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[0:01] All right, we're going to reconvene into open session, roll call.
[0:07] We'll go into announcements. Oh, yeah, this and this way announcements. City council met in closed session with respect to the items on the closed session agenda, and there is no reportable action that concludes the report.
[0:22] Thank you.
[0:24] I'm adjourned in close session and call the order regular session at 6'10 pm.
[0:34] Council Member Moore.
[0:35] Here.
[0:36] Council Member Moore of Edo.
[0:37] Here.
[0:38] Council Member Neg.
[0:39] Here.
[0:40] Mayor Pro Temmarkez.
[0:41] Here.
[0:42] Mayor D. Filippo.
[0:42] Here.
[0:45] All right.
[0:46] We have flag salute.
[0:49] Did we get anyone?
[0:50] Okay.
[0:53] I'm trying to see who's here.
[0:58] Oh, it's done here?
[0:59] Oh.
[1:00] Don Saunders.
[1:01] Will you please help us with the flag salute?
[1:09] Please remain standing after the flag suit for a moment of silent reflection.
[1:46] All right, that brings us to presentations.
[1:49] So first we have a proclamation for DMV Donate Life, April 20, 25.
[2:13] Hi there.
[2:14] So, you want to go ahead and explain to us?
[2:18] Yeah, so I'll give a little bit background about myself and what this is all about.
[2:21] So my name is Erica.
[2:23] I've lived in this area since 1989 with my family.
[2:26] I also had been a teacher in the Lake Elson Unified School District, primarily a terracotta
[2:30] middle school for about 20 years before I retired.
[2:33] I'm also a heart transplant recipient, and I'm one of your local one legacy ambassadors.
[2:39] And what one legacy is, is a OPO, it's one of the four OPO's in the state of California.
[2:45] We are the liaison between transplant centers and the hospitals.
[2:49] We are the ones that deal with all the, for organising tissue donation and so forth.
[2:54] So I'm going to share a little bit about the benefits of organising tissue donation.
[2:59] But on behalf of one legacy alongside with our partnership with the DMV, we want to extend our gratitude and appreciation for
[3:06] the City of Baltimore continually issuing the DMV Donate Life Month Proclamation every year.
[3:12] It means a lot.
[3:14] I've been doing this since 2019 with you guys.
[3:17] So it's really nice because it's actually allowing the word to get and
[3:21] awareness out there about the benefits and the needs for
[3:25] organine tissue donation, especially for many community members.
[3:28] We have a lot of donor families living here.
[3:30] We have a lot of recipients living here.
[3:32] We also have a lot of residents finding out their need of a
[3:35] life-saving organ or they're not going to make it.
[3:38] You also have residents who need healing.
[3:41] Maybe they tore an ACL and need that replace.
[3:43] That's from an organ donor.
[3:45] Maybe you're a cardiac patient and need a heart valve.
[3:48] The TAVAR procedure, some of our local hospitals.
[3:51] that requires an organ donor.
[3:53] So, Lena is to say, organ donation impacts quite a few people in this neighborhood.
[3:59] And me specifically, I would not be here without a heart transplant.
[4:03] I was a teacher at East of 2016.
[4:06] I didn't have a history of heart failure, congenital defect.
[4:09] You just never know when something's going to happen.
[4:11] And I had some illnesses happening.
[4:14] No big deal, right?
[4:15] Come to find out it's having heart attack.
[4:17] People live with heart attacks all the time.
[4:19] but then that triggered into cardiac arrests.
[4:21] I went into four times and transferred to another hospital, had various open heart
[4:27] surgeries not responding.
[4:29] My heart rate, four hundreds, so imagine doing exercise in your heart rate, sit in 400.
[4:35] So that would throw me into cardiac arrest.
[4:38] And so they were going to do an ablation.
[4:41] Body said nope, stroke went blind, couldn't speak, had a priest brought him from my last
[4:45] rights.
[4:46] I was sent into Cedar Sinai with the intent of having a heart transplant.
[4:49] But I had to be put on life support and sent off an ECMO.
[4:52] They put me on an LVADS machine, a little motor put on the heart with a dry line down the
[4:55] center and out of my sight and you plug it into the wall as a bridge to transplant.
[5:00] I got the call, Easter of 2017.
[5:04] My donor, Dylan, he was 19 years old, a Cal Baptist university student on his way home for Easter when he got a little fender banner. While he was waiting for a tow truck, traffic backed up, truck decided he'd need to get somewhere, went down that emergency lane and hit his cart 65 miles an hour. He was a registered donor, he was my match, so I didn't understand what organ donation means with match. I was upset that in 19 year old, I had a 19 year old heart.
[5:28] Why didn't they give it to another child?
[5:31] But the way the organ donation works is it's match, antibodies, blood type, size, all
[5:36] kinds of things.
[5:37] You know, if there's cancer cells and something, you can't have that heart.
[5:40] So a lot of factors go in and he was my only match.
[5:44] So I'm appreciative of that.
[5:46] He saved five lives, mine included 213 tissue samples just from one donor.
[5:52] So we're very appreciative of organ donation increasing the awareness.
[5:56] We are seeing because City, World of Mar, and a lot of the other local cities are continually raising awareness about organ donation.
[6:05] We've seen an incredible increase in records.
[6:08] So on the slide up there in the middle, there's some actually current data.
[6:13] I broke it down.
[6:14] The middle slide is actually one legacy.
[6:15] One legacy handles seven counties in Southern California minus San Diego.
[6:19] So out of in 2024 there was 740 donors and 1,941 transplants.
[6:28] So those many donors and that's many transplants, which is incredible because actually that's a 77% increase.
[6:34] Nationwide lower middle, it was 48,149 last year, year before it was 46,000 so again it increased.
[6:43] But data California overall, we did 5,261 transplants, but the year before was 5,290.
[6:53] We're going down, but yet in our area, we went up.
[6:58] So you got to think about, we did 2,000 transplants in the state of California, did 5,000.
[7:04] So we're pretty good percentage here because of the awareness.
[7:07] The transplant list right now is 104,000, the year before was 103.
[7:13] You figured nationwide they did almost 50,000 transplants.
[7:17] Why aren't we down to 50,000 on the wait list?
[7:20] Because, and then I'm sure, I don't know if you'll read the proclamation, but there's
[7:24] like an average of seven people passing away every day, waiting for a life-saving organ and
[7:29] just as many, if not more, being added to the list.
[7:32] I actually know of a few, I did the Women's Health Expo a couple of weeks ago, and I had
[7:38] a couple women come up to me saying that they need, one need a liver, one need a kidney,
[7:45] and if you look at the overall weight list, 23,000 are waiting in California, and if only
[7:49] doing 5,000 transplants, but we have 23,000, number one is kidney and livers.
[7:56] Most doctors are now telling patients that if in order for them to survive, because you
[8:00] You got to remember, in order for you to need an organ, you're hanging on death
[8:03] store.
[8:04] So they're being told to move out of state.
[8:07] So I like to raise that awareness that if you are an organ donor, thank you.
[8:13] If not, please consider it, because the benefits of it, I've talked about being a stroke.
[8:19] Lower left picture.
[8:21] I do a goal every year.
[8:22] Now, on the 19th, I will be celebrating eight years post-transplant.
[8:27] I did my first 5K last year at the Donate Life Run walk and behind me there's a lady holding
[8:33] her hand up like this.
[8:34] That is my donor's mom.
[8:35] I met her Easter of 2018.
[8:38] She's holding a felt finger number one.
[8:40] She met me at the finish line and I mean, we do a lot of things together and she totally
[8:45] sees me as a silver lining to a tragedy.
[8:48] So I encourage those of you who maybe had doubts.
[8:52] There's a lot of myths going on there on social media.
[8:54] These are facts, so please consider it, but I thank you.
[9:00] Thank you, Erica.
[9:04] And you are silver lining.
[9:06] And so thank you for your passion, your advocacy on this.
[9:08] And I personally know people who have had transplants
[9:11] and have benefited from donations.
[9:14] So thank you for bringing awareness and passion to this.
[9:16] And so I'll just-
[9:17] Just a last part of that.
[9:21] That didn't recognition of national donate life month.
[9:24] This month of April 2025 is hereby proclaim DMV Donate life month in the city of
[9:30] Voldemort and in doing so we encourage all Californians to check yes online when
[9:34] applying for or renewing the driver's license or ID card at the DMV.
[9:39] Thank you.
[9:41] Some of you might be wondering about the pig.
[9:44] I was a teacher and my students all the way from 1999 came to visit me.
[9:49] They helped me pull me out of the wheelchair on my recovery and some of them brought this teaching
[9:54] language I used to pick with wings making pigs fly and they hit home to me at home.
[10:00] How important organ, how they saw organ donation affecting me, that they actually found this to give to me. So they're telling me that, you know, and this is why I share it that the impossible is possible. And every person in this room has the ability to help make pigs fly. So I always bring this. Thank you very much. Thank you. Yeah.
[10:32] Maybe in the middle. Actually move that way.
[11:03] So first, we're going to show a video from last Saturday's Earth Day event.
[11:24] Thank you to the volunteers.
[11:30] So I was
[12:16] a great video of an even greater day, Earth Day.
[12:21] So we'll talk about that later in council communications, but it was a great day.
[12:24] And so we have, this is volunteer month.
[12:29] And so we're here to present to some of our volunteers some certificates and so I'm
[12:36] just going to read the list of names and if you want to come up and then I'll give you
[12:40] guys the certificates if you don't mind kind of sorting it out if that's okay.
[12:46] So I'm going to Alejandro and Dylan Perez and White, Chanel and Easy Santos, Chris
[12:54] Ivarni, Cody Salazar, Dan Gons, Deb Robinant, Debbie Sutherland, Eileen San Giovanni, George
[13:03] Cambrero, Renee Cambrero, Joe Billman, Laura Roosh, Leonardo Gomez, Lisa Rodriguez, Richard
[13:12] Pierce, Robin Adkins, Rosio Bachelo, Jerry Orchard, Sandy Fandrick, Jennifer Beland,
[13:24] Jennifer
[13:26] Williams, Wilmattox, Lisa Ballard, Tim Underdown, Carrie Gardner, Victor, and Logan Morales,
[13:33] Adrian Fisher.
[13:34] And Mayor, I just want to add, so we also have Dawn Saunders here.
[13:38] Dawn Saunders?
[13:39] And if we'll get certificates, if we don't have, I know a high-d engine net, we're fiercely
[13:43] typing, don't come on down, is there anyone else out there?
[13:46] And then I do want to mention, most of these people are Wilmarine Bukesh volunteers, but
[13:49] we have Jennifer Balland, she's the volunteer group of cops for kids for a couple years now.
[13:54] despite even having some health issues, and she pushed through and has been doing a great job on our golf tournament, and then we have,
[14:02] there's also some Baltimore Little League folks that we're volunteering to.
[14:09] Thank you so much for all of your many hours of service to our city and our community, and we're a better community because of your service, so thank you so much.
[14:43] Why they're sitting down, I just want to mention, we did feel to see in our roll-offs.
[14:48] We had 300 volunteers on Saturday cleaning our community, we cleaned 10 miles.
[14:54] All of Mr. Trill, all of Palomar and Grant, it was a great turnout, great weather, we want to thank all of you.
[15:04] All right.
[15:07] So department report, so you have public works engineering, department report, presented by Jason Farrag. Good evening, mayor, members of the city council. This will hopefully be a brief report, just a few quick updates on a few of our active construction projects. Next slide, please. So we'll touch on the Palomar widening project, the flood control.
[15:31] Basin project on Monavista, one of the development projects, the Bunnikanian Plaza project, and then a couple maintenance and operations items.
[15:41] Next slide, please.
[15:44] So on our CIP projects, we obviously have the Palomar and Cemetery Improvement project ongoing.
[15:52] We had a little bit of a rain delay over the last few weeks, so originally we were expecting construction completion in November.
[15:58] We're currently looking at end of December for construction completion, barring any further delays.
[16:06] If you've been out there, you've seen they've been pouring curb and gutter and excavating on some of the road widening areas.
[16:13] We took advantage of the school's spring break to do some of the work around the school.
[16:20] And this coming month they'll be demolishing or removing the existing curb and gutter on the west side of the road
[16:26] in replacing that with a new curb and gutter at a slightly different location.
[16:32] If you've been out there this week, you've probably seen a little bit of a traffic backup.
[16:37] The contractor was doing some work for the signals and damaged some of the detection loops,
[16:42] and so that set the signal into recall.
[16:44] So our traffic engineer is working on adjusting the timing, so to minimize that impact as much as possible
[16:50] as we get through this phase. Next slide, please.
[16:54] The flood control ladder will see basin and storm drain projects, so this is the project
[17:00] at the corner of Monivista and Bundikanyan.
[17:03] Last time we spoke about it, we were sharing that the Monivista drive was going to be closed
[17:07] for about three months.
[17:10] Now we're one month into that closure.
[17:13] The contractor has been busily working on the culvert along Monivista.
[17:17] The summer sageway has been open and allows for southbound access.
[17:23] The next phase of construction, next light please, will change the closure.
[17:29] Monovist has been closed from Bundy Canyon on the north to summer sage on the south.
[17:34] This next stage of construction will flip and close Monovist the south of summer sage just
[17:40] around the curve so that they can tie into the existing CalTrans culvert.
[17:45] With that, they have to remove and demolish the existing summer sage way bridge and replace that with a standard intersection, so that intersection has to be closed.
[17:58] But the contractor is going to be able to accommodate one way traffic out of summer sage, so residents will still be able to exit.
[18:05] It's not there's not enough room to allow for both directions of traffic.
[18:09] So residents will be able to exit to the north to go to Bundy Canyon.
[18:14] There will not be southbound access on Monivista.
[18:17] And then the two intersections, Oak Canyon Drive and one that Creek will remain open for all access.
[18:23] Next slide, please.
[18:26] So just a development project update, the Bundy Canyon Plaza project is ongoing.
[18:31] going. They've completed the landscaping in the median. They're still working on upgrading
[18:39] the traffic signal to allow access into sellers on the southbound side that they've built.
[18:44] So to accommodate that over the next month or two, we expect them to restripe portions
[18:49] of Bundy Canyon Road to allow for the left turn pocket, new crosswalks, adjusting the lane
[18:54] it's out there to accommodate a right turn into their driveway as well.
[18:58] So once we have more concrete dates from the developer, we'll share those with Kimberly
[19:04] to get notices out to the public.
[19:06] Next slide.
[19:07] Next slide, please.
[19:09] So just a few brief updates on the maintenance and operation side.
[19:14] We finalized the standard drawing for the standard detail for the city welcome signs that the
[19:20] Council approved last year and we've executed a purchase order with a contractor to install
[19:25] the signs. We're targeting having the signs installed by the end of the month or end
[19:30] of May. When we presented this to the Council last year, we identified the existing locations
[19:38] where the city currently has entry signs as locations that we would be replacing with these
[19:44] new signs. But at that time, there was also a discussion
[19:48] about evaluating new locations for some signs and so we've identified three more locations
[19:53] that currently don't have signs where we will be placing signs and we are looking
[20:00] Additional locations to see if they're warranted or appropriate. And so, we'll continue to work on that and try to get that wrapped up in the next couple of months here. Next slide. And so, just a quick update on the Will Demart trail restriping for those who aren't familiar. We've been working to restripe the eastbound to southbound legs of the Will Demart trail interchange to provide for a right turn pocket.
[20:29] So to give some traffic relief for e-spound traffic.
[20:34] For those who may not be familiar with the process, as simple as the process may sound,
[20:41] unfortunately, that area of Voldemort Trail by the freeway belongs to CalTrans.
[20:46] And so because we're changing the geometry of the striping there, we can't just go out and
[20:51] black out one line and strike a new line.
[20:54] And so we do have to go through CalTrans to get their approval.
[20:56] Part of that, it's a little bit more of an evaluation than just telling them this is how we want to do it.
[21:04] We have to, our engineers actually have to run truck turning templates to make sure that when we shift all the lines,
[21:10] that the trucks can still make the turns without crossing over into the opposing lane of traffic without hitting the curbs.
[21:16] And so Caltrans is asking us to evaluate all those and demonstrate that it can all still function when we shift everything and create new lanes.
[21:23] And so we've resubmitted our encroachment permits at CalTrans this week and looking
[21:30] hopefully to get approval or if they have additional comments will revise and resubmit.
[21:36] Once they approve it, then it's just a matter of getting a bid from a contractor and then
[21:41] getting this constructed.
[21:43] This area is just east of the existing Kaiser driveway on Voldemort Trail.
[21:51] That driveway was designed and is operating as a right in, right out driveway, so left turns into and out of that driveway are prohibited.
[22:03] We have still seen people continuing to make unpermitted left turns out of that or they make a right turn and make an illegal U-turn.
[22:13] We've been actively working with our partners at RSO for enforcement to the extent possible.
[22:20] Kaiser has done a lot of education within the hospital.
[22:24] They've also done a lot of onsite improvements to try to reinforce that right turn.
[22:30] But we're continuing to evaluate it to see if there's anything else warranted that can be done whether it's additional restrictions in the roadway.
[22:39] We haven't made a final decision or determination on if anything else needs to be done, but we are actively evaluating it.
[22:48] We are waiting for this Caltrans approval, though, because we're going to be shifting the center line.
[22:53] And so anything we do is going to get affected by this, and so we would have to do it twice.
[22:57] So we're waiting for this approval first before we make any final decision on the driveway as well.
[23:02] Worse case scenario, if for whatever reason we can't get approval from CalTrans to move forward on this we can still continue evaluating and implementing any warranted changes for the driveway separately from this.
[23:14] Next slide. Just as a reminder for the community, we do post project updates on the website if you go to the homepage and that third icon there.
[23:22] Next slide please.
[23:26] Next slide please.
[23:27] So if you click that icon, you'll get a page with two links one for development projects, one for construction alerts.
[23:34] Next slide.
[23:34] The development projects link will take you to a map where you can click on any project and get project details.
[23:41] This covers all the private development projects.
[23:44] If someone's curious what grading is starting, what project is being built there, they can go and check this map.
[23:50] Next slide.
[23:51] And then the construction alert page has more detail on roadway impacts from some of these projects whether it's a city CIP project or a development project next slide.
[24:00] And that concludes my presentation. Happy to answer any questions.
[24:05] Thank you.
[24:11] Any public comments?
[24:14] For not on the agenda?
[24:16] Oh, sorry.
[24:19] For this item, there's no public comments for the department report.
[24:22] Okay, but you're right. I did, I did. Okay,
[24:27] Jason. I appreciate your report. It's it pretty much
[24:34] answers my questions, but I do just because I wasn't hearing correctly. So we're about the
[24:40] world tomorrow trail restriping. So from our point of view, does it look good? Did it the templates
[24:46] work? I mean, it should fit. It's not one of those like, you know, they probably won't or. Yeah,
[24:51] correct we were able to get all the trucks to turning to work and so yeah now we're just hopefully
[24:58] going into the final review process with them.
