[0:00] We should lead us in the pledge.

[0:06] Ready, begin.

[0:08] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

[0:12] And to the law that the religion stands.

[0:15] One nation under God.

[0:17] I'm doing this with liberty and justice for all.

[0:25] Thank you.

[0:29] Right, all.

[0:30] You have approval of the agenda.

[0:32] Yes, ma'am, I have a few requests this evening.

[0:36] Under discussion items, number 8C.

[0:38] It's public here in her garden to close out financial accomplishment before for state and

[0:42] Mr. CDB block grant.

[0:43] Our speaker has a commitment to seniors she needs to get to so if we can request we move

[0:48] that up to right before presentations right after I can send calendar approval so she can

[0:52] give her presentation and make her other commitment.

[0:55] That sounds fine with me.

[0:57] Do I have agreement?

[0:59] All right, so that'll move up under consent, item after item F. It'll become item 8.

[1:11] Thank you so do we have a public hearing held immediately after consent calendar approval, right. Thank you.

[1:18] Second.

[1:20] Second.

[1:21] Second.

[1:21] I have a motion by Council Member Lauren.

[1:24] Second by Council Member Sianna.

[1:26] All those in favor?

[1:28] Aye.

[1:29] Opposed?

[1:30] Gary?

[1:36] Council staff comments?

[1:41] Councilmember Casabecchio, would you please start us off please.

[1:45] Sure, on the 13th, I attended the first of hopefully only two strategic planning sessions.

[1:52] Yesterday I had the agenda briefed the city manager and after that I had the quarterly

[1:57] habitat conservancy meeting. That's it.

[2:01] Thank you.

[2:05] Councilmember Sianna.

[2:07] All on the 17th, I had with the Rivers, Moscow Radio, by radio, and also the Spirit of Rivers

[2:16] needing.

[2:17] On the 85th, I was telling the downtown children needing, and later the lower Peter Creek

[2:22] cornering community needing.

[2:25] On the 90th, we had a fantastic downtown bike event with lots of fun, musical bikes to ride,

[2:32] and business is very generous with a lot of values and lots of fun for kids and adults

[2:40] to put them back over to them in the news.

[2:44] On the 30th we have our Strategy Council in New.

[2:47] On the 40th I helped out with capstone interviews with high school seniors.

[2:53] There were some great projects that kids walked out and we were proud to see our seniors doing so well.

[2:58] And then maybe that night I went to the Apricure and the Spirit, news and news,

[3:03] family news and work with them.

[3:05] It was very stuffed and it was really delicious.

[3:10] 18th, Kristallai hosted our volunteer fair.

[3:14] We had about 15 service groups and non-profits.

[3:19] I said this was a little disappointing but I believe that maybe I think

[3:23] maybe we'll be a better moving forward option.

[3:26] Yesterday, I had the agenda review, also shared the yellow,

[3:32] sesame,

[3:35] and an attendant natural resource commission meeting,

[3:40] and another private action committee meeting

[3:43] and this morning, I toured the Recology Recycling Facility

[3:47] in Salada County.

[3:49] Oh, thank you.

[3:51] Council Member Lauren.

[3:54] Before I go over my list of things that I've done since the last meeting I wanted to invite everyone to supervise their Lucas Farrick's party with the purpose.

[4:05] It's on Saturday.

[4:07] No, it's Saturday.

[4:08] Sorry.

[4:08] Six to eight.

[4:09] And it supports women's healthcare.

[4:12] So please come out for a good cause.

[4:15] It'll be at Barry as a brewing.

[4:17] All right.

[4:19] On May 9th, I met with the Euro Transportation District to review budget information, and

[4:24] in the evening, I got to go to the bike event, and I got some goodies from my bike, so I was

[4:29] really happy about that.

[4:31] May 12th, Strategic Planning Committee with, with SACARC, on May 12th also reviewed the SACARC

[4:39] or the Transportation Agenda, May 12th, evening, meeting with the Euro Transportation District.

[4:46] I chaired that meeting. May 13th, I had a EIFD check in with the staff from Senator

[4:54] Kavaldin's office to kind of give me more information on it. May 13th in the evening.

[5:04] I was just reminded that night that we better get a draft of the 150th anniversary proclamation

[5:14] done and we did look at the split with where RIOCO finishing it. On May 15th, chair of

[5:29] And let's see, May 18th, I was proud to be part of the volunteer fair.

[5:36] I will say that somebody asked me about folks' deals at the dog parks.

[5:44] And I know that that's an ongoing issue, so I just wanted to mention it.

[5:48] And then May 20th, today, I attended an informal lunch meeting with the

[5:55] regional representative from FTA, the Federal Transit Authority, basically addressing funding

[6:03] for transportation for the next.

