And together, we make that our community watch.

[25:50] If anyone is willing to email me or call me, we can establish that, put you in our database,

[25:58] and going forward, we would love to host the neighborhood watch in any community in our

[26:04] city.

[26:07] One.

[26:09] I want to give Kudos out to the police department.

[26:12] They responded within less than three minutes of when my alarm went out at my house.

[26:18] My mistake, I opened up the screen door, and I couldn't get around, yeah, so

[26:27] Kudos don't don't don't don't feel bad. I had him knocking at the door. I said,

[26:32] Well, a fun fact is 98% of our long calls are false calls. So you along with plenty of others

[26:39] Thank you, but it's our pleasure to serve our community and make sure that we keep you safe

[26:45] So that is a definite call that we go to

[26:51] I'll make sure I'll spread that to Chief Tau.

[26:56] And to hope add to that information on Block Part is she's specific to ask that question.

[27:00] So I know the city of Valleo actually has some funding available.

[27:05] If you, for those that are, I think if we're still doing that, I'll go ahead and let City Manager black.

[27:10] Yes, I think we are at the tail end of that investment, but I think that there's still some possibilities.

[27:17] And I'm going to assume that that's what the sergeant is going to be looking at because you are aware he is aware

[27:23] Yes, our shelly shelly is sort of overseeing that yes, yes, shelly has, you know, Kudos to her

[27:29] Major props she took some of her budget to keep the block party going so she assisted us with maintain the block party and collecting the location

[27:40] So that is a great mayor's between the pd and city that shelly has helped us with

[27:46] Yeah, but my office through Shelly is administering the funds so that so and that's so and that's it's still open

[27:55] And sergeant will be able to get you connected

[27:58] Yes, sir process

[28:02] any other questions for Sergeant Hollis if not looks like there's a black party on on

[28:08] Trusty young's black coming up soon. We can make it happen. Thank you, Sergeant Hollis. I'm moving on to the next agenda item is report out from the committee members

[28:17] are there any report out from anyone on the committee? Seeing none, I'll go ahead and move on to

[28:24] interagency updates. Are there any other interagency updates? I'm starting off with the Nebraska

[28:30] Street update. I see Director Joe Pier to kind of speak to that.

[28:41] Good afternoon everyone. So Tony,

[28:44] too, our traffic superintendent, he prepared an updated memo on September 10th that described where

[28:48] with the closure of Nebraska Street in front of the high school and so it's a

[28:54] secret exempt activity. We need to file a notice of exemption and then we just

[28:58] simply need to implement it and we think we're ready but we do need funds.

[29:07] So what we're hearing it seems like it's a matter of funding it at this point and then

[29:11] then do you have a timeline of one that would be able to be finalized and put in?

[29:19] Yeah we think it probably about two months to fabricate the gates and get them installed

[29:22] to install the additional signage.

[29:25] How much money are we looking at for this?

[29:28] So far, we spent about $60,000 on traffic studies and that kind of stuff.

[29:33] And then we need another probably 15 to 18,000 to implement.

[29:37] Most of that being fabricating the gates.

[29:39] They're fairly big and expensive.

[29:43] Trusty Young?

[29:48] So, give me a little bit of explanation of what you mean by you need funding.

[29:53] Isn't it wasn't that's funding already allocated when we started this project?

[30:00] I have to confess ignorance. I've been in the job for about five months, so I have to go back and look where that is.

[30:06] My understanding is that we paid for the fair and peer study, and that's been mostly city funded.

[30:11] In fact, remember, right, it was.

[30:16] Yeah.

[30:22] So, who have you addressed this issue too?

[30:27] We have not, we're just...

[30:29] You scheduled a good come to council would decide them at some point, right?

[30:33] Yes sir.

[30:33] When is that going to take place?

[30:35] A little probably be late October or early November.

[30:37] And what will we bring into council?

[30:42] Proposal to block off Nebraska's rate temporarily during school hours and then the preparation

[30:48] of budgeting and the funding to make that happen.

[30:51] And so let's talk about that.

[30:54] So because the council is likely going to have to make a decision as to how we pay for this

[30:59] is what you're saying.