[25:00] Right. So, and you mentioned that we will have other remedies, if for some reason CalTrans says no, but I was out there a couple of times since our last city council meeting, and I was meeting with the resident, and we happen to be sitting over on backs to kind of looking at other stuff. In the meantime, three people within 20 minutes made that left hand turn, that you look at the left hand turn. So, we absolutely have to put something if they don't allow it. So, I know you've got something working, but like you said, because it would change the striping if we did something now.
[25:29] we wipe it out. So the other question was just if I missed it on summer stage, it's going to go
[25:36] down to one lane. Now I would assume that's not just a daytime thing, right? I mean,
[25:41] what happens at night? Correct. So it would be a 24-hour one-way out.
[25:50] And so they'll set up traffic control. And then we're currently reviewing the traffic control plans.
[25:54] But they'll set up traffic control so that there's no southbound access into summer stage.
[26:00] or down Monivista Drive, so it will be that condition 24-7.
[26:05] Okay. And we know, based on the thing at Kaiser, that there's going to be a lot of people that know not just the first day or two.
[26:12] And how long do we anticipate this taking to complete?
[26:15] So they anticipate being complete with all of the Monivista construction by, I think, early June.
[26:22] So this next phase, I would expect it to start probably in this next month.
[26:27] And then that would continue through June.
[26:29] Okay, so the summer stage wouldn't be open necessarily until the whole thing is finished.
[26:35] For two-way traffic, no.
[26:36] Right.
[26:36] So, yeah, there will be exit access, just not ingress.
[26:40] So that's going to sound like a place.
[26:41] I mean, we're not looking to just write a ton of tickets, but I'm sure that RSO is going to want to camp out there sometimes.
[26:48] Because I would put my money on, the same people who go to Kaiser are going to be going and ignoring the rules there, too.
[26:57] So timing to reopen the whole thing you said sometime in June.
[27:01] Beginning of June is when they expect to be done with the Monovista work, the project won't be done until November.
[27:09] So they'll be able to reopen the road, but then they still have street improvements to construct, but it should be open to traffic at least.
[27:17] But the entire project should be done by November.
[27:21] Awesome. Thank you.
[27:30] Thanks, Jason, for the presentation. I have a follow-up question
[27:35] around what do we trust, those specific to the Kaiser area that we keep circling back
[27:40] to. And I guess I just want to know, are there current thoughts around what types of
[27:45] options we could pursue other than waiting on the striping for the left turn at the driveway?
[27:54] Yeah, so some options would include placing delineators along the center line like we have, for example, at Clinton Keith by, I forget the name of the side street near Covington.
[28:08] So that's an option. There are disadvantages to that from a maintenance perspective, from an aesthetic perspective, but that is an option.
[28:16] Another option is a physical barrier like a median or a curb.
[28:21] One disadvantage there is the roads not at its ultimate width.
[28:25] So it's a throwaway improvement that would have to get reconstructed in the future.
[28:29] There's also additional striping options we've been discussing with our traffic engineer.
[28:35] That would possibly allow room for a U-turn at the intersection.
[28:40] But that could be a more costly improvement because then it requires modifications to the traffic signal.
[28:45] So, there are a number of those options, but we just haven't finalized any of those.
[28:53] So, thanks for that insight.
[28:58] So, the resident I was speaking with his concern, and I sent you some photos and stuff,
[29:05] but was over with Margaret Lane and Baxter, because Baxter still exists.
[29:11] And how, and his concern was because it's the way it is right now before there's any further
[29:17] are building. So I'm assuming that road will, once that they do the residential
[29:20] and the back, whether that's years from now, that road will be different to accommodate
[29:24] people who would live there.
[29:26] Or Margaret or Baxter.
[29:27] No, Baxter is going to be, I'm assuming it was, but Margaret kind of just bends around
[29:30] and only just goes to the hospital. I mean, it's very narrow. I'm assuming it would
[29:33] have to be larger to accommodate all the apartments and homes.
[29:36] Yeah, so they'll have to widen the rest of Baxter on the north side and then complete
[29:42] their west side of Margaret as it goes north.
[29:45] And then obviously they have street improvements on white street. So yeah, that area will look a little bit different.
[29:50] There will be additional widening the Margaret intersection itself at Will the Martrail. That may not change drastically, but yeah, further north. Yeah, so he's concerned.
[30:01] There's no stop leaving the hospital if you're leaving the proper way, you know, not doing the illegal turn. And so while we were there, that's where we stopped to look at this situation. And people that didn't make the illegal turn, they still, if they realized, oh, I don't want to go this way, I want to go to the freeway. And so they came down to Market Lane and then did a U-turn at Baxter. And his concern, and I could see what you're talking about, was that it's kind of a blind corner.
[30:29] You're not sure what's going, so you got somebody that's coming, leaving the hospital,
[30:33] and it's somebody's doing this U-turn, and so he thought if you put a stop for the
[30:38] people exiting the hospital on Margaret Lane, so there's something to think about, but
[30:43] there's, it's amazing how many people do not know to leave the back way, unless you're going
[30:49] to head east to begin with, but, and I just wanted to add that since we were talking about
[30:54] a little more trail.
[30:57] Yes.
[30:57] All right.
[30:58] Thank you, Jason.
[30:59] You did a great job.
[31:00] Thank you.
[31:03] All right.
[31:04] So do we have any public comments not on the agenda?
[31:08] Yes.
[31:08] First speaker is Steve Leskey.
[31:16] Sure.
[31:17] Yes, Margaret?
[31:22] Greetings to Will the Mars City Council.
[31:25] My name is Margaret Lankie.
[31:27] I'm here tonight to introduce the Temecula Valley Native Plant Network.
[31:32] And I already know Bridget and Joseph.
[31:35] and I used to be a resident of Wildermar for four years.
[31:38] I have fond memories of that.
[31:40] I live in Temecula now.
[31:41] But I want to thank you right off the bat
[31:43] for your Earth Day event.
[31:45] And we had a booth there, so that was good connection
[31:49] to the community.
[31:50] And we are having our own Earth Day event,
[31:53] the last Sunday in April on the 27th,
[31:56] down at Vale Headquarters.
[31:58] We want to invite everyone to come.
[32:00] So it's 11 to 4.
[32:01] will be having food and vendors and music and presentations. So I want to put
[32:07] that on your radar. But I'm here tonight to introduce the Temecula Valley Native
[32:11] Plant Network. About two and a half years ago we became aware that the Monarch
[32:16] Butterfly was going extinct. So we wanted to do something local. I mean there's
[32:22] plenty of people doing things far away but we didn't want to face traffic. We
[32:27] We wanted to do things local and we wanted to prioritize making friends.
[32:32] So this is a group of friends.
[32:33] It's an informal organization.
[32:35] We have over 900 people on our Facebook group and we have about 300 on my email list.
[32:42] And I send out a weekly email letting people know what's happening locally so they can get
[32:46] connected with workshops and events and educational opportunities, coffee hour, dinners, whatever
[32:56] we can dream at. We're trying to connect people. So we invite everyone. We welcome Republicans,
[33:03] Democrats, Independents. We're all working together and it's working. So I wanted to make you
[33:10] aware that we had a meeting with Bridget last year about becoming a monarch mayor through the National
[33:16] Wildlife Federation, but we haven't had an opportunity to talk to the current mayor. We would
[33:21] like to do that and get acquainted. So I want to leave you with a song. Oh give me a home
[33:29] where the butterflies roam, where the bees and the dragonflies play, where often is heard
[33:39] and encouraging bird and the flowers are blooming all day. Thank you.
[33:50] Thank you, Margaret.
[33:53] and then i'll get my card to you. Steve Leskey?
[34:00] You wanted to follow that, Steve?
[34:04] Well, it's Steve Leskey. I've been a resident for 22 years here in Baltimore. I'm retired now.
[34:11] Yeah, I wanted to follow Margaret because, you know, her native plant that work is kind of what I'm
[34:16] doing up at the Santa Rosa Plateau. I'm a lead volunteer up there working with California
[34:21] or California Department of Fish and Wildlife,
[34:24] Nature Conservancy, Riverside County Parks and Open Spaces,
[34:27] the Nature Education Foundation.
[34:29] And it's a follow on the networking aspect of,
[34:38] you know, you have something that is the various interests
[34:43] of the plants and the animals.
[34:45] It's, you know, it's, you have invasive plants,
[34:51] you have protected species and endangered species.
[34:55] you have a lot of animals as well that are part of these concerns.
[35:00] And there's a major development, you have what, quarter million people, just a few miles away from an ecological reserve, very special space. And having that interface kind of rough transition can be facilitated if you have more concerns of the people in those populated areas.
[35:29] about how to, you know, if they want the butterflies, they want the birds, you
[35:36] really need the native plants for that. You can have zero escaping, but
[35:41] non-natives, but you won't get the pollinators. And associated with the native
[35:48] plant network, the one following Margaret, there was one fellow who did a plan he
[35:55] He came in, it's an elementary school in Marietta where he did a plan and we helped put
[36:05] in like over 100 native plants there and it's an example about how you can do native
[36:11] plant design.
[36:13] It can be adapted to other schools, other public facilities even to home gardens.
[36:18] So, there is also this notion of the homegrown national park, and it's kind of us, instead
[36:26] of having a big national park, it's like little pockets, like little stepping stones
[36:31] between the native areas.
[36:32] And that's something that we could do here in Wilderwar, and although I spend a huge amount
[36:38] of time at the Santa Rosa Plateau, I would, I'd do a little bit with like the Wilderwar
[36:43] beautification volunteers, a great project, you know, a lot of lovely people there.
[36:47] and I would do more if, well, the more I want us to do something with native plants.
[36:52] I think we can do something really special and there's a lot of resources that you may
[36:56] not be aware of and you know the native plant network as I identified.
[37:02] My thanks.
[37:03] Wonderful.
[37:03] Thank you, Steve.
[37:06] Next speaker, Don Saunders.
[37:15] Council, actually I put my public comments in before the recognitions tonight and the reason
[37:20] And I wanted to speak is just say that how thankful and blessed we are to have the
[37:26] Wildermar beautification volunteers.
[37:29] Yeah,
[37:33] they work hard every day in our city and it's really appreciated everything they
[37:38] do.
[37:39] And I had a wonderful time at the Earth Day this past Saturday.
[37:44] And for those driving along down the road, you look around and you think, oh, it looks
[37:48] really clean.
[37:49] But you know, you would be surprised.
[37:51] I went out myself down Mission Trail there from Bundy Canyon and you think it's clean and all of a sudden I find a bumper.
[37:58] I find a chair, I find a tire, I find containers of oil, and then just a lot of litter on the road.
[38:07] And it's just amazing what a difference you can make with the volunteers.
[38:13] And so I encourage anyone who might have some time on a Saturday to actually go out and join the volunteers.
[38:19] It's amazing. What you can do in just an hour. It's an hour's time. How much, you know, you can make a difference here in the community.
[38:29] And so thanks again for everything the volunteers, the beautification of volunteer group does and we can't be, we can't thank them enough.
[38:39] And then also just as a special thanks to one and a thank Jason. Jason is does a great job with public works at presentation earlier.
[38:47] And he's also very good at following up and helping with things when it comes to public
[38:54] works around the communities, so I really do appreciate all his help and support.
[38:58] Thanks again.
[38:59] Thank you, John.
[39:00] And thanks for coming out and picking up later.
[39:04] Next speaker, Jessica Heum.
[39:16] And some members, we don't have a song, but I know right, I could put that to my husband
[39:24] but I wouldn't recommend it.
[39:25] I do want to say thank you so much we are recently moved here well four or five years
[39:30] ago and we are very aware how active you are in our community as council members and
[39:35] it means a lot to be here.
[39:38] I am going to bring up a matter that I am sure you are so, so tired of hearing but there
[39:46] are one or two points I feel are worth bringing to note including the code enforcement here
[39:52] which was trashed in our backyard. So this is about the block series trailers. I know you're
[39:57] tired of hearing it. I did speak.
[40:00] Thank you to the wonderful, interesting gentleman himself, Jack, Hongwai Quay, however he pronounces it. As I called them breaking their code violation. My home office looks directly onto the Black Series trailers, so I watch every day as they haul multiple trailers in. We see them stripping the tires off, so if you think it's going to be an easy evacuation of them, it's not. They're stripping the trailers and the tires.
[40:30] I spoke with the local dealer that was dealing with them because they were blocking our
[40:36] driveway and doing damage to our driveway.
[40:39] He said they are aware of code enforcement, they have absolutely no intention of removing
[40:42] the trailers.
[40:43] Jack had said to them that he was going to pay code violations.
[40:48] This man has big money and he thinks $500 is just a piece of cash to him.
[40:55] So, I approached the worker with pink curlers in my hair, which I think may have frightened
[41:00] him to hand the phone over to Jack, understandably so, and he started by lying to me, telling
[41:08] me they were removing the trailers.
[41:10] My husband and I laughed saying, we are watching you pull the trailers in right now.
[41:14] Then he let me know that he had no idea about any code violations, at which point I told him
[41:20] And the code violations are posted right on the gate here.
[41:25] Your worker can come.
[41:26] I had the Chinese app as Tina had recommended.
[41:29] I said, we can do a screenshot called Tina.
[41:34] This is her number.
[41:34] This is her extension number.
[41:36] She will be happy to talk you through this, at which point he started mocking me and letting
[41:40] me know he kind of knew who I was and where I lived.
[41:44] So we backed off.
[41:45] However, we did find this trashed in our yard this morning, which is his code violation.
[41:50] Yeah. So I'm not sure what to do with this at this point. The other thing I do want
[41:56] to highlight is we looked at these trailers online and it is a scary fire hazard. I have
[42:03] a tech report here. He says they should be recalled at this point the amount of fires
[42:09] that have broken out. There's problems with the AC units and the wiring. It's quite shocking
[42:14] what has happened with that and hence what has happened in city of industry is not just
[42:21] city of industry. These fires are happening all over with these trailers and coming into
[42:27] fire season I really want to highlight the concern. I have, I mean there's so much if you look
[42:32] up online on what a fire hazard they are. So that's about all I have to say on that. I know you're
[42:39] We're tired of hearing it.
[42:39] I know it's due process.
[42:41] You have to wait as well.
[42:43] But if you do need a witness to him breaking code violations,
[42:46] we watch it daily, so.
[42:48] Thank you.
[42:54] Debbie, Renfrow?
[42:55] I
[43:02] mean, Ms. Debbie, I have lived in Wildermar for 44 years.
[43:07] So yes, I was a baby.
[43:09] So I have, I've come here with two concerns.
[43:12] My first one is about the park, Marna O'Brien.
[43:14] So I attended the Santa breakfast at Marna O'Brien in December
[43:19] and Bridget Moore had told me that she had written a check for $60,000 to replace the wood chips at the Marna O'Brien Park with the foam for children.
[43:28] I'm concerned because it's now becoming spring and summer and it's 90 degrees now.
[43:33] So it would be really nice if we could get that foam completed at the Marna O'Brien Park so that children don't get the wood chips in their shoes and their sandals.
[43:40] And there's a lot of trash that can be seen in the wood chips.
[43:43] My other concern is the black series trailers.
[43:46] I live behind those trailers. I have sent videos that I have posted to YouTube. I too watched
[43:51] those trailers get moved around. I waved to the man as I was filming him at which point
[43:56] he did not wave back. The dirt that those trailers her on is not compacted at all. So every
[44:03] time it rains, that dirt gives way. And I know this because I've had to replace a chain link
[44:08] fence on the back of my property so that when the dirt comes down, the dirt gets pushed
[44:13] into my fence. So I watch them all the time. I videotape them. I take pictures.
[44:19] They are a fire hazard. They are ridiculous. And there are more and more of them
[44:23] all the time. And that I am very concerned, and they do not know how to park them
[44:28] or bring them in. The way they are positioned, they are on an angle, on a hillside.
[44:34] So if the rain comes and the dirt gives way, because it does not compact it at all,
[44:39] It's filled dirt. It was brought in. It's dirty. I've seen it. I've been living in that particular house for 21 years. I've watched it.
[44:48] That dirt is going to give way and those trailers are going to tumble down in the back of my fence.
[44:52] And that is my concern. They have to go. I know there's a due process, but at this point, the minute that trailer rolls down, that hill...
[45:00] I'm calling the police because that is not okay. So I don't know what else can be done to get them out. I have seen lights on them in the evenings, so I don't know, I'm afraid that someone's going to be moving into them. I don't know. And they're going to attract people that will move into them because they are not watched or maintained on all hours. So thank you.
[45:25] No other speakers.
[45:29] Well, thank you to those of you who made comments. We can't talk about them.
[45:34] because it's not on the agenda, but we appreciate your comments.
[45:41] Okay, approval of the agenda as presented?
[45:44] I'll make a motion for that.
[45:46] Second.
[45:47] All in favor?
[45:48] Aye.
[45:49] Motion carries 5-0.
[45:52] It takes us to the consent calendar.
[45:55] I'll make a motion to approve the consent calendar.
[45:57] Second.
[45:59] All in favor?
[45:59] Aye.
[46:01] Motion carries 5-0 and there were no public comments as well for the record.
[46:08] Oh, sorry.
[46:08] Okay. Thank you.
[46:15] Okay. So we need a resender vote. Can we do that?
[46:19] Sorry. I did want to pull an item 1.5.
[46:26] It's for the measure of the amendments.
[46:28] Do you
[46:33] want like a staff reporter to be rebelled on that?
[46:35] Well, I think it was our recommendation, right, to Council side wants formally.
[46:40] Okay. I guess how many are appoint those individuals?
[46:47] So the Measure 1.5 is Measure Z Oversight Advisory Committee Appointments, Councilmember Mayor
[46:54] Pro Tem, Carlos Marquez, and I met.
[46:56] And the Committee Services Subcommittee recommends that the City Council appoint Sergio Rodriguez
[47:00] and Augustine Alvarado to the Measure Z Oversight Advisory Committee for terms ending January
[47:06] 20, 27.
[47:07] So I had a question.
[47:09] Sorry.
[47:09] I think Sergio was on there already, correct?
[47:11] were they both like read the sir only sir there was one vacancy because one of
[47:17] the current or one of the previous committee members was appointed to the
[47:21] planning commission. So then one of them's in new to the
[47:24] fold correct. Okay that's good to hear.
[47:29] All right
[47:32] motion. Do you have a motion and a vote on 1.5?
[47:37] I'm like a motion for 1.5 as presented by Bridgetten.
[47:41] Second.
[47:42] All right.
[47:43] All right.
[47:43] All right.
[47:44] Motion carries.
[47:45] 5-0.
[47:49] Public hearings.
[47:50] Public hearings.
[47:53] All right.
[47:53] 2.1.
[47:54] We have Stizzy, Cannabis Proposal Development Agreement.