[6:05] We're one year into a two-year cycle and what we can really hope for and their staff

[6:13] has, they've lost 40% of their staff so it's really hard times in transportation and then

[6:20] Council briefing and that brings me up to the moment so thank you. Thank you. Mayor

[6:27] Pro Tem Biosi. Thank you, Mayor. On the 13th I was also at the strategic planning meeting

[6:34] with the council head. On the 14th I had a meeting with Christine Crawford to go over

[6:40] the Lafko agenda that's meetings coming up this coming Thursday morning. On the 19th I had

[6:46] in January, with City Manager Craig.

[6:49] Thank you.

[6:50] And now it's my turn.

[6:52] On Wednesday, May 7, I attended the Spirit of Winters meeting.

[6:56] Thursday, May 8, I attended the Lower Pewter Creek

[7:00] Coordinating Committee meeting with members,

[7:02] Sianna, to hear a presentation of a study conducted

[7:06] by two academics from San Jose State University

[7:09] on the effects of homelessness in Bay Area waterways,

[7:13] such as Pewter Creek and Pewter Creek

[7:14] was I believe part of their study. It was quite interesting some of their findings. They

[7:23] conducted a survey of the unhoused people they encountered in waterways around the

[7:29] Bay Area. And so the outcome of the survey was interesting and there was some discussion

[7:37] towards what to do. But that's a very big issue. Too big for tonight. I'm Friday, May 9.

[7:44] I attended the Monthly Chamber of Commerce business meeting, Friday, May 9th.

[7:49] I also met with Winter Police Chief Miller on Monday, May 12th.

[7:56] I met with members of the Hispanic Society, members of the Hispanic Advisory Committee

[8:04] to Winter's Community Corrosion, together hosted the attorneys from the California Royal

[8:10] week assistance foundation for the information night on the first of two parts of the citizenship

[8:16] workshop which will conclude on Saturday, May 31st when the applicants will return for their

[8:23] one-on-ones with their attorneys. And this is something that the Hispanic Advisory Committee

[8:27] and Community Court of Son try to do at least twice a year or when the list gets up to around

[8:34] around 15 people interested and the attorneys are available.

[8:38] On May 13th, with department heads, the department heads,

[8:45] city manager Craig, and council, we held our first,

[8:49] the first of our strategic, our priorities

[8:52] and strategic planning session towards building

[8:55] the 2025 city budget on Friday, May 15th.

[8:59] I met with a constituent on Sunday, May 17th.

[9:03] I participated with my colleagues at the Winters of Volunteer Fair, Tuesday, May 20th.

[9:11] I also attended a tour of the Recology Recycling Center south of Dixon, and this afternoon

[9:18] I met with my agenda review with City Manager Craig, and that wrapped it up for me, and

[9:25] And thank you all for all of the business and meeting you attend on behalf of the community and city of winners.

[9:36] All right.

[9:38] Before we move into public comments, I just want to sort of say that this evening we're going to dedicate our meeting to a winner citizen who passed away last week.

[9:53] Some of you may or may not know Roy Irwin. Some people knew him as he

[9:58] ambassador of winters.

[10:00] But he passed away last week. He'd been a winter's medicines for 57 years.

[10:08] He was known to be a very, very odd walker. You would see him walking at all parts of the town. He was known to be a hoist whisperer.

[10:25] He was always happy to see you and sit down and have a conversation. Next week, the express will have an article about Roy. A celebration of his life will be

[10:36] held on July 6th at Pioneer Presbyterian Church at 2nd and Russell Street. And tonight

[10:42] we'd like to dedicate our meeting to Roy and his life. And my words and the way I think

[10:53] about him is a very mighty and gentle soul, and we will miss him.

[11:03] And so we move on along.

[11:05] Um, uh, we did have met public comments, but first I'd like to recognize that we did receive

[11:13] a one letter from Drew, Mr. Rooley of Murmord Road regarding, uh, dog issues at three

[11:24] olds park.

[11:26] And so now I hope there are any public comments at this time.

[11:30] Any member of the public may address the city council on matters which are now listed

[11:34] on this agenda. Citizens should reserve their comments from matters listed on this agenda

[11:41] at the time the item is considered by the council. An exception is made for members of the

[11:47] public, for whom it wouldn't create a hardship to stay until their item is heard. Those individuals

[11:53] may address the item after the public has spoken on issues that are not listed on the agenda.

[11:59] Presentations may be limited to accommodate all speakers within the time available.

[12:03] public comment may also be continued to later in the meeting should the time

[12:09] allowed for public comment expire. So at this time I open it up to general

[12:15] public comments.