[31:00] because this is off line, this is off budget, this is not in our budget.

[31:07] So as a result, this is something that this body wants to happen.

[31:13] I believe the city is supportive of it, but the key is the council will have to figure out a decision

[31:19] what we're not going to do to pay for this.

[31:22] Because this is not incorporated in the city's budget right now.

[31:30] Along the line, in order to start the project, something was incorporated because there was money in order to do the survey.

[31:38] The spending money that was not intended for this purpose, this spending another project's money to do this.

[31:47] All right.

[31:47] That was happening here.

[31:48] I just want to clarify that I know there was money.

[31:50] I'm glad to clarify. I'm glad to clarify.

[31:52] So again, bodies like this, bodies like this make people like me nervous, because of things like this.

[32:00] Things come out of these bodies, staff's first inclination is to be responsive and to acquiesce.

[32:09] But me, I'm going to say the money was not there, but they proceeded knowing that at some point the council is going to make a decision of related to the budget.

[32:23] Okay, I just want don't want there to be hidden agendas because we don't have no money, but they all unify school district does not have any money

[32:31] Yes, I know what we don't either. But we seem to be spending it. Yeah

[32:39] Thank you

[32:41] That mayor's horse. Yeah, I'll mean I'll just clarify that that I think

[32:45] This this predated whatever those studies were predated at least myself and I was just asking the vice mayor

[32:53] usually this body, to this city manager's question, I don't want you to feel stressed.

[32:56] This body is very much a collaborative space.

[32:59] And we would never initiate a project out of this body.

[33:03] So that came from somewhere else.

[33:06] And I mean, we can try to figure that out.

[33:07] I don't think it's as relevant at this point because we are where we are.

[33:10] And we've got to figure out the next step.

[33:11] But I wouldn't worry too much about stuff like that coming out of this body.

[33:14] Because we've not, at least since the vice mayor and I've been on it,

[33:17] I don't think anything like that is initiated out of here.

[33:20] but we also can't remember it going through the council,

[33:23] so we're gonna have to potentially look back at that.

[33:25] Okay, I think at the end of the day it's all gonna work out,

[33:28] but I'm just providing context.

[33:35] It's appreciated, thank you.

[33:40] Any other questions for director Job?

[33:43] Seeing now, we'll go ahead and move on to item 10B,

[33:46] which is traffic safety at BCSD school sites.

[33:51] And I believe I kinda was the one that brought this up

[33:53] And it was just, it was more at the tail end of the school year last year and then now that

[33:58] we're starting the new school year, I've seen things change and especially with traffic

[34:03] patterns, with people going back to school and getting back into the routines.

[34:07] There's always been the continual issue of making sure that our student dismissals and

[34:12] student arrivals are the safest processes and procedures that are going on.

[34:17] And I can only speak to Dan meaning specifically, I think we have a pretty good system down

[34:21] but of having a lot of things, but a lot of that requires either materials from either cones or

[34:28] pylons and out in the street to help support some of those traffic mitigations.

[34:34] But a lot of it does rely on personnel, either site safety people or people from school sites to help support

[34:41] traffic, the traffic patterns and things of that nature.

[34:44] So it's a matter of just bringing it to light and if there's any collaboration at the city and

[34:49] And the school district and VPD and things of that nature can identify.

[34:54] I think that's something that we can at least bring up here and kind of discuss that.

[34:58] I see Mayor Source.

[35:00] Yeah, I was going to say, I haven't had, I have a list of talk with the City Manager about

[35:04] because we're both going to be at a Glencope meeting in a couple of weeks.

[35:07] But I just sensed how on the topic and talking about it, wanted to flag Glencope elementary.

[35:14] We've been dealing with and talking a little bit about that blind curve and the fact that

[35:21] you've got the cars pile up at pick up time and then the cars come around the blind curve.

[35:27] There's accidents and it's kind of an only matter of time until somebody gets hit in a crosswalk.

[35:30] But I think the closure, my observation, a couple of times I've gone by, especially on the minimum days,

[35:37] is that there's more people driving to pick their kids up

[35:42] now that Penny Cook is closed.