[47:58] Presented by Abdu.
[48:00] Lackgaard.
[48:01] Good
[48:11] evening Councilmembers.
[48:13] I'll be presenting the Stizzy Retail Cannabis Proposal for Development Agreement 24-0-1-1-5.
[48:22] Next slide.
[48:25] This project is located at the northeast corner of Mission Trail and Bundy Canyon.
[48:30] It's in a multi-tenor retail center, it's about 1.1 acres in size.
[48:34] The least space for this business is 2,275 square feet.
[48:41] Next slide.
[48:44] The applicant seeking City Council approval for the following, determination that the
[48:49] proposal meter requirements for a categorical exemption under 15301 of
[48:54] CEQA and approval of the development agreement 24.0115. Now you may be
[49:00] wondering why there's no CUP here. This project was originally for a
[49:06] culture club which was 20.0078 which was approved back in 2020. Now they
[49:13] decided to shut down their business and move on. Their local ethos expired
[49:19] which meant that their development agreement expired. However, the CUP runs with the
[49:24] land, so the CUP that established the use itself is still active. So Stacy decided to take
[49:32] over that location. They would have to get a new local license, which they did, and they
[49:37] would have to get a new development agreement, which needs to be approved by Council.
[49:43] Next
[49:44] slide.
[49:48] Now, as you know, the local license is not subject to Commissioner Council approval, but it's
[49:54] an understanding to cannabis proposal. It's one of the attachments in the
[50:00] Packet, which includes authorization from the property owner, executed lease agreements, project description, business operations plan, safety security plan, over an older abatement plan, visitor requirement plan, and interior elevation details. Next slide.
[50:19] The applicant submitted the local license package on January 21st of 2025. It was reviewed by city staff, RSO and Fire Department.
[50:29] It met all of their requirements.
[50:32] They gave their approval of the local license after final review of the city, determined
[50:37] that all the required sections of the local license package met the standards of ordinance
[50:42] 188.
[50:44] Therefore the planned amendment approved it issued the local license on February 20, 2025.
[50:50] It's good for two years.
[50:52] However, obviously they can't start operating until a DA is approved.
[50:57] Next slide.
[50:59] The Planning Commission reviewed the proposed development agreement at their March 19, 2025
[51:04] meeting and recommended approval to City Council.
[51:09] Ordnance 187 requires the applicant's enter to development agreement with the city to
[51:14] establish the development agreement fees.
[51:17] The DA must be reviewed by City Council.
[51:20] It will be for a 20-year period as is standard for our DAs.
[51:26] And we'll establish an annual fee separate from the sales tax revenue to be paid to the city.
[51:31] Next slide.
[51:33] The proposed development agreement will be for a 20-year period, as I mentioned.
[51:37] Established as an annual fee, it's comprised of three deal points as follows.
[51:42] $20 per square foot of lease space,
[51:46] $2,275 square feet, which would generate about $45,000 annually,
[51:50] in about $910,000 over the life of the 20-year agreement.
[51:56] 3% of gross receipts based on their estimates,
[52:01] it would generate about $240,000 annually,
[52:05] and $1.2 million over years 1-5.
[52:09] Based on estimated sales by $8 million.
[52:12] Now the sales could be higher or lower in that,
[52:15] this is just an estimate, but they've done a lot of market research
[52:18] to determine that amount.
[52:20] Between the six and 20th DA years, the applicant will pay at least 5% of gross receipts,
[52:26] as is standard for our other development agreements for our existing cannabis businesses.
[52:32] This fee could generate approximately $540,000 annually,
[52:36] which is about 8.1 million over the next 15 years.
[52:40] The sales tax of measure AA tax will generate about 160 to 216,000 annually,
[52:46] based on gross revenue. Total revenues at a general fund are about 200,000 annually from year 1 through 5.
[52:54] Next slide.
[52:57] Based on our existing cannabis standards, it meets all of the distance requirements for residential special uses.
[53:06] Next slide.
[53:09] This is the floor plan that is proposed as going in the same location as the existing, well the previous tenant, which was Culture Club.
[53:17] Next slide.
[53:20] This is one of the proposed interior elevations of this based on the elevations.
[53:26] They're kind of giving a similar vibe to the existing Stizzy.
[53:30] Next slide.
[53:32] This is another angle for their interior elevations.
[53:36] Next slide.
[53:39] Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend the following two City Council adoption of a
[53:47] one of CEQA and to introduce and approve for first reading council ordinance approving
[53:52] development agreement 24-0-1-1-5 staff is available for any questions and the applicant also
[53:59] has a presentation that I'd like to show thank you.
[54:03] Thank you.
[54:04] Good
[54:15] evening Honorable Mayor and Honorable Council members my name is Tox Sato and the President
[54:19] and owner of STISI next slide please a little bit about myself and the other owner I graduated
[54:26] Columbia Law School 15 years ago, was practicing as a corporate attorney and then dove into the cannabis industry about eight years ago.
[54:34] And now I am the proud owner of over 45 cannabis retail licenses.
[54:40] My partner, James, he is the founder of the Stizzy brand and he founded and got into cannabis after serving in Iraq with the 101st Airborne to deal with his own PTSD.
[54:53] Next slide please.
[54:55] So, Stizzy is by far the largest cannabis company in California.
[55:00] Right now, we have, by every metric, we have $680 million in sales last year, we have 44 open retail stores, we have 2000 or 2000 employees. And what really separates us from the others is our SOPs. Much like among Donald's, because we have so much experience, we've basically come up with an SOP for every aspect of our business. And in fact, when the Voldemort compliance department comes to visit our stores for their audits, we've been told numerous times,
[55:29] and we're the most compliant store in Wildomar.
[55:33] Next slide please.
[55:35] And the main reason we want, like another store,
[55:38] is we've just had wonderful success at our current location.
[55:42] As you can see, we did $13 million last year,
[55:45] $15 million the year before,
[55:48] and we've paid over $770,000 in direct development fees
[55:53] to see the last two years.
[55:56] And we're kind of a victim of our own success.
[55:58] Yes, a lot of our customers have let us know that the lines at the current location
[56:04] is a little too long, they've also let us know that the parking situation there's not
[56:08] ideal.
[56:09] And so we've actually been looking for a while for a second location so that we don't
[56:13] continue to lose customers.
[56:15] We've actually heard of customers starting to shop at late elsewhere locations because they
[56:20] do not want to do with the parking of the lines.
[56:22] And so we jumped upon this opportunity next slide, please.
[56:26] Because it's an ideal location for us.
[56:27] It's on the other side of town, it's going to cater more to the lake else in the market.
[56:33] Also, it's 2,300 square feet, almost 800 square feet larger than our current location.
[56:39] It's got 52 parking spots, most of which is empty because there's a gas station dominoes
[56:45] and a lot of some other places that people just come and go to.
[56:51] Next slide please.
[56:54] And we're also very proud of our security.
[56:56] We have, as you can see, we're going to have 23 fixed HD cameras inside the building,
[57:02] 12 motion detectors, and panic buttons throughout the store.
[57:07] Next slide, please.
[57:09] And the most important thing, in my opinion, is that we have 24-hour security surveillance
[57:15] team at our downtown LA headquarters who's constantly communicating with our security guards
[57:20] on site.
[57:21] And whenever they see anything suspicious, they communicate right away so that they can take
[57:25] preventative measures.
[57:27] And I think the thing that I'm most proud of is that out of our 25 locations in Southern
[57:32] California right now, and in six years of operation we have not had a single break in any of
[57:37] those locations.
[57:40] Next slide, please.
[57:43] We're also a unionized business.
[57:46] We project around 30 to 40 jobs created by this store.
[57:51] My estimate is that probably 40 to 50% of those jobs will go to will to residents.
[57:57] And we have, and our CBA dictates that the lowest minimum wage starts at $19, going all the way to $25.
[58:05] And the great thing is, much like a restaurant or a bar, a lot of our, most of our employees make on average $8 to $10 per hour.
[58:13] So they're averaging, you know, $29 to $32 an hour.
[58:17] They also get 16 hours per year to volunteer towards different events.
[58:21] Stephanie will talk a little bit more about our activity here, but we just last week we participated in the Make Earth the cleanup event, and we continue we really look forward to being invested in working with everyone here so that we can continue to volunteer and invest in the community.
[58:39] Go ahead, Stephanie.
[58:40] Good
[58:44] evening, Honourable Council. My name is Stephanie Ewe and my Vice President, Public Affairs.
[58:49] Next slide, please.
[58:52] Community engagement and social impact. Giving back and being
[58:55] involved in the communities we operate in is essential to who we are as a company.
[59:00] For each of the communities we're in, we like to identify the key organizations and
[59:05] leaders who are doing good work in the community. Who are those folks who are already
[59:09] making impact where we want to be, and so we take great pride in supporting those organizations
[59:16] knowing that the change will be sustainable within that community. Since 2017, we've contributed
[59:23] over $1.5 million to local organizations up and down the state, and as Talk mentioned in the
[59:39] specifically. So we hold monthly volunteer opportunities. Joint efforts is a name of
[59:44] our, you know, volunteer core of our employees. We're very lucky that our
[59:48] Waldemar employees are quite eager to get back to the community. So as you can see
[59:55] the bottom, there's some logos of some organizations that we've already.
[1:00:00] We've been volunteering with. Of course, a little more community and parks foundation. We're happy to be there this past Saturday. Some photos of our general managers, Sierra, and some of our team members out there volunteering. The American Legion, we have been very involved with the local district here, and also the YMCA because as the largest cannabis operator, we feel the responsibility to be responsible operators. So we've actually partnered with the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club,
[1:00:29] and Healing Urban Barrios, which is a non-profit youth prevention nonprofit, and we've created
[1:00:36] based on Stanford University research, a first-vict kind youth prevention program.
[1:00:44] And so that program is focused on educating youth on the dangers of underage consumption
[1:00:53] of cannabis, how to distinguish what cannabis looks like, especially nowadays it takes many
[1:00:59] forms, candy, chips, et cetera, and find alternative ways to deal with stress.
[1:01:05] And so, so far this year we've already had over 150 middle school students complete
[1:01:11] the program and we hope to bring that program here to Will Demar.
[1:01:15] So we are certainly open to nonprofits, organizations that you think could be a good vehicle to
[1:01:23] to really get the word out about our Youth Drug Prevention Program.
[1:01:28] Next slide, please.
[1:01:31] Community, neighborhood compatibility.
[1:01:34] So the key to not being a nuisance is really opening the lines of communication within
[1:01:39] the community.
[1:01:40] In all of our stores, you will see a good neighbor policy posted in the lobby.
[1:01:44] This good neighbor policy really serves as a code of conduct, a set of expectations that
[1:01:49] we have with the community, the set of standards that we hold ourselves to, and also the conduct
[1:01:55] that we expect from our customers.
[1:01:59] For example, our good neighbor policy pledges that we will keep clean and sweep the property
[1:02:04] three times a day.
[1:02:05] Our manager does rounds beginning of the shift, middle of the day, and the night to make
[1:02:10] sure there's no litter, no graffiti, things like that.
[1:02:16] Also, if there's any graffiti, we remediate that within 24 hours.
[1:02:21] I am actually the community relations contact, so my personal cell phone will be listed
[1:02:26] on the door.
[1:02:28] I gladly respond to all inquiries within 48 hours, usually 24 hours.
[1:02:33] So the lines of communication are certainly always open with us.
[1:02:38] And lastly, being proactive and not being in new sense, again, is about open lines of communication
[1:02:45] and that's certainly the case with law enforcement.
[1:02:49] So we've been lucky to have open lines of communication
[1:02:52] with the Riverside Sheriff's Department.
[1:02:54] I'd like to thank Lieutenant Clark for meeting with me
[1:02:57] and I'm glad to hear that in that meeting,
[1:03:00] he shared with me that it's been our experience
[1:03:03] in all the communities that we participated.
[1:03:06] There's been no increase in crime,
[1:03:08] there've been no increase in service calls
[1:03:10] at the like Elsonore Sheriff's Department Station
[1:03:15] since legal cannabis operators had been around.
[1:03:19] And so we hope to continue that and our security guards are 24 hours
[1:03:26] and they really lend themselves to the neighboring businesses.
[1:03:30] And we've really seen the local businesses,
[1:03:34] neighboring businesses really appreciate that.
[1:03:37] Next slide, please.
[1:03:40] And lastly, community support.
[1:03:42] And so here you'll see a letter of support signed by our landlord, Ed, who's here tonight,
[1:03:49] as well as the businesses who are operating within the plaza that we hope to join.
[1:03:56] And so, we've really heard from them firsthand that they really hope that we will get our
[1:04:02] development agreement approved.
[1:04:03] They believe that our business will bring security, lighting, safety to help address some
[1:04:09] of issues such as homelessness, and things like that with our increased foot traffic
[1:04:16] and business.
[1:04:17] In addition, we do hold annual open house events to really keep the lines of communication
[1:04:24] and feedback open with the community.
[1:04:27] So in conclusion, as the most experienced operator in California, as someone who's been an active
[1:04:33] part in the Waldemar community and operator with the track record that we have we'd be honored
[1:04:38] to have a second location in Waldemar and we thank you for your consideration.
[1:04:42] We're open to questions.
[1:04:43] Thank you.
[1:04:44] Thank you, Tak and Stephanie.
[1:04:46] Any questions?
[1:04:50] I mean, a couple of notes, so okay, on here, let's go with, started with the neighborhood
[1:04:57] compatibility standards.
[1:05:00] They're operating procedures. I'm sure that's what he is. So I've had somebody had called
[1:05:07] and made a complaint, even though I've not shared the same experience. I probably go to
[1:05:13] World of War Square. It's at least three times a month. I go to Front Wave, and there's
[1:05:19] Angela. So at least three times a month, I've never seen anything out of order. But the claim
[1:05:25] was whether this person has seen but sees whether people consuming the product on the spot
[1:05:34] or on the purchase.
[1:05:39] And so I can see from your standard operating procedures, that's not something that you tolerate
[1:05:44] and if somebody was to report that to you guys, I'm guessing that you would want to take
[1:05:49] that seriously, right, Arsama?
[1:05:50] Yes. So that's very unfortunate. That is one of our very strict policies that there's no consumption on the grounds.
[1:05:58] It's a huge violation of state and city law. And so if we become aware of somebody doing that, we would ban them from the store.
[1:06:07] Like I said, it's really easy if somebody gets into complain mode on the phone to hear several things that are not necessarily substantiated.
[1:06:16] So I did see the revenue figures that come to Will Demar, thank you, you know.
[1:06:25] And when you mentioned parking at Will Demar Square, I remember when they were first coming
[1:06:30] as a center, it's like are you guys trying to be the Trader Joe's of the area?
[1:06:34] I mean why you're trying to have a bad parking lot?
[1:06:36] Whereas if you look like at this center which was designed in a different era and the same
[1:06:40] with the state of brothers, there's ample parking and frequently double lines between where
[1:06:45] you can easily park. And when that one was put in, I just thought, okay, I have a small
[1:06:52] little Honda fit, and I have a hard time getting in and out of those spaces. I do not know
[1:06:56] how people with a real car deal with it. So then, but here's a real question. You had
[1:07:00] said, and I had you not mention this, I wouldn't be asking the question, but you said, hey, there's
[1:07:05] no, there's been no break-ins. Because we know that, you know, I have a question similar to
[1:07:10] this after, but how about robberies or hold-ups? Now, probably not in Wildomar, but you mentioned
[1:07:15] mentioned all of your stories, so.
[1:07:16] Yes, so I'll be transparent.
[1:07:18] I want to be completely transparent about that.
[1:07:20] In Southern California, we have not had a robbery or
[1:07:23] breaking or any sort of breach inside the store.
[1:07:27] In San Francisco, that's a little bit of a different story.
[1:07:31] We've been working with the San Francisco Police Department.
[1:07:35] It's kind of almost a structural issue within the city over there.
[1:07:41] There's limitations on, for example, in most of our stores, we've started to put ballers in front of our front doors, these tall metal bolts, basically, so that, because we've heard, and we've seen in the National Northern California, people starting to ram their cars into the front door to get access.
[1:08:00] But, for example, in San Francisco, we haven't been able to do that because there's some kind of log against that.
[1:08:06] And so those are the types of things that we're trying to work with the city on to improve that relationship and to really, you know, protect our employees and our customers.
[1:08:16] But we have had probably a handful of break-ins after hour.
[1:08:23] We haven't had a single robbery while a store has been in operation.
[1:08:27] But after a store is closed, I would say we've had a handful of break-ins after hours
[1:08:35] in San Francisco and Oakland.
[1:08:39] So then just maybe you can help clear up, I don't know if there are misconceptions.
[1:08:46] Because at one point, these were all cash businesses, but I know I've had a conversation in the
[1:08:50] last year and a half or so with somebody in this industry and they let me know that there
[1:08:55] There are ways that it's not an all-cache business anymore.
[1:08:59] How does that actually work, whether or not it's all-cache business or people can use credit card or
[1:09:05] Yes, so we have a, basically, a debit system.
[1:09:08] We can take, it's a third-party vendor that takes debit for us.
[1:09:13] And so I would say, I think, you know, majority of our customers use debit.
[1:09:18] And we also reduce the amount of cash we have in our vaults by having our security or
[1:09:24] our banks actually come in and take our cash every day or every other day, which is much more frequent than most cannabis businesses.
[1:09:33] And the third factor is, as Stephanie mentioned, we're one of the few companies that has 24 hour security guards.
[1:09:40] Really the vulnerability, as I mentioned in Northern California, of these stores is at night.
[1:09:45] And the fact that we have 24 hour security guards has really prevents people from attempting to break into our store.
[1:09:53] where we actually did actually have one incident I think it was about a year ago, or two juveniles.
[1:10:00] I don't know if they were trying to break in, but they took some hammers and were messing around with our window. But our security guard caught them right away and called the police.
[1:10:12] I think there was minor damage on the window. But I think the 24-hour security guard and our security system really helps to prevent any break-ins and certainly all robberies. Thank you for those answers.
[1:10:27] Hi, thank you, and I did meet with talk and Jennifer,
[1:10:31] or Stephanie, sorry, Stephanie.
[1:10:33] So thank you for that time.
[1:10:35] And thank you for taking it serious,
[1:10:37] and I know you participated on Saturday and Earth Day event,
[1:10:39] but we also, that first picture was one or two years ago.
[1:10:43] Sure.
[1:10:43] That we did a cleanup with you, too,
[1:10:45] because I had mentioned that we had seen some Stizzy Trash,
[1:10:47] and so thank you very much for taking that seriously.
[1:10:51] At the new center, I'm glad that there's 52 parking places,
[1:10:54] And I know I saw that I was looking for dominoes specifically on the letter and I know they
[1:10:58] say doff.
[1:10:59] But are there parking places just for the dominoes drivers?
[1:11:03] Because I just think that's an important, so
[1:11:09] I think that would just be important.
