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And so see you. Here.

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And Mayor Protem, clerk, could you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance?

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Just my job now.

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But I'd have a minute to disagree.

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

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One nation under God and the people with liberty and justice for all.

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This is the time set aside for members of the general public to address the council on any item.

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No action or discussion shall be taken on any item presented.

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Do we have any public oral communication at this time.

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Mayor may I do the Spanish interpretation.

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Now, what I'm going to say, I'm going to say thank you.

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Good evening.

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I placed my card in there earlier.

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I thought you guys would call me up.

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Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself.

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My name is Michelle McCarty.

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I actually live in Salinas, but I work here in Watsonville.

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So I wanted to come and introduce myself.

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I work for brighter bites, and what brighter bites is is a nutrition, education,

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and food, um, disbursement distribution program.

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So we got a grant to come to the Barrow Valley, and we started working with Radcliffe and

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And, um, we had such a wonderful relationship with second harvest food bank here, and

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it was such a successful program that we actually were able to expand it.

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I'm working with MSD elementary schools.

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to see about them joining our programming.

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So what we do is we create bags of produce.

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It's 100% fruits and vegetables in case you're not aware.

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And we partnered with schools.

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We pay for everything.

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We have no charge to the school or to the families that participate.

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The, um, teachers are required as part of our contract with the school to teach eight

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20 minute nutrition lessons from the catch curriculum, which is the Accordinated

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The teachers get a bag also as a thank you for mass for teaching those lessons.

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And one of your awesome teachers at a loan.

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He actually cooks with the children because she can't eat all of the.

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So she does cooking with the kids and it's fabulous.

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She sends me pictures all the time I love it.

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Anyway, thank you for this opportunity.

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Brighter bites.org if you have any questions.

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Thank you so much.

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I certainly will look up that organization.

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It's a pleasure to meet you.

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Um, Marissa Cio.

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esteem members of the council.

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My name is Nancy Billissich.

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I'm the director of Watsonville, aptile Santa Cruz Adult Education.

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Located at the district office 294 Green Valley Road.

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I'm here today to address.

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An urgent safety concern regarding the crosswalk directly in front of our school.

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The crosswalk serves not only our adult learners, but school students from PVL of eight.

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And also the families, staff, and other community members who pass through this area daily.

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During the day and at night.

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Currently this crosswalk.

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Lax efficient visibility.

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Making it difficult for drivers to notice pedestrians.

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Especially during low visibility conditions like dust or night.

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Operates at the same location.

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We have a steady flow of pedestrians.

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Staff without proper lighting or warning signals.

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The safety of everyone who uses the crosswalk is a serious risk.

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Which can no longer be ignored.

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To show how deeply this issue affects our community.

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A petition of over 200 individuals.

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Including students, parents, staff, and community.

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And that was just a quick.

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Please sign this petition if you agree.

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You all express their strong support for addressing this dangerous crosswalk.

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We are seeking the installation of proper lighting.

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Flashing pedestrian signals.

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An island in the middle at this crosswalk is a very wide street.

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We urge the City Council to take action to protect everyone who walks, drives,

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or relies on this busy pedestrian area.

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Thank you for your time and consideration.

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Thank you, Dr.

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Any oral or public communications at this time.

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Thank you, Mayor Salcedo.

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who is unfortunately going to be leaving us this Friday.

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Our public works director, Courtney Lindberg.

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It has been a pleasure having you with us.

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In the few short years you have been here.

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You have done a lot.

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And we thank you.

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I thank you all.

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Everyone else speak for themselves.

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I thank you so much for everything that you've done.

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You will be missed.

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And darn that other city that I'm not going to name right now.

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Because I'm at it for taking you from us.

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Good luck with your future.

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Thanks.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Council member Orozco.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I'll like to begin this evening by congratulating one of our district three residents on an extraordinary

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milestone through a hundredth birthday.

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On February 26th, how do you say?

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Ishi Bashi will celebrate a century of life in leadership.

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As a long time member of the Westview Poverstair in Church and the Watsonville Sanctuary's

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chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, she has made lasting contributions to our community.

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At a time when women were always aware, how do you as a leader in the strawberry industry here in the

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Parallel Valley?

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Well, raising six children, 14 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren.

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With thank her for her resilience leadership and decades of service to Watsonville and the Parallel Valley.

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On another note, it was also great to welcome planet fitness other ribbon cutting,

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continuing investment in health and wellness strength and support.

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Continuing investment in health and wellness strength is our local economy and supports a higher

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quality of life for our residents.

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So welcome planet fitness to our beautiful Watsonville community.

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I also want to thank council member Orozco.

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For bringing us together, what Congress will miss a lot for for a productive conversation about

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Watsonville's priorities, including infrastructure investment, economic development,

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and the impacts, federal institutions are having on health care access in our community.

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I also stood with registered nurses from across our region to support

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safe access to health care in a community like ours where many families

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already face barriers.

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No one should be, no one should delay seeking care because of fear or uncertainty.

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Finally, just a reminder that the Friends of Watsonville Parks and Community

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Services will host the 24th Annual Sister Chavez Community Awards on March 26th at 530 p.m. in

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the Community Room. Council members, you are all invited.

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We are also currently accepting nominations, so please submit them through our website at

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Friends of Watsonville, PCS.org.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, council member Orozco, council member Dutra.

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Thank you, thank you.

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My first thing is I'd like, I know Dr. Billissich, the crosswalk that you're talking about,

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as always, the question of this area is like, who does it belong to?

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Does it belong to the city or does it belong to the county?

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And I believe we stop at the bridge, right?

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And once you pass the bridge, it becomes county.

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But I think she's being told by the county that it's not theirs, right?

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So we definitely need to have this clarified in the county.

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And hopefully step up and work with the school district to get that to take care of.

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I also wanted to say, I was able to attend the 50th anniversary for meals on

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wheels.

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At we just had, it was really awesome.

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You know, especially during a time when we have a president who's got a lot of the funding for

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meals and wheels, just to see the community come together.

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The keynote speaker was Secretary Penetta.

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He gave an awesome keynote.

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And he basically said that it is times like this that the strongest people to make the

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the biggest impact are the community members itself.

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And because meals and wheels is based off of community and organization built from local people,

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making sure it happens means we're the ones that have the actual power making sure people are getting fed.

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So I also attended the planet fitness.

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Oh, grand opening.

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It is packed.

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I mean, this is people who are waiting for this.

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They told me yesterday that at the height, there's about 200 people.

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In there, working out and socializing.

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I saw a lot of socializing.

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I think we created a great space for people to go and socialize.

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I hear laughing out there because people know that's true.

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There was, I drove by once.

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I hear a lot.

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A lot of socializing.

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But, you know, what we need spaces like that, especially if it's for young people who are, you know,

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define a space that can work out and socialize.

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It's a two-for-one.

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And my last thing, I just, you know, we just finished watching the Olympics.

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And I really just have to say that, you know, these young people, just could get 10 more seconds.

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These young people, these Olympians, they work really hard at their craft.

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And I just really saw some hope in America.

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I saw young people who are really working hard at what they want.

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And I just encouraged that, you know, for all people I know we're facing, you know,

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and in crazy times, but, you know, we stay focused and we work hard.

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Maybe one day, one of us can be Olympians.

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Councilmember Parker.

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Yes, like that.

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And I just, like, remind everybody that plan of fitness is also for old people.

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Or older people.

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And where they can socialize and meet others too.

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I'm not plugging myself in any way.

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So, when we talk about this, thank you, Councilwoman Odasco for what you updated,

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and all of it was, all of it was wonderful.

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And we did meet with our, our Congresswoman, and it was very productive.

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Because she has done so much for Watsonville and advocating at the federal level.

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And going back over there and fighting the battle with a Trump administration and bringing money.

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More money than Watsonville's ever seen from the federal government in, I can't tell you how long.

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So, our, our toilets will still flush and the water will still run.

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And that is due to federal money's coming in.

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And our fabulous staff, which leads me to our public works person who,

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I've given her some grief along the way, Courtney.

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Sorry about that.

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But she is extraordinary.

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And she has done more in the time she's been here.

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In my memory.

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And so effective and so responsive to the community.

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And not just our whining that we, you know, we do appear, but community.

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And greatly appreciated across the board.

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And we're losing you to, well, Casey won't say it by Marina.

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But slightly different.

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Job, right? You're changing the course of what you've learned and you're moving on to higher the

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higher spaces in the world. And I just want to congratulate you and say, we will miss the

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heck out of you. And you helped Watsonville in so many ways. And if we can get anybody who's

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even, I think we're going to need three or four people to replace you. And I'm not even sure

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that's going to happen. So congratulations.

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Yeah, I couldn't pass the opportunity. Yeah, you know, to say, you know, thank you and thank you

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for Miss Courtney, you know, done a great job, you know, even though with our wine, yeah, we

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wine a lot. But we're working together. We were a very

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effect that as a group and we build a lot of projects and your tenetures. So thank you.

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Thank you, you know, council members. I just have a few things. One, I wanted to take a moment to

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genuinely thank every single council member up here in my initial remarks for going to all

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the events that you are able to attend. I am very grateful. I cannot go to everything as I

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have a real, you know, other job. And I know that the fellow council members that are here have my

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back can make sacrifices, can attend. I am greatly appreciative of all the events that our council

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members go to. I was unable to go to the Czech ceremony that Zolafgren was there. But many of our

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council members were able to attend and I really appreciate of that. Similar with the ribbon cutting

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ceremony for planet fitness that council member Orozco and council member Dutra were able to attend.

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So I just wanted to start with a thank you. I said it in November when I was elected. I am really

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thankful for the working relationship that we, the seven of us have on the diet and off the diet and

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all the work that all of you do for Watsonville. I am really looking forward, eventually, to the retreat.

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It's been something we've been sort of percolating for three years since my appointment. I think it'll be

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a wonderful opportunity for us to work together, learn about a little bit more about decision-making

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elective bodies and so I'm really looking forward to that. In terms of what we've been doing in February,

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I had an opportunity to attend the City Select Committee. I appointed council member Montesino

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on the laugh for the Lafco appointment. I had opportunities to speak extensively with Poco Estrada,

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former mayor and district four representative from Lafco. I had an opportunity to have extensive meeting

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with the CEO of Watsonville Community Hospital Steve Gray. I had opportunities to have coffee

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with our new chief chief chef. I had opportunities to speak with June Ponce. Lots of meetings. I just also

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wanted to shout out the Watsonville Rotary Club. I was able to judge their speech and debate team.

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They had a contest of Watsonville High School students and the principal from Watsonville High also attended

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and they were remarkable. I think they're going to do the student that was ultimately selected. It's

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going to do amazing in the national competition that she'll end up being at. So we have a lot on the

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horizon. The retreat is coming. Many of us will be in DC the 15th through the 18th to continue to advocate.

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Money is being shook and loose from the federal tree and we are going to do our best to advocate for

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our projects here in Watsonville. So this group, the seven of us, are working very hard for you

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and I'm very proud of the work that is being done. So thank you.

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Okay moving on. We have presentations and I will come down for that.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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This presentation is evening and this goes with the theme that I'm going to be using for text

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which is a free excellence from the individual.

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So it's a great pride that I'm going to be up to in the end tonight.

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So let me tell you a little bit about Jeanine.

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Jeanine often is a dedicated volunteer at the youth center.

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Care for plants both inside and outside of the patio.

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Her expertise and enthusiasm benefit not only depends on also youth program participants and staff.

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As she shares her knowledge generously.

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Jeanine regularly visits on Mondays and other days as visits to maintain the plants.

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She also contributes to making treats herself and her efforts clearly reflect her love for the community.

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Where did you get your green thumb Jeanine?

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It was just cultured by my love for plants.

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It's basically hit and missed.

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Well, we really appreciate everything that you've done for our centers.

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And we want to give you this proclamation and this appreciation for all.

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Thank you so much for your individual excellence.

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We really appreciate you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I just see someone in the background taking pictures who's that.

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I always like to call out friends or family.

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Is that your family?

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No.

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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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And that's I'm going to be honoring Planned Parenthood this evening.

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Can I have a representative please?

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Yeah.

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Hi.

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I do know exactly who was coming from Planned Parenthood.

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Crystal.

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Nice to meet you.

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Desiree.

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Nice to meet you.

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So this is the first time in over 10 years that we had an opportunity to recognize Planned Parenthood.

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And before I read the prepared remarks I have.

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I have worked with central salt survivors for six years.

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I have worked with victims of crime who have directly used your services.

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And I am extremely grateful for all the things you do in our community.

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Both for survivors and for the people of our community that just need help care.

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There are so many aspects of the spectrum of.

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Provider ship that you have.

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And at the moments where so many of your clinics are closing.

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I am so grateful that you were able to stay in Watsonville.

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And recognizing you tonight is really part of the bigger picture that I had for civic health,

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which incorporates public health.

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I'm grateful that you stayed in Watsonville that you were able to keep your doors open.

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And I wholeheartedly support Planned Parenthood and everything that you do.

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So with that, I'll read the prepared remarks.

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But thank you very much.

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The Planned Parenthood Marmante was in the Health Clinic opened in 1995.

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And we located to a large facility in May 2011 at 398 South Green Valley Road.

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The new clinic offers eight exam rooms five more than before updated equipment at eight consultation rooms.

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Since the closer closure of the West Side Health Center, patient visits from Santa Cruz of Codes have increased by 85%.

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The Watsonville Clinic serves over 10,000 patients annually and is on track to exceed the previous year's visits.

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Planned Parenthood remains committed to providing high quality health care, education and advocacy to help patients make informed decision-making for their well-being.

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I'm sure you have a few prepared remarks.

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Before I move forward, you seek I just wanted to give you a round of applause.

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Thank you very much.

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Good evening, Mayor and members of the CD Council.

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I want to sincerely thank you for this incredible recognition.

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It truly means so much to be acknowledged by the community we are proud to serve.

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For more than 30 years here in Watsonville, we have had the privilege of caring for community by providing culturally competent, scientifically accurate,

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given free health care that centers each patient's needs, dignity, and voice.

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That commitment has never wavered.

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At times, the importance of a work has been debated, but has never been debated inside our health center is our dedication to our patients.

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What defines us is not the obstacles we face, it is our resilience.

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We remain steadfast in keeping our doors open, continuing to provide essential care and showing up every single day as a trusted partner in Watsonville.

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This recognition is a powerful reminder that the work we do matters.

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For our dedicated staff, and on behalf of the patients who placed their trust in us, thank you for your support and standing with us,

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because as a community, we are in this together.

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Thank you.

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Yeah, would you mind, could you leave us please?

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No!

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Oh, you're all that brought in your mind!

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I didn't owe it!

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Thank you so much ladies for coming today.

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Thank you for honoring us.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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You bring anything.

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Maran?

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Yeah.

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May I make a comment?

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All right, thank you, Planned Parenthood.

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You have served the women in my family throughout the years.

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And thank you for being in Watsonville.

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It is, I've been a teacher for 40 years

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and let me tell you many, many, many, many students

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and their families have gone to Planned Parenthood

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and have found health, safety, and all your services

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are greatly appreciated.

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So I just want to say thank you very much

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and thank the mayor for having given you this resolution

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and recognized you.

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So, you know, I wish we could do more.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Council Member Deutron.

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Deutron.

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Sorry.

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That's okay.

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So I drove by today and you guys had some protesters

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out front and I was very surprised because, you know,

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people are not surprised.

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But you know what I'm saying is that people don't,

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they think that it's an abortion clinic

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when you guys offer, I think, 90% of it is healthcare.

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And that just is really, as much as if we try to educate

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the community, they still get in their head.

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They think that Planned Parenthood just serves abortions.

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When, in fact, it not only serves women,

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it also serves men.

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And so I know that you are, you know, here in our community,

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working hard to make sure that you can provide service

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to people of all ages and I appreciate that.

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And I just wanted to get out to those people today

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and be like, what are you guys doing?

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This is like such a good, and the times we live in,

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this is offering service to people who may not have it,

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who are maybe afraid to speak to their parents about what's happening.

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And it gives them an opportunity.

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So thank you, keep up the good work.

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I support you guys.

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Thank you, Councilmember.

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And there are many other locations you could work

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where maybe you don't have to deal with that.

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And thank you, each and every one of you for your bravery,

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for saying yes, and for showing up for your patients.

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It's extraordinary.

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And you know, you could be somewhere else,

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but you were choosing our community,

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our extended community because of the closures.

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I am just so grateful for the choices that you've made

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and the impacts, and so many of them are silent impacts,

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but huge.

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I really recognize you, and thank you.

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So thank you.

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Moving on to the consent agenda.

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All items appearing on the consent agenda are recommended actions

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that are considered to be routine,

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and will be opted upon as one motion.

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Any items removed will be considered immediately after the motion.

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The mayor will allow for public input,

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prior to the approval of the consent agenda.

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Do we have any public input on items on the consent agenda?

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Seeing none.

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And any comments from Council on the consent agenda?

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May your pretend clerk?

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I have no comments, but I'd like to make a motion to accept.

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I'll second that, but I'd like to provide a comment.

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Comment.

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Council member Montesino.

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Yeah, I just want to congratulate staff on the great work,

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nine G. I'm not took a good look at a while, so great work.

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So thank you.

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Council member Roscoe.

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Yeah, I would like to echo that remark

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for both the IU representatives and the City of Watsonville.

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I know you have to sub-work very hard on securing the contract.

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Thank you.

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Any other comments from Council?

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I say I have a motion in a second, and I get a roll call.

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Mark?

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Aye.

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Do you try?

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Aye.

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Montesino?

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Yes.

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Otosco?

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Aye.

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Marker?

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Yes.

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Gido's Carter?

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Aye.

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The motion carries unanimously.

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And moving on to reports for Council.

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We have 11.

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May the 225-227 strategic plan update.

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Good evening. Good evening, Mayor. Members of the Council, make call of occupity city manager.

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It is my pleasure to be here tonight to present to you your update on your city council strategic plan for 25 through 27.

495
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As you recall, there are seven priorities that the Council has identified for this two year budget period.

496
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Community engagement and well-being, economic development, efficient and well-performing government, fiscal health, housing, infrastructure and environment, and public safety.

497
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Here's your beautiful executive team as it stands tonight.

498
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Thank you.

499
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Just a quick progress check. So this gives you an overall snapshot of where we are in all of the goals we've identified through the strategic plan to support the priorities that you as the Council have identified.

500
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Again, there are seven goals and 161 initiatives, projects or activities that our departments have outlined and are working towards that support those seven goals.

501
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Fifteen percent of those initiatives, two date and remember this is just for this first half of this fiscal year, 2526.

502
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Fifteen percent of those 161 initiatives have been completed.

503
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40 percent of them are considered ongoing.

504
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So they're kind of like projects that are continual and have a new year or week after week after week after day after day.

505
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62 percent, or sorry, 62 of them are in progress and have begun and are working towards completion and then we have 11 that are delayed that we will be picking up in the next several months or year.

506
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For the first priority, community engagement and well-being, you can see on each of these kind of interest slides for the seven priorities, you'll see the little bar at the bottom.

507
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It gives you kind of a snapshot again of where we are in terms of the goals or the work plan areas for that specific priority area.

508
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As the council developed this strategic plan for this two year period, the council also identified specific strategies under each of the categories.

509
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So the strategies for community engagement and well-being are to creatively increase community involvement, expand programming for all and expand city communications and outreach efforts.

510
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And there's a few highlights that I'd like to point out to the council that our departments have worked on in the past six months or so.

511
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The first is that the library adopted and not reached plan that will be reviewed on an annual basis.

512
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The plan helps to connect the library with underserved communities and shares resources reaching those who might not otherwise engage.

513
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And this plan strengthens partnerships while increasing awareness of services and support in the library's role as an inclusive community hub.

514
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Our police department uses social media as a platform to educate and increase safety with campaigns such as national speeding awareness in national pedestrian safety month.

515
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The police department also has many efforts that include our reaching the neighborhoods and those are which resulted in 14 neighborhoods participating in national let out this past year, which is a great feat.

516
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Finally we wanted to highlight Watsonville Academy and do a quick commercial plug for this program as many of you know.

517
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Watsonville residents and business owners participated in the 2025 Academy.

518
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This is a free nine week program that offers a unique opportunity to take a deeper look at how city government works through hands-on experiences.

519
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It really kind of highlights our emphasis on community involvement and applications for the 2026 cohort open in March of this year.

520
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In terms of economic development the strategies that the council identified here were to support local businesses attract new and diversified businesses.

521
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Engaged with property owners and investors to utilize the downtown specific plan as a catalyst for development.

522
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Some of the highlights here are that just in the past six months the city's process 255 new business licenses.

523
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The city managers office and the community development department are also working actively with a consultant to promote opportunities in Watsonville to national retailers and restaurants at trade shows.

524
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Our consultants retail strategies is conducting a comprehensive analysis of our demographics our consumer behavior and market conditions and engaging with our property owners to pair them with national brands.

525
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Our airport is also currently conducting an economic benefit analysis.

526
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The study is meant to identify, quantify, qualify and communicate with local economic and social and community impacts derived from the activities and operations at the airport.

527
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The city is currently underway and is planned to be completed by the end of this fiscal year.

528
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The next priority is efficient in high performing government strategies here are to modernize and streamline city services develop effective advocacy to ensure local control and improve customer service.

529
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A couple items here to highlight especially under developing effective advocacy to ensure local control first we have the traffic advisory committee.

530
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The work to improve traffic safety in all of our neighborhoods.

531
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Otherwise known as the tack it offers community members the opportunity to collaborate with city staff to develop citywide traffic improvements.

532
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They meet on a quarterly basis to discuss current and upcoming traffic projects and a brainstorm other potential improvements for conductors, bikers and pedestrians.

533
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The residents have ever disfaded in the tack in several meetings over this past year and it's been quite fruitful as far as conversations go and in determining next steps.

534
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Our IT department has also made significant progress this past year in modernizing city services and strengthening our digital infrastructure.

535
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They've successfully led coordination with our finance airport and community development departments to launch an online portal that allows residents and businesses to initiate permits and make payments for fees.

536
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24 seven from their homes reducing weight times and improving convenience for everyone.

537
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On the cybersecurity front, they've also achieved some major milestones with the substantial completion of multi factor authentication deployment across many of our city systems.

538
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Next in fiscal health, our strategies here are to ensure long-term fiscal stability maintain a balanced budget and explore innovative ways to generate new revenue.

539
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Highlights here include multi-year labor agreements, one of which was just past this evening.

540
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And the implementation of our our compensation study.

541
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We answered into three-year contracts with most bargaining units and those MOUs reflect incorporating the results of the compensation study that we completed, which is a great fee for HR.

542
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In terms of our budget and long-term financial sustainability, the finance department prepared a balanced 2527 budget.

543
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You'll get an update on this evening.

544
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And the plan and strategies prioritize and achieve government finance officers association of the United States and Canada certified achievement for excellence in financial reporting.

545
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For the 20 second consecutive year in a row, so our finance team is very, very proud of that.

546
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Under housing, there's been great strides in this arena also over the past six months.

547
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The strategies here are to encourage thoughtful, mixed youth development, increase housing options and encourage the development of ADUs.

548
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First up, our our housing team has been super busy and continues to make great strides towards the goal of providing and supporting additional housing for all sectors of our community.

549
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In addition to managing the ongoing grant programs that they have some of the notable achievements include assisting through the entitlement and building permit processes for new housing developments like the Hillcrest of states.

550
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Bringing a variety of housing options for the community.

551
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The CDD team also helped place seven new homeowners into brand new homes, including three city employees in these new developments.

552
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The city's affordable housing ordinance was updated to include a local preference rule, giving priority for affordable units to those who live and work in Watsonville.

553
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And a number of zoning code amendments were approved in support of implementing the first phase of our housing element.

554
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Finally, our CDD team assisted with the application of affordable affordable housing and sustainable communities grant, which awarded $39 million for a mix housing.

555
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And use development and downtown Watsonville and partnership with Metro and midband housing.

556
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So lots and lots of movement there.

557
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Secondly, as you all know, the council in September adopted the city's first homeless homelessness strategic plan.

558
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The plan focuses on forced strategic areas housing policy and funding prevention and resources and management and enforcement.

559
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And the work plan that stems from this this action plan is outlined in the report and includes multiyear timelines, milestones and performance metrics.

560
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Since the adoption in September of this plan, city departments have met monthly for the past four months to report on and track progress.

561
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Under infrastructure and environments, now the strategies here are to address aging infrastructure, ensure sidewalk and road improvements are equitably implemented and to promote environmental sustainability.

562
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A couple highlights here, many of you know, we opened up our our cattle hand pickle ball courts and the newly renovated basketball courts this past summer and they've been very highly utilized since then, so we're super excited about that.

563
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There's also been significant progress on some of our water infrastructure projects design is underway for the replacement of the city's headworks and influence pump station.

564
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As many of you know, headworks is the first process of the wastewater treatment plant that receives up all raw sewage.

565
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The project consists of replacing an influence pump station preliminary screening facilities grid removal and the associated electrical and controls at an estimated cost of $35 million.

566
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The city was just recently awarded over a million dollars through Congresswoman Zo Loffering for this project.

567
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And then design is also underway for the replacement of the treatment plants co-generation engine and with new energy recovery technology and upgrades to six of the city's wells.

568
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Last but not least, under public safety, our strategies that are attracting routine public safety employees coordinate with partners for emergency preparation and develop innovative safety programs.

569
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First up here is a fire department training as many of you know, the city of Watsonville is the home of our our our counties training facility for all of our fire departments.

570
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And our training facility hosted a week long training regarding emergency incident command fire agencies from across the county gathered in Watsonville to conduct a live scenario training and incident management.

571
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At the airport, we also hosted an FAA table top exercise.

572
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The FAA's safety stand-down events are designed to enhance safety awareness and reduce risks in aviation.

573
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At Watsonville Municipal, the 2025 event focused on specific areas that address first responder action to accidents on and adjacent to the airfield.

574
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And include partners from our police department, Watsonville Fire, Cal Fire, County Sheriff's Highway Patrol and our regional 911 Center.

575
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And finally, last highlight from the police departments, this is regarding their their work in building trust through community feedback.

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The police department continues to use my 90, an automated tool built to capture the voice and of the community by automatically sending 911 college short surveys about their interaction with the Watsonville police departments.

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Based on some of the surveys, it was also that they've received as of recently 83% of people report having a positive view of the agency and 88% of people report they were treated with respect by police officers and by the department.

578
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So that brings me to kind of looking ahead and thinking about what's happening in the next half of this fiscal year.

579
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We've got many, many things planned under capital projects and infrastructure.

580
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We've got the Ramsey Park Project coming to an end this calendar year.

581
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The groundbreaking of the city Plaza Robotization Project will wrap up the library rooftop project that is currently underway.

582
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The Harkens loop pedestrian bridge wastewater networks project and city citywide facility access that has to deal with upgrading our ID cards and security systems.

583
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Under library and community programs, Watsonville reads 2026 will focus on indigenous voices.

584
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There's going to be a lot of super exciting activities that come on to the library all around that.

585
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Our new chief is going to continue the chief's advisory board through the police departments, which encourages ongoing community dialogue.

586
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Then we have a number of you think community programs, including our cadet program, some of you think Academy and many more.

587
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Under public safety, our child passenger safety education program continues to be well used.

588
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We will continue to focus on fire department recruitment and bring as many new recruits as we can to our department.

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Under technology operations and workforce, we've got our airport auto-pac system employee access.

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Access model, which gives our employees better self service for time cards and so forth.

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IT mutual aid agreements across the county and really looking into kind of how we manage AI in city operations.

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Finally, with human resources, we're working on implementing the new job classifications and descriptions that we've worked on the past few years and updating our personal rules and regulations.

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That brings me to the end of my presentation.

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I just want to thank all of our department heads for all of their work on helping to put this report together along with recognizing studio vases who helps make our reports look good and readable as well.

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If you have any questions and our department heads are behind me also who can help me dive into the technicalities.

596
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Council member Montesino.

597
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Where are we in way finding I think I missed it, you know.

598
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Thank you.

599
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We are currently working with call trends. So we have our contract with the fabricator. They are already working on it.

600
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Our screens, our electronics screens have already been ordered. We had a little bit of a delay because we had to redesign the back of those screens to be able to not void our warranty.

601
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So there was a little bit of redesign. You know, things that take time, you don't, you don't know these until you go into it into the project.

602
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But at the current moment, our biggest hurdle to kind of finalize is, is call trends.

603
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Most of our pilots, which are those kind of like toll structures at entry points, are in call trends right away.

604
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And we're waiting for call trends, go ahead to be able to manufacture those and install them. So what you're going to see in the next few weeks is actually we're going to decommission our current science.

605
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So you're going to see some of those older science being taken away and then soon after you're going to start noticing the new ones coming in and in two, three months.

606
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We need, we need permission from call trends. We can't do it without it. So the one.