[35:44] And so it's actually stretching back farther

[35:47] and it's getting pretty hazardous

[35:49] and there's also some more happening on the curb ramps.

[35:52] And so I just wanted to mention that now

[35:54] and we're going to have a further conversation.

[35:56] I know it's going to come up at the Glencove community meeting

[35:58] because it's just this geographic,

[36:03] it's a really unfortunate geographic situation

[36:06] where you've got young elementary school students crossing across walk, you've got traffic

[36:10] backed up, the cars zoom around, they either risk re-rending a car or they come around

[36:15] real fast to the other lane and then they hit it across walk with potentially kids in it.

[36:20] So anyway, I'm hoping that we can have some conversations about that in the coming weeks because

[36:25] I'm not sure what the solution is, but I'd like to at least talk through some collaboratively

[36:29] with the city and the school there's maybe just like a flashing light that says like,

[36:34] You know, caution while school pickup and like VCUSD can flash it while it's, you know, in a school pickup.

[36:43] Super tender, really?

[36:45] Well, thank you for that.

[36:47] I just want to flag a couple of schools.

[36:49] One would be Cooper Elementary and Twelve Me.

[36:52] You know, I know there's some signage that says schools own,

[36:55] but we know it's a wide street slightly downhill.

[36:58] People don't go slow and we didn't have an incident last year at that intersection.

[37:03] So it's something where I would look for support around maybe some speed bumps, you know going back just briefly to Nebraska Street, we do have speed bumps or speed bumps now in Nebraska Street in front of the high school and I think that does help.

[37:17] I know we want to go down the route of closing that street but for some of these other areas where we can't close, like we're not going to close to all of me, we're not going to close some of these roads but can we do some things to slow down the speed at least.

[37:30] So, Cooper is one, and staff in matter might be another area,

[37:37] and word laws, and word laws, and other one.

[37:40] We have a couple things going on at word law, one that's sure a number of cars, but we also have the area about the dog park.

[37:46] We have a gentleman who likes to get mad about that, and cars be not there.

[37:50] So, there's just a couple of sites that we want to pay attention to.

[37:55] City manager, but I can't judge anything now.

[37:58] So, you know, looks like we will need to look at this from a short term perspective,

[38:04] as well as a longer term perspective.

[38:06] The longer term perspective will be easier.

[38:09] You know, obviously the superintendent and I, we meet monthly.

[38:13] And so, we've committed to identifying a series of grant opportunities that we can

[38:20] jointly co-appled, co-applied for them, and solely for the benefit of the schools in terms of anything related to safety and the mobility part of students trying to get to a school, and so.

[38:38] And I think we've already started that process.

[38:40] We've already identified a couple of grants that we're going to be going after.

[38:43] But the short term is, we can get a list of these locations, we can assess what we can do.

[38:52] But once again, to the extent that there's a fiscal impact, we have to figure out what that might be.

[38:59] But maybe there's something low tech that we can do, such as, I don't know what the technical terminology might be,

[39:08] where we make mark the streets themselves, with some sort of verbage or whatever the case

[39:18] might be. We'll see what these rumble strips, what was entailed with acquiring them and

[39:30] then installing them. See what the fiscal impact might be. But there may be something that

[39:34] can do that may be a minimal to marginal cost, but just keep in mind again, all this stuff

[39:43] is going to have a price tag to it, whether it's a small $1 thing, or if it's a $50,000

[39:49] thing.

[39:50] So we have a budget as well.

[39:53] Yeah.

[39:54] Thank you for bringing that up, and Vice President Flores.

[40:01] Thank you, just a couple of things.

[40:03] I think a real simple fast solution that would, I'd say, have minimal fiscal impact

[40:11] would be at these sites that we already know of.

[40:14] Why don't we just have some patrol cars out there to start?

[40:17] because, unfortunately, our staff finds that when we try to enforce rules, safety, and

[40:30] otherwise, we have belligerent parents,

[40:37] and our staff's job is not to now be confrontation

[40:40] on deal with violent outbursts, et cetera, so I think when you have city authority out there

[40:49] demonstrating presence of nothing else, that tends to, it's just the same thing as

[40:57] cameras that sometimes won't even work, that they're just put their, the kind of, yeah,

[41:05] work as a deterrence so I think something along those lines at these troubled or these hot spots.