[1:11:11] So I used to drive for dominoes a lot of time ago and I was younger.
[1:11:15] And you know they need to get in and get their pizza and get out, so just a little plug
[1:11:18] for them.
[1:11:18] I think because you are going to increase, you're going to increase the traffic in that
[1:11:22] center.
[1:11:23] And I think for them that that's their business model is the delivery.
[1:11:26] So they're drivers need to come in and get their pizza and get right back out.
[1:11:30] So just my thought on that.
[1:11:31] We're very open to that.
[1:11:33] Okay, thank you.
[1:11:34] I'm just remembering when I used to drive.
[1:11:40] I have no questions.
[1:11:41] I appreciate your presentation and you guys have a good stewards of the neighborhood and your business.
[1:11:47] So I appreciate it.
[1:11:51] So I also met with Stephanie actually yesterday.
[1:11:55] So first I just want to say thank you for reaching out.
[1:11:58] You know, it's very clear that you guys really take our residents' concerns, you know, to mind.
[1:12:09] And so I actually want to talk about some of the things that you and I discussed yesterday,
[1:12:13] that I didn't hear in the presentation.
[1:12:15] And some of the added benefits that your business actually brings to these clauses where you guys are located.
[1:12:22] So the first question is, how many security guards are on site?
[1:12:26] So we would typically have two to three security guards on site, two is the typical number
[1:12:31] of security guards we'll have on site on kind of off hours, but then as things get busier
[1:12:36] throughout the day from, say, 11 to 7, we'll typically have three security guards on site.
[1:12:42] Perfect. With regards to the parking, right, can you talk to us about average transaction time?
[1:12:50] Yeah, I think typically it's five minutes in and out the door.
[1:12:56] So I guess to alleviate some of the concerns for Councilmember Moore, a bit of five minute
[1:13:00] transaction time, to me it sounds like people are coming in and out doing their business
[1:13:04] and heading out and not necessarily spending time to consume the product on site.
[1:13:12] So again, you mentioned the 24 hour security team that works with your security guards that
[1:13:16] are on site.
[1:13:19] This might be a question for Lieutenant Clark, I don't know if you want to come up in the answer, but can you talk to us about, I guess, the current experience or benefit that you've seen to,
[1:13:36] you know, at the current plaza on hidden screens versus these located, right?
[1:13:40] I'm assuming they're going to try to replicate some of that same or that those benefits will kind of carry over to the new location.
[1:13:45] So if you can talk to us about the
[1:13:51] amount of gets crime or lack of that you see in a plaza that has a cannabis business.
[1:13:58] Certainly.
[1:13:59] So not to in the recent past, Mr. York asked me to look into what the trends are in and around our cash
[1:14:08] locations and since the inception of the legalization of the cannabis have I seen any trends
[1:14:13] or patterns in increased criminal activity in the city at large and also specifically
[1:14:18] around these businesses and we have a crime analyst as you know that she's trained
[1:14:23] in analyzing crime stats and that's all she does. We were not able to locate any sort of
[1:14:29] trend that would identify that the dispensaries are having increased the crime at their
[1:14:35] location specifically, or that there's been a corresponding increase in crime throughout
[1:14:40] the city as they've come online and increased in your city, and I think a lot of that speaks
[1:14:45] to your preparation if you're praying the ordinance, and I was talking Stephanie when she
[1:14:50] was at the station that there's been a big shift when dispensaries before they were legal
[1:14:55] and before councils were actually putting ordinances in place.
[1:15:00] All this stuff, you know, the owners of Columbia Law School graduate, like these were not the owners of dispensaries in the past. And dispensaries did have a negative impact on the communities because they were poorly run. They were designed just to make as much money as possible and give absolutely nothing back to the community and regardless of whatever nuisance they create a community was irrelevant. That does not seem to be the case. Things change, owners change, managers change. So as you're law enforcement official, I'm constantly looking and identifying trends.
[1:15:29] that if an individual place were to become an issue, that'd be something that me and
[1:15:33] Mr. York and Captain Rills had a discussion about and deal with co-inforcing, we deal with
[1:15:38] that specifically, but I think that answers your question.
[1:15:41] It does, and I guess my follow-up to that is, do you notice a lot of unhoused individuals
[1:15:51] rules, frequenting around these areas?
[1:15:56] I do not.
[1:15:58] A lot, I think, is a term that, I mean,
[1:16:02] I think your point time count was nine.
[1:16:06] So, I think in the general, the broad scheme,
[1:16:11] broad scope, the world market does not have an outrageous,
[1:16:14] homeless problem as it is.
[1:16:17] I think as they were discussing, they're in and out times about five minutes.
[1:16:20] Those people are not lingering, they're not hanging out, like given almost people money.
[1:16:25] Any business, right, where people are coming out, like it's possible that almost people
[1:16:28] come around, security guards hanging around, it's not something that's a place where they
[1:16:33] usually tend to congregate.
[1:16:35] All right, thank you.
[1:16:36] That's all right.
[1:16:37] That's my question for you.
[1:16:38] Thank you.
[1:16:38] Thank you.
[1:16:39] You're welcome to interrupt your presentation.
[1:16:40] Thank you.
[1:16:41] Let's see.
[1:16:44] I guess the last part I wanted to highlight is just around perception of the added benefit
[1:16:51] to the property owner of having your business there, so it's great that you were able to not only get his support
[1:16:59] but the support of the surrounding businesses, yeah, it's different for me, thank you.
[1:17:05] Oh wait, I did have one question, when do you guys intend to open?
[1:17:10] I think if we have the honor of getting approval tonight, we can be open in two to three months.
[1:17:15] Okay, thank you.
[1:17:15] I
[1:17:18] have a few comments and then we'll go to public comment.
[1:17:25] So Stephanie and I met and so I think she may have had some concerns about a prior
[1:17:30] vote that I had and I see this as a different project.
[1:17:34] My concerns specific to that project were specific and it's impact on the neighborhood.
[1:17:42] I do like that you guys are your own competition. I think that you have been good actors in the space and so as a city, I think it's, you know, a benefit to us that we can continue to work with you.
[1:17:59] I think there would be another cannabis store there if it wasn't you. It probably be somebody else as the CUP is still there.
[1:18:08] And so I do appreciate that it is you because you have been good to work with and really
[1:18:14] especially appreciate your conscientiousness to the community, as well as taking the
[1:18:20] security very seriously.
[1:18:23] And I think with your record, I think that you'll continue to take that seriously because
[1:18:27] that's a really good, I mean, I hate to say badge of honor, but kind of, you know, to be
[1:18:32] to say that you have had these break-ins or robberies in Southern California.
[1:18:37] So appreciate that.
[1:18:40] I appreciate that alleviated, again, being your own competition to some extent,
[1:18:47] alleviating the pressure on that parking lot.
[1:18:49] As Joseph said, we all are in that parking lot with some frequency.
[1:18:53] And so I can also appreciate the alleviation of some of that traffic
[1:18:57] they can provide in another location is sounds like a good idea.
[1:19:04] I appreciate that you went to the effort of creating the letter of support.
[1:19:10] I think that was a good proactive measure considering that you probably would rightly
[1:19:16] assume that we might wonder what the neighbors think and what the existing businesses think
[1:19:22] about it.
[1:19:23] And so we appreciate you taking that step without, you know, as having to ask for it or anything and additionally taking the step and talking to
[1:19:30] Riversay Sheriff's Department and
[1:19:32] Appreciate all of that
[1:19:36] So I think that is
[1:19:39] All for my
[1:19:42] My comments and then now we're going to have public comments if you can hang tight if in case there are any questions from the public
[1:19:47] Thank you so much.
[1:19:50] Any public comments. Yes. We have one public comment Ed Mansky
[1:20:11] Hello. Maybe I'm Manzki.
[1:20:15] I own the shopping center where Stizzy hopefully will be opening up soon.
[1:20:24] There isn't much I can add. They certainly made a wonderful presentation. The only thing I will add is I
[1:20:32] personally went to every one of the tenants in charge to them. I talked to Raja Sorani
[1:20:41] he owns the Domino Star. He owns 16 Domino's and this particular location is his second best
[1:20:49] store and he is very anxious to have a dispensary back in there again. Many reasons and the
[1:20:59] same reason why Union 76 and Rocket fast food are also anxious to get a cannabis dispensary
[1:21:10] there again.
[1:21:13] We had culture in there. Now I have no reason to doubt that they had a good reason to
[1:21:21] move. I don't know why, but they closed three stores in two weeks. But when they were there,
[1:21:28] we had no crime, we had no graffiti, and we had no panhandling. They closed up, I believe it was
[1:21:37] So July, all of a sudden, the panhandlers came back, the graffiti came back, and the
[1:21:48] business for all the other tenants dropped off a little bit.
[1:21:54] Union 76, they said their business dropped off considerably because the dispensary brought
[1:22:02] a lot of business in there. And they were very pleased with it. And nobody complained.
[1:22:08] And I spoke with the manager of Union 76 last week.
[1:22:17] She said even the customers there
[1:22:20] after you folks put the big sign up, keep coming in. Oh, what are they coming in? We can't
[1:22:26] wait to have them back. Anyway, that's all I'll already have to say. And I hope you'll
[1:22:32] consider, before I made a deal with Sisi, I personally investigated them and they appeared
[1:22:41] to be from what I could figure out, one of the most successful and how would you say
[1:22:49] it best run companies, and a landlord loves that, but thank you very much, appreciate it.
[1:22:58] Thank you, Ed.
[1:23:00] Any questions?
[1:23:02] There.
[1:23:02] There.
[1:23:02] A certain of the question.
[1:23:03] But I agree.
[1:23:04] So, Dan Gonson, Richard Pearson, back there, the graffiti has increased around your shop,
[1:23:11] your location.
[1:23:12] I totally agree with that, because we've been painting some of the graffiti, and I know you
[1:23:15] have been too.
[1:23:16] All right.
[1:23:16] It has increased lately in that area.
[1:23:19] So hopefully, don't.
[1:23:20] I'm sure he's going to help that out.
[1:23:21] Yeah.
[1:23:22] Yeah.
[1:23:24] Thank you, Ed.
[1:23:26] Any more questions?
[1:23:27] Okay. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
[1:23:29] Thank you.
[1:23:31] Do we have any more public comments?
[1:23:33] No, public comments.
[1:23:35] Last chance. Anybody who knows your time?
[1:23:41] All right, so do I have a motion?
[1:23:45] You always have a motion for me.
[1:23:47] Let's see here.
[1:23:48] I will make a motion to approve ordinance number 250.
[1:23:52] A second. All right.
[1:23:55] All in favor?
[1:23:56] Aye.
[1:23:59] All
[1:24:07] right, that brings us to item number 3.1, third quarter budget report by Adam Jantz.
[1:24:27] Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, Council members, members of the public and fellow city staff.
[1:24:33] My name is Adam Jantz, I'm the finance manager here at the city and I'm here to you today to present the third quarter FY 2425 budget report.
[1:24:44] the first slide please. So some of the proposed revenue adjustments.
[1:24:51] So to kick off some of
[1:24:52] the proposed adjustments, this is kind of a third quarter is kind of a bit of a cleanup
[1:24:57] that period to kind of true adapt to certain degrees.
[1:25:00] We agree so that we can do projections going to the next biennial budget, which we're following this is another business item for the workshop. So one of our adjustments is to a just several of our revenues, development revenue is still high. But one thing to keep in mind is another reason why we're going to adjust this is adjusting the revenue a bit has been also just the conversion to fixed fees. This is really our first full year. And so we've been kind of going back and forth on switching over,
[1:25:27] We're clearing out a developer to pause us to switch to fixed fees.
[1:25:31] Even in light of that, we have been having luckily a little bit higher than average
[1:25:36] development activity with some of the developments coming in.
[1:25:39] Also VLF property tax in lieu, we did get the first half of those payments, so we know
[1:25:43] what those are going to be.
[1:25:44] We get those into installments.
[1:25:46] As you know, those are actually, even though they call it VLF as a VLF in lieu, so it's actually
[1:25:53] of Sheriff property tax from the county in lieu of the vehicle fees that they took back
[1:25:58] in 2011. So that's a little bit higher. And we also are making adjustments to revenues
[1:26:05] for various CIPs. This doesn't affect anything that's been awarded. It's just we try to
[1:26:10] truth it up so that we have accurate projections going into the biennial to avoid double budgeting
[1:26:14] where we have the full amount budget for the year and one year and then we carry it over
[1:26:19] the next year and it's in the full mountain both years. So we just tried to
[1:26:22] true that up a little bit. Next slide please.
[1:26:28] So another item is to revisit the
[1:26:31] in the previous February meeting we had this we asked for direction from the
[1:26:36] council regarding the surplus from fiscal year 2324. And so we've took in those
[1:26:41] and answered them now into the proposal for the third quarter adjustments as there's
[1:26:47] quite a bit of I'm doing how to account for them. So we are asking for motions on these
[1:26:53] I suggested actions from the council on each of these items to approve them all. So one
[1:26:57] of them was to use 900,000 of the 3.5 million dollars surplus for a pension liability to
[1:27:04] off to set aside money for our unfunded liability payments regarding our our pension program
[1:27:10] CalPERS and the subsequent PEPRA pensions so we would be establishing a separate
[1:27:17] fund 103 to track that and also committing a portion of the surplus for
[1:27:25] a public safety reserve about 1.7 million to help provide a cushioning for
[1:27:31] the increasing rates for public safety so just for a little bit of a picture we've
[1:27:37] kind of aware that it was coming on, we did recently have a partners meeting and the increase for the current year 2425 for a standard officer, the rate increase turned out to be 7.03% with a projection for next fiscal year of 9.5% increase on top of that.
[1:27:54] So that's why we're looking to kind of ensure that we have that cushioning for as rates continue to increase.
[1:28:01] is the increase in, well, it's still out on what 26, 27, whether that rate will be more
[1:28:07] down towards 4% or higher, again, that will still be, it's still under, you know, review
[1:28:13] from the HARSO. Another item is establishing a fund 130 for the field operation center
[1:28:19] and set aside 500,000 that kind of is seed money to see as we now, with our, as we build
[1:28:25] up our road maintenance program, we need a staging area. So, we are looking at setting
[1:28:29] aside that money is separate fund to kind of your market which will then be funded by allocations
[1:28:34] from other funds that utilize that operation center for vehicle staging and equipment staging
[1:28:40] and you know a hot mix or a cold mix that we store on site. So we've established a fund
[1:28:45] for that as well as an asset replacement fund. We created 105 fund 105 to fund it with
[1:28:52] initial 350 million. Now this is not just for vehicles or other items such as we own the
[1:28:57] city hall so the roof and age facts and other items like that may eventually need to be replaced
[1:29:02] in the next five to ten years so this isn't a sudden in the and this year item but for
[1:29:08] the future. Next slide please. And so in light of that those adjustments are reflected if
[1:29:14] they are approved in the proposed budget which is why you see us back in the transfers out
[1:29:19] as those are not being spent per se are just moved to the fund so that they can be earmarked
[1:29:24] segregated into their own funds so that we can share that they're used for the designated
[1:29:28] uses.
[1:29:29] So there's a $350,000 surplus to the asset replacement fund, 900 for the pension liability and 500
[1:29:36] for the fuel operations.
[1:29:38] Next slide, please.
[1:29:41] And in terms of expenditure adjustments, there are a few adjustments that we need that we
[1:29:47] are proposing.
[1:29:48] One is an admin services for the continued ERP implementation.
[1:29:51] We were using ARPA for that item but now as we came up on the end of when we have to commit those ones we committed those for the cemetery frontage.
[1:30:00] So, there are still some work to be done on the implementation on our site in my division. So, we need additional 50,000 for that to continue the implementation with the Oracle. Also, there's been some additional purchases that need to be done in IT services regarding some new switches and UPS and under the power supply as we are seeking to utilize some of our additional sweets that have been vacant for our additional, like our road maintenance crew and other, as we try to utilize some additional
[1:30:29] So those need to be built out of it and also as noted the public safety rate increase that we had so we are adding 236,000 to the proposed police expenditure budget to reflect the increase in rates.
[1:30:45] So the way that works is we have a projection and then around this time March, they come out with the final reconciled numbers and then they true up the expenditures even though we pay the previous bills.
[1:30:57] So they'll go back and we'll pay the difference for the correct amount.
[1:31:01] So we are increasing by that 236,000, which also includes a slight adjustment for the facility as well,
[1:31:08] which is also we pay a share of the, for that mean it's cost of that also in our station.
[1:31:12] So that's why the 236,000 dollars come from.
[1:31:15] Next slide please.
[1:31:17] For the non-general fund adjustments, another item is we're looking at adjustment for a backup motorcycle.
[1:31:28] So the original motorcycle that was purchased in 2019 is no longer functioning and so we only have the single motorcycle for the one officer.
[1:31:40] So we've had an offer to acquire the back of motorcycle from the city like El Sonor to utilize that generous offer for only 10,000.
[1:31:51] that still has almost half its life on it to be a backup.
[1:31:54] So in the event, because at this point we still a bit out
[1:31:58] on when motorcycles will become available from BMW.
[1:32:00] Last I heard was maybe July.
[1:32:03] So this will be a backup if our current one is out for shop
[1:32:07] or if we get a second motorcycle officer that's to go
[1:32:10] into effect next fiscal year, that then they will have
[1:32:12] something to utilize until we can actually get a full-time
[1:32:15] new one.
[1:32:17] And also some de-appropriations as noted for capital budget
[1:32:19] balances that are unspent to carry the next fiscal year, and the exception of the field
[1:32:25] operations center fund, which I mentioned previously.
[1:32:28] Next slide, please.
[1:32:31] And so this is just kind of a snapshot of what the proposed fiscal year 24 to 25 will
[1:32:35] look like with the, um, all the proposed adjustments as of 3rd quarter, with our starting balance
[1:32:41] of 8.2, around 8.4 million, with revenues of 19,685 and expenditures, which include the
[1:32:47] It transfers out of 20 million, 776.
[1:32:51] We'd end up with a slight dip in fund balance.
[1:32:53] Of course, those monies are still around to help
[1:32:57] user-destinated uses out and ending fund balance
[1:32:59] fell at 7.1 million.
[1:33:03] Next slide, please.
[1:33:04] And as noted in the previous promise,
[1:33:07] this is our tentative five-year forecast
[1:33:11] that we brought up, which incorporates the higher rates.
[1:33:13] And you'll see this talked about a little bit more.
[1:33:15] We're extrapolated on in the budget workshop that reflects the slight dip in the third quarter.
[1:33:22] If we utilize these transfers out, and also the public safety reserve reflect is.
[1:33:27] So as you can see with the current projections, we are maintaining our reserves throughout the next five years.
[1:33:33] And with that, I conclude my presentation and I hope it didn't any questions.
[1:33:38] Thank you.
[1:33:39] Thank you, Adam.
[1:33:42] Any questions?