607
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We cannot replace them with the pilots because it's not apples for apples. It's, you know, it's a, it's a little bit of a different infrastructure and we need their permits.

608
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Yeah.

609
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And do we, um, participate any, you know, time frame for that perimeter?

610
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Well, they said it could take up to six months. We hope it will be less.

611
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Is there a way we can push for this?

612
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I'm pushing for that permit to come before Fabian retired.

613
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Yeah.

614
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That is the honest answer.

615
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And one of the things, you know, I didn't see was, you know, and we're loved to see in the, in the future, it's like, how do we connect with the community more?

616
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You know, because we do the same thing as any other agency, you know, Facebook, you know,

617
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Twitter, whatever, whatever we use.

618
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But we're not connecting to, you know, the, the people that, you know, Spanish-speaking community that we service.

619
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And we're not connecting to a new visioner that a mundo with things that we're doing unless they're asking us, we're not reaching out.

620
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I mean, I don't, I don't understand why it's so difficult.

621
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You know, we should be, you know, you know, and the phone all the time with them and say, hey, you know, because now there's, you can even zoom in an interview or, you know,

622
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a project that you're dealing, because I mean, we're doing so many things.

623
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And like, maybe there's a no.

624
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Like, you know, they don't know about the, there were changing the lights.

625
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You know, they see in Raspberry Park, it's, you know, it'd be unless you're blind, you know.

626
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But, you know, all the other stuff, they're not seeing, they're not, you know, we're not, you know,

627
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we're not, you know, being recognized as a city for all these, all these things that we should, they shouldn't know.

628
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I mean, you know, we should be able to just walk to the place and say, hey, you know, that way, but see, I'll tell you, I'll go over there.

629
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And they're no clue.

630
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You know, so, you know, how do we, you know, reach out, you know, to just local media, Spanish local media,

631
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or, or, you know, or tap into, you know, the nonprofit, you know, you know, you know,

632
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:39,000
like they have their Facebook, are we tapping into, like, some of those resources to connect with their sites,

633
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:45,000
so their, you know, our sites can connect to theirs, so they get, you know, feedback on some of this stuff,

634
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because, like I said, we're just not connecting, and it's not unfortunate, right?

635
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Thank you, Water, Councilmember Montesino, we are on our way to way of finding.

636
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Thank you.

637
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I'll be here all night.

638
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:04,000
Councilmember Parker, and then Councilmember Deeter.

639
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Okay.

640
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:11,000
Yeah, I was going to ask that because that question, and we still send our notice out that everybody gets,

641
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you tell these wise, and it's in Spanish and English, and it kind of highlights.

642
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But are you thinking more in terms of, like, delimundo, you know?

643
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:26,000
So, like, like, KSPW, if we, do we do, do we do that?

644
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:27,000
Yes.

645
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We do that proactively.

646
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We send press releases.

647
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Our PIO is always available to you, interviews.

648
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:40,000
We make it ourselves available every time we do have a big initiative or something.

649
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:45,000
You make it happening in our city, and we make a point to reach out to all media outlets.

650
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:54,000
And Michelle is pretty great to make herself available for interviews, or have any of us that are subject matter experts be available.

651
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Well, that's, that's good.

652
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,000
You're going to continue.

653
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Some of it's not sexy.

654
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,000
It's just the way it is, and some of they want to cover something.

655
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:07,000
But I do like the idea of reaching out to our partners in the nonprofit community,

656
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to add, because we do have great relationship with them to add in for me.

657
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:13,000
I mean, maybe we do that.

658
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,000
We do do that.

659
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,000
Okay.

660
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I just wanted to say the city manager, Calo Baku, is actually our rap to, in the PV leaders group.

661
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And we meet every Wednesday morning, tomorrow morning, before I say good morning to him.

662
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He's already going to be on a Zoom call with all our community partners.

663
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And I don't know if you want to speak a bit more about that.

664
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Yeah, would you?

665
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Yeah.

666
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I'm happy to.

667
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Yeah.

668
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So as part of the PV collaborative, so this is a large group representing probably about 30 or so community organizations.

669
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We meet every Wednesday morning.

670
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Three times a month, virtually, and then one time a month in person.

671
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As part of the agenda, there's always a point in time where there's an opportunity for the different governmental agencies to give an update.

672
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So I usually spend our two minutes going through updates of, you know, items that are going to hit the council agenda that

673
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I think, you know, many of our groups would be interested in along with making any announcements for special events that we have coming up, you know, things like our new chief swearing in and so forth.

674
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So try to do that as much as possible.

675
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Every time I get a chance to, if there's kind of bigger things that come up on the agenda, or things that we really want them to, you know, hammer home and pass on to their constituents, then I'll send email updates as well to all of those groups.

676
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Kind of, I think, inspect what you expect kind of thing, and even though they're doing it voluntarily, right, because that's our, that's the group.

677
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Everybody's allied. Okay, so one of the questions that I know I think our city manager had updated us on, but since you're talking about a whole plan.

678
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For the public, how far are we on our lights?

679
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On our lights?

680
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,000
We need answer. Go ahead.

681
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:07,000
Well, like, what's in my update, you read my update as well. So, well, as I said in my latest update, the lights, happy or there.

682
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:12,000
We got half of our shipment already. It's on hand, and we're waiting for the other one.

683
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,000
It will arrive sometime this week.

684
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:22,000
I believe our team is ready to dispatch our contractors on the week of March 9.

685
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:33,000
So, I believe I said that they will be coming from the north of the city to the south, but they will be able to get through the entire city in about two week period.

686
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:43,000
So you should see a little bit over 1,800 lights, light bulbs change, and our city become brighter overnight in the next two weeks.

687
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,000
So we're very, very excited about that.

688
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,000
As soon as we get that rest of the shipment, we will start installing.

689
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,000
That's great. That's great. We've been looking forward.

690
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:59,000
And our every single resident in the city is probably been looking forward to this for a long time.

691
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:05,000
I have another quick question. Over there on Green Valley Road by the school district.

692
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:10,000
Any lights up until, like the Hula-Han, where does the county start?

693
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Over there.

694
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
Right before the crosswalk.

695
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:22,000
The good answer. Okay. So right before the crosswalk at Hula-Han and, right, and Green Valley.

696
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:29,000
So I heard Nancy Billisich talk about brightness of lights.

697
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:34,000
Are we going to light up the Green Valley up to where we are?

698
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,000
It's our responsibility.

699
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:43,000
And then I know that our supervisor will probably take the, you know, and keep on going with it in a positive way.

700
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,000
No, because it's, it's people and families and everything else.

701
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
So is that, is that something we have planned?

702
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:53,000
So we are, uh, replacing all our street lights.

703
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Yeah.

704
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:02,000
The ones that we own that are ours that are some that are PG&E and some areas that don't have poles neither cities or PG&E.

705
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,000
And that will be face to of the project.

706
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:08,000
So once we finish this up, we're going to do a, uh, reassess.

707
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,000
Are there areas of the city that are still dark?

708
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,000
And what we can add new lights.

709
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,000
Okay.

710
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,000
So we're not done when we are done, but we will see us.

711
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,000
I mean, we don't know what that area is like.

712
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,000
We don't know what that area is like, until we do the project.

713
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:28,000
So, um, you know, we'll have to wait until like, and a margin, we assess.

714
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,000
Thank you, Nick, for your overview.

715
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,000
I have, I could have other questions.

716
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000
But at this point, no, you gave me an ice overview.

717
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,000
I like the percentages.

718
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000
I like the ongoing.

719
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:46,000
I would like to know about generically and maybe you can send this out on email or something.

720
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,000
All the ones that got stalled.

721
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,000
And, and the reasons why.

722
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000
I mean, we could say it now.

723
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,000
But, you know, if they're stalled, I'm sure there's a good reason.

724
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,000
It's either a funding reason or it's a.

725
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Um, Cal Trans reason or, you know, whatever it may be.

726
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
So thank you very much, though.

727
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:04,000
Councilmember Dutre.

728
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,000
Thanks.

729
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000
I just have one question and one comment.

730
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,000
My comment is, um, I'll run guard to the lighting.

731
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,000
You got that, huh?

732
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Um, um, uh, the comment is that I was just speaking to some constituency other day.

733
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:22,000
And, um, they had been gone for a while and they got home to their house.

734
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,000
And then they looked down their street towards the other end.

735
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:28,000
And there was like a bright light shining down there.

736
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:31,000
And they were very confused, like, well, what is that?

737
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,000
And then they looked further and they're like, oh, that was a street light.

738
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,000
And so I explained it that we've already been replacing the old, the ones that broke down.

739
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
So they must have broken down one in their street.

740
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,000
And they were like, what is that big, what's that bright light down there?

741
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000
And then they, he like investigated.

742
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,000
And I said, the whole city is going to look like that very soon.

743
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,000
So there are 900 lights that have already been replacing our city.

744
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:56,000
So there are areas that are brighter.

745
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:03,000
And there are some that were there that now that have already been replaced because we're prioritizing that.

746
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,000
Yeah.

747
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,000
As a response to our community.

748
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,000
Well, I'm looking forward to, especially like the Martnelli area, that's really dark.

749
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:21,000
And then, uh, my question is, you, you, you've said in your, your presentation that there were 255 new business licenses given out.

750
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:23,000
That's a lot.

751
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,000
So I'm kind of curious because I can't.

752
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,000
I mean, to me and to maybe like someone who's just on the public.

753
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,000
They're like, where are these 255 new businesses?

754
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,000
They're just not what we think about, right?

755
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:39,000
Like it's not a retail store or a new restaurant necessarily.

756
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:45,000
Those business licenses are, could be service businesses that are in, in our community.

757
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,000
Could be a daycare center.

758
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:55,000
It could be an accountant, a new attorney office, people operating businesses from their homes.

759
00:56:55,000 --> 00:57:00,000
But in reality, that is the commercial vitality of our city.

760
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
It's kind of like people entrepreneurial spirits.

761
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:06,000
It might not be businesses as we know them.

762
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Yeah.

763
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,000
By the way that you guys were just like doing that.

764
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,000
I mean, I know you're doing this.

765
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:16,000
But like, the public doesn't see that.

766
00:57:16,000 --> 00:57:21,000
We see complaints all day long where we're not bringing businesses into the community.

767
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:26,000
So, you know, I think that I was just curious what these 255 were.

768
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,000
And you're telling me their lawyers offices and daycares.

769
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:30,000
Okay.

770
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,000
Where else are you?

771
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:32,000
There you go.

772
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,000
And yes.

773
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,000
And thank you.

774
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:41,000
And to answer your question council member, Dutra, perhaps you can highlight one of those 255 businesses.

775
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:47,000
During the Watsonville business highlight opportunities that we will have this year.

776
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:50,000
We will be rotating through districts.

777
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,000
Starting with district one in numerical order.

778
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:58,000
And every council member and the rest of the council will be able to highlight businesses from their district.

779
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,000
Or anywhere else they would like to highlight.

780
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,000
So you will be six out of seven.

781
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:03,000
I know.

782
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,000
We're chomping at the bit to get it done.

783
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:10,000
But hopefully we'll be able to pick one of those new 255.

784
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,000
Yes.

785
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:12,000
Council member.

786
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Roscoe.

787
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
Yeah.

788
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,000
I went up piggyback on the comment.

789
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,000
Council member Montesino said.

790
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,000
It's not about accessible government, right?

791
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,000
When we have our town hall meetings or any city function.

792
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:34,000
I feel he's always the same people that we expect to see in that type of environment.

793
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:42,000
So I'm going to I guess bring back the comment that I did a while back is we really need to go to the people.

794
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:51,000
Maybe having ice cream with a city and then right down the Plaza and then just sharing everything that we are doing because we are doing a lot.

795
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:56,000
So just I guess changing how we communicate in a way that it's more approachable.

796
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:59,000
And in different languages.

797
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,000
So I think that will be kind of exciting.

798
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:08,000
PVU as he also holds their delac meetings on a monthly basis.

799
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:21,000
And those representatives that show up to those meetings then take the information that they learn from that meeting and then share it across our schools.

800
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:25,000
So I would suggest reaching out to them and having the city be present.

801
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:30,000
At one of those meetings and sharing what we are doing.

802
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,000
They also have a parent conference coming up.

803
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:37,000
They're always looking for folks to provide a workshop or provide updates.

804
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:47,000
I'm sure we can come up with a creative way to present the information that we're doing through the city.

805
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:53,000
So I would like to see more of that kind of communication.

806
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:57,000
I also had a question in regards to technology.

807
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000
We're going to be working on.

808
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,000
We're doing our website pretty soon.

809
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:13,000
That is in the work plan. We're working on rebuilding our website.

810
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:19,000
To make it more accessible and as clutter and easy to access information.

811
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:21,000
That's good to hear.

812
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:25,000
That's part of our compliance with new ADA.

813
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:32,000
We're doing anticipate when we could get further update on what we anticipate seeing.

814
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:38,000
The team is working on it or IT team and communications team are working on it.

815
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:49,000
I think I could have an update by the end of March on our work plan and kind of like more dates, specific dates.

816
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Our contract with our current vendor goes through April.

817
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:58,000
So it's great time to kind of create that timeline and make progress in it.

818
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:01,000
Thank you.

819
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Any other questions from Council? Council member Deutron?

820
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:04,000
I just want to comment.

821
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,000
I'm on regard to the website.

822
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,000
I just went to a city's website when I was a city council meeting.

823
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,000
I'm had a bit of a PDF statement.

824
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:18,000
And the meeting actually popped up under the website when you pulled it up.

825
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,000
So all you had to do is just click on the meeting.

826
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,000
You didn't have to go searching for it.

827
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:26,000
So that may be something that people need to easily accessible to them.

828
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:32,000
So I literally pulled up the website and the meeting was playing.

829
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:33,000
I just clicked on it.

830
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:40,000
One of our goals is to be able to reduce the number of clicking that has required to access information.

831
01:01:40,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Because that will make it more accessible.

832
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:43,000
Yes.

833
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:44,000
Here here.

834
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,000
Let's clicking.

835
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,000
Any other comments?

836
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:52,000
All right. Moving on to 12A consideration of ordinance.

837
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:57,000
Amending Title VII chapter one of the Watsonville Municipal Code Street excavations.

838
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,000
Good evening.

839
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,000
Principal engineer.

840
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,000
Lizagara.

841
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:07,000
I pronounce that.

842
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:08,000
Lizagata.

843
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:09,000
Yeah.

844
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:10,000
Yeah.

845
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:14,000
There we go.

846
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,000
All right.

847
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:17,000
Can you hear me? Okay.

848
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:18,000
Yes.

849
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:19,000
All right.

850
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:20,000
Good evening.

851
01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,000
Mayor Salcedo and council members.

852
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,000
My name is Miguel Lizaraga.

853
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:27,000
Principal engineer with the Public Works Department.

854
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,000
And tonight I'll be presenting.

855
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,000
For introduction and first reading in ordinance.

856
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:34,000
Mending Title VII chapter one of the municipal code.

857
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:36,000
Related to street excavations.

858
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:40,000
The purpose of this update is straightforward to better protect the city's

859
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,000
pavement investment and modernize how we manage,

860
01:02:42,000 --> 01:02:47,000
trenching and utility work within the public right of way.

861
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:51,000
This update is coming forward now because Watsonville has been investing

862
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,000
significant public funds into his pavement program.

863
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:57,000
At the same time repeated trenching and newly improved streets

864
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:01,000
is reducing the life of those investments.

865
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,000
Our current code does not provide adequate protection for nearly

866
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:08,000
resurface or reconstructed streets and it does not require the level of

867
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,000
coordination that modern asset management practices call for it.

868
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:17,000
This ordinance brings us in line with best practices and already adopted

869
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:24,000
neighboring and statewide policies.

870
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,000
Street excavations are necessary.

871
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:31,000
Utilities need to install, repair and upgrade infrastructure and homeowners need

872
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000
services.

873
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,000
The issue is not whether trenching happens.

874
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,000
It is often in the house soon after we've invested in

875
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,000
resurfacing a street.

876
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,000
Engineering research and regional experience show that even when

877
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,000
trench is restored to standard specifications.

878
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,000
The surrounding pavement is structurally weakened.

879
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Repeated cuts accelerate deterioration.

880
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:55,000
The result is shorter pavement life and higher long-term reconstruction

881
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:57,000
costs.

882
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,000
In short, we risk eroding our own infrastructure investments.

883
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,000
As you can see from the graph here.

884
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:10,000
The pavement condition condition index of a street is negatively impacted

885
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:21,000
throughout the life of that street.

886
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,000
So what is this ordinance do?

887
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:28,000
This ordinance modernizes and strengthens our poor primary areas.

888
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,000
First, it clarifies permit requirements and oversight.

889
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:35,000
Second, it strengthens restoration standards and inspection

890
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,000
authority.

891
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,000
Third, it establishes to find more Victorian

892
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:41,000
periods on newly improved streets.

893
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:44,000
And fourth, it requires better coordination from utilities

894
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:48,000
operating within the city right of way.

895
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:52,000
The focus here is long-term pavement protection and fiscal stewardship.

896
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,000
Showing here is a little bit of avenue which we just

897
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,000
wrapped up paving this last fall.

898
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:06,000
As you can tell, it looks very nice when it's recently paved.

899
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:10,000
This ordinance establishes two clear protection periods.

900
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,000
For streets that receive lighter surface treatments such as

901
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:15,000
slurry seals or cap seals.

902
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:18,000
There would be a three year excavation moratorium.

903
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:21,000
For newly constructed or reconstructed streets with deeper structural

904
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,000
improvements, there would be a five year moratorium.

905
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,000
These timeframes are consistent with what other California agencies

906
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:29,000
have adopted.

907
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,000
Importantly, this does not prohibit all work.

908
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:34,000
It creates a strong presumption against cutting into

909
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:38,000
newly improved streets unless absolutely necessary.

910
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:43,000
If excavation must occur during a moratorium period,

911
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,000
whether due to emergency work or other unavoidable circumstances,

912
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,000
enhanced restoration requirements apply.

913
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,000
Instead of simply patching the trail,

914
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:59,000
restoration may include a full lane resurfacing,

915
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,000
surface grinding, base repairs, and striping replacement.

916
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:07,000
The goal is to return the street to a condition as close as

917
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,000
practical to what existed before the excavation.

918
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,000
This ensures that the project creating the impact bears the cost

919
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:17,000
of restoring the broader pavement integrity.

920
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:28,000
Another key element of this ordinance is improved coordination.

921
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:32,000
Public and private utilities would be required to submit annual

922
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,000
two year work plans to the city.

923
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:37,000
This allows public works to better align resurfacing schedules

924
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:41,000
with planned utility work and reduced repeated trenching.

925
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:44,000
Rather than reacting to cuts after resurfacing,

926
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:48,000
the project will be actively coordinated before improvements are made.

927
01:06:48,000 --> 01:06:52,000
This is a significant improvement in long-term planning.

928
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:56,000
Although public work staff has been proactive and successfully coordinating future work

929
01:06:56,000 --> 01:07:00,000
with all utilities, both public and private, within the public

930
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,000
right away, there's currently no requirement in our code for utilities to

931
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:10,000
participate in this coordination effort.

932
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,000
Watsonville has limited annual pavement funding, as I'm sure you're all

933
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,000
very aware of.

934
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:21,000
If streets fail early due to trenching, those dollars go less far.

935
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:25,000
This ordinance supports maintaining pavement condition targets,

936
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:28,000
improving our six year planning accuracy,

937
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:31,000
extending the service life of improvements,

938
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:34,000
protecting capital efficiency.

939
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,000
It shifts costs forward to the project that creates the

940
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:41,000
pavement impact, instead of distributing hidden costs

941
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:46,000
the entire community later through premature reconstruction cycles.

942
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:50,000
The city has invested close to $10 million in pavement restoration

943
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:52,000
projects since 2022.

944
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,000
These investments should be protected as much as practically possible.

945
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,000
Watsonville is not alone addressing this issue.

946
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:10,000
Sanctuary County has implemented a three year moratorium

947
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,000
and a lifetime trench failure warranty.

948
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:17,000
The city of Santa Cruz expanded restoration requirements on the high

949
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:22,000
PCI streets, aka newly paved streets.

950
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,000
There are examples of municipalities implementing investment protections

951
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,000
like this one all over the country.

952
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:32,000
In California, cities of all sizes have adopted similar protections.

953
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:35,000
These agencies reach the same conclusion.

954
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,000
Even when well restored trenches,

955
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:40,000
short and pavement life,

956
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,000
and newly paved streets, excuse me.

957
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:46,000
Even when well restored trenches, short and pavement life,

958
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,000
newly paved streets deserve protection.

959
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:54,000
This ordinance aligns Watsonville with established best practices

960
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:58,000
across the state and across the nation.

961
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,000
If this ordinance is not adopted,

962
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:06,000
newly improved streets remain vulnerable to repeated

963
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:09,000
trenching without enhanced restoration requirements.

964
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:14,000
The likely consequences include reduced pavement life,

965
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:19,000
earlier reconstruction cycles, increased long-term capital costs,

966
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:23,000
less effective use of limited pavement funding,

967
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:28,000
and more resident complaints about deteriorating streets.

968
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:32,000
This is ultimately a policy decision about protecting

969
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:40,000
public investment and practicing responsible asset management.

970
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,000
There are trade-offs to this.

971
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:45,000
In the short term, projects that require trenching and newly improved streets

972
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,000
may see higher restoration costs.

973
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:52,000
Utility companies, homeowners, and contractors may experience

974
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:55,000
increased project costs in those situations

975
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,000
when streets are freshly paid.

976
01:09:58,000 --> 01:10:01,000
However, the long-term benefits include extended

977
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:04,000
pavement life, reduced maintenance costs,

978
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:07,000
and stronger infrastructure stewardship.

979
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:11,000
The choices between visible projects specific costs

980
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:15,000
now, or hidden system-wide costs later.

981
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:21,000
In closing, this ordinance is about protecting

982
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,000
Watsonville's infrastructure investments

983
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,000
and improving long-term fiscal responsibility.

984
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:29,000
The staff recommends introducing the ordinance for first reading.

985
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:32,000
I'm happy to answer any of your questions.

986
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,000
Councilmember Deutra.

987
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,000
Thank you.

988
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:38,000
I guess welcome.

989
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,000
I don't think I've ever met you before.

990
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,000
But welcome to Watsonville.

991
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:46,000
And this is something that I've been really...

992
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:49,000
I've been wanting for a while.

993
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,000
I hate when we redo our roads,

994
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:55,000
and then all of a sudden someone's cutting into them again.

995
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:59,000
We saw that on Freedom Boulevard with in front of Starbucks.

996
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:02,000
And we just see it all over.

997
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,000
And right now, I'm seeing it on Stanford,

998
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:07,000
which we just repaved last year, I think it was.

999
01:11:07,000 --> 01:11:10,000
And it is, they're tearing the whole street up.

1000
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,000
I mean, we just paid.

1001
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:12,000
It was probably over a million dollars.

1002
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,000
I'm sure Stanford costs to redo.

1003
01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:18,000
And now, PG&E has gone in there and tore it all up.

1004
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:21,000
I guess my question is, I mean,

1005
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:26,000
so can you pull up the Maritime the three-year five-year?

1006
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:29,000
So the three-year Maritime is for streets,

1007
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:32,000
resurface, it's receiving surface treatments.

1008
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:34,000
So there's only if it's three years

1009
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,000
if only it received a surface treatment, right?

1010
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,000
It's going to be five years if they had it actually re-build it.

1011
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,000
Correct.

1012
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,000
Correct.

1013
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:45,000
So if it's any reconstruction of the pavement,

1014
01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:49,000
whether that's we're installing new asphalt over the existing asphalt

1015
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,000
or removing what's already there and putting in new

1016
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,000
a new section of road.

1017
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:55,000
Okay.

1018
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,000
I mean, I don't know how to pronounce fields,

1019
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,000
but I mean, can we make it both five years?

1020
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,000
I mean, even if it's resurfaced,

1021
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:05,000
I feel like that should have the same amount of years

1022
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:08,000
as if they're messing up our streets.

1023
01:12:08,000 --> 01:12:09,000
They're messing up our streets.

1024
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,000
And a resurfaced street after three years

1025
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,000
is going to look pretty good condition still.

1026
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:16,000
So is it possible to make them both five years?

1027
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:22,000
I mean, that's a policy decision.

1028
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:23,000
Yeah.

1029
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:28,000
I mean, I just think that I know I probably a lot of us here

1030
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:31,000
from our constituents like you just read these streets

1031
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,000
and even though it's just resurfacing,

1032
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,000
they still look nice, you know?

1033
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,000
And then they get torn up.

1034
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,000
So I would like to see it be five years all the way around.

1035
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,000
Even if it's just if the street was just resurfaced

1036
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:48,000
or if it had a bigger job to it.

1037
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,000
So this is, sorry.

1038
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:55,000
This recommendation is based on the amount of investment

1039
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:59,000
that each of these treatments get a surface seal

1040
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,000
investment is significantly lower than a whole reconstruction

1041
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:03,000
over road.

1042
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,000
I understand that.

1043
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:08,000
So these are just basically our recommendations.

1044
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:09,000
Yeah.

1045
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:10,000
I understand that.

1046
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:13,000
And you went off of cost of like what project

1047
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,000
one was more expensive than the other.

1048
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:16,000
So you're doing three to five.

1049
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:18,000
I'm going off of visual.

1050
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,000
So to me, I into a regular person.

1051
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:22,000
No one's going to know.

1052
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:25,000
They're not going to know the difference in price, you know?

1053
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,000
Well, let me add just a little bit to that.

1054
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,000
The three to five is pretty standard because when we do to three

1055
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,000
the slurry only lasts like two to three years.

1056
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:37,000
So that's when it would kind of be in the cycle to repair it anyway.

1057
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:40,000
I mean, the five might be a bit too aggressive for that kind of treatment.

1058
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,000
I get what you're saying.

1059
01:13:41,000 --> 01:13:43,000
But it doesn't last that long.

1060
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:46,000
Whereas if it was something like freedom, it makes sense.

1061
01:13:46,000 --> 01:13:48,000
Because we're like, that's brand new construction.

1062
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,000
But a slurry seal doesn't last that.

1063
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,000
But we don't get to our roads within three years.

1064
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:54,000
I mean, we're getting to our roads.

1065
01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:57,000
I mean, 10, 15, 20 years.

1066
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,000
So we were.

1067
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:00,000
We were.

1068
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:01,000
We were.

1069
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,000
But I mean, we are.

1070
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:04,000
I mean, we really aren't.

1071
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,000
There's no way we're going to circle back in three years

1072
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:11,000
and research slurry a word a row that was slurry three years before.

1073
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,000
It's just the way it's just going to be pushed down.

1074
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:19,000
So this way it biases a couple years that like, okay, if it does happen,

1075
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:21,000
then we.

1076
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:27,000
Well, it doesn't it doesn't because just just us we have to.

1077
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:33,000
The the other utilities also have to access the infrastructure that's on their ground,

1078
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:34,000
right.

1079
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:39,000
So what we will be seeing then Miguel places pick out if I.

1080
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,000
I'm not understanding this correctly.

1081
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:47,000
But we will have to issue kind of like permits for work that needs to be done

1082
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,000
underground.

1083
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:52,000
If we're if we're too restricted, we will we will find ourselves.

1084
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:55,000
Having to permit it anyways.

1085
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,000
And you know, it's just not it's just not for bidding.

1086
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:00,000
It's not like that yet you can not.

1087
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:24,000
I don't think we're going to talk about two different things. I'm just saying if they cut into the road between zero and five years,

1088
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:36,000
five years, five years is a long time when there's only like, you know, just kind of like the outer layer of the road.

1089
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:39,000
We're not going to have a trust.

1090
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:47,000
I'm more than saying that this is the cycle by which we will repair our payment. That's not what we're saying at all.

1091
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:55,000
I mean, that's the thing is don't. I mean, I mean, I see streets around me that probably have been slurried in years.

1092
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:57,000
I'm deaf. I'm going to go right.

1093
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:01,000
So if we're supposed to restore them every three years, that's just not happening.

1094
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:05,000
So I don't, I mean, we're moving forward on something that we're acting like we're restoring it every three years.

1095
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:12,000
I'm just asking, put in two more years and because what happens if they do it your four, then it's covered.

1096
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:20,000
You know what I'm saying? And then you don't have to worry about the three years story that we're never going to get to in three years.

1097
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:23,000
I don't understand. Maybe I can, I can chime in here.

1098
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:31,000
So there are as part of our standard details that we'll be presenting to the council next council meeting March 10.

1099
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:36,000
We do have restoration requirements that tie into this, this moratorium.

1100
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:46,000
For example, if you're cutting into the street within that three year period, five year period, your restoration requirements increase significantly on your street.

1101
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,000
And I can show that here.

1102
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:57,000
So as you can see, you're cutting into the, into the street with a trench, but your restoration limits are significantly larger than what that trench is.