[41:13] And the other thing I want to mention going back to the Nebraska Street,

[41:18] it took me a second to jog my mind about where, where and how this all began and if we all

[41:23] recall that the Nebraska Street closure originated from the gun violence that was occurring that

[41:29] heard right in front of Nebraska Street and the, the hopes of curbing the violence or folks

[41:37] that were promoting that and according to the feedback we got from, from the, from the

[41:43] little high themselves that they noticed a significant drop in any kind of issues like that

[41:49] when we did that temporary closure. So, um, so that's where that came from and that's why I

[41:54] I think that was a real push, regardless of the way the budgeting was required for

[42:00] but why we felt it was so important because it was coming out of a violent incident

[42:05] that occurred in front of the school district or excuse me in front of the school site.

[42:11] Thank you.

[42:12] Thank you for that.

[42:12] Vice President Flores, Sergeant Hollis.

[42:15] Yes, one thing that we have, we are in the workings is bringing back the safe start

[42:19] school program.

[42:24] We are trying to figure out the best schedule with our traffic division

[42:29] because you're right. Bad behavior by the community that fails to understand the importance

[42:40] on the safety of the children and why speeding or parking in the road is unacceptable. That's

[42:49] that safe start-to-school program was for. We are trying to figure out what's the best

[42:55] avenue for our schedule and we are working with Miss Selena actually as we speak to figure out

[43:02] what schools are best and when we can achieve this goal but it will be coming very soon and we can always

[43:09] add extra schools to the program. And that's something that it does address because yes our educators don't

[43:17] to educate people on the roles of the roadways.

[43:21] That's something that we specialize in.

[43:25] Thank you for that.

[43:26] Are you trusty young?

[43:32] So what is the feasibility of bringing back crossing guards?

[43:37] Well, crossing guards for my understanding

[43:39] is actually what the schools.

[43:42] Well, let me give you some quick history.

[43:44] My father was trained by the police department

[43:48] to be the crossing guard at Ferragut and Sacramento Street.

[43:54] And he served in that position for 15, 20 years.

[43:59] And the police department paid for it.

[44:01] Was that when you guys had more funding?

[44:04] It's a little before my time.

[44:05] But I can do some research a little bit before my time.

[44:10] I was just a little bit.

[44:11] And I'll just do some research.

[44:13] So I don't give you any bad advice.

[44:14] But it is something that sounds very interesting, and if it did happen, we can always repeat it, you know, once I can figure out the proper one sentence.

[44:26] Okay, I think a part of the question involved somebody paying for something, right?

[44:34] I think I heard something like that.

[44:38] You don't have any budget for that.

[44:41] Well, you the same shape we are.

[44:43] I stay in my lane, ma'am.

[44:45] he knows he knows we are we're the same both okay well then I like excuse you for that question

[44:52] yeah yeah yeah we're actually in worst shape to you so so I can provide some shape to you I can

[44:58] provide some enlightenment on the crossings our

[45:00] Well, that was actually something that triplet actually has a program for that. And pre-COVID, we actually had quite a robust

[45:08] student crossing guard program. But once COVID hit, that was kind of put aside just from the

[45:17] precautionary standpoint. And at least, again, we haven't brought it back. And from once again,

[45:22] I think we pose up the liability issue again. Once again, once we have students going out there,

[45:28] So I think people are looking at that overall program, but to Mayor Sources point, there's also

[45:35] safe routes to school.

[45:37] So when I talk about a lot of the cones and pylons that we received over at Dan

[45:43] Mini, we actually apply for microgram and we got that awarded through safe routes to school.

[45:48] And so we can reach out to safe routes to school and salon transportation authority to find

[45:54] out of there's other grant programs that still may be available for us to get that, but

[45:58] because due to the lack of personnel, cones and pilots do quite a good job of preventing

[46:04] cars from doing some bad things out there, so that's what we've been able to utilize at

[46:09] Dan Mini.