[1:33:44] Actually, I don't have just the one.
[1:33:46] My ears propped up when you said the wait list for BMW motorcycle, and I magically think
[1:33:51] of tariffs.
[1:33:53] And so do we have any idea of what we factored in, what that may or not, may not be, what
[1:33:57] is the cost currently?
[1:33:59] It's about, last quote, it was about 48,000, just the motorcycle.
[1:34:06] And so there's not been, from whoever the dealer is, that I just said in Notice July, they're
[1:34:12] look at our next shipment? I guess we'll find out.
[1:34:22] So I know in May we're going to have
[1:34:24] our budget workshop cracked so we're going to wait by our residents to come down in.
[1:34:28] For public safety. And you had mentioned so there's going to be a 7% increase for just RSO
[1:34:35] or is it also got fire or just? No so the one caveat about this is that we only know
[1:34:41] the current rates in the estimates for RSO the 7% is not for fire that's only for RSO
[1:34:48] and that's specifically on their main uniformed officer.
[1:34:51] So it is actually a little bit,
[1:34:52] they have different rates that they calculate.
[1:34:54] So it actually went down a little bit on like the,
[1:34:57] I believe the Community Services Officers.
[1:35:00] It was less than what we did budget to increase, so it actually kind of washed a little bit with the AA for the set officers and the community services, but then that traffic officer, it did increase by about 7%. So, kind of washed in AA, but the big increases in the general general uniformed officer policing. And you're projecting the next year to be 9.2%. They projected that, yes.
[1:35:27] Okay, but I guess I'm still confused. So it's seven percent. But then this time.
[1:35:33] Seven percent for there.
[1:35:34] That is nine percent on top of the five percent.
[1:35:36] And then next year they're rejecting we nine point five percent on top of that.
[1:35:39] Seven percent. Yeah. Okay. So just like I know it's so far residents, you know,
[1:35:44] personally our bills go up. And then also the city expenses are going up as well.
[1:35:50] I'm okay with this. I we definitely need.
[1:35:52] And we want no offended liability, right?
[1:35:55] Our pension liability, so I definitely agree with that.
[1:35:57] I just want to make sure that we are going to have, because we have so many projects coming on board.
[1:36:02] And earlier when it was mentioned, I really want to get the CIP for the format to go in at the park.
[1:36:07] So I want to make sure that we still have all the other projects that are going on, are going to have enough funding.
[1:36:15] Yeah, I can speak to that.
[1:36:16] So what we've de-appropriated is just based on the projects and when they're going to go out to construction.
[1:36:22] So we haven't removed project funding, we've just either kept it in this fiscal year, if we expect to go out to construction by the end of June.
[1:36:30] Or de-appropriated it so we can re-budget it beginning July of this year.
[1:36:35] Okay, so for the next year we still have the format in May or June.
[1:36:40] Correct, yeah, we didn't move the funds for that project.
[1:36:42] And then do we have any idea yet for the east side of Bendy County from Bendy to the mission trial that needs to be?
[1:36:50] For the west side?
[1:36:50] That needs to go to Bendy.
[1:36:51] For the west side?
[1:36:53] To.
[1:36:54] I think that needs to go to Bendy.
[1:36:56] Yeah, so to rehab the pavement.
[1:36:58] Yeah, so we're currently working on the bid package for that to get that out.
[1:37:04] So that will be affected by this budget.
[1:37:08] And depending on the timing, it'll still either, like I said, it'll either be included.
[1:37:11] or carried over into the next budget.
[1:37:13] Okay.
[1:37:14] So I want to make sure,
[1:37:15] because we need that stretch done.
[1:37:18] So thank you.
[1:37:22] No, I just have one hour or so.
[1:37:24] Comment on the
[1:37:27] 17%.
[1:37:29] I think one thing I just want to clarify,
[1:37:31] the council member more caught
[1:37:32] during the presentation at him.
[1:37:34] He might have added a couple of zeros to one of those numbers.
[1:37:39] So for those that are in the audience
[1:37:40] and listening to the presentation,
[1:37:43] it's 350,000 at 350 million.
[1:37:46] I wish we had that kind of money.
[1:37:59] Okay, thank you, Adam, so any public comments?
[1:38:02] No public comments.
[1:38:04] Okay, last chance, anyone want to give a public comment?
[1:38:11] Right, do you have a motion?
[1:38:12] Well, I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2025-12.
[1:38:18] I'll second that.
[1:38:19] All in favor?
[1:38:20] Aye.
[1:38:22] Motion carries 5-0.
[1:38:24] Okay, this brings us to 3.2.
[1:38:27] Also, is it ended by out of juice?
[1:38:29] Yeah, up here.
[1:38:31] And the heavy lifting again?
[1:38:40] So now that we just concluded talking about fiscal year year 2425 year, we are now here
[1:38:47] to delve into our review our draft for the community development and public works budgets
[1:38:53] for the next two years, fiscal year 2526 and fiscal year 2627.
[1:38:59] So I'll kick off with the introduction and go off to a few slides here for a minute
[1:39:05] and then I'll turn it over to the department heads to give their overview of the department.
[1:39:11] So first slide please.
[1:39:13] So first I wanted to just showcase what our projections are regarding our comparison between
[1:39:19] our revenues and anticipated staffing costs, both contractual and salary positions as to
[1:39:26] how we're budgeting for it.
[1:39:28] So, as you can see, it's been kind of hovering around 26% of our revenues.
[1:39:33] That dip in 2324 is from our spike in property tax revenues and also the conversion of fixed fees,
[1:39:45] which changes the way they recognize the revenues.
[1:39:47] And then, as you can see, it increases a little bit with our projections as we're hiring.
[1:39:51] But then, as time goes on, the revenues will outpace it and you see the percentage decline.
[1:39:56] And you can see the comparison between the payroll
[1:40:00] The contract's part declined as we increase the staffing and convert them over to city staff. So we'll start to go down then over time. Next slide, please. Another item that we're looking at that isn't yet included, is a shift differential, which is an additional pay for working non-standard shifts, such as weekends. The city is in the process of researching the implementation of a shift differential to compensate staff for working on different shifts.
[1:40:30] but it's not incorporated in the budget yet.
[1:40:32] This will be addressed in personnel rules, update in May,
[1:40:36] and will hopefully be incorporated then.
[1:40:39] Next slide, please.
[1:40:40] So before we kick off the Community Development,
[1:40:42] this is just, there is an item in the report,
[1:40:46] but it's kind of hard to read when I put on a slide,
[1:40:48] so this is an overview of how the revenues
[1:40:50] and the expenditures community development track.
[1:40:52] So on our fairly conservative revenue estimates,
[1:40:56] based on the anticipated developments
[1:40:59] Developments that are coming up, we are anticipating that the revenue will cover the expenditures for the next two years cycle.
[1:41:06] And with that, I will, the next slide I will turn over to our new community development director, Steven Jones, to discuss the community development budgets.
[1:41:16] Thank you, Adam. Good evening, honorable mayor and council members.
[1:41:19] Steven Jones here to represent community development, which encompasses three core divisions, building and safety, code enforcement and planning.
[1:41:25] Please note that preparations and projections for a code enforcement are included in the forthcoming public safety budget work chart materials and
[1:41:33] the mission
[1:41:34] Community development is to plan for maintain and enhance the quality of life for wood of our residents from wood and high quality development
[1:41:42] supporting economic vitality and ensuring compliance with city codes and ordinance ordinances all in alignment with the city's vision
[1:41:49] Statement endorsed by your council over the budget cycle the department has achieved several key goals
[1:41:55] The building and safety division process more than 3,000 plain checks and issued over 2,500 permits.
[1:42:01] We successfully implemented a valuation-based fee system to enhance accuracy and increase revenue precision.
[1:42:08] And transition from contract staffing to in-house support and inspection personnel.
[1:42:14] This shift has allowed us to capture more revenue and reduce expenditures and limit the need for specialized outside services.
[1:42:21] Additionally, the planning division under the City of Managers Leadership Informer Director Matt Bassie's guidance led the city's first ever adoption of a comprehensive general plan updating code development update.
[1:42:35] Those are major milestones and wins for the city and I feel lucky to have coming to that. I don't have to do all that work.
[1:42:41] So that's good. Looking ahead to the next budget cycle.
[1:42:44] Our short-term goals are directly aligned with Council priorities one, two, and three fostering a safe and family-friendly environment, engaging and encouraging responsible growth and development and supporting long-term economic health.
[1:43:00] These goals are instrumental in advancing the purposeful implementation of that new
[1:43:06] Guldamar general plan, facilitating that general plan through zoning code updates and
[1:43:10] by guiding principles and projects that are consistent with the new development standards
[1:43:14] ensure we remain true, ensure we remain true rather to the council's vision for the savings
[1:43:20] future.
[1:43:21] Next slide, please.
[1:43:22] Within building and safety, we aim to streamline intergovernmental coordination through the
[1:43:27] the creation of structure abatement programs, and formalize existing code interpretations, policies, and procedures so that documentation is clear and evident, and streamlines meaningful engagement with the community.
[1:43:41] These efforts directly support priority one by promoting a safe and active community, and next slide please.
[1:43:48] Finally, the department is evaluating the potential to further expand our in-house staffing capacity.
[1:43:54] These potentials would reduce reliance on contract services, and we anticipate opportunities for cost savings and increased efficiency, particularly in processing time and service delivery.
[1:44:04] And before I turn it over to Adam, back over to Adam, I am available for questions.
[1:44:10] Thank you. Any questions?
[1:44:14] Thanks.
[1:44:14] Thank you.
[1:44:14] I do have a question.
[1:44:16] So you just mentioned potentially expanding staff, right?
[1:44:20] and bringing some of those current, the contracted services in-house only because the
[1:44:26] chart is a little difficult to read from here right now.
[1:44:29] Yeah, could you give us that insight or the clarity around where do you see the expansion?
[1:44:35] Sure, it looks like in the third quarter we anticipate being able to bring on a plan,
[1:44:39] examineer one or two, and that would reduce again that need for contract services.
[1:44:45] and right now, the new system allowed the city to only require a percentage or pay a percentage of permit fees as opposed to recently there had been a set fee.
[1:45:00] It was a little draining in revenue, so this bringing on of a plan, the governor and the third quarter would reduce the planning, professional and contractual services. And then with planning, assistant planner is a hope. And again, if we bring on an assistant planner, based on the projections, they would be able to handle the development code updates that are required and also the specific plans and projects that we anticipate coming on to reduce our need for.
[1:45:30] or contract services.
[1:45:31] So those two are our hopes.
[1:45:35] Thank you.
[1:45:40] All right, any more questions?
[1:45:44] All right, is there anybody going next?
[1:45:48] Thank you.
[1:45:49] Well, so thank you, Stephen.
[1:45:52] So with that, the next segment is public worst department.
[1:45:55] So now I will turn it over to our public worst director,
[1:45:58] Jason Frog.
[1:45:59] Good evening again.
[1:46:01] So I'll go through the public works budget goals
[1:46:05] And this part of the presentation, we won't go over much on the CIP program.
[1:46:10] I am going to touch on a few projects, but the CIP is going to be presented to the Council in June, like we typically do, alongside the final budget as its own program.
[1:46:19] And so we'll focus more on just development engineering and public works maintenance and operations, but just as a quick overview.
[1:46:30] In terms of revenue sources, RCIP program primarily relies on measure A for staff costs,
[1:46:40] consulting costs, to administer design projects.
[1:46:43] We do try to reserve measure AA in RCIPs for construction only costs and not use that
[1:46:50] for contractual costs with consultants or for staff.
[1:46:54] And then we use other funds like Tumph and Diff in our grant sources for RCIPs for engineering
[1:47:01] For development engineering, our revenues come from the general fund through our developer
[1:47:06] fees, and then also through our encroachment permits for utilities.
[1:47:11] And then for just general public works for maintenance, we use gas tax.
[1:47:16] We do use measure AA and measure AA.
[1:47:20] And then we use our solid waste franchise fees, our LLMD funds and our CFD funds.
[1:47:25] And so our public works maintenance operations is funded through a variety of different fund sources.
[1:47:30] Next slide, please.
[1:47:33] So just going over the city goals and the activities that we target in this upcoming budget cycle to meet those city goals under public works maintenance.
[1:47:45] So as we've been discussing over the last year or so, we're transitioning away from contract maintenance services to in house maintenance services.
[1:47:53] our goal is to be operational with in-house maintenance by the new fiscal year.
[1:47:59] And so, our first goal, one of the city goals improved traffic safety.
[1:48:05] We've been actively working on this throughout this last budget cycle, but
[1:48:10] we will continue those efforts, we'll continue implementing our local road safety plan,
[1:48:15] which was adopted a few years ago, and implementing those recommendations in the field,
[1:48:20] be through maintenance or through projects. Earlier this year with the power outages we heard
[1:48:25] concerns from the community and the council about battery backup systems on our traffic signals.
[1:48:32] And so we've included some funds in the budget to install some battery backup systems at least
[1:48:37] some of our signals. And we've also included some funds for yellow reflective back plates. If you're
[1:48:43] not familiar with those, you see them on the Caltrans off-ramps and on-ramps. They're the yellow border
[1:48:48] around the signal head. So if there is a power outage and there is no battery back up,
[1:48:53] the signals are reflected in a little bit more visible at night.
[1:48:58] Next goal was to enhance
[1:48:59] pavement management program. And this kind of ties to the third goal, establish a public
[1:49:03] right-of-way maintenance program. And so as part of this maintenance transition, our big goal is
[1:49:09] going to be to establish a public right-of-way maintenance program, which in and of itself
[1:49:13] includes pavement management. And so this is everything within the right-of-way. This is pavement
[1:49:17] repair. This is weed abatement, this will include graffiti abatement. And so a variety of things
[1:49:25] of maintenance in the right of way. We will look in this first year as we transition
[1:49:30] the maintenance to establish these programs, establish a routine schedule for different
[1:49:36] types of maintenance at the appropriate times of the year at different locations in the
[1:49:42] city so that we can tackle these systematically, consistently, efficiently, and have a more routine schedule.
[1:49:49] And so one of the things we'll look to do is also implement a new reporting tool so
[1:49:57] that the public can more easily report complaints and services.
[1:50:00] And we can more consistently respond and track and report on those service requests. Next slide.
[1:50:10] So under CIP, I want to highlight what projects are going to tie to the goals and, again, improve traffic safety. So for construction, we intend to construct the new traffic signal at Harvestway and Bundy Canyon. We'll also be upgrading a few of our
[1:50:31] traffic signals to include protected left-turn phasing at orange and
[1:50:35] Bundy in advance, the limousone detection, a couple of the intersections.
[1:50:42] And then, as we've discussed before, we're looking to complete the
[1:50:45] Voldemort Trail restriping for design.
[1:50:49] For traffic safety, we're going to be doing the design of the Psycho Boulevard
[1:50:53] Improvement Project in this next budget cycle.
[1:50:57] So to complete road winding projects that goal, our key projects there are the ones we've
[1:51:03] been talking about over the last several years actually.
[1:51:07] Clinton Keith, Bundy Canyon, and Palomar, so Clinton Keith and Palomar, we anticipate
[1:51:13] to be complete within this upcoming budget cycle.
[1:51:17] Bundy Canyon, we would expect to start construction and then just because of the complexity and
[1:51:22] and the type of construction that could take a little bit longer.
[1:51:28] We had a goal, or the city had a goal to enhance the pavement management program, and so
[1:51:32] a few months ago we approved the contract for a new pavement management program.
[1:51:38] Report, we will be bringing that forward in the next few months for adoption.
[1:51:43] Just as a side note, our consultant doing that report is going to be driving the city streets
[1:51:49] in the next, actually, this coming month to do that field verification and inspection.
[1:51:54] So residents may see a truck or vehicle with LiDAR scanners and different equipment.
[1:52:01] Most likely it's going to be our consultant who's doing that.
[1:52:06] And then we have a goal to increase park facilities.
[1:52:09] And so as we've been discussing, our goal is to get the 27 acre park under construction and
[1:52:13] open, and then to get the 20 acre park open for the public to start enjoying.
[1:52:20] Next slide. For development engineering, our big goal here falls in line with the general
[1:52:26] plan implementation, so now that we have our own general plan, the city really needs to
[1:52:32] adopt its own standards and guidelines, engineering guidelines and standards. Since incorporation,
[1:52:37] we've been using the county standards and guidelines and they've served the city well, but
[1:52:41] They're no longer consistent with what our new general plan has so we have new cross sections on all of our roadways and the county standards don't match that
[1:52:50] We have a lot of new issues coming up in terms of residents want a second driveway and the county standard doesn't really give guidelines on
[1:52:58] Where can I place a second driveway and where isn't not
[1:53:02] appropriate?
[1:53:03] And so we've been dealing with a lot of these things as they come
[1:53:07] but it's
[1:53:08] The appropriate time for the city to now finally adopt city specific engineering standards now that we've adopted our city specific general plan and so that that's our primary goal and the development and development engineering division and that would be standards guidelines, a manual that our staff can can rely on and follow in that are the development community can also use next slide just a quick overview of the structure of the department as we mentioned.
[1:53:38] for its three primary divisions, the same department though, the CIP, which is city projects
[1:53:45] and design and construction and grant administration development engineering, which oversees all
[1:53:52] the review for private land development, the permitting, the construction inspection for
[1:53:57] land development, and utility permits, and then maintenance and operations, and that part
[1:54:04] of the department handles other things beyond maintenance.
[1:54:07] We also oversee our stormwater compliance program to make sure that the city's complying
[1:54:12] with state requirements will also oversee the franchise agreement with CRNR, make sure
[1:54:17] we're complying with state requirements on a solid waste as well, and then our just day-to-day
[1:54:23] traffic operations next slide.
[1:54:26] So this is our organizational chart.
[1:54:30] We do show a few, so one thing to note, the blue positions are budgeted, but they're
[1:54:38] not necessarily all filled, so we do have a few vacant positions, our senior engineer
[1:54:42] positions are vacant, so we've been relying on contract support there.
[1:54:47] Our maintenance worker positions are in the process of being filled right now, we've been
[1:54:51] going through that hiring process, and we are looking to add at least one associate
[1:54:56] engineer in the CIP division.
[1:55:00] And a management analyst for the department primarily because as we transition the city maintenance services, there's a lot of additional administrative work there, purchase orders, contracts with subcontractors ordering material, ensuring safety paperwork and just general paperwork for our maintenance crews are on file. And so that by itself is almost its own job. And so we've budgeted for an additional management analyst to assist with our maintenance division.
[1:55:29] next slide.
[1:55:33] This is actually kind of small but I'll touch on this briefly. Just highlights on
[1:55:39] some of the major changes we've made and some of the changes we've made in the different parts of
[1:55:43] the budget. The general fund we've adjusted those budgets to account for some of the positions we've
[1:55:50] been describing and we've adjusted just for administrative costs for furniture and desks and
[1:55:56] for the new staff.