1103
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:02,000
This is for arterial streets, so I think freedom, green valley, parking slew.

1104
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:12,000
So those requirements are lock stricter, much more area that needs to be replaced for streets that usually get surface yield, which are local streets.

1105
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:19,000
The requirements are not as strict as this because they don't just, they don't get the traffic that these streets do.

1106
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:24,000
So the limits of restoration are lower.

1107
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:32,000
And the, by the time we get back out there to perform work on these streets.

1108
01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:37,000
Depending on how deteriorated those streets are, they might not even warrant a surface yield anymore.

1109
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:43,000
It's, by the time we get to these streets, it might, it could be a reconstruction situation.

1110
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:46,000
So is this only for arterial streets and not surface streets?

1111
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,000
It's for all streets. This is just an example for arterial streets.

1112
01:17:50,000 --> 01:18:05,000
Okay, I guess, maybe I'm speaking, like, my brain and maybe what I'm saying is not being clear, but what I'm basically was I was trying to say is that adding two more years by this two more years of time,

1113
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:10,000
because we're not could do have gone to the streets to resurface them in those two years.

1114
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:13,000
So someone else would have picked up the cost rather than us.

1115
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,000
I don't know how that's not being.

1116
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:23,000
Yeah, and I, I hear what you're saying, what I'm trying to say is that we have, for example, this is just one detail of the ones that we're going to present next council meeting.

1117
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:30,000
There are multiple details about restoration limits and what people need or contractors companies need to restore on our streets,

1118
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,000
based on the current condition of that street.

1119
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:44,000
If the streets already, two messed up, the PCI is very low, the, the trenching restoration requirements aren't as robust as a freshly paid street.

1120
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:48,000
So there is some.

1121
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:53,000
I guess I would call it a parachute for those streets that are in in.

1122
01:18:53,000 --> 01:19:08,000
There are being there trench through and are being surfaced yield to not deteriorate too far from where they are based on the new restoration requirements that will be presenting to council.

1123
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:19,000
The goal of these ordinance is to really ensure the long term maintenance of our streets, not necessarily have somebody else repay the street.

1124
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:25,000
Right, like, and the standards, as Miguel is saying, the standards are coming for your next council meetings.

1125
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,000
So you will adopt those standards.

1126
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:37,000
That will be another policy opportunity that they counsel will have to discuss about how do we restore the conditions of our streets.

1127
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:45,000
What today's about is it's just like we will protect our investment for a period of time.

1128
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:49,000
Again, I, as for you all to discuss.

1129
01:19:49,000 --> 01:19:54,000
What you want to see, we, what we see in the street standard, what other cities are doing.

1130
01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:01,000
This is pretty standard because it is commensurate with the investment that you're putting on the street.

1131
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:07,000
You're trying to protect, right? Like, when your resurface of our new street is a lot of money, we want to have five years.

1132
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:10,000
What I'm trying to get out is though.

1133
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:17,000
We're, we are not, and we have not gotten back to a street to restore it after three years.

1134
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:25,000
The thing that they need to, maybe like, some out of is like, this is not about the frequency in which a streets get repaid.

1135
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:31,000
I know, but it means that that damage that street is going to be there longer without being addressed.

1136
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:40,000
Yes, but this is protecting for remember that your next item and your agenda is payment management plan year two and year three.

1137
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:43,000
So we are making an investment and those are the three.

1138
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:48,000
I mean, I'm going to interrupt you. Sorry. I really think that there's a real disconnect with what I'm trying to say.

1139
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:49,000
And I don't know.

1140
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Can I, can I, can I step in, maybe?

1141
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:55,000
Someone, like, can I cancel the year or us go?

1142
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:56,000
Please.

1143
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,000
So let's say that we move forward with the three year.

1144
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:04,000
And then a utility agency comes in and the, micro-trenching.

1145
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:07,000
And then the rail still looks pretty good.

1146
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:19,000
Are there any penalties that we can impose on, on that entity to ensure that we're able to continue.

1147
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:24,000
Make it look the same as it was before.

1148
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:30,000
Because I've seen, for example, on home road, just happened recently.

1149
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:33,000
It's not the best looking road.

1150
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:37,000
But even with the micro-trenching going right straight in the middle.

1151
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,000
It looks very patchy.

1152
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:42,000
So I think that's what you're trying to avoid.

1153
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:43,000
It doesn't.

1154
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:44,000
Yeah.

1155
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Yeah.

1156
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:46,000
Yes.

1157
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:47,000
There are.

1158
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:48,000
Yeah.

1159
01:21:48,000 --> 01:21:52,000
It's like I said something representing for the next council meeting.

1160
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:57,000
But depending on the current condition of the street.

1161
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:00,000
If it's, if the street already doesn't look great.

1162
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:09,000
If the PCI is low, the restoration isn't going to be as robust as a good looking street.

1163
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,000
Right.

1164
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:18,000
So the idea there is that since that PCI is so low that the city is going to repave or treat that street soon.

1165
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:25,000
So there's no point in having a contractor come out and repave the whole street for one trench.

1166
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:32,000
When it's already on the list for the street to be, to be resurfaced or repaved.

1167
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:47,000
So again, it's a difference between a more term with three to five years versus what standard we're going to hold utility companies to or anyone that's trenching in the street to when they cut into those streets.

1168
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:53,000
She just asked if the street was, let's say, four years old and it's just outside of that three years.

1169
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:56,000
And then they cut it what you're talking about an old street.

1170
01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:58,000
We're talking about something that's newer.

1171
01:22:58,000 --> 01:22:59,000
Exactly.

1172
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:02,000
So if the same thing, it's all based on the PCI, the condition of the street.

1173
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:07,000
If this, after four years, that street is still going to be in fairly good condition.

1174
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Right.

1175
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:20,000
So those restoration limits are going to be significantly bigger than a street that was a very low PCI, a very damaged street.

1176
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:27,000
So a lot more of it will be restored if someone goes in and cuts that street four years in.

1177
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:28,000
Yeah.

1178
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:29,000
So there's two things.

1179
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:32,000
The frequency which it gets restored.

1180
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:33,000
Right.

1181
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:41,000
The frequency which it gets restored and the standards that we request for utilities to restore our street.

1182
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:49,000
So if there's, so I can understand, I'm trying to understand and I think I'm over supportive of what's before us.

1183
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:54,000
So when there's Michael trenching, who does the repair?

1184
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:57,000
Who does the patching?

1185
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:01,000
If does that happen through us or does AT&T or PG&E do their own?

1186
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,000
The contractor does restoration.

1187
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:12,000
What we dictate is the limits of that restoration based on the condition of the street when it was cut into.

1188
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:13,000
Okay.

1189
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,000
That's what I mean.

1190
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:19,000
I'm just trying to understand when you say the conditions.

1191
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:20,000
The conditions.

1192
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,000
It length width depth of.

1193
01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:25,000
No, how deteriorated the street is.

1194
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Right.

1195
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:27,000
Right.

1196
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:28,000
Right.

1197
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:29,000
So the.

1198
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:30,000
Yeah.

1199
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:31,000
Okay.

1200
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:32,000
Okay.

1201
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:33,000
So let me add.

1202
01:24:33,000 --> 01:24:35,000
And then there's an inspection after that.

1203
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:36,000
Yes.

1204
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:37,000
We have.

1205
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:41,000
After every street pet project, there's we have inspectors out there looking at that.

1206
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:42,000
So.

1207
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,000
Oh, Rose, go let me just add on to that.

1208
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:50,000
So what we don't want to do is set ourselves too far out that we are, you know, far beyond.

1209
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:54,000
So this aligns with other cities and the county and what they're doing.

1210
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:58,000
We want PG&E and AT&T to come in and do upgrades.

1211
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,000
We want, you know, five robotics.

1212
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:03,000
We want all the things that they're doing.

1213
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,000
We don't want it at the cost of chewing up our streets.

1214
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:10,000
So there has to be a balance with it, which is why we do that three to five.

1215
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:19,000
I think if we do five, we might start seeing major delays of some of these, you know, technology upgrades in our city, which we don't want that.

1216
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:23,000
And so we want to stay in balance with our utility companies.

1217
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:26,000
But we just want to make sure that we're putting Watsonville first.

1218
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:32,000
But not so far ahead that we are now kind of pricing ourselves out of getting these upgrades.

1219
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:33,000
So it's a balance.

1220
01:25:33,000 --> 01:25:39,000
And then the three to five is what came to us from our consultants that helped us write our pavement management plan.

1221
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:43,000
And also aligning with our neighbors that have done similar things.

1222
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:44,000
Okay.

1223
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:45,000
Thank you.

1224
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,000
Council member Parker and then Council member Montesino.

1225
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,000
Thank you, Mayor.

1226
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:51,000
Okay.

1227
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,000
So.

1228
01:25:53,000 --> 01:26:02,000
It's a balance that doesn't have because I hear what Councilman Deutra is saying because we've had some terrible patches in the past.

1229
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:10,000
And we've just reached a little bit of a bridge, which looks so pretty now and it's, you know, it was a big project.

1230
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:13,000
But it took years, you know, for us to get it down.

1231
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:15,000
But it looks amazing, right?

1232
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,000
And I've been hearing that from constituents.

1233
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,000
Oh my gosh, this is great.

1234
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:25,000
But the patching portion and I've also been hearing and I hear you.

1235
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:30,000
And I know we're about complaints about we don't have technology out in our section.

1236
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:33,000
But it entails digging up the road.

1237
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:43,000
You know, and we've had a couple new stuff signs and cross swags and all that beauty on bridge street might get torn up again.

1238
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,000
So whenever these things come up.

1239
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:53,000
So you're trying to say that there's a balance based on what we're looking at here of how much we can do.

1240
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:54,000
Right?

1241
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:55,000
How we make it look?

1242
01:26:55,000 --> 01:27:10,000
How what standards we are requiring those entities that come in to do that trenching and then to replace it and to not only keep the integrity of the road.

1243
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:11,000
Right?

1244
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:14,000
But also make it not such an isor.

1245
01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:15,000
Is that correct?

1246
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:16,000
It is correct.

1247
01:27:16,000 --> 01:27:22,000
And I think one of the really important parts that Miguel hit earlier in his presentation was a two year look ahead.

1248
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:34,000
You know, if you give an example, you guys have seen our water crews for the last several months going down Riverside doing that because we know cow trans is about to come in and do a what was that awarded that 11 million dollar premium project.

1249
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:41,000
So we're getting all of our underground work done so that we are out of there by the time they pay it and we can just have my asking for it.

1250
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:42,000
That's great.

1251
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:43,000
It is not slice into it.

1252
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:48,000
So part of it is not being reactionary to what are they doing in town?

1253
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,000
Why are they on Bruin to and we didn't know they were coming to town?

1254
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:54,000
So again, it's the balance of being able to prepare two years in ahead.

1255
01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:59,000
If we know what PG&E is doing, we know what AT&T is doing, spectrum, data data, our own water lines.

1256
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:04,000
We can't control when a main break happens, but we can control when we're doing our preventative things.

1257
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:16,000
So that with this moratorium on cutting with the standards that you will see at the next council meeting that determine when he's saying how big how wide is it going curb to curb or we just do in the slab.

1258
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Does it need to just blend in all of those things.

1259
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,000
You know, is it going to be perfect every single time and look like freedom the first day?

1260
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:24,000
No.

1261
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:28,000
But can we protect the integrity of the degradation, have a little bit more management control over it?

1262
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:29,000
Yeah.

1263
01:28:29,000 --> 01:28:35,000
Well, I think you're hearing from us as a little bit of reaction from what freedom Boulevard was for so long.

1264
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:36,000
I've got hurt all the time.

1265
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:45,000
And businesses and people and travel because it's such a big main artery that we're all thinking, oh my God, please don't let it be like that.

1266
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:46,000
And that's not the intention.

1267
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:47,000
Correct.

1268
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,000
The intention we learned from that.

1269
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:54,000
And now we're moving forward for all our non-artorial streets.

1270
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:55,000
Is that correct?

1271
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:56,000
Correct.

1272
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:57,000
Yeah.

1273
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:02,000
So when freedom was paved, I think, right when I started, which is when we started this pavement management conversation.

1274
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:07,000
And it was swear, we all felt that first slice into freedom right in front of Starbucks, right?

1275
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:12,000
And our consultants saying why don't you have a trench cut ordinance, and it was like the record screeching, right?

1276
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,000
But why don't we?

1277
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:21,000
If we're going to present to Council and spend years putting together this plan, we need to have a protection mechanism.

1278
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:22,000
Okay.

1279
01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:24,000
So I know we're all excited about this, and these are very valid questions.

1280
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,000
And we want to make sure that we're answering all of them.

1281
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:30,000
Well, yeah, because we're going to be asked with our constituents, so we have to be prepared.

1282
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:31,000
Exactly.

1283
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:32,000
Because we're going to be asked.

1284
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:34,000
Because we're going to be asked with our constituents, so we have to be prepared.

1285
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:35,000
Exactly.

1286
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:39,000
Because we're going to be asked with our constituents, so we have to be prepared.

1287
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:40,000
Exactly.

1288
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:42,000
Thank you.

1289
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:43,000
Thank you very much.

1290
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:44,000
I appreciate it.

1291
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:45,000
Both of you.

1292
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:46,000
Councilmember Montesino.

1293
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:47,000
Yeah.

1294
01:29:47,000 --> 01:29:50,000
I think, you know, because we're talking about today's agenda.

1295
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,000
I mean, we're talking next time.

1296
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:56,000
You should have had those side of us both at the same day.

1297
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:00,000
So we can talk more thoroughly, because I think the next component.

1298
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:08,000
And next in the next agenda, in the future, the council meeting would have helped, you know.

1299
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:16,460
This down there's no, I've understood what those things together. But one of my questions, because I know, you know, be

1300
01:30:16,460 --> 01:30:29,460
straight from, in my district, and currently, like, you know, it looks like Mexico, you know, you know, after.

1301
01:30:29,460 --> 01:30:38,460
But currently, you know, like some of those pictures that you showed, is there anything that we could do?

1302
01:30:38,460 --> 01:30:48,460
Because like I said, they're leaving holes, they're leaving, you know, equipment, they're, you know, it's, you know, ugly in those two streets.

1303
01:30:48,460 --> 01:30:54,460
You know, I understand, I understand what we're doing tonight, but is there anything we can do?

1304
01:30:54,460 --> 01:31:03,460
Like, for right now, the price that already, you know, running in there, just like, you know, throwing dirt at it and leaving.

1305
01:31:03,460 --> 01:31:13,460
So, the right now is this ordinance, but moving forward, we are trying to go out. We're, we're actually wrapping up some, some funding, grant funding applications,

1306
01:31:13,460 --> 01:31:21,460
or ATP cycle applications to do work on B Street to, to make sure that comes up to the standards that we would like to see out there.

1307
01:31:21,460 --> 01:31:24,460
So we are working towards that.

1308
01:31:24,460 --> 01:31:33,460
Yeah, because, like I said, I see, like, Bernie Street, like, through all the way, that's, you know, and I was just going to leave it like that, because I've seen them,

1309
01:31:33,460 --> 01:31:45,460
we were leaving just equipment, just thrown there, where there's valuable parking spaces for, you know, community members and like I said, that should not be, you know.

1310
01:31:45,460 --> 01:31:51,460
So, you know, anything that we do, like, you know, being a standard, I'm forward. So thank you.

1311
01:31:51,460 --> 01:32:03,460
Councilmember, do you travel. Thank you. So I guess these are what you're going to bring back to us at the next meeting. These surface grinding space repair, stripping replacement correct correct.

1312
01:32:03,460 --> 01:32:13,460
I mean, I like things looking nice, so I think if you're going to do one, if it depends on like how big the project is, I'm going to go back to Stanford, it's terrible.

1313
01:32:13,460 --> 01:32:30,460
They should be doing pre-paving both sides of the street. Like, it just, it'll look weird, which is one weird stripe of new street and then one not new, I mean, I don't like, I'm all about aesthetics, like, maybe it's just who I am.

1314
01:32:30,460 --> 01:32:35,460
But we will make sure the presentation of all standards is coming next council meeting.

1315
01:32:36,460 --> 01:32:51,460
We will look into that because that's a standard that we are applying to ourselves, right? Like when we talked about road maintenance years ago, we talked about not fixing one side by going curve to curve and that wanting to be the standard we have.

1316
01:32:51,460 --> 01:33:01,460
So we heard that that's the standard we're applying for ourselves, that's the standard that we should invite others to uphold for us and that we're hearing that very loud and clear.

1317
01:33:01,460 --> 01:33:14,460
So Miguel, you and I, not Courtney, we'll talk before we, we come back next week to make sure that the presentation on the standards meets that expectation.

1318
01:33:14,460 --> 01:33:28,460
We talked about curve, we've talked from what side to side, that's how we want it. Well, we did one point and when I see full lane resurfacing, I'm only picturing a lane, you know, not both lanes in some cases for lanes.

1319
01:33:29,460 --> 01:33:35,460
So, but, and then my other question is, what happens if it's a sewer lateral issue?

1320
01:33:35,460 --> 01:33:39,460
How, what happens in that situation?

1321
01:33:39,460 --> 01:33:45,460
Yeah, so that's because if you sell a house, you have to, okay.

1322
01:33:45,460 --> 01:33:54,460
So depending on, for example, there's a sewer lateral issue on a street that was just paved, there would be whole to the same standards.

1323
01:33:54,460 --> 01:33:57,460
Oh, they would be. Yes, because it's the owner of the house.

1324
01:33:57,460 --> 01:34:03,460
Yes, again, that's what we're talking about the up for a cost of digging into the street that was just paved.

1325
01:34:03,460 --> 01:34:08,460
That's going to be, that's interesting. I mean, that's going to be costly for someone trying to sell their home.

1326
01:34:08,460 --> 01:34:11,460
But again, it is only for streets that have just been paved.

1327
01:34:11,460 --> 01:34:16,460
Every other street after this, this moratorium doesn't, it isn't held to the same standards.

1328
01:34:16,460 --> 01:34:23,460
Within three to five years, right? So if, so if this street gets paved, you can't do that lateral within three years,

1329
01:34:23,460 --> 01:34:29,460
or you're responsible. Correct, please understand that right now, we don't have the funding to pave as many streets as we would like.

1330
01:34:29,460 --> 01:34:34,460
So we're not doing hundreds of streets every year, pricing people out.

1331
01:34:34,460 --> 01:34:44,460
We're doing as many streets as we can, but we're not doing nearly enough that multiple, I mean, that the whole city would be in a moratorium for five years.

1332
01:34:44,460 --> 01:34:47,460
I'm not a single city. I'm just, I'm just talking about my district.

1333
01:34:47,460 --> 01:34:51,460
And I, you know, like, I'm going to bring Stanford back up again.

1334
01:34:51,460 --> 01:34:55,460
They had two sewer laterals on that street.

1335
01:34:55,460 --> 01:34:58,460
Recently, post, we just did Stanford.

1336
01:34:58,460 --> 01:35:03,460
They've done two sewer laterals on that street. So those people, they sold the houses recently,

1337
01:35:03,460 --> 01:35:09,460
but they would have been responsible for, you know, correct.

1338
01:35:09,460 --> 01:35:16,460
That was an issue. So I'm, I come from the city of Santa Cruz where I, I helped implement this, this moratorium there.

1339
01:35:17,460 --> 01:35:25,460
And the, the, how we got the public to buy into this was having them before every paving project, we was sent out a letter.

1340
01:35:25,460 --> 01:35:27,460
Hey, this paving project is coming.

1341
01:35:27,460 --> 01:35:32,460
If you need to do any type of utility work, do it now because it will be way more expensive afterwards.

1342
01:35:32,460 --> 01:35:35,460
Okay, thanks for saying that as well. We should do that.

1343
01:35:35,460 --> 01:35:41,460
I mean, to the owners of homes because that's a big, that's going to be a big check.

1344
01:35:41,460 --> 01:35:45,460
I mean, they got to write if they do a sewer lateral within three years.

1345
01:35:45,460 --> 01:35:48,460
And they want us, you know, it's okay. Thank you.

1346
01:35:48,460 --> 01:35:51,460
Yeah, so there's something that for paving projects.

1347
01:35:51,460 --> 01:35:52,460
Thank you.

1348
01:35:52,460 --> 01:35:57,460
Start implementing moving forward to send those letters out and letting people know that.

1349
01:35:57,460 --> 01:35:59,460
Councilmember Parker.

1350
01:35:59,460 --> 01:36:12,460
Okay, so I'm aligned completely with what Jimmy just said because in my district, we have, you know, medium high to seniors and all the senior houses have to have

1351
01:36:12,460 --> 01:36:15,460
a few, you know, if they sell them.

1352
01:36:15,460 --> 01:36:22,460
And when seniors have to sell, it's usually not because they have the time to sell, you know, that they can take time.

1353
01:36:22,460 --> 01:36:24,460
Or they have a big budget.

1354
01:36:24,460 --> 01:36:33,460
So as far as I'm concerned, if is what we're doing tonight going to affect what we just, what we were just talking about.

1355
01:36:33,460 --> 01:36:40,460
Sewer laterals having to, and within one year, okay, wait, I should stop.

1356
01:36:40,460 --> 01:36:46,460
How long from the paving?

1357
01:36:46,460 --> 01:36:50,460
Can somebody do it without having to have it, you know, at the highest standard?

1358
01:36:50,460 --> 01:36:52,460
Can somebody fix it like a sewer lateral?

1359
01:36:52,460 --> 01:36:54,460
How long is there a time period?

1360
01:36:54,460 --> 01:36:58,460
Yeah, three years for service treatment, five years for full rehabilitation.

1361
01:36:58,460 --> 01:36:59,460
Okay.

1362
01:36:59,460 --> 01:37:00,460
That's what I thought.

1363
01:37:00,460 --> 01:37:05,460
So that puts it because when seniors sell, it's because they, they gotta go.

1364
01:37:05,460 --> 01:37:09,460
And there's a reason for it, you know, they have to sell.

1365
01:37:09,460 --> 01:37:11,460
And then we're going to stick in with a huge bill.

1366
01:37:11,460 --> 01:37:13,460
So how much does it cost?

1367
01:37:13,460 --> 01:37:18,460
To read, I mean, we're not going to be stuck with the exact cost, but, you know, give me an approximation.

1368
01:37:18,460 --> 01:37:21,460
How much does it cost for a sewer lateral replant?

1369
01:37:21,460 --> 01:37:25,460
Because they'll have to do it when they sell their home.

1370
01:37:25,460 --> 01:37:30,460
And in our senior villages, yeah, do you have any idea?

1371
01:37:30,460 --> 01:37:36,460
To read you, not the sewer lateral itself, but the cost to repair.

1372
01:37:36,460 --> 01:37:39,460
No, I can't, I don't have that information with me.

1373
01:37:39,460 --> 01:37:44,460
What I can't tell you is that it'll, what's the cost increase is a restoration.

1374
01:37:44,460 --> 01:37:51,460
So the actual trenching installation of laterals, removal of existing laterals, all of that stays the same.

1375
01:37:51,460 --> 01:37:55,460
The only thing that's increasing in cost is the pavement that's going to go on top.

1376
01:37:55,460 --> 01:37:58,460
Right, and that's what it's trying to get an idea of what that cost.

1377
01:37:58,460 --> 01:38:01,460
It really isn't even here.

1378
01:38:02,460 --> 01:38:04,460
It's that there's no simple answer, right?

1379
01:38:04,460 --> 01:38:07,460
Because it depends on how far the lateral went, how deep the lateral went.

1380
01:38:07,460 --> 01:38:09,460
Great, give me a range.

1381
01:38:09,460 --> 01:38:11,460
I, I, I, I can just find.

1382
01:38:11,460 --> 01:38:13,460
I couldn't give you one, I'm sorry.

1383
01:38:13,460 --> 01:38:14,460
Courtney?

1384
01:38:14,460 --> 01:38:15,460
No, we have the nail.

1385
01:38:15,460 --> 01:38:16,460
Oh, there she comes.

1386
01:38:16,460 --> 01:38:17,460
Daniel.

1387
01:38:17,460 --> 01:38:18,460
Super early.

1388
01:38:18,460 --> 01:38:19,460
Thank you.

1389
01:38:19,460 --> 01:38:20,460
I don't need to be super specific.

1390
01:38:20,460 --> 01:38:22,460
I just kind of want to get an idea.

1391
01:38:22,460 --> 01:38:23,460
Sure.

1392
01:38:23,460 --> 01:38:24,460
Yes.

1393
01:38:24,460 --> 01:38:25,460
Daniel, green.

1394
01:38:25,460 --> 01:38:27,460
This is in Director Palmequix.

1395
01:38:27,460 --> 01:38:30,460
Typically a sewer lateral repair in the road.

1396
01:38:30,460 --> 01:38:31,460
It can be quite expensive.

1397
01:38:31,460 --> 01:38:33,460
They're at least five feet deep.

1398
01:38:33,460 --> 01:38:38,460
It's probably going to run you between five to 10,000 just without this.

1399
01:38:38,460 --> 01:38:45,460
I would say this maybe my add a thousand or two, but I did want to note that with our

1400
01:38:45,460 --> 01:38:51,460
lateral inspection program, we do have the opportunity for the seller to transfer responsibility

1401
01:38:51,460 --> 01:38:54,460
to the buyer if they both agree.

1402
01:38:54,460 --> 01:38:56,460
So that kind of could be an option.

1403
01:38:56,460 --> 01:38:59,460
That's a good option within the process deal.

1404
01:38:59,460 --> 01:39:00,460
Yeah.

1405
01:39:00,460 --> 01:39:01,460
Okay.

1406
01:39:01,460 --> 01:39:02,460
All right.

1407
01:39:02,460 --> 01:39:03,460
Well, thank you.

1408
01:39:03,460 --> 01:39:04,460
That's, that's valuable.

1409
01:39:04,460 --> 01:39:05,460
Now we, now we all kind of go.

1410
01:39:05,460 --> 01:39:06,460
Sure.

1411
01:39:06,460 --> 01:39:07,460
Oh, idea.

1412
01:39:07,460 --> 01:39:15,460
I would advocate absolutely sending out information to everyone if you're thinking of selling

1413
01:39:15,460 --> 01:39:18,460
your house in the next five to 10 years.

1414
01:39:18,460 --> 01:39:25,460
You know, and even if we're not going to be going back, or if we do have it say,

1415
01:39:25,460 --> 01:39:35,460
your, your street was freshly done in 2000, whatever, and so that they can kid us

1416
01:39:35,460 --> 01:39:40,460
sense that within three years or five years, it's going to get done again.

1417
01:39:40,460 --> 01:39:42,460
And the rates are going to go up.

1418
01:39:42,460 --> 01:39:48,460
I'm sure it could be explained so much better than my lack of articulation just now.

1419
01:39:48,460 --> 01:39:53,460
So, so our plan to make this information available to the public is to have a list of

1420
01:39:53,460 --> 01:39:55,460
of streets that are in moratorium currently.

1421
01:39:55,460 --> 01:40:00,460
After this is passed, obviously, and how long in that moratorium of the streets are.

1422
01:40:00,460 --> 01:40:06,460
So the public can easily go and and look and see if the street is in a moratorium and how long.

1423
01:40:06,460 --> 01:40:07,460
Yeah.

1424
01:40:07,460 --> 01:40:09,460
They need to, that, that, that is in place.

1425
01:40:09,460 --> 01:40:10,460
Appreciate that.

1426
01:40:10,460 --> 01:40:14,460
Once again, I have a huge senior contingent, the largest in the three county area.

1427
01:40:14,460 --> 01:40:16,460
They're not going to go online and go look at that.

1428
01:40:16,460 --> 01:40:21,460
So in some fashion, we need to be able to communicate whether it's in your utilities.

1429
01:40:21,460 --> 01:40:24,460
We could do that, you know, we need to send.

1430
01:40:24,460 --> 01:40:25,460
We could do mailers.

1431
01:40:25,460 --> 01:40:30,460
I mean, when we do year one year two, year three, we're doing them at least two years out.

1432
01:40:30,460 --> 01:40:31,460
Yeah.

1433
01:40:31,460 --> 01:40:36,460
So when you, you know, your, our next presentation is going to be finalizing year two and then year three.

1434
01:40:36,460 --> 01:40:40,460
Your three work isn't, you know, even going even start until twenty seven.

1435
01:40:40,460 --> 01:40:42,460
So now, it gives us time to say, hey, you're on the list for so,

1436
01:40:42,460 --> 01:40:45,460
slurry seal, that kind of starts the clock on this.

1437
01:40:45,460 --> 01:40:48,460
So that gives plenty of time for us to make sure that we're touching base.

1438
01:40:48,460 --> 01:40:53,460
And we can communicate with the HOA's to the thick and say, be on the lookout for this pay attention to this.

1439
01:40:53,460 --> 01:40:57,460
And not have to knock on doors or do anything else.