[46:10] And I think this is where if each school site can identify some of the safety traffic hazards

[46:15] at each of their, because each site is going to be unique and different in itself.

[46:19] And then if we can bring that to potentially a group conversation and identify that and if we can identify some like-minded interventions,

[46:29] I think something as simple as just repainting some of the crosswalks may be the simplest solution in a lot of, in some of these cases.

[46:36] Because I know we at Dan Mini we've actually added a couple of like crossings for some pedestrian crossing.

[46:42] So, it's those conversations that if we can identify what might be viable solutions, and then if we can get to the point of identifying what is actually feasible from either the city and the school district standpoint, I think that's where we can make some headway on that trustee on.

[46:56] Also, another, I don't know if this is opening up a can of worms or not, but anyway, what about our size safety?

[47:05] Are they trained to cross kids in the crosswalk?

[47:15] Because I see, we have one particular in our neighborhood, it's Cooper, we have a resident that crosses the kids.

[47:26] And he's been doing that ever since we had that accident at, yeah, to Walla-Me and Del Mar.

[47:40] Well, some of the sites that you already mentioned earlier are elementary sites.

[47:44] So we don't have a site safety at all the elementary sites.

[47:47] But I use Hogan Middle School as an example.

[47:50] On Georgia Street at the intersection, we have staff posted out there because it's pretty busy after school.

[47:58] You have already talked about Nebraska Street, love the idea, let's go.

[48:04] And then also at Jesse Belpo, we mostly take care of the main parking lot,

[48:10] because sometimes people come in there and drive fast, you know, things of nature.

[48:14] It's all about manpower, so we mostly just take care of our immediate area around our site.

[48:20] And most of the time, it's just actually on the site.

[48:23] So...

[48:23] School site.

[48:24] Media and area around our school site.

[48:26] Do we have a media and area around the school sites of...

[48:31] I say maybe Cooper and Stefan Manner,

[48:36] and maybe Glenn Cook.

[48:38] You know, there's a speed zone in Glenn Cook.

[48:41] Those people come down here like they go into the race.

[48:46] And some of the sites that you mentioned, Dr. Young, do not have a site safety supervisor.

[48:53] So we are in a process of trying to hire some rover or site safety.

[48:59] So basically what they're going to do is patrol the elementary sites that don't have

[49:03] site safety supervisors.

[49:05] So we can allocate that manpower as necessary once we get those positions filled.

[49:12] Thank you for that.

[49:13] That makes me feel a little bit better.

[49:17] Any more questions or comments on the traffic safety at VCOCD school sites?

[49:23] If not, we'll go ahead and move on to the 11 item 11 youth coordinator updates.

[49:27] I know that our youth coordinator is still on leave.

[49:31] So it looks like I don't see anybody from her office, so we'll go ahead and move on from there.

[49:36] And move on to the action calendar.

[49:38] And if Manicad Police start the two minute clock, members of the public wishing to address

[49:42] the committee on action calendar items are requested to submit a completed speaker card.

[49:47] to the Secretary, each speaker is limited to three minutes, pursuant to voluminous

[49:52] political code, section 2.02, 0.420, are there any speakers?

[49:59] Vice Mayor?

[50:01] We do not have any items, I'm sorry, for the action.

[50:04] Thank you.

[50:05] Thank you.

[50:05] Thank you for the brain.

[50:05] That's my attention.

[50:07] So, we will move that on and then move on to the information calendar.

[50:11] Does any committee members have any information that with your superintendent or a city manager?

[50:16] Anything to share?

[50:20] Nothing other than what I, I previously shared, you know, just working with the superintendent.

[50:25] We're going to really try to be aggressive in identifying some some security safety related

[50:33] Grand Opportunities that we can sort of join forces on and see what we can win.

[50:40] Thank you for that.

[50:41] Yeah, so recently we put out a press release and there was also an article on the paper, we are in the process of forming a strategic planning committee.

[50:52] We want a robust committee that represents the majority of our schools, but also the community.

[50:57] So we're hoping we can get some community members applying to sit on the committee.