[1:55:58] Measureed AA, we've tried to preserve those funds for infield construction costs, so hard costs,
[1:56:05] and tried not to rely on that for salaries.
[1:56:10] And we've budgeted for some public works maintenance costs there,
[1:56:14] and one time costs for a new maintenance vehicle, new dump truck that will need.
[1:56:21] Gas tax, we've restructured that to cover ongoing routine maintenance costs to cover salaries
[1:56:26] for all maintenance personnel and then to cover things like our maintenance software,
[1:56:31] our work order system, our service request system, annually recurring costs that we know
[1:56:35] that we will need to be able to support long-term. And so we've moved those into gas tax.
[1:56:40] And then measure A, we've restructured a little bit to cover our traffic maintenance and operations
[1:56:45] expenditures and then budgeted funds for some of the special projects like the signal battery back
[1:56:51] of systems or specific, you know, one-time type projects.
[1:56:57] Next slide.
[1:57:00] I'll go through this just quickly, again, just to highlight.
[1:57:03] Like I said, we'll bring back the CIP in June, but just wanted to highlight some of our
[1:57:08] program priorities.
[1:57:09] So I talked about some of the projects with the goals.
[1:57:12] There are some additional projects that we'll also be working on, but these will be our
[1:57:19] focus for the next two years, it will take a lot of effort to deliver on all of this and
[1:57:25] so this is kind of what you can expect as the primary focus of the upcoming budget for the
[1:57:32] CIP. Next slide. And I'm happy to answer any questions before I give it back to Adam.
[1:57:40] Thank you, Jason.
[1:57:43] I have just a couple of quick questions.
[1:57:47] So I've
[1:57:48] That's like my favorite song.
[1:57:50] I'm glad to hear that we have a lot planned because that's
[1:57:55] night and day difference compared to 10 or 20 years ago,
[1:57:58] and we loved the direction we're going.
[1:58:00] So then just two really basic questions.
[1:58:03] So you mentioned Orange and Bundy, the protected turn,
[1:58:06] which I guess is the turn signal.
[1:58:08] So the person who was here, the last meeting,
[1:58:10] and he's like, oh, that's awesome.
[1:58:12] That's what I was talking about.
[1:58:13] I haven't noticed it.
[1:58:14] I don't use that area as often.
[1:58:16] But like did he say like that something had been changed like I don't know why so when is when he's into he's wondering when that might be coming in
[1:58:26] So we're we're waiting to get a final approval from Cal Transit to
[1:58:31] Okay, update the project and then get it out to bid so they have to author right they've they've granted us the funds
[1:58:36] But then they have to authorize us to to advertise the project. So we're waiting for that my expectation would be by the end of this year
[1:58:43] we would have that done. Yeah and then the second one is you mentioned second
[1:58:47] driveways so give me I've got two questions the big wide open questions first so what's
[1:58:53] the problems with them and then well how do you get one if you can get one? So second
[1:58:59] driveways first if someone wants a second driveway they should come in and speak with the
[1:59:06] city and then speak with staff first ultimately it requires an encroachment permit because
[1:59:11] because you're doing work in the city right of way.
[1:59:15] The considerations that we have to look at when it comes to a second driveway, and
[1:59:19] again, we don't have a city specific standard for this, but we do look at it individually
[1:59:27] as can that property safely support a second driveway.
[1:59:32] Is it, there are some minimum standards, it has to be a minimum distance away from the nearest intersection.
[1:59:38] It can't be too close to this other driveway on the property.
[1:59:41] It can't be too close to the property line.
[1:59:44] So there are those considerations, but some of having more consistent guidelines would
[1:59:51] help because otherwise you could end up with a second driveline every property and you
[1:59:56] would lose all your street parking pedestrian.
[2:00:00] There are restrictions across the sidewalk would have constant interruptions which are, you know, things we don't want to have. But for now, if a resident is interested in a second driveway, I would encourage them to come talk to our public works team. And then we can advise them if it's something we can support, if there's a concern, safety issue. And then we can direct them from there. So that just gives me a couple more comments. One is that part of the reason why, because the average person might go, well, come on, it's my house. I want access to my side yard or whatever.
[2:00:29] but depending on the configuration of the area, the sidewalk, you're reducing parking spaces.
[2:00:35] So that could be a real issue for certain, especially if there's a cul-de-sac or something
[2:00:38] so I could see how that'd be an issue. So then I guess the last one would be because I know we're
[2:00:43] not out there with drones looking for these bootleg driveways, but if there is one that somebody just
[2:00:51] created on their own and it's causing a problem in the neighborhood and the neighbor reports it in.
[2:00:55] And so what's likely to happen to somebody who just put one in on their own?
[2:01:00] So, it would go through our co-enforcement team and we'd work with code enforcement.
[2:01:04] And we would have to look at those on an individual basis.
[2:01:09] There could be a number of concerns if it wasn't built to a city standard.
[2:01:12] The sidewalks not designed to carry vehicle loads, a driveway is designed differently.
[2:01:18] So that would be an issue.
[2:01:19] So understanding how it was constructed, but it may not even be in a safe location.
[2:01:22] And other issues are, if it's on an arterial, there's a lot of traffic, so we don't want
[2:01:29] to encourage more access points, because then that slows down traffic or creates safety
[2:01:33] issues.
[2:01:34] There could be visibility issues.
[2:01:35] So if there is an existing, unpermitted driveway, we deal with those on a case-by-case
[2:01:41] basis right now.
[2:01:42] Thank you.
[2:01:44] I've had two of those requests in my district.
[2:01:50] And I went out there, they both seem like it would be okay, but that's up to you.
[2:01:54] So I just wanted to say it's exciting that we're going to bring the maintenance and house and that we're doing this for guys coming in.
[2:02:02] This would be the time now to make our own standards for that too.
[2:02:06] We talked about earlier about the other standards.
[2:02:09] So I know it's like an initially it might be more paint but if you have graffiti on a wall painting that whole wall one color.
[2:02:16] And then in the future it's less paint because you would now know the color.
[2:02:20] you would keep chalk over each color and then when you go to repeat it, it's going to match fine, so we'll have no more of this much
[2:02:26] loss. So there's no other time than right now to establish those standards.
[2:02:31] No, I appreciate that and we'll be working on that, especially in this first year to establish those protocols, the procedures and so I'll make a note of that.
[2:02:40] Okay, thank you.
[2:02:46] Thanks again for that presentation Jason. I have a couple comments.
[2:02:51] So first I just want to say that I'm really excited that we're expanding the maintenance team.
[2:02:59] You know what I also want to just give a formal thank you to Brad and Stephen for all the work that they have all the services that they've provided to the city.
[2:03:08] I also want to highlight a couple of the goals that you mentioned that I'm really excited about.
[2:03:11] So you know, one of the top resident concerns that we hear are roads and pavement management.
[2:03:18] So I'm really happy to see the enhancing the pavement management program as a priority as well as establishing the goals.
[2:03:27] I mean, establishing the public right away maintenance program to go along with that.
[2:03:34] One of the things that I did want to ask about had a previous meeting we had talked about and
[2:03:41] I had also been a resident concern that was brought for Wendy Canyon, I think phase two, and council member Nick had expressed a desire to determine if and where the light would be
[2:03:57] tempted to consider on the road, on the road for traffic safety.
[2:04:01] I didn't see that on here, so I just wanted to ask about that.
[2:04:04] Yeah, so that's a good question.
[2:04:09] So phase two will include a new traffic signal at Oak Circle and Bundy Canyon by the Christian
[2:04:15] School.
[2:04:16] So that signal will have safety lighting on it.
[2:04:20] But the other thing to note, so typically street lighting, minimum standards would be at intersections
[2:04:28] or areas where there's curves, horizontal, vertical curves.
[2:04:35] So when we realign the road, we're going to be smoothing out the curves, and
[2:04:39] everything will be high reflectivity striping.
[2:04:42] So what currently may be perceived as a need for street lighting, when this gets redesigned and
[2:04:48] rebuilt, that concern, I would anticipate, would not be an issue anymore,
[2:04:53] plus we'll have the safety lighting at the traffic signal.
[2:04:55] Thank you very much.
[2:05:18] When we're going to re-line everything, so I agree with the answer. I think we'll probably have to follow back, circle back with it. After we get everything kind of, you know, done with buddy Canyon, and then we worked at the angle again, I think.
[2:05:33] Yeah, and I think that is an appropriate approach, is once the road's operational and we have all the new striping and the lanes and all of that, then we can come back.
[2:05:44] And the question?
[2:05:45] Yeah, no, so I do think that's a reasonable approach.
[2:05:49] So I guess I just want to reiterate, so one of the things that Jason just mentioned was the road read alignment, right?
[2:05:54] So hopefully that will mitigate, if not, then we'll bring back.
[2:05:59] Thank you.
[2:05:59] All
[2:06:04] right. Back to you, Adam.
[2:06:06] Yes. So just the final slide is just a expanded version of the five year forecast.
[2:06:11] So as you can see, our current forecast covers the current budgets.
[2:06:16] We'll still maintaining our reserves, barring any unforeseen events.
[2:06:20] And there's still a cushion in the case that development is a bit slower than anticipated.
[2:06:25] And one caveat is that public safety as mentioned, we're still working on those budgets
[2:06:29] and those will be. So those are still tentative.
[2:06:31] I mean, we do have the rate increase for public safety, for police in there, but we're still vetting the fire budgets.
[2:06:38] And we'll still review the police more, and that will present it in more detail at the next workshop.
[2:06:43] And that concludes my presentation, and I'm open to any additional questions.
[2:06:55] Public comments?
[2:06:56] Yes, Don Saunders.
[2:07:04] Thank you, Adam.
[2:07:07] The traffic safety public work plan looks perfect.
[2:07:12] but there is one thing on the signage or backup. The signal backplates, that's great, fantastic, the battery backup, that's perfect too.
[2:07:23] But on the backplates, we need to see those right after the first of the fiscal year and we need them at every signal.
[2:07:32] So if you can budget that in for every signal, that would be great.
[2:07:35] A reason being is we don't know when the blackouts are going to happen. It could happen this summer for all we know.
[2:07:41] And so we need them right away. If we can do battery backup at all the signals that would be great.
[2:07:47] But if we can get the priority as far as the main locations that would be great as well, or major traffic look intersections.
[2:07:57] There is another study on road design safety.
[2:08:02] one of them is one of the streets I'm thinking of is Gruel and Grand. We added the
[2:08:10] stop sign there. I think eventually a signal would be warranted there but one
[2:08:16] of the things on that study the city has the study is the first one it's the
[2:08:23] lowest cost is a overhead street light to light that intersection.
[2:08:31] So I might
[2:08:32] right turn yellow or right turn arrow at hidden springs and Clinton Keith. When
[2:08:40] you come out of say Taco Bell out of the center there you have to sit there
[2:08:44] and wait for a no turn on red that backs up and you look you can see the cars
[2:08:49] coming around the corner from Clinton Keith on to hidden springs so it'd be a
[2:08:55] clear shot to go right if there was a arrow there so that'd be something to take a
[2:08:59] look at budgeting in. A couple other budget things real quick. The things are looking
[2:09:05] great around town with the new signal signage, street name signage, perfect. We've got
[2:09:12] the city entryway signs coming, perfect. The signs that we have, the street name, blade
[2:09:19] signs, perfect. We've got those started, but the job hasn't been finished. We need to
[2:09:25] get with the maintenance crews right now. I talked to the guys that are out there. They
[2:09:29] you got some more to finish. Oh, we need to get whatever we can used up on our budget
[2:09:33] this year and get those signs in place. And then next year budget and get the rest
[2:09:38] of those signs done. It's really a public safety thing. Those green signs are faded.
[2:09:43] You can't read half of them. The new ones are excellent. They're reflective. The fire department
[2:09:48] police can see them very easily. So if you can get that wrapped up, you can direct staff
[2:09:53] to do that. That would be great. And the last one is the Grand Avenue Ropes. That's been
[2:09:58] and I'm going maintenance.
[2:10:00] This issue for years, as ropes get heavy, we've looked at nylon ropes, I believe, as a potential
[2:10:07] option in having the ropes locked in place. The maintenance guys tell me that it's a consistent
[2:10:13] maintenance issue. Let's get those ropes budgeted in for this year, this next fiscal year,
[2:10:19] get those fixed. It'll alleviate wasting time with budgeting, and also it'll help with reducing
[2:10:26] the posts from the ropes currently get so heavy that it sags on the posts and then they're
[2:10:33] having to replace the posts too. So that's another way it's really in the end I think it's
[2:10:39] going to be a cost-saving measure to put in nylon ropes, have them locked in place and we don't
[2:10:44] have to replace the ropes or the posts or maintain them. Thank you very much.
[2:10:50] Thank you, Don.
[2:10:52] So do you have anything for one thing to point out?
[2:10:59] So is there a percentage of the signals identified to have the back plates?
[2:11:03] So right now, we've budgeted for all of them.
[2:11:07] We don't have actual quotes, so just depending on how the pricing comes in, but that's our
[2:11:11] plan right now is to do all of them.
[2:11:13] And there may be some that come in later because some are part of a CIP project, and we'll
[2:11:18] get covered there, but that our budget goal was to try to get all of them.
[2:11:23] Okay, thank you.
[2:11:25] What about any of the other items that are a lot of items you listed?
[2:11:28] So we did budget funds to start changing out the rope on grand avenue.
[2:11:34] We won't necessarily be able to do it all at once because there's a lot of rope, and
[2:11:37] not all of it is, I mean some of it is still functional.
[2:11:41] So we did include funds I think off of the top of my head it's in the fiscal year 2627 part
[2:11:46] of the budget.
[2:11:47] But we did have funds added in there to start that replacement.
[2:11:53] We haven't done any preliminary work for a right turn at Hidden Springs.
[2:11:59] I do think it's a good suggestion.
[2:12:03] The developer on the northwest corner of Clint Keith Marketplace, they're going to be modifying
[2:12:07] the traffic signal at that intersection.
[2:12:10] And I think we've already in our comments made a note about that right turn pocket.
[2:12:16] Okay, so our goal would be to try to get that done with that signal modification as opposed to doing work twice at the intersection.
[2:12:25] I just, there's something on that one, I'm not sure.
[2:12:28] Is there a U-turn that's allowed if you're heading west on Clinton Keith, because if you are allowed to do a U-turn there,
[2:12:36] then you can see why you can't have so many turning right there during that time either.
[2:12:40] So I don't know, I don't remember because I don't do a U-turn there.
[2:12:43] But yeah, I don't recall off the top of my head if it is allowed and we do a right turn
[2:12:49] Overlapped and we would have to restrict the U-turn
[2:12:53] But I don't know off top of my head
[2:12:56] Cuz we just widened out that it would be able to
[2:12:59] Have it in there, but
[2:13:01] I thought it was always a site issue why we couldn't turn right there
[2:13:05] The yes, yeah, so the right-turn restriction is because of the visibility over the intersection
[2:13:11] But if they're
[2:13:13] You could potentially accommodate a free right with a green while there's a left-turn phase because there isn't any conflict
[2:13:21] If there isn't if there isn't a you turn it does I'm looking it says no you turn so I guess that blows that arch
[2:13:28] And then I appreciate the comment about grand and grew well and the light
[2:13:36] So we'll take a look at our local road safety plan and the recommendations there and we'll take a look at that as well
[2:13:43] but isn't a light how expensive is that because our brothers just have a light but I want a light
[2:13:47] sheet light that too. So an individual street light comes with an electrical meter expense and
[2:13:57] all of those things or tying into an existing system. There is an option to add lights onto utility
[2:14:04] poles so there is an ongoing expenditure anytime we add a light we're going to get built for the
[2:14:08] the electrical usage, but those would be our two options as a standalone poll or on a utility poll.
[2:14:16] I think that was everything, but if I've missed anything, let me know.
[2:14:24] Thank you so much.
[2:14:25] Are there any more public comments?
[2:14:27] No additional public comments.
[2:14:29] Okay.
[2:14:30] All right, thank you, anything else?
[2:14:33] All right, thank you so much, Adam.
[2:14:34] Mayor,
[2:14:40] I think staff would like to go back to 3.1 if that's okay with Council.
[2:14:45] Yes, I'm going to go back to 3.1.
[2:14:51] Would you please confirm that your vote was for all five items?
[2:14:55] I heard you read the resolutions, but there's five recommendations on there.
[2:14:59] Two, three, four.
[2:15:00] 4 and 5. That was my intent. Yes.
[2:15:13] Come up and fill it out after. Thank you.
[2:15:21] 3.1 for the current budget. We've got to mention about the street name signs, the sign blades at each intersection.
[2:15:29] Those need to be finished up. I tried to ask a question to one of the staff while back about, you know, how much do we have in the budget for the signs right now?
[2:15:38] they couldn't answer and I needed to do more research, I guess, but if we can get those,
[2:15:45] I believe there's some funds right now budgeted for an ongoing replacement of those signs,
[2:15:51] so many each year. This has gone on for probably three, four, five years now and I don't think the
[2:16:00] current maintenance team is actually finishing up, you know, putting in what they're budgeted to do.
[2:16:08] So, back to 3.1 is the current budget.
[2:16:12] Let's get used up, go out and tell the maintenance team,
[2:16:16] let's finish up what we can to this year,
[2:16:18] because they did, when I told them that there's, hey,
[2:16:21] over on this straight here, there's several green signs.
[2:16:24] And they said, oh, really?
[2:16:25] We haven't gotten that early yet.
[2:16:27] I said, how do you track it?
[2:16:29] They said, oh, we just write down and try to figure out,
[2:16:33] you know, which ones we haven't hit yet.
[2:16:35] So there is no plan of action of where they should be placing the signs or need to upgrade.
[2:16:44] So if we can get that done now, that would be great.
[2:16:47] And then again, if you can go back to 3.10, look at budgeting in the balance for the next fiscal year, that would be great.
[2:16:56] I think we need to wrap it up this year.
[2:16:58] We've got probably 60-70% of the city done.
[2:17:02] I think there should be enough in both this year and then next year to finish it up.
[2:17:08] Thanks.
[2:17:08] Thank you.
[2:17:09] Do we still have budget for the blade times?
[2:17:12] So in this fiscal year, I don't know off the top of my head, our maintenance contractor
[2:17:16] does currently manage that install program and we do allocate funds each year for that.
[2:17:24] But we also have a lot of other traffic signage needs that from a safety perspective do take
[2:17:29] priority.
[2:17:30] We have a lot of other regulatory signs that may be faded that need to be replaced.
[2:17:34] So we've been working through that effort as well.
[2:17:37] But on page 85 of the budget under item 3.2, we did budget for this coming fiscal year under measure AA.
[2:17:50] Both actually both fiscal year line item for traffic and street name sign annual program.
[2:17:56] So it is in our budget, but we are trying to balance that with all the other reflective
[2:18:02] signs that we need to kind of bring back up to standard.