1440
01:40:57,460 --> 01:40:58,460
So we should do a mailer.

1441
01:40:58,460 --> 01:40:59,460
Yeah.

1442
01:40:59,460 --> 01:41:02,460
That would, that would be extraordinarily helpful for the communication.

1443
01:41:02,460 --> 01:41:06,460
And just a quick example for year three that we're going to be presenting here soon.

1444
01:41:06,460 --> 01:41:09,460
That construction won't happen until twenty twenty seven.

1445
01:41:09,460 --> 01:41:14,460
But we need to have a decision made because we need to start design this year twenty twenty six.

1446
01:41:14,460 --> 01:41:17,460
As soon as that decisions made, we know what streets we're going to hit.

1447
01:41:17,460 --> 01:41:19,460
And that's one of those mayors can go out.

1448
01:41:19,460 --> 01:41:27,460
So we will have about a little more than a year of leeway to give homeowners property owners an understanding of hey, this is coming.

1449
01:41:27,460 --> 01:41:28,460
Yeah.

1450
01:41:28,460 --> 01:41:30,460
And then it'll just be on a rotational.

1451
01:41:30,460 --> 01:41:31,460
You have two neighborhoods.

1452
01:41:31,460 --> 01:41:32,460
I think in your three.

1453
01:41:32,460 --> 01:41:33,460
Yeah.

1454
01:41:33,460 --> 01:41:35,460
It's just, I mean, your district.

1455
01:41:35,460 --> 01:41:36,460
Yeah.

1456
01:41:36,460 --> 01:41:37,460
And my district.

1457
01:41:37,460 --> 01:41:38,460
No, that's, this is scary.

1458
01:41:38,460 --> 01:41:39,460
I'm just sorry.

1459
01:41:39,460 --> 01:41:40,460
I know now.

1460
01:41:40,460 --> 01:41:41,460
Okay.

1461
01:41:41,460 --> 01:41:42,460
Thank you very much.

1462
01:41:42,460 --> 01:41:43,460
Is this effective immediately?

1463
01:41:43,460 --> 01:41:45,460
So if we pass this tonight.

1464
01:41:45,460 --> 01:41:50,460
The work that's already being because they're out pitching is out there ripping up the street now on Stanford.

1465
01:41:50,460 --> 01:41:53,460
Will they, this be, hold them to repair it?

1466
01:41:53,460 --> 01:41:55,460
No.

1467
01:41:55,460 --> 01:41:57,460
We just spent.

1468
01:41:57,460 --> 01:42:00,460
I mean, I'd like to know how much we just spent on Stanford.

1469
01:42:00,460 --> 01:42:04,460
I mean, that is such so irresponsible on someone's part.

1470
01:42:04,460 --> 01:42:06,460
So these is an ordinance.

1471
01:42:06,460 --> 01:42:08,460
So today's the first reading.

1472
01:42:08,460 --> 01:42:09,460
It will come back to you next.

1473
01:42:09,460 --> 01:42:10,460
Okay.

1474
01:42:10,460 --> 01:42:11,460
After the next meeting.

1475
01:42:11,460 --> 01:42:12,460
Will.

1476
01:42:13,460 --> 01:42:14,460
Okay.

1477
01:42:14,460 --> 01:42:16,460
The project's supposed to go on for a year.

1478
01:42:16,460 --> 01:42:17,460
Whatever.

1479
01:42:17,460 --> 01:42:18,460
Right.

1480
01:42:18,460 --> 01:42:22,460
Are they going to be held to this since they started the project already before?

1481
01:42:22,460 --> 01:42:23,460
Yeah.

1482
01:42:23,460 --> 01:42:26,460
The contracts have been signed.

1483
01:42:26,460 --> 01:42:28,460
This is, I mean, this is why the public gets mad at us.

1484
01:42:28,460 --> 01:42:29,460
I'm just going to be honest with you.

1485
01:42:29,460 --> 01:42:33,460
Like, what permits have an issue for that job on their the current rules.

1486
01:42:33,460 --> 01:42:34,460
Right?

1487
01:42:34,460 --> 01:42:37,460
So if the rules change, the rules change going forward.

1488
01:42:37,460 --> 01:42:39,460
But those permits have an issue.

1489
01:42:39,460 --> 01:42:42,460
And those permits are already in their gone.

1490
01:42:42,460 --> 01:42:45,460
And, you know, like, there are conditions for that job to happen.

1491
01:42:45,460 --> 01:42:47,460
And, and they will abide by those.

1492
01:42:47,460 --> 01:42:48,460
And we will make sure they do that.

1493
01:42:48,460 --> 01:42:53,460
I'd like to know when that when PG&E applied to to start this job.

1494
01:42:53,460 --> 01:42:55,460
We can look that up.

1495
01:42:55,460 --> 01:42:56,460
I have.

1496
01:42:56,460 --> 01:42:57,460
I have it.

1497
01:42:57,460 --> 01:42:58,460
I have it.

1498
01:42:58,460 --> 01:42:59,460
I have it.

1499
01:42:59,460 --> 01:43:00,460
I have it.

1500
01:43:00,460 --> 01:43:02,460
I have it.

1501
01:43:02,460 --> 01:43:03,460
I have it.

1502
01:43:03,460 --> 01:43:04,460
I have it.

1503
01:43:04,460 --> 01:43:05,460
I have it.

1504
01:43:05,460 --> 01:43:06,460
I have it.

1505
01:43:06,460 --> 01:43:07,460
I have it.

1506
01:43:07,460 --> 01:43:08,460
I have it.

1507
01:43:09,460 --> 01:43:10,460
Okay.

1508
01:43:10,460 --> 01:43:14,460
Seeing no other comments if we can throw it out to the public.

1509
01:43:14,460 --> 01:43:17,460
Any public comment on this issue.

1510
01:43:17,460 --> 01:43:18,460
Seeing none.

1511
01:43:18,460 --> 01:43:20,460
I'd like to entertain a motion at this time.

1512
01:43:20,460 --> 01:43:22,460
I'll make the motion.

1513
01:43:22,460 --> 01:43:23,460
I can.

1514
01:43:23,460 --> 01:43:24,460
I can't remember.

1515
01:43:24,460 --> 01:43:25,460
Montecino made the motion.

1516
01:43:25,460 --> 01:43:26,460
Mayor Brote.

1517
01:43:26,460 --> 01:43:27,460
Clark made the second.

1518
01:43:27,460 --> 01:43:29,460
With the motion in a second.

1519
01:43:29,460 --> 01:43:31,460
May I get a roll call?

1520
01:43:31,460 --> 01:43:34,460
Yes, Mayor.

1521
01:43:34,460 --> 01:43:37,460
The motion is to introduce for first reading by title only.

1522
01:43:37,460 --> 01:43:40,460
Waving full reading of the text.

1523
01:43:40,460 --> 01:43:42,460
In order to amend section 7-1.01.

1524
01:43:42,460 --> 01:43:45,460
7-1.06.

1525
01:43:45,460 --> 01:43:47,460
And 7-1.10.

1526
01:43:47,460 --> 01:43:48,460
Chapter 1.

1527
01:43:48,460 --> 01:43:50,460
Street excavations of title 7.

1528
01:43:50,460 --> 01:43:51,460
Public works.

1529
01:43:51,460 --> 01:43:54,460
At Watsonville Municipal Code to amend.

1530
01:43:54,460 --> 01:43:56,460
Existing definitions.

1531
01:43:56,460 --> 01:43:59,460
Specifications and bond or deposit requirements.

1532
01:43:59,460 --> 01:44:01,460
And adding section 7-1.13.

1533
01:44:01,460 --> 01:44:03,460
Through 7-1.17.

1534
01:44:03,460 --> 01:44:04,460
Chapter 1.

1535
01:44:05,460 --> 01:44:07,460
Street excavations of title 7.

1536
01:44:07,460 --> 01:44:08,460
Public works.

1537
01:44:08,460 --> 01:44:11,460
Of the Watsonville Municipal Code to establish safety precautions

1538
01:44:11,460 --> 01:44:13,460
and inability and transfer requirements.

1539
01:44:13,460 --> 01:44:17,460
More to target against extreme excavations on nearly improved streets.

1540
01:44:17,460 --> 01:44:19,460
More to target requirements.

1541
01:44:19,460 --> 01:44:22,460
More to target backfill and resurfacing requirements.

1542
01:44:22,460 --> 01:44:24,460
And coordinating.

1543
01:44:24,460 --> 01:44:27,460
Coordination of public utility excavations.

1544
01:44:27,460 --> 01:44:29,460
The motion was by council member Montecino.

1545
01:44:29,460 --> 01:44:31,460
Seconded by council member Clark.

1546
01:44:31,460 --> 01:44:33,460
I will now take a roll.

1547
01:44:34,460 --> 01:44:36,460
Clark.

1548
01:44:36,460 --> 01:44:37,460
Aye.

1549
01:44:37,460 --> 01:44:39,460
Do you try?

1550
01:44:39,460 --> 01:44:40,460
Aye.

1551
01:44:40,460 --> 01:44:41,460
Want to see now?

1552
01:44:41,460 --> 01:44:42,460
Yes.

1553
01:44:42,460 --> 01:44:43,460
What else go?

1554
01:44:43,460 --> 01:44:44,460
Aye.

1555
01:44:44,460 --> 01:44:45,460
Parker?

1556
01:44:45,460 --> 01:44:46,460
Aye.

1557
01:44:46,460 --> 01:44:47,460
Get us Carter?

1558
01:44:47,460 --> 01:44:48,460
Aye.

1559
01:44:48,460 --> 01:44:49,460
So see you then.

1560
01:44:49,460 --> 01:44:50,460
Aye.

1561
01:44:50,460 --> 01:44:52,460
The motion carries unanimously.

1562
01:44:52,460 --> 01:44:55,460
And moving on to item 12.

1563
01:44:55,460 --> 01:44:57,460
Be.

1564
01:44:57,460 --> 01:44:59,460
Thank you.

1565
01:44:59,460 --> 01:45:00,460
Thank you.

1566
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:10,000
Consideration of Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year 2024-25, midyear budget report for fiscal year 2025-2526.

1567
01:45:10,000 --> 01:45:17,000
About to us by Director Durin. Good evening.

1568
01:45:17,000 --> 01:45:22,000
Good evening, Mayor members of the City Council, Marissa Durin, city finance director.

1569
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:28,000
Here to talk to you about our annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year 2024-25,

1570
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:36,000
or midyear financial report for our current budget year fiscal year 2025-26.

1571
01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:44,000
So tonight, the recommended actions are that you accept by motion or annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2024-25,

1572
01:45:44,000 --> 01:45:50,000
also to accept by motion or midyear financial report for fiscal year 2025-26,

1573
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:56,000
accept by motion or annual measure, why audit report? This is a requirement of this funding source

1574
01:45:56,000 --> 01:46:03,000
to approve a resolution, appropriate in about $6.4 million, including one additional position.

1575
01:46:03,000 --> 01:46:09,000
The first couple of slides will focus on our annual Comprehensive Financial Report.

1576
01:46:09,000 --> 01:46:14,000
I wanted to make sure that you know where to find it. This is on the Finance Department webpage,

1577
01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:19,000
and this is what it looks like exactly like our budget book, but it does say annual Comprehensive Financial Report on it.

1578
01:46:19,000 --> 01:46:27,000
I wanted to go into a little bit of a background. We do use an independent external auditor.

1579
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:35,000
We use mace in associates. The audit has resulted in an unqualified opinion, which means we followed all general accounting principles.

1580
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:40,000
We're free of material errors and our financial statements are presented fairly.

1581
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:48,000
Additionally, we want to highlight that we have received the Excellence in Award and Financial Reporting for 28 years in a row.

1582
01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:56,000
This is the city's balance sheet, and if you look all the way to the right, you can see our,

1583
01:46:56,000 --> 01:47:04,000
yet all the way to the right, you can see 2024 fund balance, and this is across all of our city funds.

1584
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:13,000
We did have $302 million, but if you look at 2025, our fund balance has increased to $337 million.

1585
01:47:13,000 --> 01:47:18,000
This does include the $12 million bond issuance that we were able to issue on June 28.

1586
01:47:18,000 --> 01:47:25,000
But additionally, our biggest increase is in investment in capital assets.

1587
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:35,000
This is the use of fund balance. This is only general fund. What this shows is that we are almost able to fully fund our emergency and cash flow reserve,

1588
01:47:35,000 --> 01:47:40,000
that we do have the set aside for our hospital reserve and a CalPERS reserve,

1589
01:47:40,000 --> 01:47:47,000
that our measure our fund balance is protected, that our capital carry forward is reflected in our fund balance,

1590
01:47:47,000 --> 01:47:53,000
and also that $12 million in the bond that we issue.

1591
01:47:53,000 --> 01:48:00,000
This is our measure. Why audit report for fiscal year 2425? What it shows is that we collect a 5.3 million.

1592
01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:06,000
We were able to spend $5.5 million. We did spend about $300,000.

1593
01:48:06,000 --> 01:48:10,000
This is the fire department working on their restroom restoration.

1594
01:48:10,000 --> 01:48:15,000
They are completely done, and in this fiscal year, they used about $300,000 or so.

1595
01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:23,000
So they began, measure why began, it's fund balance at 2.8 in the Zendine, the fiscal year at 2.5.

1596
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:27,000
That was it on the annual financial comprehensive report.

1597
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:30,000
I'm going to talk to you about our current budget cycle.

1598
01:48:30,000 --> 01:48:40,000
So our current budget cycle, we did have revised budget revenues, and that first screen line there is our total revenues that we estimated for our taxes.

1599
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:47,000
We estimated $47 million. We are projecting to come in at 50 million.

1600
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:51,000
The biggest increases expected in sales tax.

1601
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:57,000
At 1.2 million, we have property taxes coming in 583,000 over budget.

1602
01:48:57,000 --> 01:49:02,000
This is due to higher assess value, due to transfer of properties.

1603
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:07,000
Then on hotel room taxes, this is a one-time payment from one hotel.

1604
01:49:07,000 --> 01:49:11,000
Utility users tax is an additional 574,000.

1605
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:16,000
On our departmental revenues, we are projecting to come in under budget for police,

1606
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:19,000
police currently has 10 vacancies.

1607
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:25,000
SRO officers are being filled with part-time officers, but we budgeted full-time on the revenue,

1608
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:31,000
and then also their parking revenues are down as they are a parking enforcement officer down.

1609
01:49:31,000 --> 01:49:40,000
On our fire, they are down also on fire inspection revenues, but they're over on their mutual aid response.

1610
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:44,000
So you'll see a correction in our appropriations list.

1611
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:50,000
Public works. This is both offset in expenses and revenues with the net wash.

1612
01:49:50,000 --> 01:49:55,000
And then our bond, we did budget. This budget was completed at the end of May.

1613
01:49:55,000 --> 01:49:58,000
We weren't certain these $12 million would come in in time.

1614
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:01,000
So they did. They came in June 28th.

1615
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:05,000
Some project were asking to bring that down.

1616
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:08,000
This is a picture of our general fund revenues.

1617
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:12,000
What it does show is that 71% of our revenues are taxes.

1618
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:17,000
And our highest coming in is sales tax.

1619
01:50:17,000 --> 01:50:20,000
This is our general fund expenditures.

1620
01:50:20,000 --> 01:50:28,000
We are looking at our city attorney needing to ask for an appropriation to end the year correctly on here.

1621
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:31,000
This is all the general fund departments combined.

1622
01:50:31,000 --> 01:50:33,000
Our community development department.

1623
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:39,000
We will be asking for some contract dollars for contract services for planning and engineering services.

1624
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:47,000
On our fire and police departments is the majority of this overage is due to overtime.

1625
01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:52,000
And we will be asking for a correction on that as well.

1626
01:50:52,000 --> 01:51:02,000
This is a trend from or an analysis that shows our 2022 to the current projected overtime for police.

1627
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:08,000
Again, there are 10 current vacancies on the police officer rank.

1628
01:51:09,000 --> 01:51:14,000
Our fire overtime is projected to come in a little bit under what it was last year.

1629
01:51:14,000 --> 01:51:19,000
But that we are also receiving about $700,000 less in mutual aid response.

1630
01:51:19,000 --> 01:51:22,000
So it's an offset on that.

1631
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:26,000
Our measure are we wanted to highlight that this revenue.

1632
01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:29,000
This revenue source is coming in under budget.

1633
01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:33,000
We're going to see the same thing with measure why and also with the library.

1634
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:41,000
So we projected budget at 5.5 million dollars is projected to come in at 5.271.

1635
01:51:41,000 --> 01:51:43,000
That's 300,000 less.

1636
01:51:43,000 --> 01:51:47,000
What we're also finding is that it came in under last fiscal year as well.

1637
01:51:47,000 --> 01:51:52,000
So we're projecting that we're 600,000 or so over budget.

1638
01:51:52,000 --> 01:52:00,000
Now we're not asking to correct it at mid year as we know that most of these projects are capital and they won't be completed in time for the budget.

1639
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:06,000
Year to end, so we'll we'll have this correction at the next year budget cycle.

1640
01:52:06,000 --> 01:52:12,000
These are the projects that are currently being that are currently funded in our current budget.

1641
01:52:12,000 --> 01:52:16,000
That our highest project here is our second floor atrium.

1642
01:52:16,000 --> 01:52:22,000
This was a dream for over a decade of the library without a funding source and measure are made that possible.

1643
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:26,000
So in May we will be able to open that second floor atrium.

1644
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:37,000
We have the street lights that were mentioned earlier also funded funder from the measure are has well as the nature center at 1.8 million dollars.

1645
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:41,000
This represents the general fund appropriation request.

1646
01:52:41,000 --> 01:52:44,000
So we're asking for 212 in legal.

1647
01:52:44,000 --> 01:52:52,000
Then city clerk has a 1,500 host of services ask community development has an 89,000 or so ask for reimbursement.

1648
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:55,000
Consulting services this is backed by revenue.

1649
01:52:55,000 --> 01:53:03,000
However, the planning contract services which includes planning and engineering in the amount of 330,000 is an additional ask.

1650
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:08,000
Police is coming in at almost 500,000 over on overtime.

1651
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:13,000
They are also asking for some consultation services 38,000 dollars.

1652
01:53:13,000 --> 01:53:20,000
It does cost a $7,000 to send a new police officer through backgrounds.

1653
01:53:20,000 --> 01:53:24,000
So we are needing some more money to fund that.

1654
01:53:24,000 --> 01:53:30,000
We have a mental health liaison that we have to share the cost with the county at 102,000.

1655
01:53:30,000 --> 01:53:34,000
Then we're also asking for some hiring bonuses money.

1656
01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:37,000
This is for laterals 150,000.

1657
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:39,000
This thing station is a grant.

1658
01:53:39,000 --> 01:53:43,000
So it's coming in and coming out at $28,000.

1659
01:53:43,000 --> 01:53:48,000
Then in fire we have an opportunity as we have an over recruitment for battalion fire chief.

1660
01:53:48,000 --> 01:53:50,000
We also have a retirement notice.

1661
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:56,000
So we're looking to overfill for four months if we're able to successfully hire two battalion chiefs.

1662
01:53:56,000 --> 01:54:05,000
They would be able to succession plan as a exiting battalion chief is our inspection battalion chief.

1663
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:10,000
And then also they're asking for overtime for 426.

1664
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:17,000
But we do have $68,000 coming in above and beyond what we budget it and strike team revenue.

1665
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:23,000
In our price division is $38,000 for that additional restroom cleaning.

1666
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:28,000
It was a pilot but it's really working out well so we're hoping to continue that.

1667
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:35,000
So on land all we're asking for 1.9 million in the general fund backed by 184,000 in revenue.

1668
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:41,000
And we also have that excess revenue that we talked about in our projection.

1669
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:42,000
Our price funds.

1670
01:54:42,000 --> 01:54:46,000
Their report is coming in at 1.1 million at the beginning of the fiscal year.

1671
01:54:46,000 --> 01:54:49,000
They're projected to end the year at 1.2 million.

1672
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:51,000
Voice water is coming in at 15 million.

1673
01:54:51,000 --> 01:54:55,000
They're working a lot of a lot of capital projects.

1674
01:54:55,000 --> 01:54:59,000
Some of these some of the money that are projected in here in revenue are grants.

1675
01:54:59,000 --> 01:55:04,000
That's the reason they're they'll only drop a little bit on their fund balance to 11 million.

1676
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:07,000
Solid waste is beginning the year at 12 million.

1677
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:10,000
They're projected to end the year at 11.3.

1678
01:55:10,000 --> 01:55:14,000
Our water division is beginning the year at 31.6 million.

1679
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:18,000
They're projected to end the fiscal year with also 12 million dollars.

1680
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:25,000
They also have a lot of capital needs that there's spending their fund balance.

1681
01:55:25,000 --> 01:55:26,000
Our internal service funds.

1682
01:55:26,000 --> 01:55:29,000
We have IT starting the year with 2.5 million.

1683
01:55:29,000 --> 01:55:34,000
They're also working on some capital projects that should end the year at 688.

1684
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:37,000
Our fleet shop began the year at 642.

1685
01:55:37,000 --> 01:55:42,000
Should end at about 740.000.

1686
01:55:42,000 --> 01:55:44,000
We have some of our other funds.

1687
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:51,000
Wanted to highlight that library and measure why are we're leaning into the same issue as measure R where they are coming in over budget.

1688
01:55:51,000 --> 01:55:55,000
So the library began their year at 2.4 million.

1689
01:55:55,000 --> 01:56:00,000
They are protecting to spend around 300,000 or so on capital dollars.

1690
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:03,000
This is the overage on the rooftop project.

1691
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:05,000
Measure R was over extended.

1692
01:56:05,000 --> 01:56:06,000
And offered that anymore.

1693
01:56:06,000 --> 01:56:09,000
But they have enough fund balance and should be able to cover that.

1694
01:56:09,000 --> 01:56:11,000
It should end the year at 1.9.

1695
01:56:11,000 --> 01:56:16,000
Measure why is it's beginning fund balance is 2.5 million.

1696
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:20,000
Fire does have most of their capital already budget it.

1697
01:56:20,000 --> 01:56:24,000
So we should end the year at 660.000.

1698
01:56:24,000 --> 01:56:26,000
Gas tax, SB 1, measure D.

1699
01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:28,000
These are our street project funds.

1700
01:56:28,000 --> 01:56:32,000
Gas tax does fund personnel and also electricity.

1701
01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:35,000
SB 1 and measure D are probably project funding.

1702
01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:38,000
There's no staff or operations on these.

1703
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:40,000
So gas tax started the year at 1.2 million.

1704
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:43,000
Should end the year at about a half a million.

1705
01:56:43,000 --> 01:56:45,000
SB 1 started the year at 5.1.

1706
01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:50,000
They should be able to spend almost of their fund balance and end the year at 1.7.

1707
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:53,000
Measure D started the year at 5 million.

1708
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:59,000
And they're protected to end the fiscal year at about 900,000.

1709
01:56:59,000 --> 01:57:03,000
This is the ask for the other funds that are not included in the general fund.

1710
01:57:03,000 --> 01:57:08,000
So we do have a one time insurance payment of 3.5 million backed by Stobloss revenue.

1711
01:57:08,000 --> 01:57:10,000
Also coming back to us.

1712
01:57:10,000 --> 01:57:11,000
So that's a net wash.

1713
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,000
Then in the carbon fund, this is a budget correction.

1714
01:57:14,000 --> 01:57:16,000
We fell to budget for this.

1715
01:57:16,000 --> 01:57:18,000
And then community development.

1716
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:21,000
This is money that came in after we had already completed the budget.

1717
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:25,000
This is for them to be able to do their programming in their home funds.

1718
01:57:25,000 --> 01:57:26,000
Public safety.

1719
01:57:26,000 --> 01:57:28,000
This is coming out of the grants fund.

1720
01:57:28,000 --> 01:57:32,000
We have a $91,000 grant to fund some rifles.

1721
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:37,000
Also for the fire department, we have $69,000 to fund turnout gear.

1722
01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:43,000
And then the 38,000, the reason it's here is we're asking for these funds out of measure why.

1723
01:57:43,000 --> 01:57:50,000
So it's $38,000 for capital to be for police to be able to do a radio upgrade.

1724
01:57:50,000 --> 01:57:54,000
And our airport department, they were waiting to have that.

1725
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:58,000
$1 million fund balance to be able to address some of their different maintenance.

1726
01:57:58,000 --> 01:58:04,000
So they're asking for about 100,000 to to do some repairs that they've been hoping to do.

1727
01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:07,000
And then also some corrections on some other utilities.

1728
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:08,000
And then parks.

1729
01:58:08,000 --> 01:58:11,000
This is a $200,000 ask.

1730
01:58:11,000 --> 01:58:13,000
This is in the Almed.

1731
01:58:13,000 --> 01:58:17,000
Babies for a repaired detention on a base in Bay.

1732
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:23,000
So all in all, we're asking for 4.4 million covered with 3.7 million in revenue.

1733
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:33,000
Then we want to end the presentation talking about our questions that we see entering our budget year.

1734
01:58:33,000 --> 01:58:38,000
We know we're in the high, high peaking years on our purse on funded liability.

1735
01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:41,000
We saw 9.7 million last year.

1736
01:58:41,000 --> 01:58:45,000
We're projecting 10.3 million in our upcoming budget.

1737
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:53,000
We have economic uncertainty in our revenues due to sales tax being our top top revenue source in the general fund.

1738
01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:58,000
We continue to see labor and contract negotiation inflation pressures.

1739
01:58:58,000 --> 01:59:01,000
We have health insurance with double digits in the last year.

1740
01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:08,000
We have JPA agreement such as the animal shelter already coming in at 10% increase over last year.

1741
01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:13,000
Then we have this new new funding request for next gen funding.

1742
01:59:13,000 --> 01:59:16,000
This is the county wide radio system.

1743
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:19,000
This hasn't been in our budget before and we need to make room.

1744
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:21,000
And then it's next year budget.

1745
01:59:21,000 --> 01:59:23,000
It will be $82,000 ask.

1746
01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:30,000
But for the remainder 12 years it ranges from 200,000 to 500,000 per year.

1747
01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:34,000
We currently are working on a feast study though.

1748
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:42,000
So we do see the opportunity coming into the budget that we will be able to bring in more revenue on some of our departmental revenue sites.

1749
01:59:43,000 --> 01:59:51,000
So want to remind you again, the action items for tonight are to accept our comprehensive annual report for last fiscal year or

1750
01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:53,000
May the report for this fiscal year.

1751
01:59:53,000 --> 01:59:57,000
Also our measure why for last fiscal year and to approve a resolution.

1752
01:59:57,000 --> 02:00:00,000
Appropriating 6.398 million dollars.

1753
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:06,000
Including one additional position. And that's it for the presentation. Open for questions.

1754
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:08,000
Councilmember Clark.

1755
02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:16,000
Yes, thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Thank you for all of your hard work and stewardship to keep us on a positive trend.

1756
02:00:16,000 --> 02:00:24,000
So precarious at times, because of outside forces around us. And thank you to the city manager as well because you have a lot of influence on our budget.

1757
02:00:24,000 --> 02:00:30,000
Um, one question. There's a word that you said wrapping up that made me go home.

1758
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:38,000
Um, the L-Mad Babies. What's going on with that? What's that project? Just curious. And Nick's getting up behind you.

1759
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,000
Yeah, I know it.

1760
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:48,000
Is it that pump station that's over off the pathway behind the houses or is it something different?

1761
02:00:48,000 --> 02:00:52,000
Um, the description there makes it sound way more exciting than it really is. It really is perimeter,

1762
02:00:52,000 --> 02:00:54,000
Fencing around the backside.

1763
02:00:54,000 --> 02:01:00,000
Oh, the subdivision and then around the detention basins that are in between the subdivision and the slew.

1764
02:01:00,000 --> 02:01:06,000
Okay, perfect. Awesome. And that 400,000 or 200,000. Okay. Thank you.

1765
02:01:06,000 --> 02:01:08,000
Councilmember Parker.

1766
02:01:08,000 --> 02:01:10,000
Hi.

1767
02:01:10,000 --> 02:01:22,000
Okay.

1768
02:01:22,000 --> 02:01:28,000
Um, I'm looking at expenditure city council, city manager, city clerk, city attorney, right?

1769
02:01:28,000 --> 02:01:30,000
Okay.

1770
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:35,000
Am I reading this wrong? Or is the city council the only one that ended in the,

1771
02:01:35,000 --> 02:01:37,000
that used all their money?

1772
02:01:37,000 --> 02:01:43,000
It's project and not to spend all of its money yet. Thank you. I just wanted to point that out to the public. Thank you.

1773
02:01:51,000 --> 02:01:55,000
Any other, other council member?

1774
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:59,000
All right.

1775
02:01:59,000 --> 02:02:05,000
Throwing it out to the public any public comment on the four items before us this evening.