[12:24] All right I see none, we will move on along to the consent

[12:27] calendar. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine

[12:33] and non-controversial. We call our no discussion and are expected to have

[12:39] the unanimous council support and may be enacted by the City Council in one motion in the

[12:44] form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items. However, before

[12:51] the City Council votes on the motion to adopt members of the City Council staff for the public

[12:57] may request that specific items may be removed from the consent calendar for separate discussion

[13:03] and action items removed will be discussed later in the meeting as time permits and as we discussed

[13:12] as we started the meeting we've actually sort of done the opposite. We brought an item from

[13:17] discussion up and at the end of consent at the request of the individual because of her time constraints.

[13:26] So I turn it over to City Manager to run down the list.

[13:35] Thank you, Mayor.

[13:36] Item A is a member of the understanding regarding

[13:38] State Cockregional State Transportation Improvement Program,

[13:41] Step Regional Set of Site Funding, item B is Resolution 202524,

[13:46] authorizing City staff to submit a petition

[13:48] for change to the State Wire Resource Control Board,

[13:51] Division of Water Rights, to change the point of diversion

[13:53] from well-3 to well-2.

[13:56] Item C is resolution 2025-25,

[13:59] updating job description classification

[14:00] for police officer and police sergeant.

[14:03] Item D is resolution 2025-26,

[14:06] approving the engineers report

[14:07] from the annual Levy assessment for fiscal year 2526,

[14:11] for the City of Winner Citywide Maintenance Assessment District.

[14:14] And resolution number 2025-27,

[14:17] declaring the city's intention

[14:18] to Levy and collect annual assessment

[14:20] but for fiscal year 2526, item E is resolution 2025-28,

[14:27] designating the planning commission

[14:28] to make public convenience or necessity determinations

[14:31] for our call beverage licenses.

[14:33] And I have F is minutes of the regular City Council meeting,

[14:35] Helen May 6, 2025.

[14:38] Thank you.

[14:39] Are there any questions or discussion?

[14:43] Do I have a motion?

[14:47] I move that we exactly look at.

[14:49] Excuse me.

[14:49] Would you like to ask for public comment?

[14:53] There are any public comments on the consent calendar.

[15:05] All right, now I will ask for the motion. Motion to approve the consent calendar, second the motion.

[15:16] Okay, we have a motion from councilmember Sianna and a second from councilmember Lorin. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed unanimously passes.

[15:29] And now we move to the first item, well, the last item in consent, but thank you Mary.

[15:36] Any discussion item?

[15:38] Yes.

[15:38] I can hate see this.

[15:39] He means a public care regarding the close out of financial and accomplishment report for

[15:42] the state of minister.

[15:43] Dean Valor-Block grant program funding of the CARES Act for COVID-19.

[15:47] This is a great example of how the city and school district works together for a better

[15:51] of our community.

[15:52] So we have representatives here this evening to provide a brief presentation before we open the public hearing.

[15:59] Thank you very much.

[16:01] Thank you for meeting Mayor Valeseo, Mayor Potem via Hasey, members of the city council, city manager Craig, and community members.

[16:08] My name is Phoebe John, I'm the assistant superintendent of Educational Services for Winchers Joint Unified School District.

[16:15] Thank you for the opportunity to share a brief update and close out summary of the community development block grant or CDBG,

[16:21] made possible through the Federal 2020 CARES Act.

[16:24] In November 2023, the City of Winters entered into a subversive agreement with Winters

[16:29] J.S.D. to administer these grant funds, with the purpose of addressing the lining loss

[16:34] and academic inequities that were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly for

[16:39] students most adversely impacted, including English learners, classroom youth, students

[16:44] of color, and socioeconomically disadvantaged children.

[16:47] Through this partnership, the district implemented targeted supports from November 2023 through March 2025,

[16:54] you're proposing the balance of the CDBG grant funds in the amount of $312,213.

[17:00] These funds directly supported students around the country and surely around the

[17:05] intermediate school through counseling services delivered under a multi-tiered system of support.

[17:09] Out of the country, this investment contributed to notable gains.

[17:14] In 2324, we saw a 19-point increase in students performing at or above grade level in reading

[17:20] a map on benchmark assessments and a significant reduction in the number of students performing

[17:25] further at grade level.

[17:26] This growth continued in 2425 with a 24-point gain in reading proficiency and 17-point gain

[17:32] in math.

[17:33] At Shoreland, Georgia, in 2425, data showed that students improved significantly.

[17:39] Greater level of proficiency was by 18% in reading and 26% in mathematics on internal

[17:44] diagnostics.

[17:45] All the percentage of students performing two or more years below a level drop by 16 and

[17:49] 18% respectively.