[51:03] Right now we're scheduled for four meetings.

[51:05] So we're going to commit the committee to four, starting in October on the 21st of October, November 10th.

[51:14] I'm trying to do this from memory.

[51:15] I know that we have January and February.

[51:18] Those exact dates are on our website.

[51:21] There would be a 530 PM, 530 to 8th.

[51:24] There would be in person at the district office.

[51:28] And we have significant work to do and accomplish.

[51:31] It is time to refresh our strategic plan.

[51:34] and the goal is to really get a pulse of the community and what they want in

[51:39] Baleo schools.

[51:41] Excellent, thank you for that, any other committee reports, anyone?

[51:45] Just throw in Mike to sense here and so the fact that we started our new school year

[51:50] back in August, I want to recommend and highly encourage a lot of the community members, especially

[51:55] the parents, to participate in your PTA and a lot of the school site events to provide

[52:00] your voices and input and to help to how to support your specific school

[52:06] site for your students because after the school district would be very much in a

[52:14] better place if they could have more parent input to provide some guidance for

[52:18] some of the if some of the areas that they may not be aware of. So recommend a

[52:23] lot of those for that further participation which is kind of similar to what

[52:27] we as a city encourages to get.

[52:30] We've involved with a lot of the school board meetings and also, in our case, a lot of the city council meetings

[52:34] to help provide some direction for us as council members. For some events that recently happened,

[52:40] I know city manager Black and I, we had the opportunity and the honor to actually attend

[52:46] the California League of Cities conference this past, I think, what it was it two weeks ago. And from

[52:53] In that conference, I attended quite a few youth sessions, and one of the things that was

[52:58] very evident was the city of Villayos is one of the unique opportunities where there's

[53:05] actually a two-by-two committee.

[53:07] When I bring this up, a lot of these conferences, many schools, many cities, don't have

[53:11] a two-by-two where the school district and the city council actually collaborate on things.

[53:17] So the fact that this is what probably our third or fourth year is going for this two-by-two,

[53:21] I think this is a great opportunity for us as a city along with the school district to collaborate

[53:26] on like-minded opportunities and to speak to a lot of things that have moved forward in a

[53:32] positive way. Obviously with the issues over in Nebraska-Screte, that actually came from this

[53:37] particular body here. So without this body convening together and having these conversations,

[53:43] those road mitigations and the soon-to-be gates along Nebraska probably wouldn't be

[53:49] wouldn't have happened up to this point.

[53:51] And so a lot of the safety issues wouldn't have been brought up.

[53:54] So I think this is a great opportunity for us to take advantage of this opportunity that

[53:59] this body has the ability to work together and superintendent and the city manager.

[54:06] I've always had these conversations that the school district and the city are basically

[54:11] on parallel paths.

[54:12] We are both struggling.

[54:13] I'm having financial challenges, but through all of that we always do end up coming

[54:19] out on the other side, but bigger and better.

[54:23] And so I think that's the opportunity for once again, that we working together here in a collaborative

[54:28] way that we both as a city and a school district can move forward.

[54:33] So, Superintendent, are you feeling that you have anything else to add?

[54:35] I do want to add some exciting news that can impact not only the school district, but also

[54:41] the city of Bale, which is back in June, late June as part of this assembly-built trailer

[54:48] We'll try the liberal AB-150.

[54:51] Closer.

[54:51] Better?

[54:54] I can't tell if I'm supposed to lean or not.

[54:57] Yeah.

[54:58] All right.

[54:59] So back in June, Assembly Bill 150 was put into law, which

[55:04] for the city of Ale, because of our unduplicated count

[55:10] in our school district.

[55:11] So we're considered 88.2% of unduplicated.

[55:14] That's your foster youth, your socioeconomic

[55:18] the disadvantage that threshold being above 80% gives any resident of the city of the layout

[55:26] or employee within the boundaries of the layout access to free preschool,

[55:34] which is huge

[55:35] and there is no income level requirement it started so that has a potential impact for both

[55:47] organizations especially when we recruit employees.