1776
02:02:05,000 --> 02:02:11,000
Seeing none, I will entertain these four motion.

1777
02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:13,000
Yeah.

1778
02:02:13,000 --> 02:02:19,000
I was going to say am I allowed to do these all at once or do I have to read them out every single individual one.

1779
02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:23,000
I just say all you can, you can encompass all four of these in one motion.

1780
02:02:23,000 --> 02:02:25,000
Okay.

1781
02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:31,000
I'd like to make a motion to accept annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2425.

1782
02:02:31,000 --> 02:02:41,000
Maybe your financial report for 2526 fiscal year annual measure why audit report for fiscal year 2425.

1783
02:02:41,000 --> 02:02:43,000
Action on resolution.

1784
02:02:43,000 --> 02:02:47,000
1526 budget to authorize six thousand six million.

1785
02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:49,000
Six million. Sorry.

1786
02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:51,000
I'm tired.

1787
02:02:51,000 --> 02:02:59,000
Six million 389,880,810 dollar budget appropriation into various funds and to authorize one additional position.

1788
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:01,000
Second.

1789
02:03:01,000 --> 02:03:07,000
I have a motion and a second from council member Parker. She got it in.

1790
02:03:07,000 --> 02:03:11,000
And I have a hand raised question.

1791
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:19,000
You know, so we're talking about, you know, this fiscal year ending with all these, you know, variances.

1792
02:03:19,000 --> 02:03:27,000
When are we going to start talking about next, you know, the next and the next fiscal year and, you know,

1793
02:03:27,000 --> 02:03:33,000
and talking about, you know, a potential, you know, number number two assistant city manager.

1794
02:03:33,000 --> 02:03:37,000
And if we want to increase our, our, you know, our,

1795
02:03:37,000 --> 02:03:41,000
think that we don't spend enough, I guess we're city council.

1796
02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:45,000
We're starting budget talks in March.

1797
02:03:45,000 --> 02:03:51,000
And we'll, when would do we have an opportunity?

1798
02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:53,000
We will create an opportunity.

1799
02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:57,000
We are working on that schedule is right after tonight.

1800
02:03:57,000 --> 02:04:03,000
We'll start working on the schedule for next fiscal year, but it will come to you for first hearing

1801
02:04:03,000 --> 02:04:09,000
and June, the first meeting in June and another option hearing at the end of June.

1802
02:04:09,000 --> 02:04:15,000
But by that time, you're almost kind of kind of laying, we have a more input, you know.

1803
02:04:15,000 --> 02:04:21,000
No, no, we, we are planning to have an opportunity for input prior to finalizing the budget number.

1804
02:04:21,000 --> 02:04:25,000
So, much more or April.

1805
02:04:25,000 --> 02:04:29,000
Thank you.

1806
02:04:29,000 --> 02:04:35,000
Okay, I have a motion and the second we did public comment roll call.

1807
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:37,000
Clark.

1808
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:38,000
Hi.

1809
02:04:38,000 --> 02:04:39,000
Do you try?

1810
02:04:39,000 --> 02:04:40,000
Hi.

1811
02:04:40,000 --> 02:04:41,000
What does he know?

1812
02:04:41,000 --> 02:04:42,000
Yes.

1813
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:43,000
Hi.

1814
02:04:43,000 --> 02:04:44,000
Parker.

1815
02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:45,000
Hi.

1816
02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:46,000
Peter's Carter.

1817
02:04:46,000 --> 02:04:47,000
Hi.

1818
02:04:47,000 --> 02:04:50,000
The motion carries unanimously.

1819
02:04:50,000 --> 02:04:58,000
Hey, moving on to new business reviewing projects in pavement management program.

1820
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:00,000
Here's two, three.

1821
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:01,000
Pleasures to see you again.

1822
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,000
You're ending out a bang.

1823
02:05:03,000 --> 02:05:06,000
Director Lumberd.

1824
02:05:06,000 --> 02:05:08,000
Good evening.

1825
02:05:08,000 --> 02:05:09,000
Good evening.

1826
02:05:09,000 --> 02:05:11,000
Hello again.

1827
02:05:11,000 --> 02:05:20,000
So, tonight we're asking council to select a three year investment strategy for a pavement management program.

1828
02:05:20,000 --> 02:05:27,000
Council direction is needed to select the three year strategy in that 1.5 to 1.7 funding range that we have for year three.

1829
02:05:27,000 --> 02:05:33,000
This presentation reviews work completed so far upcoming projects.

1830
02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:39,000
An strategic approach for year three options for council to decide on.

1831
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:41,000
The decisions tonight.

1832
02:05:41,000 --> 02:05:51,000
Centers on how best to deploy the limited paving funds that we have for year three through measure D and SB one.

1833
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:57,000
So for brief summary here year one construction total approximately 2.5 million dollars.

1834
02:05:57,000 --> 02:06:03,000
It was focused on light rehabilitation and preventative maintenance as well as preventative maintenance.

1835
02:06:03,000 --> 02:06:10,000
The light rehabilitation projects which consisted of minor repaving were completed in the fall of 2025.

1836
02:06:10,000 --> 02:06:14,000
Prevented maintenance, which is the surface treatments.

1837
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:18,000
Are expected to be completed in the spring of this year.

1838
02:06:18,000 --> 02:06:23,000
These projects focused on addressing early deterioration and preserving good pavement.

1839
02:06:23,000 --> 02:06:33,000
Staff feels that these projects demonstrate our commitment to proactive asset management.

1840
02:06:33,000 --> 02:06:39,000
Year two will focus more heavily on rehabilitation, repaving and reconstruction of key corridors.

1841
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:42,000
Estimated construction costs is $8.3 million.

1842
02:06:42,000 --> 02:06:46,000
Major corridors include Clifford and Freedom Boulevard.

1843
02:06:46,000 --> 02:06:51,000
Construction will span summer 2026 through summer 2027.

1844
02:06:51,000 --> 02:06:55,000
These projects address structurally failed pavement requiring deeper investment.

1845
02:06:55,000 --> 02:07:01,000
Year two balances preservation from year one with necessary reconstruction.

1846
02:07:01,000 --> 02:07:15,000
Again, our strategy is to go from maintenance to rehabilitation, maintenance for rehabilitation to prevent a backlog in these streets.

1847
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:21,000
This slide shows what projects public or staff was able to move forward with based on the funding we were able to secure.

1848
02:07:21,000 --> 02:07:29,000
The limited SB one measure D and measure our funds that would only cover the fraction of the proposed projects.

1849
02:07:29,000 --> 02:07:32,000
As you can see from the slide here.

1850
02:07:32,000 --> 02:07:40,000
However, through successful grant funding applications to both the California Air Resource Board and the RTC's Regional Transportation Improvement Program.

1851
02:07:40,000 --> 02:07:47,000
Public work staff were able to secure additional $4 million to move forward as many of these projects as possible.

1852
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:56,000
Note that of the 60 million dollar pot of the grant funding available from the RTC public work staff were able to secure almost 20% of that with their successful applications.

1853
02:07:56,000 --> 02:08:05,000
There were competitive applications submitted from nine different groups, including the county, its four cities, Metro and UCSC, its name of view.

1854
02:08:06,000 --> 02:08:11,000
Through staff's efforts we were able to cover most, but not all of the proposed project costs.

1855
02:08:11,000 --> 02:08:17,000
Unfunded projects highlighted in yellow hair will roll forward to future years.

1856
02:08:17,000 --> 02:08:32,000
The three unfunded projects shown on the slide options are options two three and four in year three as you will see in upcoming slides.

1857
02:08:33,000 --> 02:08:37,000
So the right treatment at the right time maximizes public investment.

1858
02:08:37,000 --> 02:08:49,000
Over time the payment condition index, the PCI, trends down about one point per year in the top end of the graph and as much as five points per year as it nears the bottom of the graph.

1859
02:08:49,000 --> 02:08:55,000
Conversely as PCI decreases project cost increase significantly.

1860
02:08:55,000 --> 02:09:04,000
Applying preventative maintenance at PCI 70 costs cost roughly one eighth the cost of rehabilitation at PCI of 40.

1861
02:09:04,000 --> 02:09:17,000
If preventative maintenance is delayed, roads decline into rehab category cost increase three to five times and there's a larger future capital burden.

1862
02:09:17,000 --> 02:09:30,000
If rehabilitation is deferred, structural failure continues, safety and liability risk increase and full reconstruction may be required.

1863
02:09:30,000 --> 02:09:43,000
Again alternating treatment types balances system preservation with targeted reconstruction preventing backlog growth.

1864
02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:48,000
So we're going to go over the options for year three.

1865
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:53,000
Option one is preventative maintenance.

1866
02:09:53,000 --> 02:09:56,000
This work includes multiple streets.

1867
02:09:56,000 --> 02:10:04,000
Fifty six, fifty six streets sections as shown here estimated cost for this work is $1.7 million.

1868
02:10:04,000 --> 02:10:12,000
These streets were selected based on their payment condition index or PCI and geographic geographic proximity to each other.

1869
02:10:12,000 --> 02:10:21,000
It is cheaper to work on streets that are closer together than it is to go all around the city doing different different different streets.

1870
02:10:21,000 --> 02:10:27,000
Again a lot of the contract costs for that requires mobilization of equipment and materials.

1871
02:10:27,000 --> 02:10:37,000
So again the closer they are together the cheaper overall the project will cost.

1872
02:10:37,000 --> 02:10:41,000
Option two rehabilitation.

1873
02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:50,000
Again this is part of what was deferred from year two first one being Pennsylvania driver pair from Clifford Avenue to winding way.

1874
02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:57,000
This is going to be we're estimating a $1.7 million project focused in one corridor.

1875
02:10:57,000 --> 02:11:05,000
Address is structural deterioration of the street and the adjacent slope that's causing the bike lane to fall in.

1876
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:17,000
This is a significantly higher cost per lane mile and overall fewer streets will be improved.

1877
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:20,000
Option three rehabilitation.

1878
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:23,000
Again another roll over from year two.

1879
02:11:23,000 --> 02:11:26,000
This is Clifford drive phase two.

1880
02:11:26,000 --> 02:11:36,000
$1.5 million estimated project to complete the corridor that we are already doing the phase one of in year two.

1881
02:11:36,000 --> 02:11:43,000
This will be from Pennsylvania to freedom in year two we are paving Maine to Pennsylvania.

1882
02:11:43,000 --> 02:11:54,000
This concentrates all the funding that we have available in one area and it's limited network wide benefit.

1883
02:11:54,000 --> 02:11:58,000
Option four is preventative maintenance.

1884
02:11:58,000 --> 02:12:07,000
This option includes work in four separate street segments including low district, harvest drive, march on street and pex street.

1885
02:12:07,000 --> 02:12:11,000
This is targeted preventative maintenance in key neighborhoods.

1886
02:12:11,000 --> 02:12:22,000
It has overall lower pre project cost part project cost excuse me and preserve streets before they decline into a more costly repair.

1887
02:12:22,000 --> 02:12:32,000
This is a broader geographic benefit than the options two and three but not as much as option one.

1888
02:12:32,000 --> 02:12:37,000
Real quickly these are the locations for locust and harvest drive between beach and riverside.

1889
02:12:37,000 --> 02:12:42,000
You can see the costs there. I'll summarize it here in a minute.

1890
02:12:42,000 --> 02:12:48,000
March on street from east beach to riverside.

1891
02:12:48,000 --> 02:12:57,000
Pex street for Maine to union.

1892
02:12:57,000 --> 02:13:07,000
And just to add to this if you recall the last time Murray and I brought this year two to council when we didn't know how much money we were getting from RTC.

1893
02:13:07,000 --> 02:13:16,000
These four streets were listed as a contingency that we could possibly do if we had more money on top of what we needed to do the full reconstruction.

1894
02:13:16,000 --> 02:13:22,000
So if this looks list looks familiar that's why.

1895
02:13:22,000 --> 02:13:32,000
So again, the total estimated cost for option number four comes out to 1.1 million dollars.

1896
02:13:32,000 --> 02:13:37,000
So funding overview for year three.

1897
02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:46,000
Before we discuss the recommendation, this slide summarizes our funding reality for year three and what it means for how many projects we can deliver this year.

1898
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:58,000
No competitive grant funding identified for year three, the RTC's regional transportation improvement program is not expected to issue a call for projects until fall of 2027.

1899
02:13:58,000 --> 02:14:05,000
As you can see with only 1.7 million dollars allocated this year we have the capacity to deliver only one option.

1900
02:14:05,000 --> 02:14:15,000
And any additional work required new funding or we will need to roll forward to a future cycle.

1901
02:14:16,000 --> 02:14:33,000
As you can see from this comparison table, provided maintenance options treat more lane miles option one trees 14.72 lane miles compare to 1.14 for option two 1.34 for option three and 2.14 option four.

1902
02:14:33,000 --> 02:14:39,000
While rehabilitation options focus on structural restoration of fewer corridors.

1903
02:14:39,000 --> 02:14:44,000
Provend of maintenance.

1904
02:14:44,000 --> 02:14:51,000
Provend of maintenance so lower cost per mile extends pavement life and reduces long-term liability.

1905
02:14:51,000 --> 02:14:55,000
Rehabilitation addresses visible deterioration.

1906
02:14:55,000 --> 02:14:58,000
There's a higher per mile investment.

1907
02:14:58,000 --> 02:15:01,000
These repairs are necessary.

1908
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:15,000
Secondary, footer more capital intensive. Year 3 projects need to be identified at this time to allow for design to take place in 2026 and then constructed in 2027.

1909
02:15:15,000 --> 02:15:25,000
The decision here will reflect the council's priorities, preservation versus concentrated restoration.

1910
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:29,000
So staff recognizes that certain corridors require future rehabilitation investment.

1911
02:15:29,000 --> 02:15:33,000
However, given current funding levels in the overall condition of the network,

1912
02:15:33,000 --> 02:15:37,000
preserving a larger portion of the system now delivers the greatest community-wide benefit

1913
02:15:37,000 --> 02:15:41,000
and chills the city from significantly higher costs in the future.

1914
02:15:41,000 --> 02:15:46,000
Applying the right treatment at the right time is how we maximize public investment,

1915
02:15:46,000 --> 02:15:52,000
preventative maintenance at a PCF-70, like I said, cost roughly 1-8th rehabilitation cost of PCF-40.

1916
02:15:52,000 --> 02:15:58,000
Delane action increases costs, 3-5 times, and creates a much larger future capital burden.

1917
02:15:58,000 --> 02:16:05,000
Our alternating treatment strategy and stress structural failures are addressed in scheduled rehabilitation years,

1918
02:16:05,000 --> 02:16:08,000
preventing backlog growth while maintaining system stability.

1919
02:16:08,000 --> 02:16:13,000
For these reasons, staff recommends proceeding with preventative maintenance this year,

1920
02:16:13,000 --> 02:16:19,000
this approach protects more roads, benefits, more neighbourhoods, and supports long-term fiscal sustainability.

1921
02:16:19,000 --> 02:16:23,000
We respectfully request the council's support of option number 1.

1922
02:16:27,000 --> 02:16:29,000
Any questions?

1923
02:16:31,000 --> 02:16:33,000
Council member Montesino.

1924
02:16:33,000 --> 02:16:39,000
Go back to that slide where option 1 was, so we can look at it.

1925
02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:45,000
This is option 1.

1926
02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:51,000
Or did you want the comparison?

1927
02:16:51,000 --> 02:16:53,000
Yeah, the comparison.

1928
02:16:59,000 --> 02:17:00,000
This slide?

1929
02:17:00,000 --> 02:17:01,000
Yeah.

1930
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:02,000
Thank you.

1931
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:07,000
No, I mean, I'm supportive of option 1 or like 4, but it's just 1 and 2.

1932
02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:09,000
No, you'd be greedy.

1933
02:17:09,000 --> 02:17:14,000
But it looks like an option was a better option.

1934
02:17:14,000 --> 02:17:21,000
It gives us more lane miles treated, so it would be helpful for all of us.

1935
02:17:21,000 --> 02:17:22,000
It does.

1936
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:26,000
And I know I wish that we could touch every district, every time.

1937
02:17:26,000 --> 02:17:33,000
And this was part of what we presented with the overall plan and how we had the equity applied to it.

1938
02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:41,000
That when we do the rehab, our money goes less far because it costs more for reconstruction.

1939
02:17:41,000 --> 02:17:44,000
But when we're doing the preventative, we can do less with more.

1940
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:47,000
You know also know 1.7 sounds like a lot of money.

1941
02:17:47,000 --> 02:17:50,000
It is not when you start applying it to streets.

1942
02:17:50,000 --> 02:17:54,000
And so while we would love to be able to touch all seven districts every year,

1943
02:17:54,000 --> 02:18:01,000
what Miguel said, what we talked about before, the cost of mobilization and moving that these crews around would destroy our budget.

1944
02:18:01,000 --> 02:18:06,000
So the first year we really concentrated on districts 1, 2, 3.

1945
02:18:06,000 --> 02:18:09,000
So now we're seeing 4, 5, 6, 7 get some attention.

1946
02:18:09,000 --> 02:18:10,000
Yeah.

1947
02:18:10,000 --> 02:18:11,000
Makes sense.

1948
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:12,000
Thank you.

1949
02:18:12,000 --> 02:18:14,000
Councilmember Deutra.

1950
02:18:14,000 --> 02:18:15,000
Thank you.

1951
02:18:15,000 --> 02:18:16,000
I appreciate.

1952
02:18:16,000 --> 02:18:19,000
And being fair about it because.

1953
02:18:19,000 --> 02:18:22,000
I think we're all appreciative of that.

1954
02:18:22,000 --> 02:18:23,000
So.

1955
02:18:24,000 --> 02:18:27,000
Just for clarification, the.

1956
02:18:27,000 --> 02:18:32,000
The the Clifford from from Pennsylvania to freedom is when.

1957
02:18:32,000 --> 02:18:33,000
What year.

1958
02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:35,000
That could be your two.

1959
02:18:35,000 --> 02:18:36,000
You're too.

1960
02:18:36,000 --> 02:18:37,000
Because it's such a long.

1961
02:18:37,000 --> 02:18:38,000
Is that the year three.

1962
02:18:38,000 --> 02:18:39,000
Oh, I have a flip.

1963
02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:42,000
Yeah, so that's that's option number two here.

1964
02:18:42,000 --> 02:18:43,000
Oh, good.

1965
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:44,000
So if it's not.

1966
02:18:44,000 --> 02:18:49,000
So Clifford was split into two projects.

1967
02:18:49,000 --> 02:18:52,000
The first portion of it that we're doing in year two was funded by RTC.

1968
02:18:52,000 --> 02:18:55,000
It leaves the second portion unfunded.

1969
02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:57,000
So it's kind of TBD when we do it.

1970
02:18:57,000 --> 02:18:58,000
Oh, that one's not going to be.

1971
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:02,000
So from Pennsylvania to freedom is not scheduled.

1972
02:19:02,000 --> 02:19:03,000
Yeah.

1973
02:19:03,000 --> 02:19:04,000
Yeah.

1974
02:19:04,000 --> 02:19:05,000
I mean, it's.

1975
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:06,000
If it's not chosen today.

1976
02:19:06,000 --> 02:19:07,000
If it's not chosen today.

1977
02:19:07,000 --> 02:19:09,000
It will be rolled over to like year four.

1978
02:19:09,000 --> 02:19:10,000
It's yeah.

1979
02:19:10,000 --> 02:19:12,000
It is scheduled in part of the six year plan.

1980
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:13,000
It's not funded yet.

1981
02:19:13,000 --> 02:19:15,000
And so, you know, if we did do this,

1982
02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:17,000
we wouldn't be able to do anything else.

1983
02:19:17,000 --> 02:19:19,000
And then the.

1984
02:19:20,000 --> 02:19:24,000
The RTC did fund though freedom boulevard, which is district three.

1985
02:19:24,000 --> 02:19:27,000
And then also district five's.

1986
02:19:27,000 --> 02:19:30,000
Pennsylvania path.

1987
02:19:30,000 --> 02:19:31,000
The trail correct.

1988
02:19:31,000 --> 02:19:34,000
That will be going when does that start.

1989
02:19:34,000 --> 02:19:36,000
So that's.

1990
02:19:36,000 --> 02:19:39,000
So that's those are designers underway for all of those projects.

1991
02:19:39,000 --> 02:19:40,000
For both those projects.

1992
02:19:40,000 --> 02:19:41,000
Exactly.

1993
02:19:41,000 --> 02:19:42,000
Three of those projects.

1994
02:19:42,000 --> 02:19:43,000
Three.

1995
02:19:43,000 --> 02:19:44,000
Yeah.

1996
02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:46,000
So freedom from Green Valley to airport.

1997
02:19:46,000 --> 02:19:48,000
Clifford from Maine to Pennsylvania.

1998
02:19:49,000 --> 02:19:50,000
And also being a dry track.

1999
02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:51,000
There's like, yeah.

2000
02:19:51,000 --> 02:19:52,000
That one.

2001
02:19:52,000 --> 02:19:54,000
So I'll three of those projects are being designed right now.

2002
02:19:54,000 --> 02:20:00,000
Construction should start in this the summer actually for.

2003
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:03,000
Clifford Avenue.

2004
02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:05,000
And keep going to summer 2027.

2005
02:20:05,000 --> 02:20:07,000
When do you guys.

2006
02:20:07,000 --> 02:20:08,000
I'm.

2007
02:20:08,000 --> 02:20:12,000
anticipate freedom of art to be to start spring 27.

2008
02:20:12,000 --> 02:20:13,000
Spring 27.

2009
02:20:13,000 --> 02:20:14,000
So any year.

2010
02:20:14,000 --> 02:20:15,000
Correct.

2011
02:20:15,000 --> 02:20:17,000
We do have a water man.

2012
02:20:18,000 --> 02:20:19,000
Like our street.

2013
02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:20,000
We've got a more touring.

2014
02:20:20,000 --> 02:20:23,000
Oh, we have a water man that we need to fix before we start repaying that street.

2015
02:20:23,000 --> 02:20:25,000
So just when when would that start?

2016
02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:28,000
Like the when would the actual headache for people to be like.

2017
02:20:28,000 --> 02:20:31,000
Streets closed, you know, summer fall this year.

2018
02:20:31,000 --> 02:20:32,000
Okay.

2019
02:20:32,000 --> 02:20:34,000
So we're going to start the water man this year then correct.

2020
02:20:34,000 --> 02:20:35,000
Oh, okay.

2021
02:20:35,000 --> 02:20:37,000
So construction is going to start soon then.

2022
02:20:37,000 --> 02:20:40,000
Construction will start on the underground work.

2023
02:20:40,000 --> 02:20:43,000
And then once we're finished with that while we're doing the design.

2024
02:20:43,000 --> 02:20:45,000
And then once we're finished with all of that, right?

2025
02:20:45,000 --> 02:20:46,000
So we don't want to cut into it.

2026
02:20:47,000 --> 02:20:49,000
Then we'll do the painting.

2027
02:20:49,000 --> 02:20:50,000
So, okay.

2028
02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:52,000
So just like the other part of Freedom Boulevard.

2029
02:20:52,000 --> 02:20:54,000
All the underground work happened in the top.

2030
02:20:54,000 --> 02:20:55,000
Correct.

2031
02:20:55,000 --> 02:20:57,000
And then that underground starts this summer.

2032
02:20:57,000 --> 02:20:58,000
Correct.

2033
02:20:58,000 --> 02:20:59,000
Okay.

2034
02:20:59,000 --> 02:21:00,000
Yeah.

2035
02:21:00,000 --> 02:21:01,000
Summer or fall of this year.

2036
02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:02,000
Summer or fall.

2037
02:21:02,000 --> 02:21:03,000
I'll say fall because, you know.

2038
02:21:03,000 --> 02:21:05,000
If you say summer, then we like why isn't it.

2039
02:21:05,000 --> 02:21:06,000
You know.

2040
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:07,000
It's like the lights.

2041
02:21:07,000 --> 02:21:08,000
February.

2042
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:09,000
Windland.

2043
02:21:09,000 --> 02:21:11,000
Council member clerk.

2044
02:21:11,000 --> 02:21:13,000
Okay.

2045
02:21:13,000 --> 02:21:15,000
Thank you for all this information.

2046
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:16,000
It's wonderful.

2047
02:21:16,000 --> 02:21:18,000
Pennsylvania Trail.

2048
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:21,000
Is it the one above the road or below the road?

2049
02:21:21,000 --> 02:21:22,000
Above the road?

2050
02:21:22,000 --> 02:21:23,000
Above the road?

2051
02:21:23,000 --> 02:21:24,000
That's what I thought.

2052
02:21:24,000 --> 02:21:25,000
Okay.

2053
02:21:25,000 --> 02:21:30,000
What about that section of Pennsylvania between Clifford and Green Valley?

2054
02:21:30,000 --> 02:21:32,000
I thought I saw it on this.

2055
02:21:32,000 --> 02:21:33,000
On one of these options.

2056
02:21:33,000 --> 02:21:36,000
But now I'm questioning myself.

2057
02:21:36,000 --> 02:21:39,000
I'm talking about the road that's slipping out.

2058
02:21:39,000 --> 02:21:43,000
The section of Pennsylvania between Clifford and Green Valley.

2059
02:21:43,000 --> 02:21:45,000
It was on one of these options.

2060
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:46,000
Wasn't it?

2061
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:47,000
Yes.

2062
02:21:47,000 --> 02:21:48,000
It was an option.

2063
02:21:48,000 --> 02:21:49,000
Option two.

2064
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:50,000
Yes.

2065
02:21:50,000 --> 02:21:51,000
That's what I thought.

2066
02:21:51,000 --> 02:21:53,000
Okay.

2067
02:21:53,000 --> 02:21:54,000
So have we had.

2068
02:21:54,000 --> 02:21:59,000
I'm assuming we've had engineers out there and do we know some sort of a timeline of how much

2069
02:21:59,000 --> 02:22:04,000
longer that section of road we're hoping will last?

2070
02:22:04,000 --> 02:22:06,000
Because that's kind of a bigger one.

2071
02:22:06,000 --> 02:22:07,000
I understand that option two.

2072
02:22:07,000 --> 02:22:09,000
It's it's a one and done, right?

2073
02:22:09,000 --> 02:22:15,000
But if that slips out, we lose a kind of a not a main artery, but an artery.

2074
02:22:15,000 --> 02:22:17,000
It becomes an emergency project.

2075
02:22:17,000 --> 02:22:18,000
Yeah.

2076
02:22:18,000 --> 02:22:23,000
And if it becomes an emergency project, I mean, do we have emergency funds for something like that?

2077
02:22:23,000 --> 02:22:25,000
Because I'm all about option one.

2078
02:22:25,000 --> 02:22:28,000
But I'm looking at option two, which isn't even in my district.

2079
02:22:28,000 --> 02:22:31,000
You know, but I drive it often.

2080
02:22:31,000 --> 02:22:35,000
And I mean, I see the road slipping out from under us.

2081
02:22:35,000 --> 02:22:39,000
It's it's just something that I'm concerned about and I just want to kind of hear.

2082
02:22:39,000 --> 02:22:43,000
Yeah, I mean, that that really depends on on the existing conditions.

2083
02:22:43,000 --> 02:22:49,000
I mean, if it gets saturated with water, there's there's a possibility that it could a road quicker.

2084
02:22:49,000 --> 02:22:52,000
But it's hard to say give you a timeline of erosion.

2085
02:22:52,000 --> 02:22:53,000
No, no, no, I get that.

2086
02:22:53,000 --> 02:22:54,000
But are we watching it?

2087
02:22:54,000 --> 02:22:56,000
Like are there people out there?

2088
02:22:56,000 --> 02:22:57,000
Yeah.

2089
02:22:57,000 --> 02:22:59,000
Check in the the land that's moving and all that's okay.

2090
02:22:59,000 --> 02:23:02,000
So it's not just like, oh, if it happens, it happens if it doesn't.

2091
02:23:02,000 --> 02:23:05,000
We're actually actively keeping an eye on it, right?

2092
02:23:05,000 --> 02:23:07,000
We are, but just to clarify.

2093
02:23:07,000 --> 02:23:10,000
I mean, depending on how much water is out there.

2094
02:23:10,000 --> 02:23:11,000
Oh, yeah.

2095
02:23:11,000 --> 02:23:12,000
We're in earthquake.

2096
02:23:12,000 --> 02:23:16,000
You could happen the next day or could happen a year from now or even longer than that.

2097
02:23:16,000 --> 02:23:17,000
Okay.

2098
02:23:17,000 --> 02:23:20,000
Because like, I get option one is equitable.

2099
02:23:20,000 --> 02:23:21,000
I like it.

2100
02:23:21,000 --> 02:23:23,000
It benefits my district as well.

2101
02:23:23,000 --> 02:23:26,000
But I just kind of want to put that out there to everyone that like,

2102
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:28,000
There's a ticking time bomb.