[17:51] These outcomes highlight how targeted support services and academic interventions can meaningfully

[17:56] reduce learning gaps and create more equitable environments for students.

[17:59] In addition to counseling, CBBG fans supported work performed by our parent engagement coordinators

[18:05] up at the elementary and secondary levels.

[18:08] At the pre-K 5th level, key accomplishments included launching a preschool parent advisory

[18:12] committee or PAC, improving early literacy efforts and expanding engagement with multilingual

[18:17] families.

[18:18] At the grade 6 through 12 level, the coordinator led a student attendance campaign that helped

[18:23] to reduce chronic absenteeism by 2.1% and also some increases in family participation.

[18:29] 4% low families engage through a communication platform and 7% rise in climate survey responses.

[18:36] These all come to reflect the impact of our minimum of the funding with our shared goals,

[18:40] ensuring our students recover from the academic and social and emotional impacts of the pandemic,

[18:45] and that families, particularly those historically underserved, feel empowered as partners

[18:49] in education.

[18:50] on behalf of the District, I want to thank the City of Winters for their partnership and for your continued investment in the well-being and academic success of our youth.

[18:58] Thank you, and I'm happy to respond to any questions.

[19:03] Do we have any questions?

[19:06] It's good to see so much progress and many making a difference.

[19:11] Thank you.

[19:11] Thank you. I would just echo our statements.

[19:14] I really appreciate the work that you've done.

[19:17] Thank you.

[19:20] I would have said the same thing, I was going to wait until after we had the public hearing,

[19:25] but I just want to echo out, I'm glad to see there, but these monies that were available

[19:29] were used well, and we had some, so the students able to get back some of the loss they had

[19:35] in learning during the COVID period, so great, good job.

[19:41] Well, with that, I will open the public hearing,

[19:47] or any public comments.

[19:58] And we're going to hook it.

[20:00] Nobody out there?

[20:04] All right, if there are no public comments, I will close the public hearing.

[20:10] Thank you.

[20:17] We have motion. To meet a motion, I would like to make the motion too and see if I could find it.

[20:26] to accept the closed out financial and accomplishment report for CDBG money and accept the resolution

[20:38] 25-31 CDBG.

[20:42] Thank you.

[20:44] Second.

[20:45] Okay.

[20:46] We have motion from Council Member Lauren, second from Council Member Cassavec here.

[20:54] May I have a vote please?

[20:55] of long favour please say aye aye aye all opposed passes unanimously thank you

[21:04] now I believe we return to thank you are

[21:13] regularly scheduled presentation

[21:18] thank

[21:22] you my first presentation this evening is an update from waste management I

[21:37] get

[21:38] Welcome.

[21:39] Thank you.

[21:40] Good evening, Mayor.

[21:41] Thank you, Councilor.

[21:41] My name is Joe Kotelago, and I'm with Weiss Management, or WM.

[21:45] One of our updates is that we've branded recently, so we're WM, but so go by the Weiss Management

[21:51] for most purposes.

[21:54] Here to see me to provide an update on several items that we've been up to since the very last

[22:00] time we've probably had a presentation, which I'm not sure when that was, but we have a whole

[22:04] team now. A lot of different things that have happened since the last time, so I want

[22:09] to give an overview of what our site has been doing and how it benefits the city of

[22:14] Winters. Is this the answer for the move forward?

[22:47] All right. So the first, first and foremost, is the people. So as I mentioned, we've changed

[22:53] out our entire team over the past year and a half. I've been with a company 14 years

[22:58] and mostly serve rural and small cities in terms of contract management and services and the

[23:04] programs that we have. I'm in the Women's Office for a time, I also help out in Sacramento

[23:09] area for their contracts as well, but Women is my home base for my team, for recycled

[23:16] coordinators, and then the operational team as well.

[23:20] So for our leadership team Eric Linch,

[23:23] she's our Director of Public Sector Solutions, so he's part of our term market area for all

[23:30] contract management. So he negotiates along with the individual managers in each area for all

[23:36] contracts. Myself, I'm the day-to-day person for all things WM for services, contracts, items,

[23:45] programs, new services, current service, older services. David Joyner, he is new to our team,

[23:52] he has a strong background in logistics and transportation. He oversees the entire operations

[23:57] team, so that includes the route managers, the fleet department, the operations specialist,

[24:05] and Ryan Maduro is our senior fleet manager, and so he's specifically in charge of our

[24:10] fleet making sure the trucks are on the road on time every single day in proper working

[24:16] order.