[2:18:06] Thank you.
[2:18:08] All right.
[2:18:09] So we're in 3.2.
[2:18:14] All right.
[2:18:15] All right.
[2:18:16] We're doing with that.
[2:18:16] Okay.
[2:18:19] All right.
[2:18:21] All right.
[2:18:22] Council Communications.
[2:18:25] Joseph?
[2:18:26] All right.
[2:18:26] Let's see if we can make it quick.
[2:18:28] So I went to the Earth Day event with the, it was very good, had the resource fair tied in.
[2:18:35] I'd love to see that come back again next year, similar to how it is, just work out whatever.
[2:18:41] There's always things you can learn to do next year, whichever way and look forward to that.
[2:18:47] So last week was in Los Angeles for the SCAG meeting, that's Southern California Association of Governments.
[2:18:54] The one bit that I'll bring back, because there was no earth shattering, you know, policy
[2:18:59] suggestions or anything, but we had a presentation that dealt with home hardening and defensible
[2:19:06] space, which sounds good, especially if you're building brand new development.
[2:19:10] That makes sense.
[2:19:11] But there's a city councilwoman from, I think it's Los Alamedos, she was there, and she said,
[2:19:18] hey, you know, now, for the rest of us who live in the real world, they don't live in
[2:19:22] these pretty diagrammed homes where you could push hardening back and all that.
[2:19:28] And so I then put my hand up to talk and it's like, yeah, you know, our humble city of
[2:19:33] Woldemar, I can think of many areas, especially the older ones that have old growth trees and
[2:19:39] whatnot.
[2:19:39] And it's as if they just take that tree down.
[2:19:42] Now even if you could deal without having your smaller, older home not shaded, how much
[2:19:50] It's just a cost of, you know, we're talking about a tree that if there's three council members got together, we might get our hands around.
[2:19:55] It's that big. It's got to be thousands of dollars for one tree and it's probably on a property line.
[2:20:00] The neighbors aren't going to be glad you took it anyway. The point was that I suggested that, you know, it's it's nice to talk about these grand schemes, but they don't really work. There's another one of these unfunded mandates from the state, so anyway.
[2:20:30] about specialized transportation programs.
[2:20:33] So I'm almost looking at the Daniel Torres over there, that you might, I wrote her name
[2:20:38] down.
[2:20:38] You may already know her, Mariana Mitchell, and she's their community services manager.
[2:20:43] And they have a car, a caravan caravan, isn't it, caravan transit.
[2:20:50] They have go-go grandparents, and mobility management outreach, and they get, it says their
[2:20:57] Their city's portion of the program, including go-go grant parent services and outreach,
[2:21:01] is funded by $150,000 to measure a grant over three years.
[2:21:09] And so, anyway, not that you don't have a ton to do all regularly, but if you can reach
[2:21:15] out to see how they fund this, if it's something that we can do for our older residents, because
[2:21:23] because you don't have to have a Sun City to have old residents, who it was very interesting schemes.
[2:21:29] If that's something you're able to track down maybe in the future, we can see if it applies to our city.
[2:21:37] With WRCOG, I had meetings this week, so since this is one of those weeks where the second Wednesday was the same week as the first Monday,
[2:21:44] They isn't like the super busy meeting week.
[2:21:49] So they had their draft budget report, and the rise in revenues is primarily driven by
[2:22:00] funding from REAP 2.0, and again, that's a complicated thing with the new administration
[2:22:07] in Washington.
[2:22:08] Nobody knows how, or deficits in California.
[2:22:11] things that people thought there was money for, may not have money for after all.
[2:22:19] Then there's, oh, there's this issue with the VMT mitigation program,
[2:22:25] implementation that's administered through WRCog.
[2:22:27] Now, they mentioned it, like I think it's tomorrow, do you have a meeting with them?
[2:22:31] They mentioned they're going to roll out this presentation to public works
[2:22:36] and then later to city managers because otherwise, I'm sure you're familiar with this
[2:22:40] at some point we'll probably get a presentation here where VMT mitigation, so like if we put in
[2:22:47] bike lanes, then that's plus for us, because every lane you put in in your streets,
[2:22:52] it's a complicated mess that public works can still deal with, but so whether or not we're going
[2:22:59] to self-monitor it or we're going to join in with them, it makes more sense to join in with them,
[2:23:05] But so be prepared for that one.
[2:23:09] With RCTC, we had a robust discussion today about removing the remaining call boxes that are within Riverside County freeways.
[2:23:17] It actually got 10 no votes, and it wasn't for the money.
[2:23:21] The money was $150,000 to remove them.
[2:23:27] Because when they first came online and let's say 1990, they said that maybe 2% of the people had cell phones.
[2:23:34] And now it's like 98% according to the staff they gave.
[2:23:38] That's a lot of work.
[2:23:39] I never used to, but it's always a nice lake.
[2:23:41] Well, then the other issue was that, because RCTC doesn't manage it personally,
[2:23:48] they contract out.
[2:23:49] And the contractors, apparently, it's not just Riverside, apparently,
[2:23:52] it's just an issue in that industry where they just don't do a good job.
[2:23:56] And so you end up with a call box that doesn't work and whatnot.
[2:24:00] So anyway, that is ongoing.
[2:24:06] What was interesting is that Supervisor Karen Spiegel is also the chair of RCTC this year.
[2:24:12] She had noted how it's always the smaller dollar items that go on for half an hour.
[2:24:18] Where the next one was $65 million.
[2:24:21] And before they could even finish the staff report, it was like move approval.
[2:24:27] And it's like that, okay, that's interesting.
[2:24:30] Then there's this other one, I know that Jason and I attended Southwest Elected Leaders
[2:24:35] Collaborative Group.
[2:24:36] I'm not sure where we're on on that because they have lofty ideals that I'm not sure that
[2:24:42] they translate to anything happening right now, and they wanted to put together a video
[2:24:47] and they were kind of going around this table, and Laurie Stone's kind of, okay, how about
[2:24:52] How about you?
[2:24:53] Like putting a finger on every either city or like RTA was there.
[2:25:00] And everybody's like, I'll bring up to the council. Okay. And I just, they got to me. I go, look, I don't want to be a wet blanket here, but I can't imagine asking the council for $2,000 for a video that doesn't necessarily even have an audience. So, yeah, they were looking at me like kind of hard. No, I, because they had this great video from maybe six or eight years ago that, to make it all put together for a similar campaign, because they wanted to widen the freeway and they had dramatic music with drums.
[2:25:28] and all this, and then they have all the images you can picture of packed freeways.
[2:25:35] And I just said, I go, come on, I mean, if somebody played that for us, we're sophisticated
[2:25:39] enough.
[2:25:40] I hope that's not also takes to say worse, the worst to check book, right?
[2:25:44] And so then I said, especially talking about the next level up in Sacramento, they know
[2:25:49] there's traffic.
[2:25:49] Anyway, so I was not everybody's favorite person at that meeting.
[2:25:54] So anyway, the last one is that I had a chance to meet with a couple of
[2:25:58] I mentioned the one already how he had his concerns with the illegal terms at Kaiser than we've talked about that, but then there was so the other person because I had her her issue was also about these trailers, and so I met with her and that's what any of the city council would meet as it turned out she is in my district, but like I told her, if you had lived at the farm, I would met you with you anyway.
[2:26:24] And I would just say that as we heard tonight and whatnot, we need to take this like maximum
[2:26:30] serious and just put maximum legal pressure now.
[2:26:34] It's been going on since January and especially if what we had heard tonight, like the guy
[2:26:40] says, he'll just pay fines.
[2:26:41] It's like, you know what?
[2:26:42] We don't want to still be talking about this at Christmas time.
[2:26:45] So, if there's any way that we can just put that on, you know, the serious track, the
[2:26:53] fast track, whatever the best name is, so that's my report.
[2:27:00] Thank you.
[2:27:00] I received a lot of phone calls, emails, Facebook messages, tags regarding those trailers.
[2:27:07] I put out a video.
[2:27:07] You put out a video.
[2:27:09] Staff is working on it.
[2:27:10] We will apply as much Max Pester because we can't write wrong on that, so I know it's a
[2:27:16] serious issue, and we're taking it seriously. So I did attend the California Parks and Recreation
[2:27:21] Society conference with Annell and Sheree, and we had a good time, learned a lot. It's a great
[2:27:27] conference. Also attended the Wilhelm R. So, of course, the community church had a Wilhelm R.5K,
[2:27:32] and it went well. They sold out. So next year, Daniel, they like to do the 5K 10K down the Flecker
[2:27:37] told us like fatalities don't used to, just mentioning that. Mayor Ashley and I and she drove
[2:27:44] of all the way to Burbank. We drove more time than we were there for the meeting. It's a
[2:27:50] CalCities meeting, it was on homelessness, so listening how the state, how different
[2:27:55] cities and jurisdictions are handling that. But we literally drove four and a half hours,
[2:28:00] five and a half hours for our meeting. It was brutal. I've met with a lot of residents,
[2:28:06] there's been a lot of code of force issues, and so I've been meeting with a lot of residents
[2:28:09] about that. Also attended with Council of the Crystal Apple Wars. This is something the
[2:28:14] Church of Jesus Christ, a Latter-day Saints, puts on. And RTA meetings and then thank you, Joseph,
[2:28:22] actually cover for me one time. And I do want to mention this weekend, we have our egg hunt, so we have
[2:28:28] 16,000 eggs for the littles on Saturday morning. And then at night, we have teen egg hunt where we
[2:28:34] turn off the lights and they have to find the eggs by dark with flashlight for the teens and we have
[2:28:38] great prices for that and then tomorrow morning our city manager will be speaking at the city manager's
[2:28:43] purpose. That's it.
[2:28:53] The mayor and I attended the Lake Ellsville
[2:28:55] Unified School District subcommittee this couple weeks ago. It's a good subcommittee out of
[2:29:00] it. Jeanette, have you been informed already of a, I'm sorry, that was my idea.
[2:29:05] A lot of people want to recognize although I can't receive it. Never mind. Yeah, a lot of
[2:29:11] I think we're just going out to recognize some good people.
[2:29:15] Productive meeting, and I'm listening under the,
[2:29:20] yeah, no, that's it for now.
[2:29:22] Our next meeting is an couple of months, and then the school's out, and
[2:29:25] our kids are all in a, you know, a great order, she's.
[2:29:32] All right, thank you.
[2:29:34] So just a few of the events that I've been able to attend with some of my colleagues
[2:29:39] over the last month, or since the last council meeting, we have the Earth Day event.
[2:29:45] so again just a huge shout out to the community. Thank you for showing up for
[2:29:48] Waldemar. Thank you for showing up for our city. You know you guys truly make
[2:29:54] a difference and truly made an impact. I just want to thank the Waldemar
[2:29:59] beautiful.
[2:30:00] A delegation of volunteers in the Baltimore Parks Foundation. I think I'm missing some. There we go. You have to say that 5 times fast. Yes. And also a 12-hour staff that supported that event. Again, great turnout and awesome community engagement. We had coffee with the city yesterday. And then we had our tacos with the mayor, Mayor Pro Tem,
[2:30:28] them in the last month and we'll be looking to add more opportunities to engage with
[2:30:35] the community the remainder of the year.
[2:30:40] Next month, I finally have a scaffold meeting, guys, I'm really excited for like, you
[2:30:45] know, I'll, I guess since since October, I've been waiting to meet again, but so hopefully
[2:30:53] at the next Council meeting I have enough day for that.
[2:30:54] That's it for me.
[2:30:55] Thank you. And for those wondering what that is, it's the animal of the Valley J.P.
[2:31:03] Right? All right. So, as Bridget said, Crystal Ovelawards, which is an awards presentation
[2:31:10] to teachers chosen by students, the teamber breakfast, forget about it one year, grant opening,
[2:31:17] or not grant opening, one year celebration, a meet and greet with Kelly Sayarto, as Dustin
[2:31:24] since I will use the articulation meeting,
[2:31:27] Carsten coffee with the city, student of the month.
[2:31:30] So congratulations to our Will Demar,
[2:31:34] a student of the month, who is Veronica.
[2:31:39] Now I have to go by memory
[2:31:40] because I think I grabbed the wrong one.
[2:31:43] Veronica Aguilar, I believe was her name.
[2:31:47] Yes, Veronica Aguilar.
[2:31:49] And then also I'd also know a bit
[2:31:50] not a Will Demar resident, but Will Demar school
[2:31:52] is Oman, Muka, Pad, Haiai.
[2:31:59] So, Earth Day was a tremendous success.
[2:32:01] Thank you also, I'd like to take the city staff and city,
[2:32:05] and there was more beautification volunteers,
[2:32:07] and everybody who had a hand in it,
[2:32:09] I know there were multiple departments,
[2:32:10] you know, and Daniel was there that morning as well.
[2:32:13] So thank you so much for all of your many contributions,
[2:32:16] as well as the volunteers, and then the date
[2:32:19] for next year's already been set.
[2:32:21] So, do you want to say it?
[2:32:23] Mark your calendars?
[2:32:24] April 18, 2026.
[2:32:26] April 18.
[2:32:27] All right.
[2:32:28] So, I also attended Bring Your Kid to Work Day and read to the little ones.
[2:32:34] That was super fun and they were so cute.
[2:32:36] We have a lot of really cute staff kids that were there.
[2:32:40] A lot of two-year-olds.
[2:32:41] I was surprised about that.
[2:32:42] But the two-year-olds held it down.
[2:32:43] Like, they were, yeah, they were on lock.
[2:32:45] They were good.
[2:32:47] The community, as Bridget mentioned, we went to the community services policy committee
[2:32:53] meeting for League of Cities and so we, actually the main thing, I mean, there's a lot
[2:32:58] of discussion.
[2:33:00] The main discussion was about streamlining Medicare, Medicare, right?
[2:33:07] Streamlining Medicare in order to help, so lobbying.
[2:33:11] So League of Cities was asking input on if we want to lobby for this or not.
[2:33:15] and we did affirmatively, including Bridget,
[2:33:18] and I voted affirmatively to it's not in my estimation,
[2:33:25] it's not an expansion of the program.
[2:33:27] It's more of a cut through the bureaucracies
[2:33:29] of the program to reach through and assume
[2:33:32] that somebody is qualified for those services
[2:33:35] when they're encountered on the street.
[2:33:38] So that way they don't get in the cycle
[2:33:41] of waiting for doctor's appointments
[2:33:42] and needing rights to doctor's appointments
[2:33:44] and all of that, they can just assume that they are eligible
[2:33:47] and they can get services based off that assumption.
[2:33:51] So that's not something that's been voted in,
[2:33:53] that's something that Bridget and I voted affirmatively
[2:33:55] to support, and that's why we were there, essentially.
[2:33:58] And then now League of Cities will go forward and lobby for that.
[2:34:04] We had our web, or will the more engaging businesses meeting
[2:34:07] with Bridget and myself in Kimberly and commercial builders
[2:34:11] meet-up with Carlos and Kimberly and I feel like there's always stuff we we
[2:34:17] miss believe or not on our list and that concludes my report.
[2:34:27] Do we have a
[2:34:27] sitting managers report? Yes I do Madam Mayor so on the agenda there's three
[2:34:35] items the first one is the fire hazard severity zones as many of you read in the
[2:34:41] paper. This was released earlier in the month. Our fire department, our fire
[2:34:46] marshal are working feverishly. On that we are currently during part of the
[2:34:52] community comment phase. You can go on to our website. We've created a new page
[2:34:58] gender that same name.
[2:35:00] Fire, hazard, severity, zone. There's links on there. You can also find that under our newly created
[2:35:07] World of Mar Fire Department page. And so you have an opportunity. The other common question
[2:35:13] that we hear is that, oh my gosh, we have these new fire hazard, severity, zones coming
[2:35:19] out. And that means our insurances are going to go up. And there really is a misconception
[2:35:23] there. Those are two different maps. There's a risk map. These are a hazard map.
[2:35:29] As I understand it, these maps identify hazard potential.
[2:35:35] That's the map that's out before you or hazard potential, not fire risk.
[2:35:39] Insurance company assesses risk, and these fire hazard severity zones pretty much have been updated to better align with the insurance risk maps.
[2:35:49] So I know that there's going to be a lot of people excited about that.
[2:35:52] I think you're going to get more information.
[2:35:55] So please come back at the May meeting, we'll be covering a lot of fire.
[2:35:59] We'll have some fire-wise community discussions, we'll have some lessons learned from the LA fire.
[2:36:04] So keep staying engaged and learn more about the fire hazards.
[2:36:09] The second item was asked on staffing and day coverage as a future agenda item.
[2:36:16] So Carlos, my intent is just to kind of give a high level overview.
[2:36:20] If that's satisfactory, great if you feel like you still want to have a staff report back, then obviously we'll take more feedback as I obviously didn't fully understand your question was last time.
[2:36:32] We did go through and did a survey of day coverage for all the neighboring cities.
[2:36:39] We found that City of Corona and City of Wildermar are the only two locally that offer counter services Monday through Thursday and are closed on Friday.
[2:36:47] All of our neighboring counterpart cities probably where you're hearing is they do provide counter service
[2:36:55] money through Friday.
[2:36:56] The differences are they use a blend of work forces.
[2:37:02] So we tradition a traditional work day is five, eight hour days.
[2:37:09] Some offer a split 980 schedule meaning that you work run Friday and then you have the alternate Friday off.
[2:37:15] And so you've got enough staff that you could split schedule.
[2:37:19] And then many of these also have 4-10 schedules.
[2:37:22] So there's a blend.
[2:37:23] Will Demar uses a traditional 5-8 schedule and 4-10s.
[2:37:28] So we do have that.
[2:37:29] But I guess the question is, is there value in having the City Hall
[2:37:36] offices open on a Friday?
[2:37:38] Obviously, there's a lot of opinions, schools of thought.
[2:37:41] I do have some statistics.
[2:37:43] And I think what's interesting is we went through and knocked on all the different doors
[2:37:48] and said how many in-person visits are you getting?
[2:37:52] What days of the week are you getting them?
[2:37:54] How many are on Friday?
[2:37:56] How many calls are you getting during the week?
[2:37:58] And they couldn't answer the question as to how many people now are doing business online?
[2:38:04] And so I think what we have definitely seen over the last five years, we've gone electronic.
[2:38:08] We have more and more folks going online.
[2:38:10] And so at the end of the day and it's quite a spreadsheet, I won't read the whole spreadsheet to you, but on average now, a majority of the calls for all of these cities, they're coming in by calls, very few in person.
[2:38:29] City of Wilhelmar has in person about 29 a week. Most of the permits are done online.
[2:38:39] If I was to project based off of the percentages that the other cities are using,
[2:38:45] we possibly could have three people come into City Hall on a Friday.
[2:38:49] So those are some statistics, but as I drilled down further, I think the other question was,
[2:38:57] how are we handling our staffing for some of the other after hour concerns?