2103
02:23:28,000 --> 02:23:29,000
Yeah.

2104
02:23:29,000 --> 02:23:31,000
And it helps to mitigate that.

2105
02:23:31,000 --> 02:23:32,000
But yeah.

2106
02:23:32,000 --> 02:23:33,000
Yeah.

2107
02:23:33,000 --> 02:23:34,000
That's a very small strip of roads.

2108
02:23:34,000 --> 02:23:35,000
Yeah.

2109
02:23:35,000 --> 02:23:39,000
That's the reason why this, that street section is we're presenting on that.

2110
02:23:39,000 --> 02:23:42,000
It was deferred last year because we couldn't get the funding for it.

2111
02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:44,000
But it's going to keep getting pushed off.

2112
02:23:44,000 --> 02:23:47,000
Pushed off until the council decides, hey, this is the priority.

2113
02:23:47,000 --> 02:23:48,000
We need to do this one.

2114
02:23:48,000 --> 02:23:54,000
So theoretically, given if that stretch of road fails and the, you know,

2115
02:23:54,000 --> 02:23:56,000
There's a slide.

2116
02:23:57,000 --> 02:24:01,000
That is probably going to affect the walking trail that we're now investing in as well.

2117
02:24:01,000 --> 02:24:02,000
Correct.

2118
02:24:02,000 --> 02:24:06,000
Not necessarily, there's, there's a potential for that sure.

2119
02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:07,000
Yeah.

2120
02:24:07,000 --> 02:24:08,000
Just like anywhere else.

2121
02:24:08,000 --> 02:24:10,000
But we're pretty far away from the failure.

2122
02:24:10,000 --> 02:24:16,000
If you know, the failure that's happening on Pennsylvania drive trail is on the, on the, on the downhill side.

2123
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:21,000
No, no, I, I, I get that that everything goes downhill and the, you know, trail about,

2124
02:24:21,000 --> 02:24:22,000
No, I get it.

2125
02:24:22,000 --> 02:24:23,000
I drive it every day.

2126
02:24:23,000 --> 02:24:25,000
I know where the failure is.

2127
02:24:25,000 --> 02:24:28,000
The, the failure is happening in the bike lane as you can see it's separating.

2128
02:24:28,000 --> 02:24:30,000
It's creating a, a crevice in the bike lane.

2129
02:24:30,000 --> 02:24:34,000
It's not creating a, it's not shifting the whole thing down it in one section.

2130
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:35,000
Yeah.

2131
02:24:35,000 --> 02:24:37,000
It's kind of ripping into different sections.

2132
02:24:37,000 --> 02:24:38,000
Okay.

2133
02:24:38,000 --> 02:24:39,000
Yeah.

2134
02:24:39,000 --> 02:24:43,000
So we don't, I don't expect there's going to be any danger of, of the trail being, in danger.

2135
02:24:43,000 --> 02:24:44,000
Okay.

2136
02:24:44,000 --> 02:24:45,000
Okay.

2137
02:24:45,000 --> 02:24:46,000
Thank you for that.

2138
02:24:46,000 --> 02:24:50,000
Just want to kind of put that out there for everyone who is not familiar with it.

2139
02:24:50,000 --> 02:24:51,000
Thank you.

2140
02:24:51,000 --> 02:24:54,000
That's a good point to say that though, because this isn't to say,

2141
02:24:54,000 --> 02:24:57,000
we don't have any other opportunities for funding.

2142
02:24:57,000 --> 02:25:02,000
You know, that with the threat as we saw with the Main Street sidewalk, which we're very excited about.

2143
02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:07,000
You know, as you see things start to fail, it can open other doors for other funding.

2144
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:10,000
So we're looking at resiliency funding and things that we could.

2145
02:25:10,000 --> 02:25:13,000
We're don't have to just wait for RTC or wait to do this.

2146
02:25:13,000 --> 02:25:17,000
You know, we can continue pursuing funding for that road.

2147
02:25:17,000 --> 02:25:20,000
Knowing that we have to make a decision on this part of money.

2148
02:25:20,000 --> 02:25:23,000
But that's a really good point because we do watch it.

2149
02:25:23,000 --> 02:25:26,000
And that is a area that we've all aware of.

2150
02:25:26,000 --> 02:25:31,000
Council member Parker.

2151
02:25:31,000 --> 02:25:32,000
Thank you.

2152
02:25:32,000 --> 02:25:33,000
I was noticing that.

2153
02:25:33,000 --> 02:25:35,000
I mean, I'm fully aware of that whole area.

2154
02:25:35,000 --> 02:25:39,000
And it's.

2155
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:40,000
Yeah, it's problematic.

2156
02:25:40,000 --> 02:25:45,000
And I know that option one does include my district, none of the other options do.

2157
02:25:45,000 --> 02:25:52,000
But I do, you know, it's good to hear that that there is a possibility of other funding.

2158
02:25:52,000 --> 02:25:59,000
If an emergency situation occurs on that to not just have it all collapsed.

2159
02:25:59,000 --> 02:26:00,000
Right.

2160
02:26:00,000 --> 02:26:03,000
And I looked at all the streets that are covered in seven.

2161
02:26:03,000 --> 02:26:05,000
There's a, there's a ton.

2162
02:26:05,000 --> 02:26:09,000
So that makes it very valuable to the city in the end.

2163
02:26:09,000 --> 02:26:15,000
And I think in six as well, you know, I mean, looking at how much it would cost if they all failed.

2164
02:26:15,000 --> 02:26:18,000
Or if they all got worse, you know, how much.

2165
02:26:18,000 --> 02:26:22,000
So yeah, I'm in favor of option one.

2166
02:26:22,000 --> 02:26:23,000
I just.

2167
02:26:23,000 --> 02:26:27,000
I'm glad to hear that you're still pursuing other.

2168
02:26:27,000 --> 02:26:33,000
Grants and other, you know, money's to look at option two because.

2169
02:26:33,000 --> 02:26:36,000
That's the role of the diocese as far as I'm concerned.

2170
02:26:36,000 --> 02:26:38,000
And, you know, expertise as an engineer.

2171
02:26:38,000 --> 02:26:43,000
You guys are looking at it and and determining, you know, which one's going to super fail.

2172
02:26:43,000 --> 02:26:47,000
So thank you for this presentation.

2173
02:26:47,000 --> 02:26:55,000
How can, how can we get the RTC to give us more money for South County?

2174
02:26:55,000 --> 02:26:59,000
And as you notice, I'm looking over at you Eduardo.

2175
02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:07,000
I'm just saying, because when I was on the RTC, we had huge amount of money going to Santa Cruz every single year.

2176
02:27:07,000 --> 02:27:10,000
Oh, wait, were you at Santa Cruz then? So you know.

2177
02:27:10,000 --> 02:27:11,000
Yeah.

2178
02:27:11,000 --> 02:27:16,000
So, and, and then, you know, oh, we can't do that over there in South County.

2179
02:27:16,000 --> 02:27:17,000
It's too much or this.

2180
02:27:17,000 --> 02:27:26,000
So is there any way we can help you advocate, you know, for more funding or our share of that in South County,

2181
02:27:26,000 --> 02:27:28,000
so that we can, you know.

2182
02:27:28,000 --> 02:27:34,000
Well, I mean, I won't speak for council member of Montecita, but we were thrilled about this year.

2183
02:27:34,000 --> 02:27:38,000
You know, 20% of the total pot, when everybody is aggressively going after it,

2184
02:27:38,000 --> 02:27:43,000
coming to South County and seeing out their top three projects, Watsonville was two.

2185
02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:45,000
I mean, we just absolutely ace it.

2186
02:27:45,000 --> 02:27:51,000
And Miguel put together the applications, I think, like two days after he started.

2187
02:27:51,000 --> 02:27:54,000
So I mean, it was such a celebratory time.

2188
02:27:54,000 --> 02:27:59,000
So I do want to like hold a little space for how proud we are of how much money we did.

2189
02:27:59,000 --> 02:28:00,000
Very good.

2190
02:28:00,000 --> 02:28:01,000
Thank you very much.

2191
02:28:01,000 --> 02:28:02,000
Yeah.

2192
02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:04,000
It is a two year funding cycle.

2193
02:28:04,000 --> 02:28:08,000
We continue to have an excellent relationship with RTC.

2194
02:28:08,000 --> 02:28:17,000
You know, we work with, well, I, you know, work closely with all the other public work structures in the county and the cities and the county and kind of understanding.

2195
02:28:17,000 --> 02:28:24,000
Look, you know, we're all trying to grab at the same amount of money and, you know, what's equitable, what's reasonable.

2196
02:28:24,000 --> 02:28:26,000
So I am thrilled with how much came to us.

2197
02:28:26,000 --> 02:28:33,000
So they'll do we want more of course, you know, but my, my figuring that it was at least two more funding cycles.

2198
02:28:33,000 --> 02:28:34,000
Yeah.

2199
02:28:34,000 --> 02:28:35,000
But again, that's it.

2200
02:28:35,000 --> 02:28:37,000
We have, because I've been away the other words.

2201
02:28:37,000 --> 02:28:39,000
I just saw the money going north all the time.

2202
02:28:39,000 --> 02:28:43,000
So I think we do pretty much the same thing that we did this time.

2203
02:28:43,000 --> 02:28:49,000
Obviously, we can, we can ask for more, but I think our requests were extremely well thought out.

2204
02:28:49,000 --> 02:28:50,000
Yeah.

2205
02:28:50,000 --> 02:28:51,000
They were articulate.

2206
02:28:51,000 --> 02:28:55,000
We were, you know, he was meticulous with looking at the evaluation criteria.

2207
02:28:55,000 --> 02:28:57,000
We weren't very closely with the planet RTC.

2208
02:28:57,000 --> 02:29:00,000
Like we just left no box unticked with this.

2209
02:29:00,000 --> 02:29:04,000
So I don't see, you know, kind of as we look back on it, hindsight.

2210
02:29:04,000 --> 02:29:06,000
I don't see any areas where we made a mistake.

2211
02:29:06,000 --> 02:29:08,000
Of course, there could be more advocacy.

2212
02:29:08,000 --> 02:29:10,000
And you can always ask for more.

2213
02:29:10,000 --> 02:29:14,000
But we didn't want to ask ourselves right out of consideration.

2214
02:29:14,000 --> 02:29:19,000
So I think the, the point of what we could look at is continuing to diversify.

2215
02:29:19,000 --> 02:29:20,000
We've got measure are.

2216
02:29:20,000 --> 02:29:21,000
I got measure D, what S, we won.

2217
02:29:21,000 --> 02:29:22,000
We've got gas tags.

2218
02:29:22,000 --> 02:29:24,000
We've got, you know, RTC.

2219
02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:25,000
What else can we get?

2220
02:29:25,000 --> 02:29:29,000
We have that carb grant that gave us a million dollars for the sidewalk, which allowed us to get freedom.

2221
02:29:29,000 --> 02:29:32,000
You know, listed as their number one or number two projects.

2222
02:29:32,000 --> 02:29:38,000
So I think that we just continue to be kind of scrappy with our funding and trying to pull from different places.

2223
02:29:38,000 --> 02:29:41,000
This is the best way to continue to feed Watsonville.

2224
02:29:41,000 --> 02:29:42,000
Okay.

2225
02:29:42,000 --> 02:29:43,000
Hi.

2226
02:29:43,000 --> 02:29:44,000
I'm going to miss you.

2227
02:29:44,000 --> 02:29:45,000
Girl.

2228
02:29:45,000 --> 02:29:46,000
Thank you, Miguel.

2229
02:29:46,000 --> 02:29:48,000
They like you over there in North County.

2230
02:29:48,000 --> 02:29:49,000
Do they?

2231
02:29:49,000 --> 02:29:50,000
That is much as South County.

2232
02:29:50,000 --> 02:29:51,000
Tell you what.

2233
02:29:51,000 --> 02:29:53,000
Well, I'm not saying you like it.

2234
02:29:53,000 --> 02:29:55,000
But it's nice that he can speak the language over there.

2235
02:29:55,000 --> 02:29:56,000
That's great.

2236
02:29:56,000 --> 02:29:57,000
Thank you.

2237
02:29:57,000 --> 02:29:58,000
Council member Ourska.

2238
02:29:58,000 --> 02:29:59,000
Yeah.

2239
02:29:59,000 --> 02:30:00,000
So I just want to say that.

2240
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:27,000
And a lot of it has to do also with the partnership, right? Keeping those communications open. I know in the past, we haven't really collaborated with the RTC staff. That is as much as we did this past year. And so I think that had a lot to do with it. I know that Sarah speaks volumes of you, Courtney. So I'm hoping that that relationship continues because it really matters. And of course, the advocacy that we do.

2241
02:30:27,000 --> 02:30:32,000
And our council member here on the RTC is equally important.

2242
02:30:32,000 --> 02:30:55,000
I'm so glad you said that. And I'll just give Sarah a quick plug, because when we were trying to elevate and escalate the Main Street sidewalk slippage, Sarah was absolutely instrumental in helping us with our conversations with CalTrans and making the argument for why this should be, you know, recategorized from a shop to an emergency and really helping us kind of navigate some of the narrative to do that.

2243
02:30:55,000 --> 02:31:03,000
So it's really gone both ways. So I appreciate you saying that. And it's not just RTC toward Watsonville. It is absolutely back at them too.

2244
02:31:03,000 --> 02:31:09,000
Yeah, we're thankful for that. Well, that's definitely something that as we go through our hiring process.

2245
02:31:09,000 --> 02:31:11,000
We need to really emphasize. Make sure that.

2246
02:31:11,000 --> 02:31:12,000
Sure.

2247
02:31:12,000 --> 02:31:13,000
Yeah.

2248
02:31:13,000 --> 02:31:14,000
So critical.

2249
02:31:14,000 --> 02:31:20,000
But I did have a question and somewhat of a comment. So as we move into your three.

2250
02:31:21,000 --> 02:31:30,000
And as we are exploring other funding opportunities, can we also explore allocating maintenance funds equitably across all districts.

2251
02:31:30,000 --> 02:31:35,000
I feel like we've made significant investments in reconstructing our roads.

2252
02:31:35,000 --> 02:31:42,000
And I want to ensure that we don't create a two year maintenance backlog and risk losing our investment.

2253
02:31:42,000 --> 02:31:52,000
So as we explore those options, I want to ask council and stuff to consider to keep that maintenance piece.

2254
02:31:52,000 --> 02:31:55,000
On the back of your head as you explore other options.

2255
02:31:55,000 --> 02:32:05,000
They're striping there's, you know, petitions that may come about and I know that that's not part of this one point seven million.

2256
02:32:05,000 --> 02:32:08,000
So absolutely. Thank you.

2257
02:32:08,000 --> 02:32:10,000
That's a member.

2258
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:12,000
Sorry, quick question.

2259
02:32:12,000 --> 02:32:16,000
So let's say if one does get chosen tonight, hypothetically.

2260
02:32:16,000 --> 02:32:21,000
Could we get that letter to those homeowners by the end of the sometime this year.

2261
02:32:21,000 --> 02:32:26,000
Letting them know that we're going to be redoing their giving them a heads up.

2262
02:32:26,000 --> 02:32:33,000
So if they do do a sewer lateral line that they're not going to get like they're not going to be surprised, you know.

2263
02:32:33,000 --> 02:32:35,000
Yeah, definitely.

2264
02:32:35,000 --> 02:32:45,000
What's going to happen here if option one is chosen is we're going to have the list of streets that we know are going to be.

2265
02:32:45,000 --> 02:32:52,000
In contention right for for for reconstruction rehabilitation or maintenance whatever it is.

2266
02:32:52,000 --> 02:32:55,000
Out of those streets we now go into the design phase.

2267
02:32:55,000 --> 02:33:04,000
We make sure that that whole process we get engineers estimates and the closer we get to 100% design the more finalized those estimates are.

2268
02:33:04,000 --> 02:33:16,000
And at that point we know that you know if if those estimates are over the funding that we have we have to cut back on some streets kind of cut back the scope of the project to make sure we we hit that funding that we have.

2269
02:33:16,000 --> 02:33:22,000
So what we can do is we can send a letter out now with all of those streets.

2270
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:28,000
But if we do get to that funding period and we find that the estimate is higher than what was funded.

2271
02:33:28,000 --> 02:33:30,000
Some of those streets might not get.

2272
02:33:31,000 --> 02:33:47,000
Yeah, so it's it's letting them the either we let them know now that potentially your street could be repaved or letting them know we know exactly what streets we're going to repay and letting them know exactly like how much time is up between then and then actually didn't work.

2273
02:33:47,000 --> 02:33:57,000
Yeah, the design phase typically six to nine months from start design to start construction that's over a year typically.

2274
02:33:57,000 --> 02:34:00,000
So it cuts into that that that window.

2275
02:34:00,000 --> 02:34:02,000
So what do you think.

2276
02:34:02,000 --> 02:34:09,000
I mean we can do it before but then you're going to have people that that are told hey this is going to happen and then it ends up not happening in their street.

2277
02:34:09,000 --> 02:34:19,000
But one like before usually break ground how many what when do you actually get the finalization like whether or not fits in our budget.

2278
02:34:19,000 --> 02:34:30,000
It's a it's a it's a whole process through the whole design phase at 30% design 65% design 90% and then bid ready documents throughout that whole process we start refining more and more.

2279
02:34:30,000 --> 02:34:41,000
That's we start if if the budget if the estimate starts getting closer to what we have is a budget funded and we have to start looking at to at cutting down streets.

2280
02:34:41,000 --> 02:34:50,000
So it's not I can't tell you like it's right at 100% design because that's not it happens throughout the whole process of the design phase we start cutting back if we start getting closer.

2281
02:34:51,000 --> 02:35:00,000
To getting past that funded but you just said earlier like we'll either you sent a letter out now saying potentially or we sent it out once we figure out it's it's been funded correct.

2282
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:06,000
So my question is the moment it's been funded till when they you break ground how many how long is that.

2283
02:35:06,000 --> 02:35:10,000
So you trying to figure out how much notice we could give yeah it's not very long it's it's.

2284
02:35:10,000 --> 02:35:21,000
So once we have 100% designs we go out to bid come to council and present and get that confirmation from from all you all typically two months.

2285
02:35:21,000 --> 02:35:33,000
That's that's that's that's that's that's that won't be enough time I because correct and that's a trade off because either we let people a lot of people know hey this is happening.

2286
02:35:33,000 --> 02:35:35,000
Yeah with potentially some of them.

2287
02:35:35,000 --> 02:35:41,000
Not happening or we wait to we get two months notice and we know exactly.

2288
02:35:41,000 --> 02:35:46,000
Then they're rushing which in those two months to get it done so that's that's a trade off yeah.

2289
02:35:46,000 --> 02:35:50,000
I would hope before you make that decision and maybe.

2290
02:35:50,000 --> 02:35:56,000
There's city managers listening this as well that if there are roads that are going to be taken off that list they comes to council.

2291
02:35:56,000 --> 02:36:08,000
Because what we're privy tonight I'm an expect gets done I don't know about everybody else but if I have streets on here that I'm expecting done I'm an expect them done so if you're going to cut them up I'll be knowing them.

2292
02:36:08,000 --> 02:36:17,000
I mean I feel like we should come back to council to see if you know maybe if there is a funding issue if we can solve that problem.

2293
02:36:17,000 --> 02:36:22,000
I think we do come back to council to ask if we can go out to bid.

2294
02:36:23,000 --> 02:36:24,000
So.

2295
02:36:24,000 --> 02:36:25,000
Okay.

2296
02:36:25,000 --> 02:36:26,000
Thank you.

2297
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:36,000
And I think you know knowing that this is also affected by our previous presentation about the trench cut we could have a bit more of a proactive communication to those streets.

2298
02:36:36,000 --> 02:36:41,000
To give more than too much notice like say if somebody was planning to sell their house right is out.

2299
02:36:41,000 --> 02:36:48,000
I don't know if anybody would work for anybody.

2300
02:36:48,000 --> 02:37:03,000
I was I think we could probably do it you know knowing that it's expensive but also knowing that it's going to a handful of streets we could do multiple mayors for those homes you know mayors are expensive city wide but mayors to.

2301
02:37:03,000 --> 02:37:10,000
And you know that's going to be a lot of the streets as the thing when are winter when are chicken dinner yeah okay because council member Parker.

2302
02:37:10,000 --> 02:37:11,000
Thank you.

2303
02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:13,000
Well I just don't want.

2304
02:37:13,000 --> 02:37:15,000
So.

2305
02:37:15,000 --> 02:37:24,000
My it was an exact same space as Jimmy's was on this because if you put a heads up you guys are out there look.

2306
02:37:24,000 --> 02:37:28,000
You could be having all the sense of you intend to sell.

2307
02:37:28,000 --> 02:37:40,000
And then there's a great you know there's a 80% possibility that you're going to pay a lot more if you don't get your laterals done before that.

2308
02:37:40,000 --> 02:37:51,000
This is the date that will actually know if you're street for sure is going to be doing it and we will communicate with you then and so if somebody knows they're selling.

2309
02:37:51,000 --> 02:38:02,000
I want to take their time that gives them an opportunity to get into it but if they don't know then you know then the two month mark or whatever it may be.

2310
02:38:02,000 --> 02:38:07,000
And it has recommended.

2311
02:38:07,000 --> 02:38:19,000
Experts right that do this lateral that's on they we have a list of them the city finds acceptable okay and maybe that can go out to because you know people.

2312
02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:25,000
A lot of people who came from other places and bought their houses outright cash in our senior area.

2313
02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:32,000
Which means if that lateral didn't happen then because there was a time period when they did this.

2314
02:38:32,000 --> 02:38:36,000
I don't know they might want to do it ahead of time and.

2315
02:38:36,000 --> 02:38:42,000
You know it's crazy it's all different but the communication would be huge and I would say two of them yes.

2316
02:38:42,000 --> 02:38:44,000
Okay so it sounds like.

2317
02:38:44,000 --> 02:38:52,000
What I'm hearing is sending a letter when we have a preliminary list of streets and then sending a second letter when we have a final list of streets.

2318
02:38:52,000 --> 02:38:53,000
Okay.

2319
02:38:53,000 --> 02:38:59,000
But a clear communication in people language of what we're actually communicating to them.

2320
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:00,000
Yeah.

2321
02:39:00,000 --> 02:39:10,000
You know that legally stands up to that communication but yeah we have that I know plenty of examples that we used in the city's anchors to do exactly that so something that we can.

2322
02:39:10,000 --> 02:39:14,000
Okay thank you very much.

2323
02:39:14,000 --> 02:39:18,000
Council member Montesino.

2324
02:39:18,000 --> 02:39:26,000
Yeah I just wanted to add like you know one of them but to add to all the the stuff that you talked about the funding.

2325
02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:39,000
It was you know and I want to thank Courtney and city manager because like I said it took you know us you know meeting and saying the same thing together.

2326
02:39:39,000 --> 02:39:49,000
And that was I think that was missing in previous years because you know because I've been out to see for a while is like I will say one thing stop was saying another thing.

2327
02:39:49,000 --> 02:39:54,000
So we were never aligned you know so a lot of miss opportunities.

2328
02:39:55,000 --> 02:40:06,000
You know that and this time around that I said that was you know we that was you know the winning formula for forgetting us what we needed this time around so.

2329
02:40:06,000 --> 02:40:07,000
So just thank you.

2330
02:40:07,000 --> 02:40:08,000
Thank you.

2331
02:40:08,000 --> 02:40:11,000
Any other council questions or comments.

2332
02:40:11,000 --> 02:40:19,000
I just also want to take a minute to work on the RTC and thank council member Montesino for advocacy for being all on the same page.

2333
02:40:19,000 --> 02:40:22,000
The application took a lot of work.

2334
02:40:22,000 --> 02:40:31,000
I am incredibly impressed with your presentations tonight and so glad we got to steal you from that unknown northern county city that I will not say again.

2335
02:40:31,000 --> 02:40:41,000
But tremendous job and what a wonderful way to end Courtney at this time I'd like to entertain public comment.

2336
02:40:41,000 --> 02:40:44,000
Seeing none I'd like to entertain them.

2337
02:40:44,000 --> 02:40:46,000
I knew the motion on second.

2338
02:40:46,000 --> 02:40:52,000
But which one do you have to say yes or option one option number one option number one option one.

2339
02:40:52,000 --> 02:41:00,000
I heard a motion by Jimmy council member Jimmy due Trevor option one seconded by council member Maria Larosco.

2340
02:41:00,000 --> 02:41:03,000
Can I get a roll call.

2341
02:41:03,000 --> 02:41:05,000
Clark.

2342
02:41:05,000 --> 02:41:06,000
Hi.

2343
02:41:06,000 --> 02:41:07,000
Montesino.

2344
02:41:07,000 --> 02:41:08,000
Yes.

2345
02:41:08,000 --> 02:41:09,000
Larosco.

2346
02:41:09,000 --> 02:41:10,000
Hi.

2347
02:41:10,000 --> 02:41:11,000
Parker.

2348
02:41:11,000 --> 02:41:12,000
Hi.

2349
02:41:12,000 --> 02:41:13,000
Carlos Carter.

2350
02:41:13,000 --> 02:41:14,000
Hi.

2351
02:41:15,000 --> 02:41:17,000
The motion carries.

2352
02:41:17,000 --> 02:41:18,000
All right.

2353
02:41:18,000 --> 02:41:20,000
Moving on to item 13b.

2354
02:41:20,000 --> 02:41:30,000
This is going to be from council member Montesino today for a consideration of amendment of the city charter section 402 for terms of office.

2355
02:41:30,000 --> 02:41:35,000
I'm going to begin with council council member Montesino please take it away.

2356
02:41:35,000 --> 02:41:36,000
All right.

2357
02:41:36,000 --> 02:41:44,000
What I think for you know I'm putting this you know agenda item and place because like I said for me.

2358
02:41:44,000 --> 02:41:48,000
I've been thinking this really thoroughly so when I read a statement.

2359
02:41:48,000 --> 02:41:54,000
So Watson was a receiving a hard working community with deep agriculture roots and strong cultural identity.

2360
02:41:54,000 --> 02:41:59,000
Serving on the Watson was city council has been an honor and then every city leadership.

2361
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:03,000
We were a result in responsible governance for a residence.

2362
02:42:03,000 --> 02:42:11,000
I've worked to strengthen but safety proof infrastructure support local business and address house and challenges this.

2363
02:42:11,000 --> 02:42:13,000
These efforts don't happen overnight.

2364
02:42:13,000 --> 02:42:21,000
A potential third term ensures that work already underway continues with that disruption.

2365
02:42:21,000 --> 02:42:36,000
They growing city like Watson best ability on the city council helps to complete long term infrastructure improvements secure state and federal funding support mark housing development straight and public safety.

2366
02:42:36,000 --> 02:42:45,000
Early in long term initiatives major city priorities whether related to housing economic development downtown vitality.

2367
02:42:45,000 --> 02:42:51,000
Float protection or infrastructure required consistent leadership to bring them across the finish line.

2368
02:42:51,000 --> 02:43:01,000
I'll tell you you know my first council run in 2010 my advocacy was centered on Bramsey Park that was 2010.

2369
02:43:01,000 --> 02:43:06,000
We're at 2026 and it's barely getting done.

2370
02:43:06,000 --> 02:43:07,000
It took a long time.

2371
02:43:07,000 --> 02:43:17,000
I mean one of the first efforts in my first council turns was selling you know a piece of land that the city had over at Buena Vista in order to you know a piece.

2372
02:43:17,000 --> 02:43:25,000
You know some funding for Ramsey Park and that was used to do the skate park.

2373
02:43:25,000 --> 02:43:28,000
That was one of the first improvements.

2374
02:43:28,000 --> 02:43:31,000
So experience matters in city government.

2375
02:43:31,000 --> 02:43:32,000
Let me be clear.

2376
02:43:32,000 --> 02:43:34,000
Third term is not a automatic.

2377
02:43:34,000 --> 02:43:36,000
It is not a guaranteed.

2378
02:43:36,000 --> 02:43:37,000
It is not owed.

2379
02:43:37,000 --> 02:43:40,000
It is our democracy.

2380
02:43:40,000 --> 02:43:44,000
Nothing is given everything is earned at the battle box.

2381
02:43:44,000 --> 02:43:52,000
If the committee believes my experience the leadership and record has secured Watson well then the voters will approve another term.

2382
02:43:52,000 --> 02:43:58,000
If not it will believe it is time for new leaders then it is a right.

2383
02:43:58,000 --> 02:44:00,000
That's how democracy works.

2384
02:44:00,000 --> 02:44:04,000
If a potential third term gets approved by voters running again.

2385
02:44:04,000 --> 02:44:06,000
It's not about entitlement.

2386
02:44:06,000 --> 02:44:08,000
It's not about offering.

2387
02:44:08,000 --> 02:44:13,000
It's about offering experience and knowledge to the community and letting people decide.