[24:18] We're also supportive of our communications team and our recycling education team, and this

[24:23] really important component to new addition to our team. Communications and our assigned coordinator,

[24:30] they go hand in hand with what we call our public sector team. So Ed, Barga, and Diane, Cesario,

[24:37] they are our communications professionals. So they help us out with all of our messaging,

[24:43] their own search, any kind of outreach, community outreach, signage, your name it. So any kind of marquee,

[24:50] material, and you kind of support that's needed for us in our community there

[24:54] there for us to help us out. They've come to our side on a regular basis to check in on how things are going.

[25:02] So, we have three recycle coordinators, which are new, and this is really important for us because, in previous years, we didn't have a steady recycling coordinating team. And, for we have three contracts in Yolk County that require a designated recycle coordinator for their contract. So, West Sacramento, Yolk County, and Woodland, all now require, that's, that's, that's the

[25:29] their own recycle coordinator. The benefit to winters with those changes is that all three

[25:35] of those recycle coordinators will also be available to help out winters for other recycling

[25:40] education initiatives.

[25:44] So, Ben, he's a person for West Sacramento. Mia is for City of Wildland.

[25:51] She was born and raised in City of Wildland and she was working in the City of Wildland in the

[25:57] community resources department and Carla just started this week, so today was her second

[26:03] day. She was also born and raised in Berlin and was born and raised on the farm mountain

[26:08] yellow county. So she knows the area well so we're really happy to have some experts that

[26:13] know our community backwards and forwards to help us out with our recycling. We also have

[26:20] operational support, so our operational managers Bella and Glacias, she was our former

[26:26] a recycle coordinator for the entire area, when we only had one, and then Deontay Williams

[26:30] he's achieved and Bill is primarily over all about commercial business for the entire

[26:37] county.

[26:38] Deontay is our roll-off and container delivery manager, Jess is for residential and then

[26:44] we have a brand new operations manager named Jerry, but he's so brand new we don't have a

[26:48] photo form yet, but he is a backup operations manager and this is really unique to our area

[26:55] and Yellow County, most second-second Sacramento, even when we only have three.

[26:59] For Yellow County, we have four because we wanted to make sure we had that redundancy

[27:03] and that extra backup in case someone goes on vacation, gets sick, gets pulled away for

[27:07] something else that we always have one operations manager for residential, roll-off, and commercial.

[27:15] So we have been working on a number of items recently, I say over the past year and a half.

[27:21] And most of our operational improvements have been because of our contract negotiations

[27:25] and eventual successful vote in Brooklyn where we had several performance issues that were occurring in the city.

[27:33] So those were identified through a very rigorous performance review and there were six months of this review and then there were six months of negotiations to get to a vote.

[27:44] So the items that we were working on there, and I bring these up because they are also, because it's the same operations that serve as a city of winters.

[27:53] We had some issues where we'll all turn around time, which means that the big dumpsters

[27:58] we they were taking a while to get out to the customer longer than what's what we call standard

[28:04] customer service we heard loud and clear we hear it everywhere we go local customer service is

[28:09] really really important so what we've done is we brought in two local customer service representatives

[28:14] for the city of London contract they are now taking calls for the city of London and that will

[28:20] will help alleviate the other customer service calls that go to a different, to a more

[28:25] regional center. But we are also talking to other cities that also have interest in

[28:30] bringing back local customer service. Street sweepers, the street sweepers, we're having

[28:36] some issues in the city of buildings. Those are going to, we are going to be internalizing

[28:40] the street sweepers in the city of Willand, starting in September. That will impact the city

[28:46] winters, it will be the same company going forward. So we haven't been identified

[28:51] of any issues in winters than some liners things that have come up but that was a big

[28:58] change for the city of Bullen. They wanted to swap out the streets. The residential

[29:04] commercial smart chart program, that's the contamination and overage program, that was something

[29:09] that we've been working on. That's also something we want to work on in here in the city of

[29:13] I was taken a look at the program just recently and there are some improvements that I identified

[29:23] that I think we can do and that don't need a whole lot of work and discussion but it's

[29:30] an easy fix is there. We had some issues with incomplete routes and that was part of having

[29:36] enough people enough drivers that could finish a route in a day. There were some operational

[29:40] issues where we were having where they weren't getting the trucks weren't getting out to the landfill to dump their material in time, or we were up against the clock in terms of getting the material out.

[29:50] So that's what we did there is we hired more drivers, we divided up the routes a little more, did rebalancing, and now we were able to finish the routes on time.

[30:01] So, new trucks, we got lovely trucks delivered, we had more coming last year, we had more coming

[30:05] in in Q1, and then we're constantly having, checking on the inventory and for cards and

[30:11] bins to make sure that those are replenished on a timely basis, and we're never in a position

[30:15] where we're short on those things. And again, we're fairly staff now, so we have a fully

[30:20] staffed operational team and customer service team, recycle team, so we're pretty happy

[30:25] about having a full team at this point.