[55:52] So that's only

[55:54] below in all of us a lot of county we're district wide know that they're

[55:57] district in Slottle County has access to that level. So that's a big one.

[56:04] That sounds like a great recruiting tool right there to add that and I'm

[56:08] trusting that I see Selena they're adding getting ready to I see you are probably

[56:11] hopefully writing that down adding it to a lot of the the upcoming job

[56:16] things and things of that nature and I'm thinking the city of Alail, probably doing the same city manager

[56:21] black? No, no, no. No, this goes back to the earlier discussion. Director, job. Do you want to talk

[56:30] about what you just sent me?

[56:36] Sure, I just want to let you know that we already have a ATMO administration

[56:39] with traffic maintenance order for Glen Cove to install flashing signs on that place where people

[56:45] stack up, so where that situation, still driver behavior is part of it, you know, and police

[56:50] enforcement definitely helps people do that better.

[56:54] And then on top of that, just for a budgetary number, so speed tables, we have been installing

[56:59] speed tables throughout the city, they're fairly popular, they're about $10,000 a copy.

[57:03] So they're not cheap, but they are fairly effective and popular, call me strategy.

[57:09] And so if the school district wants to let them know where they would like us to plant them,

[57:12] then we would be happy to try to schedule that.

[57:15] Where these expenditures are part of the budget?

[57:19] We have some, but we have some money identified for traffic calming.

[57:23] So yeah, there is about $100,000 left in the speed table budget.

[57:27] We have asked the public to nominate where they want those to get planted.

[57:31] So we have definitely listened to your opinions on that very sincerely as well.

[57:34] What about the flashing lights?

[57:36] That was just something we needed to do just for safety.

[57:39] So we have a standing budget for signed replacements and things like that.

[57:43] That's not terrible expensive.

[57:44] The reason I'm asked is because we kept hearing the budget.

[57:48] It's out of our budget.

[57:50] We don't have money.

[57:52] So what he's not saying is that the breaking light as well as the speed tables.

[57:59] He says he's got enough to maybe do 10 for the city.

[58:03] So that's really a city council decision to determine from a public policy standpoint

[58:08] where they might like for them to go.

[58:11] So that's really, he didn't, he didn't share that part with you.

[58:15] It's not, it's not really his authority to unilaterally decide

[58:19] with a put a speed table.

[58:21] Whatever the speed bump thing.

[58:24] If you sound like he was asking us where we want to go.

[58:27] So my mistake for when I'm hearing.

[58:29] Yeah, no, I'm not, I'm not offering to put one everywhere where you want it.

[58:32] But the more, the more places we know where people want them,

[58:35] the more we'll be able to budget for it next year and make it happen.

[58:40] So, so we clear, we understand.

[58:45] Yeah.

[58:46] Yeah, okay.

[58:46] Okay.

[58:47] Money can be found.

[58:49] Trustee Young.

[58:50] And.

[58:51] And where are the.

[58:53] Doctor, go.

[58:54] If you.

[58:56] We have one more question for you.

[58:58] And where are the where are these flashing lights going to be installed?

[59:03] Also Glencoe Parkway going down the hill.

[59:05] There's a curve there that's kind of got bad sight distance, and then the car is queue up at the bottom of the hill for the school, and so we're going to put up flashing signs as attention, you know, stop cars ahead, you know, I forget the exact wording, but art, you know, we do have a what's called an ATMO plan to install those signs with the flashing bacon on top just to get their attention.

[59:26] So who's going to pull people accountable coming down the hill?

[59:32] That would be the police department.

[59:33] In case they don't know, the sign means stuff.

[59:37] I mean, I'm asking all these questions because of the fact that there's a lot of people that just don't care.

[59:44] Exactly.

[59:45] So there's a, I don't want to go too long, but there's the Swiss cheese model of safety, right?

[59:49] So you have engineering controls, institutional controls, and management controls.

[59:54] Engineering controls are things like speed tables, and making the road narrower, so people just don't feel like they drive fast.

[1:00:00] The institutional controls are speed limit signs and traffic laws and things like that. And then there's management controls, and that's the police. And so you've got to have all three of those working in concert to make sure you provide safety.