2388
02:44:13,000 --> 02:44:17,000
And eventually we should let the people vote.

2389
02:44:17,000 --> 02:44:18,000
You know.

2390
02:44:18,000 --> 02:44:25,000
So that's you know my statement and I ran the you know put a motion.

2391
02:44:25,000 --> 02:44:28,000
It to.

2392
02:44:28,000 --> 02:44:33,000
I move that we direct staff to repair and return counsel with the ballot measure.

2393
02:44:33,000 --> 02:44:36,000
I'm ending section four or two of the charter to a lab council.

2394
02:44:36,000 --> 02:44:38,000
Mr. Surfer three turns.

2395
02:44:38,000 --> 02:44:40,000
And council member.

2396
02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:43,000
You know has made a motion is there a second.

2397
02:44:43,000 --> 02:44:44,000
Yeah.

2398
02:44:44,000 --> 02:44:48,000
He can make a motion at any time in the discussion.

2399
02:44:48,000 --> 02:44:51,000
So.

2400
02:44:51,000 --> 02:44:53,000
Is there a second.

2401
02:44:53,000 --> 02:44:56,000
I'll make a second.

2402
02:44:56,000 --> 02:44:59,000
So at this point I'm going to enter.

2403
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:05,000
Move on to council member Parker for discussion?

2404
02:45:05,000 --> 02:45:20,000
Sure. My first inquiry is for our city manager, because we had a conversation about this, to clarify this, because when I was looking at it, I thought it was ambiguous and what this meant.

2405
02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:33,000
And in our conversation it was clarified, and I just want to make sure it was clarified that this is purely a discussion, whether we start the process, and that's where this is.

2406
02:45:33,000 --> 02:45:36,000
So I'll ask that of our city manager.

2407
02:45:36,000 --> 02:45:38,000
I think it would be the city attorney.

2408
02:45:38,000 --> 02:45:39,000
Or both.

2409
02:45:39,000 --> 02:45:40,000
Thank you so much.

2410
02:45:40,000 --> 02:45:41,000
I ask the pop-in.

2411
02:45:41,000 --> 02:45:54,000
Absolutely, putting a, amending the charter is involved process, it requires two public hearings, one public meeting, a ballot measure, a vote, so absolutely.

2412
02:45:54,000 --> 02:46:01,000
But our discussion, and maybe you can clarify this, that this is not any of those meetings at this time.

2413
02:46:01,000 --> 02:46:03,000
That is correct.

2414
02:46:03,000 --> 02:46:04,000
Okay.

2415
02:46:04,000 --> 02:46:16,000
Okay, and since you mentioned, let the people vote of which I was very involved in.

2416
02:46:16,000 --> 02:46:20,000
H.I. and J. and there was three measures, and that was what 2014.

2417
02:46:20,000 --> 02:46:24,000
And it didn't come from the city council.

2418
02:46:24,000 --> 02:46:27,000
In fact, many city council were against it.

2419
02:46:27,000 --> 02:46:29,000
It came from the people of Watsonville.

2420
02:46:29,000 --> 02:46:33,000
We're sent out signatures were gathered.

2421
02:46:33,000 --> 02:46:41,000
And of those three measures, they all passed with over 60% of the vote for each individual one.

2422
02:46:41,000 --> 02:46:45,000
So there's power in the people that it came from them.

2423
02:46:45,000 --> 02:46:50,000
I feel like if we're going to extend our, this is, how I feel?

2424
02:46:50,000 --> 02:46:58,000
If we're going to extend our term limits, I feel like it's very self-serving of us for us to do it.

2425
02:46:58,000 --> 02:47:04,000
If they want to do it, and you feel, you know, you know, I'm totally on top of that.

2426
02:47:04,000 --> 02:47:09,000
Yes, if they bring that petition in, it goes on the bounce, I think that's great.

2427
02:47:09,000 --> 02:47:11,000
Let the people vote about it.

2428
02:47:11,000 --> 02:47:15,000
But for us to put it on there, I feel like it's extremely self-serving.

2429
02:47:15,000 --> 02:47:27,000
I like you have been on, I think H.I. and J. for me was all about bringing voices that were otherwise smothered.

2430
02:47:27,000 --> 02:47:31,000
Back into our city government at the time.

2431
02:47:31,000 --> 02:47:36,000
And that's how it passed at 60% for each one, because everybody really felt that way.

2432
02:47:36,000 --> 02:47:40,000
They felt like the same old people were doing it all the time.

2433
02:47:40,000 --> 02:47:43,000
And there was no way they were going to get in or get past it.

2434
02:47:43,000 --> 02:47:45,000
And they weren't going to be able to win.

2435
02:47:45,000 --> 02:47:47,000
So why worry about running for office?

2436
02:47:47,000 --> 02:47:48,000
Because it wasn't going to happen.

2437
02:47:48,000 --> 02:47:55,000
And that became the powerful statement for, by the people of Watsonville.

2438
02:47:55,000 --> 02:48:00,000
Because everybody votes on it once it's on the ballot.

2439
02:48:00,000 --> 02:48:03,000
That they wanted change.

2440
02:48:03,000 --> 02:48:06,000
They wanted people to have opportunities.

2441
02:48:06,000 --> 02:48:09,000
And I'm not that old, even though I make jokes that I'm that old.

2442
02:48:09,000 --> 02:48:10,000
You wait till you get here.

2443
02:48:10,000 --> 02:48:13,000
You guys, 63's not that old, but I'm just saying it.

2444
02:48:13,000 --> 02:48:17,000
There's a lot of younger people in their 30's and 40's.

2445
02:48:17,000 --> 02:48:20,000
And that's what we started the Watsonville Academy for.

2446
02:48:20,000 --> 02:48:24,000
You know, to help people get on board, to help people understand

2447
02:48:24,000 --> 02:48:28,000
what city governments about, what each of our different departments do.

2448
02:48:28,000 --> 02:48:34,000
So as they're moving forward, you know, otherwise we become a little bit stagnant or

2449
02:48:34,000 --> 02:48:37,000
lot stagnant for who lives here.

2450
02:48:37,000 --> 02:48:42,000
Because when people feel disenfranchised, you know, they check out.

2451
02:48:42,000 --> 02:48:43,000
They don't vote for things.

2452
02:48:43,000 --> 02:48:44,000
They don't like it.

2453
02:48:44,000 --> 02:48:46,000
They, you know, they do.

2454
02:48:46,000 --> 02:48:49,000
They just don't, I want people involved.

2455
02:48:49,000 --> 02:48:52,000
And to get people involved, you have to give them opportunity.

2456
02:48:52,000 --> 02:48:54,000
Eight years is different than 12 years.

2457
02:48:54,000 --> 02:48:56,000
I mean, four years is each one, right?

2458
02:48:56,000 --> 02:49:01,000
So you can lose that second, right, election as well.

2459
02:49:01,000 --> 02:49:04,000
But 12 years is a long time.

2460
02:49:04,000 --> 02:49:07,000
12 years, a child goes from 12 to 24.

2461
02:49:07,000 --> 02:49:08,000
You know.

2462
02:49:08,000 --> 02:49:15,000
And so I feel like for us to do it, that's extremely self-serving.

2463
02:49:15,000 --> 02:49:19,000
You could put it out there to the people, and if they want to get involved in it,

2464
02:49:19,000 --> 02:49:24,000
and they can see our city clerk and how to do the petition, and get their signatures,

2465
02:49:24,000 --> 02:49:27,000
and what their timeframe is, and get it in.

2466
02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:31,000
And if they vote to extend it, and it could be all sorts of things, right?

2467
02:49:31,000 --> 02:49:33,000
They could pick anything, not just what we say.

2468
02:49:33,000 --> 02:49:35,000
They could do unlimited, right?

2469
02:49:35,000 --> 02:49:36,000
When it comes to it.

2470
02:49:36,000 --> 02:49:42,000
So I'm all for that, because we'll hear from the people of Watsonville.

2471
02:49:42,000 --> 02:49:45,000
But for us to do it, I don't agree with that at this time.

2472
02:49:45,000 --> 02:49:47,000
I think we are good at too.

2473
02:49:47,000 --> 02:49:51,000
Maybe in the future, because, you know, we talk about having a merit large as well.

2474
02:49:51,000 --> 02:49:53,000
You know, and you'd have to change your districts.

2475
02:49:53,000 --> 02:49:55,000
We're moving towards that.

2476
02:49:55,000 --> 02:50:01,000
But you got to get, you know, more people involved still, and the young people of our city.

2477
02:50:01,000 --> 02:50:05,000
I think it's just, you know, really important.

2478
02:50:05,000 --> 02:50:07,000
I don't always agree with them.

2479
02:50:07,000 --> 02:50:11,000
But the fact is, they're the ones that are going to be the caretakers of,

2480
02:50:11,000 --> 02:50:13,000
you know, the future of Watsonville.

2481
02:50:13,000 --> 02:50:17,000
So, the sooner they get on board, I think that's really important.

2482
02:50:17,000 --> 02:50:18,000
Thank you for giving me the time.

2483
02:50:18,000 --> 02:50:19,000
I appreciate it.

2484
02:50:19,000 --> 02:50:21,000
Councilmember Ducha.

2485
02:50:21,000 --> 02:50:23,000
Thank you.

2486
02:50:23,000 --> 02:50:35,000
As someone who's in their third term, year 10, with my second largest win, this, you know, the fall before last.

2487
02:50:35,000 --> 02:50:41,000
I think that there is something nice seeing products being completed.

2488
02:50:41,000 --> 02:50:45,000
Ramsey Park being one of them.

2489
02:50:45,000 --> 02:50:49,000
The bridge for PV high being another.

2490
02:50:49,000 --> 02:50:57,000
When I came here in 2014, the bridge was had just been approved.

2491
02:50:57,000 --> 02:51:03,000
You're my friend, but incumbents can be beaten, because I beat you.

2492
02:51:03,000 --> 02:51:07,000
And you were the incumbent.

2493
02:51:07,000 --> 02:51:09,000
And.

2494
02:51:09,000 --> 02:51:15,000
No, no, but this is, it's up to the people to decide who they want at the end of the day.

2495
02:51:15,000 --> 02:51:19,000
So, I understand your argument.

2496
02:51:19,000 --> 02:51:21,000
I do get it.

2497
02:51:21,000 --> 02:51:25,000
I mean, I have no opinion where I stand on this position.

2498
02:51:25,000 --> 02:51:31,000
I've listened, I'm tired after three terms.

2499
02:51:31,000 --> 02:51:37,000
But we just put something on recently on the on the ballot to see whether or not.

2500
02:51:37,000 --> 02:51:41,000
People who are non registered voters could participate.

2501
02:51:41,000 --> 02:51:42,000
Government.

2502
02:51:42,000 --> 02:51:44,000
So we do as a board.

2503
02:51:44,000 --> 02:51:48,000
Put things out to the public to make decisions on.

2504
02:51:48,000 --> 02:51:50,000
And not everybody on this.

2505
02:51:50,000 --> 02:51:51,000
I agree with that, right?

2506
02:51:51,000 --> 02:51:54,000
So it's not necessarily unanimous.

2507
02:51:54,000 --> 02:51:56,000
The things we put out to the people to vote on.

2508
02:51:56,000 --> 02:51:58,000
So for me.

2509
02:51:58,000 --> 02:52:01,000
I'm always about letting people vote and decide what it is.

2510
02:52:01,000 --> 02:52:03,000
What they want to do.

2511
02:52:03,000 --> 02:52:06,000
Since this is brought up, I did a little bit of research.

2512
02:52:06,000 --> 02:52:10,000
There's only three other cities in the tri-county that have.

2513
02:52:10,000 --> 02:52:12,000
Termants.

2514
02:52:12,000 --> 02:52:14,000
The Monterey County.

2515
02:52:14,000 --> 02:52:17,000
Only Marina has has terminates.

2516
02:52:17,000 --> 02:52:18,000
Everybody else.

2517
02:52:18,000 --> 02:52:20,000
There's not any city has terminates.

2518
02:52:21,000 --> 02:52:26,000
It's only Santa Cruz capital in us.

2519
02:52:26,000 --> 02:52:29,000
And then it makes me think like, we're following Santa Cruz.

2520
02:52:29,000 --> 02:52:31,000
We're getting pressured by saying, I don't know how I don't know.

2521
02:52:31,000 --> 02:52:33,000
I was asking when did we incorporate this?

2522
02:52:33,000 --> 02:52:40,000
Because we are only one of four cities out of all the cities in the tri-county that have this.

2523
02:52:40,000 --> 02:52:43,000
So I'm curious, like, how did it get implemented?

2524
02:52:43,000 --> 02:52:44,000
You know?

2525
02:52:44,000 --> 02:52:54,000
We look at the back of the charter where it talks about when it was amended.

2526
02:52:54,000 --> 02:53:03,000
And as I mentioned, I believe it might have been put in place when the redistricting lawsuit happened in 89.

2527
02:53:03,000 --> 02:53:09,000
And that coincides with a revision of section 402 of the charter.

2528
02:53:10,000 --> 02:53:17,000
There's a subsequent revision of the charter of this section, like two years later in 1991.

2529
02:53:17,000 --> 02:53:18,000
Yeah.

2530
02:53:18,000 --> 02:53:22,000
We could have been, you know, I don't know.

2531
02:53:22,000 --> 02:53:25,000
I don't have the, I don't believe we found the answer to that.

2532
02:53:25,000 --> 02:53:32,000
But we believe that those are the two times in which section 402 has been amended that we can.

2533
02:53:32,000 --> 02:53:33,000
Yeah.

2534
02:53:33,000 --> 02:53:38,000
I'm a little surprised because I just, until I did this research, I saved every city was like us.

2535
02:53:38,000 --> 02:53:44,000
And then I realized, no, we're one of four cities in three counties that does this.

2536
02:53:44,000 --> 02:53:48,000
And I was just kind of curious and like, well, why did we put ourselves in this position?

2537
02:53:48,000 --> 02:53:55,000
So I mean, I'm, you know, I'm okay with people voting on this to be honest with you.

2538
02:53:55,000 --> 02:54:01,000
If someone feels comfortable in their representation, I think they should have the voice and the right to

2539
02:54:01,000 --> 02:54:07,000
put forth the representative that they feel is going to do the most work for them.

2540
02:54:07,000 --> 02:54:09,000
I mean, I've been sitting on here for 10 years.

2541
02:54:09,000 --> 02:54:12,000
There are people that sit on this council that don't do anything.

2542
02:54:12,000 --> 02:54:14,000
There are others that work very, very hard.

2543
02:54:14,000 --> 02:54:22,000
And so, over the last 10 years, there have been.

2544
02:54:22,000 --> 02:54:23,000
Okay.

2545
02:54:23,000 --> 02:54:24,000
One at a time.

2546
02:54:25,000 --> 02:54:26,000
Council member do try.

2547
02:54:26,000 --> 02:54:28,000
There have been, there have been people who don't do any work.

2548
02:54:28,000 --> 02:54:37,000
And so, if you're going to be, you know, placed onto the city council as a, you know, because no one's,

2549
02:54:37,000 --> 02:54:43,000
they're not competitive seats and you're out on, you're termed out.

2550
02:54:43,000 --> 02:54:46,000
And your district loses that voice.

2551
02:54:46,000 --> 02:54:49,000
That's going to, you know, and they get somebody who's not going to be putting 100%.

2552
02:54:49,000 --> 02:54:52,000
You know, effort into their, into their district.

2553
02:54:53,000 --> 02:55:04,000
You know, that could, that should be a decision that the people make, you know, because, you know, you're forcing someone on, then that's not going to do any work versus someone who's going to do a lot of work.

2554
02:55:04,000 --> 02:55:11,000
You know, again, like I think that at the end of the day, the people should have the right to make the decision they want.

2555
02:55:11,000 --> 02:55:14,000
We have a council member who brought this forward.

2556
02:55:14,000 --> 02:55:19,000
And after doing research, I mean, he's not asking anything out of the ordinary.

2557
02:55:19,000 --> 02:55:21,000
Actually, he's only asking for three terms.

2558
02:55:22,000 --> 02:55:25,000
Almost every other jurisdiction has no terms.

2559
02:55:25,000 --> 02:55:29,000
No, so, um, yeah, that's kind of where I am.

2560
02:55:29,000 --> 02:55:30,000
Thank you.

2561
02:55:30,000 --> 02:55:33,000
Council member, Kira's Carter.

2562
02:55:33,000 --> 02:55:35,000
Thank you, Mayor.

2563
02:55:35,000 --> 02:55:37,000
I'm not going to be nice about this.

2564
02:55:37,000 --> 02:55:40,000
This presentation was lacking.

2565
02:55:40,000 --> 02:55:44,000
I didn't hear anything about how this benefits Watsonville, how this benefits constituents.

2566
02:55:44,000 --> 02:55:46,000
All I heard was me, me, me, me, me, me.

2567
02:55:46,000 --> 02:55:48,000
I want to be around to see it get done.

2568
02:55:48,000 --> 02:55:51,000
Well, sorry, sometimes that's not going to happen.

2569
02:55:51,000 --> 02:55:57,000
I find it really interesting that people on council aren't aware of the history.

2570
02:55:57,000 --> 02:56:01,000
Like, literally you are on this body.

2571
02:56:01,000 --> 02:56:03,000
You should know the history.

2572
02:56:03,000 --> 02:56:08,000
You should know Cruz versus the city of Watsonville, 1988.

2573
02:56:08,000 --> 02:56:09,000
We had a letter about it.

2574
02:56:09,000 --> 02:56:11,000
Someone wrote it to us.

2575
02:56:11,000 --> 02:56:14,000
So even if you didn't know, you should have read that correspondence.

2576
02:56:14,000 --> 02:56:18,000
So talking about not doing anything, that's you're supposed to read that.

2577
02:56:18,000 --> 02:56:21,000
There's a reason that there's term limits.

2578
02:56:21,000 --> 02:56:24,000
There's a reason that we're set up the way that we are.

2579
02:56:24,000 --> 02:56:28,000
And that is because representation was unfair.

2580
02:56:28,000 --> 02:56:34,000
We have term limits to ensure that people get a chance to run 12 years.

2581
02:56:34,000 --> 02:56:39,000
I'm really confused Eduardo, because you said that you're all about you want to give health benefits.

2582
02:56:39,000 --> 02:56:42,000
You want to give stipends you want to do all this for the youth.

2583
02:56:42,000 --> 02:56:46,000
Okay, but if you're here for 12 years, how is the youth going to get a chance?

2584
02:56:46,000 --> 02:56:49,000
How are they going to get a chance if you're sitting here for 12 years?

2585
02:56:49,000 --> 02:56:52,000
I don't understand that makes no sense to me.

2586
02:56:52,000 --> 02:56:59,000
We have these things for a reason because there was a lack of diversity and there was a lack of representation.

2587
02:56:59,000 --> 02:57:01,000
And that's a problem.

2588
02:57:01,000 --> 02:57:06,000
And several of us sitting here are a direct result of this case right here.

2589
02:57:06,000 --> 02:57:07,000
We would not be here.

2590
02:57:07,000 --> 02:57:09,000
We're not for the trailblazers.

2591
02:57:09,000 --> 02:57:12,000
And if you don't know the sister, you should probably go talk to Adelio.

2592
02:57:12,000 --> 02:57:13,000
You should probably go talk to Adelio.

2593
02:57:13,000 --> 02:57:14,000
You should probably go talk to Adelio.

2594
02:57:14,000 --> 02:57:17,000
You should probably go talk to crews because they'll tell you about how it was.

2595
02:57:17,000 --> 02:57:22,000
They'll tell you about how people used to break in to their cars and they would steal their posters

2596
02:57:22,000 --> 02:57:27,000
and they would steal their flyers and they would evangelize their homes and they would threaten them.

2597
02:57:27,000 --> 02:57:28,000
Right?

2598
02:57:28,000 --> 02:57:33,000
All of this happened because there was a certain set of people who had money, power and influence.

2599
02:57:33,000 --> 02:57:37,000
And they were the ones that were running the city constantly.

2600
02:57:37,000 --> 02:57:42,000
And if we're here for 12 years, that's just going to be a consolidating power for ourselves.

2601
02:57:42,000 --> 02:57:44,000
And I'm not okay with that.

2602
02:57:44,000 --> 02:57:47,000
If someone wants to bring this, I agree with Ari.

2603
02:57:47,000 --> 02:57:52,000
I think this is something that should be brought by the people and not by council members.

2604
02:57:52,000 --> 02:57:54,000
It's just not a good look at self-serving.

2605
02:57:54,000 --> 02:58:00,000
And frankly, it's in poor taste and embarrassing to say that we want people to have a chance.

2606
02:58:00,000 --> 02:58:04,000
And then to say here and say, well, actually, I want to be here indefinitely.

2607
02:58:05,000 --> 02:58:06,000
That's not okay.

2608
02:58:06,000 --> 02:58:10,000
And I'm just, this is, for me, this is coming out of nowhere.

2609
02:58:10,000 --> 02:58:18,000
Like I said, I didn't see, I didn't hear anything about how this would benefit anybody other than council members.

2610
02:58:18,000 --> 02:58:19,000
And that's not what we're here to do.

2611
02:58:19,000 --> 02:58:20,000
We're here for people.

2612
02:58:20,000 --> 02:58:22,000
We're here to give people a chance.

2613
02:58:22,000 --> 02:58:28,000
And sometimes you need to shake up the representation because sometimes the representation isn't working.

2614
02:58:28,000 --> 02:58:30,000
And if it is working, well, guess what?

2615
02:58:30,000 --> 02:58:31,000
Take a break.

2616
02:58:31,000 --> 02:58:32,000
Come back.

2617
02:58:33,000 --> 02:58:35,000
That's all I have to say.

2618
02:58:35,000 --> 02:58:36,000
Thank you.

2619
02:58:36,000 --> 02:58:38,000
Council member, Arisco.

2620
02:58:38,000 --> 02:58:40,000
Thank you.

2621
02:58:40,000 --> 02:58:43,000
Man, this one's going to be hard.

2622
02:58:43,000 --> 02:58:45,000
I'm on the edge here.

2623
02:58:45,000 --> 02:58:53,000
But, you know, I did, I did get a chance to talk to several different folks who approach me regarding this item, primarily in opposition.

2624
02:58:53,000 --> 02:58:59,000
Because of the, some of the statements just made by.

2625
02:58:59,000 --> 02:59:03,000
And I was also reflecting on my own personal experience.

2626
02:59:03,000 --> 02:59:13,000
So I had, I was blessed to be able to run for office at a very young age.

2627
02:59:13,000 --> 02:59:15,000
But it was really hard.

2628
02:59:15,000 --> 02:59:20,000
It was really hard to go against someone who had been a two year,

2629
02:59:20,000 --> 02:59:24,000
a mayor at the time and had all this experience.

2630
02:59:24,000 --> 02:59:26,000
And it was not easy.

2631
02:59:26,000 --> 02:59:30,000
So I'm kind of torn.

2632
02:59:30,000 --> 02:59:37,000
I'm kind of torn because I can see where you're coming from.

2633
02:59:37,000 --> 02:59:45,000
But I don't quite feel that this is a solution.

2634
02:59:45,000 --> 02:59:52,000
On based on my own personal experience, based on the feedback that I received from constituents.

2635
02:59:52,000 --> 02:59:55,000
Conversations that I had this morning with different people.

2636
02:59:55,000 --> 02:59:59,000
It did change my perspective a bit.

2637
03:00:00,000 --> 03:00:18,000
So I don't know. I'm just being reflecting on everything that I've heard from you from people that have communicated with me, my own personal experience.

2638
03:00:18,000 --> 03:00:32,000
I don't know. Thank you. So I did want to speak briefly as to this issue and bring up a couple of points that haven't been mentioned yet. I am aware of the seminal constitutional case from 89.

2639
03:00:32,000 --> 03:00:38,000
I also served on the redistricting committee and I did in depth analysis of our districts.

2640
03:00:38,000 --> 03:00:51,000
And what happened in 89, why we were a seminal constitutional case, was the process that we put in place decades ago that some cities still have not done from 1989 till today.

2641
03:00:51,000 --> 03:01:06,000
Our districts are equitably placed. They are representative of our population and the maps, the time frame that I took in the committee took in to make these maps.

2642
03:01:06,000 --> 03:01:17,000
We hired an expert. We looked at so many important data points and our maps are some of the best in the entire state because of that seminal case coming out.

2643
03:01:17,000 --> 03:01:26,000
So I'm sure that these safeguards in 89 were there also as we were going through the redistricting growing pains.

2644
03:01:26,000 --> 03:01:44,000
Our districts now, there were small tweaks that were made in the maps, but the numbers that checking the redistricting committees, the systems that are in place that I participated in, I think we have a really equitable redistricting group.

2645
03:01:44,000 --> 03:02:00,000
The other issue that I saw that was persuasive to me was in our own elections, right? District 4, 5 and 3 had no one running against them. All of us were a single constituent.

2646
03:02:00,000 --> 03:02:14,000
Not saying to elect someone forever. We are not saying get rid of term limits, but by allowing people to come back who can serve, who have competency.

2647
03:02:14,000 --> 03:02:26,000
Someone like Eduardo serving on RTC for an additional four years benefits everyone in this community and so we're not saying let's just stop term limits overall.

2648
03:02:26,000 --> 03:02:38,000
We are saying the competent people that are here, they still have to run for reelection, but we're going to allow a little bit more time considering what our redistricting currently looks like.

2649
03:02:38,000 --> 03:03:00,000
And having served on that committee, I'm happy with our districts. I think we have done a great job increasing equity in our population, looking at all the correct metrics, making sure that our districts for the last, you know, several decades have been appropriately made and complying with all those constitutional rules because we were the seminal city.

2650
03:03:00,000 --> 03:03:19,000
So I would not be in for this if it was get rid of term limits, it is not just keeping the same old, but it is a balance between new blood and also retaining people who can be of service after they have run for election.

2651
03:03:19,000 --> 03:03:27,000
And so looking at balancing those two things in light of the last round of elections, there were no opponents for three districts.

2652
03:03:27,000 --> 03:03:37,000
We desperately need people to serve in our community that are competent and if more people run than we have better elections, but ultimately it's up to the voter.

2653
03:03:37,000 --> 03:03:46,000
If the voters say, you know what, eight years is a great way to keep us to keep this new blood running, that's wonderful.

2654
03:03:46,000 --> 03:03:57,000
If the voters say, you know, an additional four for the council member that I know that I've worked with or a new council member in the future, that works for that constituent.

2655
03:03:57,000 --> 03:04:05,000
It's up to the people and we do pose questions, you know, ballot questions to the people, we just did it.

2656
03:04:05,000 --> 03:04:14,000
And the people answered us very, very clearly on what their preference was and that was not a uniform decision by any means.

2657
03:04:14,000 --> 03:04:32,000
So for those reasons, that's why I supported and I second this motion, considering the lack of candidates that we've had for the last several elections and considering where we are with redistricting in my knowledge of that having served on that committee.

2658
03:04:32,000 --> 03:04:35,000
Council, a mayor for a time, Clark.

2659
03:04:35,000 --> 03:04:43,000
Yes, thank you, Madam Mayor. City clerk, can you clarify the, I don't know why the microphones are action up tonight.

2660
03:04:43,000 --> 03:04:51,000
City clerk, can you clarify the motion please, because I'm unclear of what exactly was motion.

2661
03:04:51,000 --> 03:04:55,000
I'm going to defer to our city attorney who can better advise.

2662
03:04:56,000 --> 03:05:08,000
Sure, my recollection of the motion is that it was to give direction to staff to prepare and bring back to council.

2663
03:05:08,000 --> 03:05:18,000
A ballot measure and extending term limits to three terms under section 402 of the city charter.

2664
03:05:18,000 --> 03:05:24,000
Okay, that's that's a lot more words than I remember being stated, but okay thing maybe different order.

2665
03:05:24,000 --> 03:05:37,000
I can read it to you, you know, I move that we direct staff to repair and return to council with ballot measure and ending section 402 of the charter to a lot council members to serve for three terms.

2666
03:05:37,000 --> 03:05:49,000
Reconsecute of terms, because clearly you can serve three terms in it.

2667
03:05:49,000 --> 03:05:51,000
Council member, Deutra.

2668
03:05:51,000 --> 03:05:58,000
I just, Maria, when down memory lanes, I kind of want to, but down memory lane, a little bit too.

2669
03:05:58,000 --> 03:06:20,000
You know, when I, when I decided to run originally, I, I was young, I was 39 years old, that's young in my eyes, and I wanted to see a city in a town kind of reflect where I was in that place and where I wanted to be, you know,

2670
03:06:20,000 --> 03:06:28,000
be living, I mean, I've, throughout generation here, I, and when I moved away, went to college, when I came back, everything was the same.

2671
03:06:28,000 --> 03:06:33,000
So it was really concerning to me, I, you know, Watsonville really looked the same.