[30:31] So a few stats.

[30:33] So now with all the new technology that we have available

[30:36] with data tracking and the technology is on the trucks

[30:39] and that we have to monitor customer service,

[30:42] we can really drill into some of the fine points of the data

[30:45] where we can look for areas that we need to get better on

[30:49] and other places where we're doing pretty good

[30:51] and we can highlight some of those.

[30:54] So all customers here to date, so these are statistics

[30:57] for the entire what we call the business unit that services every city in

[31:02] area in Yolo County but 98% 98.2% of our customers receive service on a

[31:07] correct day 99.7 of the residential and 99.23 are receiving it on the

[31:14] correct day and we have very low rates of miss pickups miss pickups is a

[31:18] very it's a key indicator of how service is doing so miss pickups could

[31:24] to happen if a driver is not finishing the route, taking a short cut, not staying on track,

[31:32] maybe they're just missing it for they have bad data on their computers and the truck,

[31:37] but miss pickups is a very key indicator of how we're doing.

[31:40] So we're pretty proud of how low that number is, but that's something we track every day.

[31:45] And then we also track how we, for new customers in terms of how they are being onboarded,

[31:50] in terms of getting the containers delivered on time

[31:53] when they call in, set up a service,

[31:55] and then their first 100 days, do they call in

[31:59] for a service issue?

[32:00] Do they have a price concern?

[32:03] Have they had any issues with the customer service team?

[32:05] So we track a lot of that data over the first 100 days

[32:08] and ongoing, but we really particularly pay attention

[32:10] to that first 100 days because that's really important.

[32:14] So in red there, I put that we had 8.1% of our customers

[32:17] year to date, I've had a question about, in that first 100 days about service or billing,

[32:22] they used to be much higher, so we're working on getting that 8.1% down to much lower

[32:27] level, but that's an area improvement that we've had, but we still have a little ways to

[32:32] go on that.

[32:38] Another key indicator is that we call code reds or escalated issues. So code

[32:42] reds are any time a customer calls in or emails or sends in a chat that says, you know, you

[32:47] this might pick up or there's some kind of issue and then they call in a second time and

[32:52] they have the same issue. That's immediately what's called a code red for us and so a code

[32:56] red goes to operations directors and they immediately address those issues. So it's

[33:01] really important that we identify those quickly and then we close them out as quickly as possible

[33:05] so that the customer is not having to call in a third time. So we've had some great improvement

[33:11] with the code reds in terms of resolving the cases and then closing them out within less than two days.

[33:19] So that's something that we've really strived to work on where it was a year ago was not the case.

[33:27] We were having really struggling with closing out and resolving issues where customers are continuously calling in.

[33:33] A lot of that is just having that detail and that the right people in the right positions to close up the cases

[33:39] and resolve the customer issues as quickly and as officially as possible.

[33:45] So we also opened up our office. So over the past two years or so we've had the office

[33:51] closed under construction, a complete remodel. The site was kind of bad shape.

[33:58] A lot of things were neglected on it but there was two phases of construction.

[34:03] The first phase was done in January and all that was done in January.

[34:09] Now we're just professionalizing it, putting in the, you know, putting in the cubicles,

[34:15] really making it a nice place to work for the staff and the customers when they come

[34:21] in to pay their bills or talk with anybody there.

[34:25] We're also repaving all the payment and also putting in a new parking lot for customers because

[34:31] right now it's not the greatest situation for customers to park so we're putting in a parking

[34:36] lot there as well.

[34:36] So last November, we announced that we had a major grant, what we call grant reopening

[34:46] for our recycling facility.

[34:48] All of the winners recycling in this community goes to this facility in Sacramento.

[34:53] It's our transfer and recycling facility of the Murph.

[34:57] And this was a major deal because we had closed it.

[35:00] We're going down for two years and diverted all the recycling facilities. In the meantime, because

[35:07] of all the new technology going in and on the investment, we've been able to extrapolate

[35:12] more recyclables out of the material stream, which is really neat. So we had this big event

[35:18] back in November, so this was an overall $30 million investment that goes back into the facility

[35:25] and benefits all of our customers. So this facility, so this is all the

[35:30] customers that we have in Yolo County, Sacramento County, some up in

[35:33] Buick County, and some in San Joaquin County. So they all bring them recyclables

[35:38] there, and we process them and take them out to market for sorting. There is

[35:46] 16 new optical sodas, that's the biggest piece of the technology that's in

[35:50] this in this murk. So what that does now is it can identify all the these

[35:55] new materials that we want to collect and process, and you can find them within an

[36:00] hour, second of a coming across the belt.