[2:39:00] And then you guys have mentioned numerous times concerns about illegal food vendors, homeless
[2:39:09] support services, and some of those other things, and so stay tuned.
[2:39:14] Would like to bring back that piece of it under the Code Enforcement Discussion during
[2:39:19] the May Budget Session.
[2:39:21] So I don't know if you needed more on that or if the May Budget Session addressing those
[2:39:26] other after-hour services would satisfy.
[2:39:30] So I have a couple of initial questions.
[2:39:33] Can you provide one?
[2:39:36] I'd be interested in seeing the statistics that you gathered
[2:39:40] and sharing that with the council.
[2:39:42] If that's something that you guys are also interested in.
[2:39:46] And then the second is,
[2:39:49] I'd like to assess our current service hours
[2:39:53] with our current work schedules so if that can be brought back.
[2:40:00] So, we talked about some of the comparisons to the other cities, right, for Will Demor, for working for tent. So, I want to know how the comparison of town availability is for our work schedule. We want to go five days a week, right?
[2:40:22] Well, you want, I'll say, Dan, can you remember the player
[2:40:25] like in a month about how we go five days a week out of service?
[2:40:29] I was going to say, at least we'll get you the budget
[2:40:32] if we get through and then we can maybe keep holding on a little bit.
[2:40:36] Well, we're not playing the game of like, we don't
[2:40:38] work with them, the thing, they're not just, you know,
[2:40:41] but yes, I can wait.
[2:40:42] Yeah, well, I still want to be brought back in May.
[2:40:45] Okay, current, counter hours compared to where?
[2:40:52] Well, I could answer that question.
[2:40:55] All of these agencies have standard current counter hours open to the public as do we, right?
[2:41:02] It's a traditional.
[2:41:03] So how do I compare to theirs?
[2:41:05] Meaning that you open the doors at A and you close the doors at five.
[2:41:09] talking more schedule for tens, right? Now I'm talking about planned reviews.
[2:41:16] Just general counter service hours.
[2:41:21] What's up?
[2:41:22] Like services provided during those like five days a week?
[2:41:26] I'm sorry, man. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I appreciate you chiming in.
[2:41:30] I think I'm going to put up.
[2:41:31] What I'm looking for is what are current counter hours that we I guess allow residents to come in
[2:41:38] to do plan checks, plan reviews, or whatever it is.
[2:41:42] And I want to know how that compares to our neighboring cities who have the 5-8 schedule.
[2:41:48] While we have a 4-10, are we providing additional service hours because we're open longer?
[2:41:54] Are we providing comparable service hours, or are we providing less even though we're open longer?
[2:42:00] No, we are providing the same regular business hours as our neighbors from 8 to 5.
[2:42:07] We, like Corona, provide that Monday through Thursday.
[2:42:14] The other cities, the larger cities who've got larger staffs to have our able to split schedules,
[2:42:22] and they do allow for counter-walk-up services on Fridays from 8 to 5.
[2:42:30] So those are the actuals.
[2:42:34] There could be an anomaly in there, but for the most part that's it.
[2:42:37] I'm not aware of seven o'clock,
[2:42:39] I'm not aware of 7'30, I'm not aware of 5'30s or 6s.
[2:42:42] Okay, so I think there was some of the feedback
[2:42:46] that I from residents might have been around.
[2:42:48] I think they're only able to come in nine to one
[2:42:52] or nine to two, does that ring in any bills?
[2:42:54] Was that not accurate?
[2:42:55] No, that's not, well, no, that's not fully accurate.
[2:42:58] What we have over the years when we've had minimal staff,
[2:43:03] For example, and this is, we would run planning hours from nine to one, for example, because we didn't have enough planners, so we would have a planner work, a counter share from nine to one.
[2:43:17] That's not been the case.
[2:43:18] We've not limited hours on any of our services for the last four years that I've been the city manager.
[2:43:23] We've provided full services for those for eight hours.
[2:43:27] And the other point of the matter is this, if any of our residents have asked for after-hours or if they've asked for a Friday,
[2:43:36] we have all been here and there's never been a miss of those meetings as council members have asked for us to go to residents' homes after-hours.
[2:43:45] We've met you at those homes, we've resolved those problems, we've opened up City Hall.
[2:43:50] Also, I'm not aware nor have I heard that we have never served our residents who have had a need.
[2:43:57] So, but I'm more than welcome to hear that.
[2:44:00] I think from the statistics potentially, we could have three people come in on a Friday, if we were open all day Friday.
[2:44:08] The decision that we originally, when we did shut it down, I think Corona probably had the same thing,
[2:44:13] is you're firing up all of this facility, air conditioning, all of the, you know, everything
[2:44:20] and providing a full staff in here during those hours for a few people.
[2:44:26] And so, again, that's your call, but those are the reasons why we currently operate the
[2:44:32] way we operate.
[2:44:33] I got it.
[2:44:34] All right.
[2:44:35] I mean, so what I heard from Council is we can bring it back after, like it.
[2:44:40] Well, it's not thinking right.
[2:44:42] Right, because I'm thinking right now, May and June and we have to have our budget by June 30th for this next two year cycles.
[2:45:00] Okay. So, that was not the completion of the city managers report. Sorry. The other question that you brought was another future agenda item, Carlos, was how do we reach out to our non-tech residents? I think you're talking about our senior community or folks that wouldn't feel as comfortable going on in using technical computers and the like. We've got some ideas to share. None of this has also been budgeted.
[2:45:29] But ideas are, we could post flyers at locations like senior centers, libraries, pharmacies,
[2:45:37] faith-based operations, places where our senior population could be going on certain events.
[2:45:43] If those were important to get out, that's something that we could easily do.
[2:45:48] We're also looking into, we get peg money every year, so part of the franchise agreements
[2:45:53] that we get, peg monies are for the TVs.
[2:45:56] There is a city TV channel and so being able to place some of these notices posting these notices on the city TV channel could be effective.
[2:46:07] We're also looking into a city kiosk.
[2:46:11] So as right now when we post all of our meetings the meetings are posted up on the board outside paper copy.
[2:46:17] We go to the library paper copy.
[2:46:20] And so having actually a digital city kiosk that's got touch green ability could also be able to
[2:46:27] provide some of this local information. And then of course we have a local business papers and
[2:46:32] throwaways that could include that. Again that was I think a question you had I didn't know if you
[2:46:36] wanted to bring this back as a more detailed staff report or did that kind of answer some of the
[2:46:43] ideas you were thinking about. That answers it. I think with everything there's an associate
[2:46:50] And so I guess my question to be or my follow up question to you would be which of these proposals or suggestions that you provided would be I guess low hanging fruit that we could tackle.
[2:47:10] I guess the question really is is what are the things in addition you would like us to reach out on if it's special events.
[2:47:17] Maybe we could add to that are there is the monthly news?
[2:47:20] I mean, I guess the looking for some direction.
[2:47:23] What are you looking for?
[2:47:24] So I think one of the things that you just mentioned was we received grants or the pet grants.
[2:47:28] Yes, for TD.
[2:47:29] I would like to take advantage of that.
[2:47:34] What other, you know something that's good to you guys.
[2:47:36] Well, I think we could definitely email flyers and ask the church to post another community board.
[2:47:42] That is across the same money, right besides email, they could just add it into our email list already.
[2:47:48] or we said the senior center, right, we already are the library and then another thing is what about Kaiser?
[2:47:55] I mean, do they have a community board?
[2:47:56] We can ask them to post our community flyers there if they have one, but I think if we, if we just email them,
[2:48:02] that's not possible to say anything and then they posted in every respective locations.
[2:48:07] I think that's a good suggestion as well.
[2:48:10] very good. I did haven't also an item to talk about about the black series trailers. We've heard a lot of discussion about that.
[2:48:20] Raul is here, but I don't know if you still at this point, I mean you understand we're doing everything we can.
[2:48:25] If you'd like to hear a report from Raul, he's here to report to you.
[2:48:29] Yeah.
[2:48:30] Okay, please come up, Raul.
[2:48:32] While we're all making a sway up here, I just want to ask a question, the answer is probably no.
[2:48:36] But are there any emergency measures we can do considering their fire risk and, you know, other risks involved?
[2:48:51] The item isn't on your agenda.
[2:48:53] I know you're going to get a report, but we, I mean, you should listen to the report and then let staff do their work.
[2:49:05] I'm here to give you an update regarding Black Series trailer.
[2:49:12] This update is regarding 207-24 Palomar and also APN number 36806-005, which is the vacant
[2:49:23] locked.
[2:49:26] On December 2nd, Officer Basio conducted an inspection at the subject property, which is
[2:49:34] a residential property. The property is listed as a 1975 single story, two-bedroom, two-vath
[2:49:41] home with a detached garage. The inspection reveals several unpermitted structures to the
[2:49:47] addition attached garage conversion. There was a void permit on file, two addition to the
[2:49:57] the rear of the manufactured home.
[2:49:59] Also, too.
[2:50:00] A few detached garages with no permits, shed located in the corner, no permits, and at that time, approximately six black series trailers were found on the property, with no permits, no business license, or any other documentation to support their storing of their trailers there. Action was taken, a notice of violation was mailed to the property owner. Some follow-up actions and communication, once that was sent out,
[2:50:29] on the 23rd Officer Basio contacted Eileen Gokin, the property owner. She informed Officer Basio
[2:50:38] that her daughter Margaret is the executor of her estate. And she wasn't aware of the
[2:50:44] traitor being stored there and adviser that her daughter would make contact with her.
[2:50:49] The following day, Margaret, the executor contacted Officer Basio and discussed at the complaint.
[2:50:56] She explained that the tenants occupied the property and she wasn't aware of the trailer being stored there.
[2:51:02] Mr. Keifield also informed of the unpermitted structure, Officer Bajio suggested to be focused on the trailers that are being stored there.
[2:51:15] There was an additional time that was given to the executor due to her temporary health conditions on there.
[2:51:23] So, at that point, a follow-up date was set for March 27th and 2005.
[2:51:33] There was additional communications with the executive later she had contacted Officer
[2:51:42] Vaju, informing her that she had spoke to the tenant and they were going to remove those
[2:51:49] trailers off of both parcels.
[2:51:53] Later on, there was a continued communication with the executive market, contacting Officer
[2:52:01] Bosch, advising her that she had issued the tenant a 3-day notice to pay her quit due
[2:52:08] to non-payment or rent.
[2:52:10] The 3-days has expired in result of no payment, and she is now going forward with a 30-day
[2:52:18] eviction.
[2:52:20] And a second notice of violation was sent to the proprietor with a follow-up date of May 6.
[2:52:28] With that, I opened up a second case on that property.
[2:52:34] This one is strictly for the tenant.
[2:52:38] On April 2nd, myself and Officer Baggio inspected the two parcels on Palomar.
[2:52:45] During that inspection, we counted over 50 black series traders that were reserved
[2:52:53] being stored on both properties. On residential and APNs, there was a 4. There was about 6 black
[2:53:01] series trailers that were parked there on the vacant property. There was over 44 black
[2:53:10] accessories being stored there.
[2:53:13] At this point, there are still no permits or any authorization
[2:53:16] for those traders in being there.
[2:53:19] The action that was taken, a notice of violation,
[2:53:23] was sent to the tenant, also posted, on the property,
[2:53:28] with a fall-up of April 21st, 2025.
[2:53:32] So, additional fall-ups and communication,
[2:53:36] April 7th, that afternoon, Officer Vagina, myself,
[2:53:39] or visit the black service trailer property,
[2:53:42] I met with a representative of black service trailer
[2:53:44] who was actually bringing an additional trailer
[2:53:47] onto that property.
[2:53:49] May contact with them.
[2:53:51] There was a language barrier there.
[2:53:54] He was only speaking Chinese.
[2:53:56] So I got my trustee, you know, communication app.
[2:53:59] And I was able to communicate with them.
[2:54:00] And he also contacted a representative of black series trailers
[2:54:05] who was their translator.
[2:54:06] So during that conversation with him, I informed him of the violations and the property and also gave him the posted notice that was on the gate to give to the property owner or excuse me, the business owner of Black Series trailers.
[2:54:24] I'm informed him that these trailers being stored there are a violation or a municipal code and those trailers need to be removed immediately.
[2:54:35] Today, I received a phone call from a representative black series trailer, basically asking for an extension or some leniency regarding our case.
[2:54:47] I informed him that I have my instructions to have those trailers to be vacated off that property as soon as possible.
[2:54:58] and the only the will not
[2:55:00] I cannot be an extension given. So the only extension that I could possibly give you would be giving you a second notice, which would give you a little bit more time at that point, still following our protocol of giving them a notice.
[2:55:13] So,
[2:55:18] we'll continue seeing the course of our investigation. Both cases are ongoing with the compliance date of May 6th for the upper-manage structures and trailer. A follow-up inspection will take place on the 21st to ensure that these trailers
[2:55:32] have been removed from the property per violation notice, for the second case, further action may be required based on the results of these inspections.
[2:55:43] And that concludes my report and I have any questions if you guys have any.
[2:55:47] Yeah, no questions, no questions, yeah, but thank you for the report.
[2:55:51] We've heard your comments, we will continue to work with RSO, wasn't aware that it was a fire hazard, so we'll have that discussion as well.
[2:56:01] I've already briefed the city attorney will have follow-up discussion tomorrow.
[2:56:08] One last point just to point out is that for an RV storage, as you know, in our new
[2:56:16] development code, they would be required to apply for and get approval of a discretionary
[2:56:23] conditional use permit.
[2:56:24] No permits for this use on this property have ever been submitted, so clearly it is in
[2:56:30] violation. I know that folks would say, well, could they become legal?
[2:56:35] Well, they would have to go through that quite exhaustive process, and now we'll follow up with you on that.
[2:56:41] That actually completes City Manager's report.
[2:56:45] Thank you, Royal. Thank you, Dan.
[2:56:48] Okay, I have some future agenda items.
[2:56:53] I'd like to revisit our shed setback.
[2:56:58] So, specifically from the property line, so we've had some complaints about, I mean,
[2:57:07] it is our ordinance to have five feet.
[2:57:11] There's a lot of finger pointing going on about everybody not abiding by that, which I've
[2:57:16] also observed.
[2:57:17] So anyway, I just wanted to propose that as a future agenda item, again, same work.
[2:57:23] But all right,
[2:57:27] and then the next one, is it budgeted anywhere for us to look at solar for the city hall with a battery backup backup?
[2:57:38] So we actually, about three, four months ago, we actually put in a request to be a community resiliency center through WR COG.
[2:57:49] they've had a consultant come out to look at that.
[2:57:52] If we're approved by that, there will be available for grant funds that would actually allow us to be an operations center.
[2:57:59] It would also be able to be that 24 hour seven if we actually had an emergency.
[2:58:04] It's not in our current budget that I'm aware of.
[2:58:07] It's not as a specific project.
[2:58:09] We are tracking that through WR COG and
[2:58:11] hopeful that we can actually get some monies for that.
[2:58:14] That.
[2:58:15] All right.
[2:58:16] Thank you.
[2:58:17] Any more future data items?
[2:58:21] I have one.
[2:58:22] Was that a future?
[2:58:25] I was proposing it as a future agenda item if it's not necessary because it's direction but
[2:58:33] to be in half to have consensus for direction, right?
[2:58:37] You tell us.
[2:58:42] Maybe just an update if WRCog has gone back to us for now.
[2:58:47] Yeah, did
[2:58:51] you guys have any free trade in it?
[2:58:53] No, I'm good, thank you.
[2:58:54] Okay, so, I want to thank Margaret and Steve for coming up and giving the public comment
[2:59:02] earlier today, sparked my mind in terms of maybe, I don't know if there's potential opportunity,
[2:59:09] especially around the Anselvin Park to explore, I guess, an opportunity to collaborate
[2:59:20] With the native plant network, you know, I think one of the designs that we had seen for that park was to include a butterfly garden.
[2:59:29] So I just be interested in exploring potential collaboration.
[2:59:45] All right, with that, right,
[2:59:53] during the City Council meeting at 909 PM, in accordance with government code section.
[3:00:00] Aye, four, nine, five, two, point three. Aye, Jeanette Morales, city of Voldemort, city clerk. Do hereby declare that the Board of Trustees will receive no compensation or stipend for the convening of the following regular meeting of the Voldemort cemetery district.
[3:00:11] Act.
[3:00:15] Wait, roll call.
[3:00:18] Trustee Moore.
[3:00:19] Here.
[3:00:19] Trustee Moore, Beatow.
[3:00:21] Here.
[3:00:21] Trustee Nig.
[3:00:22] Here.
[3:00:23] Vice Chair Marquez.
[3:00:24] Here.
[3:00:24] Chair DeFilippo.
[3:00:25] Here.
[3:00:29] All right.
[3:00:29] Do we have any public comments?
[3:00:31] No public comments.
[3:00:32] Any board communications?
[3:00:36] Approval of the agenda as presented.
[3:00:38] So moved.
[3:00:39] Second.
[3:00:40] All the favor?
[3:00:40] Aye.
[3:00:41] Cemetery consent.
[3:00:42] Aye.
[3:00:43] Cemetery consent calendar?
[3:00:45] Aye.
[3:00:46] I'll make a motion for that.
[3:00:47] Second.
[3:00:48] All the favor?
[3:00:49] Aye.
[3:00:49] Hi.
[3:00:50] Motion carries 5-0.
[3:00:51] Right.
[3:00:52] No, we've got the cemetery, February Cemetery Treasurer's report.
[3:00:56] That's on the minister's name.
[3:00:59] It's part of the consent calendar.
[3:01:01] Oh, sorry, you're right.
[3:01:04] Okay.
[3:01:05] No item scheduled for general business.
[3:01:07] General manager's report.
[3:01:09] Yes.
[3:01:09] I'd like to invite Daniel to give the board an update on the Cemetery Master Plan study.
[3:01:14] Yes.
[3:01:15] So the Cemetery staff has been in contact with lean associates.
[3:01:19] This is the consultant that provided the master plan for the cemetery back in 2019.
[3:01:26] We initiated these discussions in November of last year and hopes to grasp the sudden
[3:01:35] changes to the projections within our cemetery.
[3:01:40] Having these conversations, the General Manager and I have come through several items that
[3:01:45] we've continuously bounced back with the consultant, again, future use of the actual land within
[3:01:54] the cemetery, future planning for phasing of the existing location, and then also the
[3:02:02] projection of possibly utilizing a portion of the future cemetery for a veteran memorial.
[3:02:08] And so this would include the community outreach needed.
[3:02:12] This would include the current plots needed within the near future.
[3:02:18] And so we are in conversations to finalize this agreement with the consultant and
[3:02:24] looking to actually move forward within the next month and that sums up the update.
[3:02:33] Great, thank you.
[3:02:34] All right.
[3:02:41] Any future agenda items? No? Seeing none, adjourned the Waldemar cemetery district meeting at 9-12