2672
03:06:33,000 --> 03:06:46,000
So I wanted to move forward and it was really hard to get into this business, because it is a business and I remember, you know, a council member at the time.

2673
03:06:46,000 --> 03:06:56,000
I looked at me and said, why are you running? Like, you were not asked to run. He told me that, and I'll never forget that.

2674
03:06:56,000 --> 03:07:07,000
And, and that's when I realized, oh, we have grouped, I didn't realize that like, oh, there's groups in this town, I, you know, there were there are two specific groups of people.

2675
03:07:07,000 --> 03:07:14,000
And, and that's when I started learning the lessons, because this is hard, this is not easy, you have to have really thick skin to be in our positions.

2676
03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:25,000
I mean, we, and it's not only, you know, being at, sometimes attacked by the public, but we're attacked by each other, you know, and that's politics.

2677
03:07:25,000 --> 03:07:35,000
And, you know, I call it a, it's a full, it's a full on, it's a sport, a full context sport, that's what I call it.

2678
03:07:35,000 --> 03:07:54,000
So, I understand how hard it is to get into this business, and I'm not that naive, young guy anymore, and, and I know what it takes to be successful, and there have been some pretty crappy members that I've had to work with who don't get anything done.

2679
03:07:54,000 --> 03:08:03,000
And if the constituents want to elect somebody else to go three terms to make sure that they're getting what they need, I don't see what the problem is.

2680
03:08:03,000 --> 03:08:10,000
It's not, I mean, there is, I'm going to be supporting this as well, because the people should be deciding on that, not us.

2681
03:08:10,000 --> 03:08:22,000
I think, you know, it's kind of, you know, to me, I understand the history of, you know, the case that was making sure that there was diversity on our council.

2682
03:08:22,000 --> 03:08:34,000
But you look at a place like Salinas, they're, they are majority Latino on that council, and they don't have trim limits, so there are a lot of cities that are able to elect Latinos to positions.

2683
03:08:34,000 --> 03:08:46,000
I think that that was a time during in Watsonville when there wasn't, you know, maybe the diversity at the number, you know, as it is now.

2684
03:08:46,000 --> 03:08:54,000
In, in the community, I grew up in the 90s when I went to, I went to Watsonville High School, I think I'm the only one on the board here at Watsonville High School.

2685
03:08:54,000 --> 03:09:08,000
And at that time, there were, there was, yes, population Latino was majority, but we also had Japanese Americans, we had Croatian Americans, we had Portuguese Americans, it was a lot more diverse than it is today.

2686
03:09:08,000 --> 03:09:20,000
So I, I don't buy into the argument that saying that we, if, you know, we have to continue to abide by these stringent rules, because otherwise Latinos won't be elected.

2687
03:09:20,000 --> 03:09:36,000
No, I think if you are smart enough, if you have the capacity to, to work with others and to make sure that you're going to be able to get the stuff needed for your district, people are going to elect you no matter you're Latino, why Portuguese American, Croatian American.

2688
03:09:36,000 --> 03:09:42,000
Well, they want someone who's going to be able to, you know, get the things that they need done.

2689
03:09:42,000 --> 03:09:50,000
And so, and I, I look at us up here, I mean, it's, it's a pretty diverse group of people on this council.

2690
03:09:50,000 --> 03:10:03,000
So, but at the end of the day, I think it's up to the people to decide not us and if we, we put things on the ballot all the time and, you know, I, for me, I think that, let the people vote on this.

2691
03:10:03,000 --> 03:10:04,000
Thank you.

2692
03:10:04,000 --> 03:10:07,000
I have, I, I wonder you.

2693
03:10:07,000 --> 03:10:09,000
You also remember Montesino?

2694
03:10:09,000 --> 03:10:19,000
Like I said, I'm not going to go into a person that I thought, you know, the memory lane, you know, because when I first ran, I was 36.

2695
03:10:19,000 --> 03:10:28,000
You know, I had recently been a citizen, you know, and the United States, and I didn't know anybody.

2696
03:10:28,000 --> 03:10:34,000
Because I moved to Watsonville, you know, at a young age, growing up my kids, you know.

2697
03:10:34,000 --> 03:10:38,000
But I saw the need when I was like, you know, a Ramsey Park.

2698
03:10:38,000 --> 03:10:46,000
I saw the need because we were like trying to get the kids playing and we're like flashlights because there was no, no lighting.

2699
03:10:46,000 --> 03:10:53,000
And, you know, that was not my big effort, you know, because, you know, about, you know, a community.

2700
03:10:53,000 --> 03:10:58,000
So, like I said, I'm putting a third term, it's an idea.

2701
03:10:58,000 --> 03:11:08,000
Like I said, if it passes tonight, we'll get another opportunity now with all the relevant information and attachment, how much is going to cost.

2702
03:11:08,000 --> 03:11:15,000
You know, at that time, you know, we're going to be able to discuss it even further.

2703
03:11:15,000 --> 03:11:20,000
So, like I said, you know, it's just an idea.

2704
03:11:20,000 --> 03:11:23,000
It's just, you know, changing parameters.

2705
03:11:23,000 --> 03:11:30,000
You know, even, you know, personally, if I ran, if somebody else, somebody could beat me.

2706
03:11:30,000 --> 03:11:35,000
It's the people people are going to have, you know, about, about to say.

2707
03:11:35,000 --> 03:11:42,000
But like I said, big endeavors and the community needs big endeavors with the future holds.

2708
03:11:43,000 --> 03:11:52,000
And we just need, you know, good leadership and good, you know, good foresight and and consistently advocating for a community.

2709
03:11:52,000 --> 03:11:56,000
And I appreciate it. Council Member Tuchers comment of is this.

2710
03:11:56,000 --> 03:12:05,000
And I think disenfranchisement is a little excessive of a word, but you have a group of people that would like to vote for a potential council person, right?

2711
03:12:05,000 --> 03:12:09,000
And they are not permitted to vote for them because of arbitrary rule.

2712
03:12:09,000 --> 03:12:13,000
Someone who's been very effective for their community, someone with lots of experience.

2713
03:12:13,000 --> 03:12:18,000
And they are simply not allowed to participate because they've served for eight years.

2714
03:12:18,000 --> 03:12:20,000
So I appreciate that comment.

2715
03:12:20,000 --> 03:12:21,000
I didn't think of it that way.

2716
03:12:21,000 --> 03:12:24,000
Council Mayor Protem Clark.

2717
03:12:24,000 --> 03:12:25,000
Yes.

2718
03:12:25,000 --> 03:12:30,000
This is another question I have for staff, whoever wants to answer.

2719
03:12:30,000 --> 03:12:38,000
Are there any other issues with our charter right now that we're looking to amend or would this be a one and done?

2720
03:12:38,000 --> 03:12:53,000
We have the perfect timing right now to be able to hold the public hearings if we wanted to consider any charter amendments.

2721
03:12:53,000 --> 03:12:58,000
Currently the request was by Council Member Montesino to consider a section 402.

2722
03:12:58,000 --> 03:13:07,000
At this point, based on the direction that we're given the next time we come back, we'll be in about a month to have our first hearing on that topic alone.

2723
03:13:07,000 --> 03:13:15,000
As far as the rest of the charter, as policy makers, you all have authority to correct staff to prepare content.

2724
03:13:15,000 --> 03:13:22,000
But I don't think that it's appropriate for us to unless the city manager has anything that she would like to recommend.

2725
03:13:22,000 --> 03:13:26,000
Well, yeah, no, I'm not asking if you guys want to make changes.

2726
03:13:26,000 --> 03:13:31,000
I'm asking if there's anything that needs to be changed if there's language like the last clean up that we did, right?

2727
03:13:31,000 --> 03:13:39,000
So, you know, two things come to mind, why wasn't this put in the last time we put this on the ballot?

2728
03:13:39,000 --> 03:13:45,000
Because this takes time. This takes staff time, this takes a lot of money, you know, there's a whole election for this.

2729
03:13:45,000 --> 03:13:53,000
So I'm just trying to be like, you know, see if there's a way to attach this to other things and get things done more efficiently.

2730
03:13:53,000 --> 03:14:02,000
And so, are there still more clean-ups that need to happen on the charter or would this be a standalone ballot item sort of a thing?

2731
03:14:02,000 --> 03:14:08,000
Currently, this would be a standalone item on the ballot, the way it stands.

2732
03:14:08,000 --> 03:14:13,000
I can speak a little bit to the process for the previous charter amendments.

2733
03:14:13,000 --> 03:14:20,000
The council selected a subcommittee which reviewed the entire charter line by line. We did that on multiple locations.

2734
03:14:20,000 --> 03:14:29,000
And the committee considered all of the different outdated data that was in the charter and made recommendations to the council as a whole.

2735
03:14:29,000 --> 03:14:39,000
The council met for two separate public hearings which granted us an opportunity to make additional changes and then finally coming up with a question on the ballot.

2736
03:14:39,000 --> 03:14:44,000
The council did make a change and it was a kind of a significant change which.

2737
03:14:44,000 --> 03:14:57,000
I'm going to one of the charter sections to separate all of the general cleanup from the participation on commissions for just general residents versus, you know, registered voters.

2738
03:14:57,000 --> 03:15:00,000
So in that case, that question was split.

2739
03:15:00,000 --> 03:15:07,000
All right, so you had the general cleanup, and then you had the commission participation measure.

2740
03:15:07,000 --> 03:15:15,000
Really, it was up to the council and what the deemed should be cleaned up at the time.

2741
03:15:15,000 --> 03:15:22,000
There's always opportunity to do that on any election, so you can always kind of ring it back and create new ballot questions.

2742
03:15:22,000 --> 03:15:29,000
But at that time, the committee made recommendations and the council approved certain recommendations.

2743
03:15:29,000 --> 03:15:31,000
You know, came up with the ballot questions.

2744
03:15:31,000 --> 03:15:33,000
I was on the committee, can I comment to them?

2745
03:15:33,000 --> 03:15:34,000
How did you get?

2746
03:15:34,000 --> 03:15:35,000
Was, please.

2747
03:15:35,000 --> 03:15:36,000
Are you on the committee?

2748
03:15:36,000 --> 03:15:37,000
I was also on the committee.

2749
03:15:37,000 --> 03:15:44,000
So there were, we were advised by our then city manager, not to do a complete cleanup,

2750
03:15:44,000 --> 03:15:49,000
because he was afraid of like, if we cleaned up the tax sections that it was going to confuse people

2751
03:15:49,000 --> 03:15:52,000
and really make them think that like we were changing taxes on them.

2752
03:15:52,000 --> 03:15:55,000
So if you remember, I remember this completely.

2753
03:15:55,000 --> 03:15:58,000
So we didn't clean it up, how we should have completed it up.

2754
03:15:59,000 --> 03:16:10,000
Because we were told we were advised by our then city manager that this might really confuse the voters thinking that we were doing something with their taxing.

2755
03:16:10,000 --> 03:16:11,000
Yeah.

2756
03:16:11,000 --> 03:16:13,000
So there needs to be a lot of work done to it.

2757
03:16:13,000 --> 03:16:14,000
So may I.

2758
03:16:14,000 --> 03:16:17,000
So that was one of the questions with thanks for bringing it up.

2759
03:16:17,000 --> 03:16:19,000
Council member Clark.

2760
03:16:19,000 --> 03:16:21,000
I really enjoyed that process.

2761
03:16:21,000 --> 03:16:23,000
I mean, it was a lot of work.

2762
03:16:23,000 --> 03:16:25,000
I was a lot of pulling here.

2763
03:16:26,000 --> 03:16:29,000
And some frustration, but that was more transparent.

2764
03:16:29,000 --> 03:16:38,000
You know, like when you have multiple people on a committee to discuss this item and other items that may need to be updated.

2765
03:16:38,000 --> 03:16:41,000
I think that's a better process.

2766
03:16:41,000 --> 03:16:46,000
So I would be, I would support something like that, because it's more inclusive.

2767
03:16:46,000 --> 03:16:49,000
Right, it's not coming from one council member.

2768
03:16:49,000 --> 03:16:53,000
Multiple council members can make those recommendations.

2769
03:16:53,000 --> 03:16:59,000
If we're going to take something out to the voters, then might as well clean it up.

2770
03:16:59,000 --> 03:17:00,000
Right.

2771
03:17:00,000 --> 03:17:04,000
It could be multiple questions within the ballot measure, just like what we did in the past.

2772
03:17:04,000 --> 03:17:10,000
But I think in order to just have it be more of a transparent process.

2773
03:17:10,000 --> 03:17:22,000
I would be more inclined to support a forming a committee to take a second look at that charter and make recommendations.

2774
03:17:22,000 --> 03:17:25,000
On one is to be updated and changed.

2775
03:17:25,000 --> 03:17:26,000
Great.

2776
03:17:26,000 --> 03:17:30,000
And point of order asking off of council member Roscoe's question.

2777
03:17:30,000 --> 03:17:40,000
If we did a subcommittee, if we met quickly, could we still get that to council relatively soon within the time frame we need.

2778
03:17:40,000 --> 03:17:42,000
I was just looking up the date.

2779
03:17:42,000 --> 03:17:43,000
I'm asking the court.

2780
03:17:43,000 --> 03:17:47,000
Do you know the deadline of when we need to submit a ballot measure to the county?

2781
03:17:47,000 --> 03:17:48,000
It would be cutting it close.

2782
03:17:48,000 --> 03:17:54,000
I was looking at the staff report from last year the last time we did this.

2783
03:17:54,000 --> 03:18:01,000
And our first public hearing was, and so we have to have two public hearings in the third public meeting.

2784
03:18:01,000 --> 03:18:07,000
Our first public hearing that last time was February 13th, 2024.

2785
03:18:07,000 --> 03:18:15,000
The first public hearing right, so the committee had was done well sort of had been meeting before that.

2786
03:18:15,000 --> 03:18:17,000
So when's the deadline?

2787
03:18:17,000 --> 03:18:19,000
It would land mid August.

2788
03:18:19,000 --> 03:18:25,000
So our last like regular meeting to put something on the ballot would be the July meeting.

2789
03:18:25,000 --> 03:18:30,000
Otherwise we'd have to hold a special meeting to add the ballot measure.

2790
03:18:30,000 --> 03:18:31,000
I think that's a play of talk.

2791
03:18:31,000 --> 03:18:32,000
Yes.

2792
03:18:32,000 --> 03:18:34,000
Have some time.

2793
03:18:34,000 --> 03:18:36,000
Can I have a question, Mayor?

2794
03:18:36,000 --> 03:18:37,000
Yes.

2795
03:18:37,000 --> 03:18:46,000
So if we did do a committee, then I mean, would we be able to talk about the possibility of like.

2796
03:18:46,000 --> 03:18:50,000
The mayor, you know, the mayor issue that already brought up earlier.

2797
03:18:50,000 --> 03:18:51,000
Sure.

2798
03:18:51,000 --> 03:18:57,000
And I don't know if that's something that you feel that you want to, would want the voters to vote on.

2799
03:18:57,000 --> 03:18:59,000
Councilmember Parker.

2800
03:18:59,000 --> 03:19:00,000
Yeah.

2801
03:19:00,000 --> 03:19:01,000
Okay.

2802
03:19:01,000 --> 03:19:02,000
So I'm going to throw this out.

2803
03:19:02,000 --> 03:19:03,000
You know, San let the people vote.

2804
03:19:03,000 --> 03:19:05,000
It's a motto that H&J came to.

2805
03:19:05,000 --> 03:19:10,000
It's not let the people vote on something that the council put on.

2806
03:19:10,000 --> 03:19:12,000
Let the people vote was about power of the people.

2807
03:19:12,000 --> 03:19:14,000
And it was about the people bringing this to.

2808
03:19:14,000 --> 03:19:17,000
But I'm perfectly fine if the people want to bring.

2809
03:19:17,000 --> 03:19:19,000
Uh, what you were just talking about.

2810
03:19:19,000 --> 03:19:21,000
To us with a petition.

2811
03:19:21,000 --> 03:19:22,000
That means they're interested.

2812
03:19:22,000 --> 03:19:23,000
They're motivated.

2813
03:19:23,000 --> 03:19:24,000
They'd like that model.

2814
03:19:24,000 --> 03:19:29,000
And it could be that we help educate them on the models that, you know, that we have.

2815
03:19:29,000 --> 03:19:30,000
We do it.

2816
03:19:30,000 --> 03:19:32,000
But for us to do it.

2817
03:19:32,000 --> 03:19:33,000
Once again.

2818
03:19:33,000 --> 03:19:35,000
And I'm going to go back to, I think.

2819
03:19:35,000 --> 03:19:39,000
Councilwoman Kitter's Carter reattached on it.

2820
03:19:39,000 --> 03:19:40,000
You know.

2821
03:19:40,000 --> 03:19:41,000
And I was here.

2822
03:19:41,000 --> 03:19:45,000
And I did not graduate from Watsonville High, but I've been here all my life.

2823
03:19:45,000 --> 03:19:48,000
In this part of Ovali.

2824
03:19:48,000 --> 03:19:51,000
And I taught here for 40 years.

2825
03:19:51,000 --> 03:19:52,000
So yeah.

2826
03:19:52,000 --> 03:19:58,000
And I've participated in in all sorts of things.

2827
03:19:58,000 --> 03:20:00,000
So when I speak to it.

2828
03:20:00,000 --> 03:20:03,000
I speak to letting the people vote.

2829
03:20:03,000 --> 03:20:05,000
Not on what we want.

2830
03:20:05,000 --> 03:20:06,000
Seven of us.

2831
03:20:06,000 --> 03:20:10,000
Unless it's to an up, you know, our cake language.

2832
03:20:10,000 --> 03:20:13,000
And you know, our charter.

2833
03:20:13,000 --> 03:20:18,000
I speak to what they are motivated for.

2834
03:20:18,000 --> 03:20:22,000
And I think that's so important.

2835
03:20:22,000 --> 03:20:25,000
And I listen to the redistricting information.

2836
03:20:25,000 --> 03:20:27,000
But then I still know that to get elected.

2837
03:20:27,000 --> 03:20:30,000
I have to get a lot more votes than a lot of you guys do.

2838
03:20:30,000 --> 03:20:34,000
We have the same amount of people, but we don't have the same amount of participation.

2839
03:20:34,000 --> 03:20:39,000
So are we as council members getting out there and getting participation going in

2840
03:20:39,000 --> 03:20:41,000
our district.

2841
03:20:41,000 --> 03:20:42,000
You hear a mine.

2842
03:20:42,000 --> 03:20:44,000
I've got, you know, they're on site A.

2843
03:20:44,000 --> 03:20:45,000
They're on site B.

2844
03:20:45,000 --> 03:20:46,000
It's the same subject.

2845
03:20:46,000 --> 03:20:48,000
It's constant district seven.

2846
03:20:48,000 --> 03:20:50,000
And it's changing.

2847
03:20:50,000 --> 03:20:52,000
My district is even changing.

2848
03:20:52,000 --> 03:20:56,000
I mean, by the time I first ran to now, the demographics are changing.

2849
03:20:56,000 --> 03:20:58,000
The city is changing.

2850
03:20:58,000 --> 03:21:07,000
I think that I don't want us to be the deciders of what the people of Watsonville

2851
03:21:07,000 --> 03:21:10,000
should have as a model for this.

2852
03:21:10,000 --> 03:21:11,000
They should be the deciders.

2853
03:21:11,000 --> 03:21:16,000
If we want to open it up for public hearings, so that they can come in.

2854
03:21:16,000 --> 03:21:20,000
And they can talk or we want to hold these meetings in our districts.

2855
03:21:20,000 --> 03:21:22,000
And say, look, these are possibilities, right?

2856
03:21:22,000 --> 03:21:24,000
You know, we could do this.

2857
03:21:24,000 --> 03:21:25,000
We could change it.

2858
03:21:25,000 --> 03:21:30,000
But the last time we had a mayor that was, what is it called?

2859
03:21:30,000 --> 03:21:32,000
You know, for the whole city, right?

2860
03:21:32,000 --> 03:21:36,000
And we'd have to go to six districts and a mayor at large.

2861
03:21:36,000 --> 03:21:41,000
We, and I don't want to, there were all men, and they were white.

2862
03:21:41,000 --> 03:21:48,000
And that's what pushed us into putting district districts in place.

2863
03:21:48,000 --> 03:21:51,000
And the Supreme Court was very clear about it.

2864
03:21:51,000 --> 03:21:54,000
And yeah, and we didn't follow Santa Cruz.

2865
03:21:54,000 --> 03:21:56,000
Santa Cruz has followed us.

2866
03:21:56,000 --> 03:21:59,000
And for those of us who've seen this from day one, you know,

2867
03:21:59,000 --> 03:22:05,000
I was here when we were like 12,000 to 20,000 people.

2868
03:22:05,000 --> 03:22:10,000
And now we're like almost 60,000 or more.

2869
03:22:10,000 --> 03:22:11,000
No.

2870
03:22:11,000 --> 03:22:15,000
This has to come from the people and educating the people and getting.

2871
03:22:15,000 --> 03:22:20,000
And yeah, I hear a mayor which you said about, you know, not having three different districts,

2872
03:22:20,000 --> 03:22:23,000
not have opposition, right?

2873
03:22:23,000 --> 03:22:27,000
I think that's more economics than wanting to be involved.

2874
03:22:27,000 --> 03:22:30,000
At that time, we made like what 500 bucks a month.

2875
03:22:30,000 --> 03:22:33,000
And for people who are raising the family and having to take that time,

2876
03:22:33,000 --> 03:22:35,000
that's difficult for them.

2877
03:22:35,000 --> 03:22:37,000
So we don't make millions, but we make more now.

2878
03:22:37,000 --> 03:22:40,000
We make about what $1,200 a month.

2879
03:22:40,000 --> 03:22:42,000
And maybe that's enough.

2880
03:22:42,000 --> 03:22:45,000
Because that's what I always heard from the younger folks.

2881
03:22:45,000 --> 03:22:47,000
They said, you know, I can't afford to do it.

2882
03:22:47,000 --> 03:22:51,000
I can't afford to take the time away from whatever I'm working with.

2883
03:22:51,000 --> 03:22:53,000
And, and having that.

2884
03:22:53,000 --> 03:22:56,000
So I'm all for education.

2885
03:22:56,000 --> 03:22:58,000
I'm all for letting people know what the charter is.

2886
03:22:58,000 --> 03:23:03,000
I'm all for this coming from the people, not for us thinking, we know better than they do.

2887
03:23:03,000 --> 03:23:05,000
And we're going to place it on there.

2888
03:23:05,000 --> 03:23:07,000
And then we're going to let the people vote.

2889
03:23:07,000 --> 03:23:12,000
No, this should be from the people of the city of Watsonville.

2890
03:23:12,000 --> 03:23:17,000
And if they're not ready for it yet, then they're not ready for it yet.

2891
03:23:17,000 --> 03:23:20,000
And that's fine.

2892
03:23:20,000 --> 03:23:29,000
Because that's the one thing that I've always been really weary of is the fact that when I ran,

2893
03:23:29,000 --> 03:23:32,000
there were the machine kind of a thing.

2894
03:23:32,000 --> 03:23:34,000
That's what we used to call it.

2895
03:23:34,000 --> 03:23:35,000
Nice people.

2896
03:23:35,000 --> 03:23:39,000
But they, you know, they're like on these guys hung out together.

2897
03:23:39,000 --> 03:23:40,000
And these guys hung out together.

2898
03:23:40,000 --> 03:23:45,000
So Jimmy, similar to what you said, you know, people voted in their clicks.

2899
03:23:45,000 --> 03:23:46,000
Right?

2900
03:23:46,000 --> 03:23:51,000
And so that's something I've whole close to my heart.

2901
03:23:51,000 --> 03:23:53,000
And I know a lot of people do.

2902
03:23:53,000 --> 03:24:01,000
At least more than 60% of the people who voted last time on HIV and Jay, that it is about the people.

2903
03:24:01,000 --> 03:24:11,000
And it is about us making it attractive for younger people who are raising their families and wanting to be involved in this and being educated.

2904
03:24:11,000 --> 03:24:15,000
And I really thought that's what our Watsonville Academy was doing.

2905
03:24:15,000 --> 03:24:17,000
We were making them educated.

2906
03:24:17,000 --> 03:24:33,000
So for us to put that on the ballot, and for those of you who've never been involved in the process of getting hundreds of thousands of signatures knocking on doors and having to come to your city clerk and have them have to verify everything.

2907
03:24:33,000 --> 03:24:42,000
That is a grassroots, amazing feeling and knowing how involved everybody is across the whole city.

2908
03:24:43,000 --> 03:24:48,000
So if you want to do that, I'd be happy to volunteer and be a part of that education.

2909
03:24:48,000 --> 03:24:51,000
But other than that, we want to change anything.

2910
03:24:51,000 --> 03:24:53,000
The seven of us are going to do it.

2911
03:24:53,000 --> 03:25:00,000
And because the state of the whole world today, especially the federal government, people tend to check out.

2912
03:25:00,000 --> 03:25:04,000
And so I don't think it's the time to do something like this.

2913
03:25:04,000 --> 03:25:09,000
And I would be voting no to further this.

2914
03:25:10,000 --> 03:25:12,000
Councilmember D. Trash.

2915
03:25:12,000 --> 03:25:15,000
I understand what you're saying, Councilmember Parker.

2916
03:25:15,000 --> 03:25:28,000
But if we had that mentality when we recently went out to add non-voters to participate in our process to give because we're struggling to get people to participate.

2917
03:25:28,000 --> 03:25:33,000
Which having only one person run in each district for three to four districts that were up.

2918
03:25:33,000 --> 03:25:37,000
I mean we're having a struggle to get people to participate in politics.

2919
03:25:37,000 --> 03:25:42,000
I mean the public wouldn't have gathered signatures to allow that to happen.

2920
03:25:42,000 --> 03:25:43,000
It took us to do it.

2921
03:25:43,000 --> 03:25:58,000
So I mean I think that I know some people were not supportive of it up here, but it took a non-consensus of a group to put it on the ballot in order for the people to make that decision.

2922
03:25:58,000 --> 03:26:02,000
And that's all that that's all that Eduardo's asking for.

2923
03:26:02,000 --> 03:26:12,000
With that said, I would be supportive of putting a committee together because I do think that we should once and for all clean the charter and not be afraid to clean it.

2924
03:26:12,000 --> 03:26:20,000
You know like last time when you know we were told to not clean it up too much because people would be afraid.

2925
03:26:20,000 --> 03:26:28,000
And I think that we should we should put a committee together and clean the entire charter and have this as part of a conversation.

2926
03:26:28,000 --> 03:26:35,000
It will come back. People get a vote. People there's going to be more meetings about this. So people are going to have the opportunity to come and speak about it.

2927
03:26:35,000 --> 03:26:39,000
And and then go from there. So I'm supportive of that.

2928
03:26:39,000 --> 03:26:43,000
So our next meeting is March 10th in the interim.

2929
03:26:43,000 --> 03:26:45,000
We can create a subcommittee.

2930
03:26:45,000 --> 03:26:53,000
We can table. I know we have a motion a second, but we can table this question until March 10th in the interim. The subcommittee can meet.

2931
03:26:53,000 --> 03:27:01,000
And we can have any other additional conversations that we need about the charter at that point.

2932
03:27:01,000 --> 03:27:04,000
That would be my thought. Yes.

2933
03:27:04,000 --> 03:27:22,000
I think that's that's a right deal because by you know my biggest effort like I said, I want to run the broad the charter amendments and create the committee because that was my you know and I thought you know because I wasn't part of the subcommittee that I wasn't aware that they you guys were told not to.

2934
03:27:22,000 --> 03:27:36,000
But my intention was clear up you know until you know last year in this year I've been noticed you know asking more questions that it didn't get cleaner.

2935
03:27:36,000 --> 03:27:38,000
I'm like well that makes no sense.

2936
03:27:38,000 --> 03:27:51,000
So I'm so I'm really supportive you know of that we will table it and and and and move on to bigger changes like I said bigger changes are what the community need to know.

2937
03:27:52,000 --> 03:28:03,000
So I'm going to go ahead and table this until March 10th meeting and I will create and select a subcommittee in the interim to meet before March 10th.

2938
03:28:03,000 --> 03:28:04,000
Okay.

2939
03:28:04,000 --> 03:28:08,000
I think that's it. Mayor, I want to volunteer for the subcommittee.

2940
03:28:08,000 --> 03:28:11,000
I appreciate your volunteerism.

2941
03:28:11,000 --> 03:28:16,000
I can any emergency items added to agenda.

2942
03:28:17,000 --> 03:28:22,000
Any requests for scheduling of future agenda items.

2943
03:28:22,000 --> 03:28:26,000
Seeing none that time is now 19 we are adjourned.

2944
03:28:26,000 --> 03:28:27,000
Earlier.

2945
03:28:27,000 --> 03:28:28,000
Yeah.

2946
03:28:46,000 --> 03:28:48,000
Okay.