[36:03] So that's increased our amount of recyclables that we can collect and process on a daily

[36:09] monthly basis.

[36:14] So in additional monthly capacity, we can take in about 2,900 more tons, under 21,000 more

[36:19] per year, and those are the jurisdictions that we service that bring the recyclables there.

[36:25] So, with that, I do want to say the recycling facility is open for tours.

[36:30] I'm happy to, I just glad you guys went to Recology Tour, we love to have the Council

[36:35] out for, you know, at your convenience to come out and do a tour of our facility so you

[36:39] can see where all your material goes and how it's processed and answer any questions that

[36:43] you have.

[36:44] We're also working on some square field trips ideas to bring kids out to the facility.

[36:50] So, kind of talking to some ideas about how we get students from this area out to that facility.

[36:56] But we have some ideas we're kind of thinking through, but that's something we want to put out there as an idea.

[37:03] Again, tours were a little bit public. That was when the city of Woodland came by and did their tour.

[37:10] And then one thing I'm working on with the school districts.

[37:13] The school district reached out to us recently and discussed about the need for

[37:18] We're setting up a school recycling program for the ANX and the food waste.

[37:22] So we met and we discussed that we're going to bring out our recycling coordinators.

[37:28] They've got a good plan that they're working on setting up a program.

[37:32] So this was a program that we set up in most school districts and what we do is we help

[37:40] do the training, we do the initial outreach and then we stay on top of it during the

[37:46] length of the program with coordination with the folks that are on the ground at the school.

[37:51] So we did meet with Carla Warden, we met with a couple other people from the school district

[37:58] in terms of the janitorial staff and then also the food service vendors.

[38:04] So we had all the other people in the room to talk about what was needed.

[38:08] So the next step is we're going to go on to a site visit, determine where we can put

[38:13] in the food service program for organics, and all at the same time keeping the cost

[38:18] low over the lower, that's the goal is because if you're recycling more and you have more

[38:23] recycling, the trash will go lower, and then that will help increase or decrease the trash

[38:29] bill.

[38:30] So, where I talked this through, but then the goal is to have this program implemented in

[38:35] the fall, and then do the training for all the staff during the summertime.

[38:39] time. So that's our next steps with the school district there.

[38:45] So the last slide I want

[38:47] to talk about community engagement. So a big piece of our bringing back community engagement

[38:54] customer service, re-engaging with our community is really important because we also have a new

[39:01] area of vice president, our previous one lived in Reno. So he was really disconnected. Our new

[39:12] He has a good support system for us to be out in the community and that includes community

[39:19] donations, sponsorships, those types of things.

[39:22] So we will continue to support the donations and sponsorships requests that we get in.

[39:28] A lot of opportunities there and a lot of great organizations that we love supporting.

[39:35] And I want to believe it was quote because we just finished, as I mentioned, our negotiation

[39:40] with the city of Wilman, which is now going to be a 10 to 15-year agreement, and with

[39:45] that Councilmember Starr met with myself and our everybody's president a year ago and

[39:52] he said, where have you guys been?

[39:54] And so that was the big theme as you guys have been out.

[39:57] You know, we haven't seen you guys

[40:00] That's sort of thing. So that was a tough conversation, a tough meeting over the past year. We turned it around, and we got the deal done, and he's saying, congratulations, where's the cake. We have a lot of work to do in Williams, but I think with all the improvements that we've had, they're all going to benefit the City of Winters as well because City of Williams done all the hard work, getting all the performance measures in place. They're all going to benefit all everyone else. So that's my update.

[40:28] Okay, so any questions, sir?

[40:32] Yeah, I'll be able to take them.

[40:33] I have a couple of things.

[40:35] I'm curious about the smart trucks and the contamination and the fees that have been applied

[40:41] to customer accounts.

[40:42] What's kind of the...

[40:44] Is that...

[40:45] The high numbers are people responding and not contaminating on and on and on.

[40:52] Yes, I would say the contamination has gotten better.

[40:56] There are some ways we can improve it a little bit more.

[41:00] I think with the way that the program set up now, on residential side, there's only one

[41:05] notification that goes up before my charges, most of these have two.

[41:11] So that was one thing where I want to change it to two warnings.

[41:14] So they have one more notification, a little more time to change the task questions on what's

[41:19] the proper way to recycle before that charge hits.

[41:23] I think the chart itself needs to also be looked at, again, this is a program I was put back in 2017-18.

[41:31] On the commercial side, I think it needs to be, there are some changes that are going to be happening there too.

[41:34] But by that large, we haven't seen the reports that I get as Winters is doing a really good job.