[1:00:12] Thank you.

[1:00:13] Mayor Source.

[1:00:14] Yeah, it's kind of, I was going to say as first of all on the Glencove, it sounds like you already did what I was going to suggest, probably using the funding I was going to suggest, so thank you.

[1:00:25] Um, that's great. And as someone that drives down that road, uh, it is a, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's rough.

[1:00:33] So just having a flashing sign will help a lot of people because you don't, if, if you're not picking up or dropping off a kid, you do not know when school.

[1:00:42] Drop office and you come around the curb. You can be going 20 miles an hour and you will still have to slam on your brakes.

[1:00:46] I do think it'll make a difference and I appreciate it. Um, yeah.

[1:00:52] Thank you for that. Seeing no other lights, are there any future agenda items?

[1:01:04] Vice President Flores?

[1:01:08] Just want to continue to request the D to the district office.

[1:01:16] I know that I've been on the board for just shy four years and that has been

[1:01:24] continuous and

[1:01:26] a game of hot potato and it's not ours. It's yours. It's theirs. It's everybody's but

[1:01:32] So we're just trying to get the D to our property, you know, put in our name

[1:01:38] So hopefully we can get that on the

[1:01:41] on the next agenda.

[1:01:46] Thank you for that

[1:01:49] I want to check back in, I'll defer to the superintendent and the facilities team at BCSD,

[1:01:56] but I'm curious, in terms of timing of you all evaluating your closed school sites.

[1:02:01] If there's space to have a conversation or a shared update idea is about the

[1:02:05] you, you know, collaboration on use of school sites.

[1:02:09] I don't want to go ahead and say let's agenda is in the next month because I know you all have to go

[1:02:12] through your internal process.

[1:02:17] Thank you for that and I think I think we should have the Nebraska screen to see if when we have any updates for that next one

[1:02:24] Because and just from a history of the Nebraska street issue and this is no excuse, but this is this has passed over several

[1:02:32] city leadership and management and directors to where things have been

[1:02:39] Accidentally bypassed just because of the change of leadership to where things may have not been known

[1:02:43] moving forward. So I think this is where some of the because we've had this conversation for

[1:02:50] for over a year and a half and and it seems like we're there but then we find out that the law

[1:02:55] had changed come January so we had to do a new process and then from a procurement process

[1:03:00] up process it seemed like we had that resolved but it seems like that was still an outstanding issue.

[1:03:06] So I think we're still at the sounds like we're very much at the very tail end of getting a lot of these

[1:03:10] She's resolved and finalized to where that's been a big item for us as this committee has been is that Nebraska Street issue.

[1:03:20] So I think we'd like to make sure that we can get that finalized sooner rather than later.

[1:03:24] So I think I would like to think that we have something since this is going to be on our city council come at the end of October.

[1:03:32] So come our next one in hopefully October November will have an update to potentially provide for everyone at this next body.

[1:03:40] So, see manager Black, did you have something?

[1:03:43] Yeah, I believe we're targeting to get that item to the council this month.

[1:03:48] That sounds great.

[1:03:49] So, sounds like we'll have some, hopefully, direction, at least from a financial standpoint,

[1:03:54] to move this forward and at this next body meeting, then we'll have, we'll have some, hopefully,

[1:04:00] some more clear direction at that point and hopefully, a deadline.

[1:04:03] Super Nintendo Realail.

[1:04:04] I just want to flag, I mean, it's not a feature agenda item, but we will need to revisit

[1:04:08] with the calendar, I think there's conflicts in November

[1:04:11] and December for the two plus two.

[1:04:15] Thank you for bringing that to our,

[1:04:16] and I think our both of our secretaries

[1:04:17] will have that on their to-do list,

[1:04:20] and I think they'll be able to work something out

[1:04:22] between us as we exchange emails

[1:04:25] to make sure that we get everybody

[1:04:26] on the same page on that one.

[1:04:28] Anything else?

[1:04:30] Seeing none, I will go ahead and adjourn the meeting.

[1:04:34] At 531.

[1:04:35] Thank you.

[1:04:36] Thank you all.

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