[41:40] But traditionally, members on trash versus tons of recycling and green waste have never been

[41:48] all that great, because people aren't recycling and doing mechanics as much as they could

[41:54] be.

[41:55] Has that got any better or is that?

[41:58] The industry itself is going back to the basics, that if there's, you know, for decades we've

[42:04] told everybody, okay, if you're not sure about what to recycle, there's no recycling then

[42:08] and somehow to go to a magical place or someone will sort it out and they'll get done, right?

[42:13] But that's not the case anymore because of international constraints and everything else.

[42:19] So we are looking, race management does a really good job of finding domestic markets for the material

[42:24] and when we can do that, it's easier to tell the customers, we do want just to go back to the basics

[42:30] because we can't accept, there's so many things we can't accept anymore.

[42:34] And if we don't have a market for it, there's no one to buy it.

[42:39] So in some cases, in past years, we've stocked out all the paper, we've had paper bales

[42:44] set up because the paper had no value to it, so we couldn't move it.

[42:48] And in some other cases, things move a lot quicker.

[42:53] So they were trying to, what the whole industry is working on is getting back to the basics

[42:56] of like the four core or five core materials, but that's going to take time.

[43:11] Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. And for all your support in the community. I just had a couple questions.

[43:19] As a city

[43:23] council member, Sienna asked about smart trucks and fees, and I was just wondering

[43:30] and you said that you do two warnings now. I was wondering how that works with the organics

[43:37] for restaurants. I know this says I just combine two questions. Anyway,

[43:45] how are organics mainly

[43:47] working in restaurants like the green pickup. We've had some conversations about it before,

[43:55] having hot days, lots of green waste, and just wanting a frequency. How is that working?

[44:04] Yeah, the organics have to be like that once a week, on a minimum.

[44:11] There are, with the organics, typically we'll pick them up on, if there's two days that

[44:17] we're out doing the organics pick up, it's better for restaurants to have it done on

[44:20] Monday and Friday, so they get ready for the weekend, and then they also don't have it

[44:25] sitting, or give it other material after the weekend's over, if weekends are busier.

[44:30] So Fridays and Mondays typically are the days where we'll pick up organics from restaurants

[44:34] that seems, that seems to be the consensus from the restaurants that we hear from at

[44:38] preference. I guess part of my question which is associated to Cal's, but I can figure

[44:44] out how to say it was, do you are we measuring that we're processing the water, or is it the

[44:51] same, you know, green waste from restaurants, is it picking up the same amount? I can get back

[44:58] back to you on the data.

[45:01] And then the other one was, I believe that we recycle one through seven? Is that? Yes, that's a good question. So that's when we get a lot of questions about is what's recyclable and you accept it, you know, up and one through sevens. So we will accept all the recycling that comes in. If we can't find a market for it, then we typically will let the jurisdiction know that, you know, the number six right now, number seven, there's no market for it. It's going to go

[45:29] It's going to end up being process as trash, but we'll still collect it as recyclables.

[45:35] So we're not going to change the message of the customers.

[45:37] They can still put the one through sevens in there.

[45:39] And right now, we are still, we do have markets for all through one through sevens, but

[45:44] that they do change.

[45:45] We let the jurisdictions know that this is not a market for it.

[45:48] Excellent.

[45:49] And then you're going to possibly have more robust education in the future on that seems like

[45:56] people forget what's recycling and they just still have everything in.

[45:58] Yep, yes, that's that's the plan. So that's that's the plan with a new recycling team

[46:04] Is is a more robust recycling

[46:06] Education as part of that just kind of going back to the basics and reinforcing what we know and then

[46:12] Getting that that trash out of the recycling is is really important. Thank you, too

[46:19] Yeah, thank you for that presentation. I had a question on

[46:23] You mentioned one of your statistics. I was about 8% of the new customers that call with

[46:28] questions within the first hundred days? What kind of information do you pass out to them when they set up a new account?

[46:36] So it could be the last I could when you know how I set up an online online account or when can I you know

[46:42] Do you have chat feature or can I what are different ways I can pay so if it's a billing question

[46:47] I will get lumped into that kind of question

[46:49] That's honestly a complaint

[46:51] Section but it's just anybody that inquires about a billing or a pricing question during this person

[46:57] Yeah, I'm not picking necessarily about complaints, but about, like, do you give them a schedule

[47:02] when their pickups are, do you tell them, you know, what can go on the recycle bins?

[47:06] Do you send them out a packet in the mail, or what do you do?

[47:09] Yeah, so when they do set up a service, the customer service agent, so there's a system we use

[47:15] that it's kind of like a Google for that particular city of all the services and what's provided.

[47:22] So when a customer does call in to set up a service, the customer service agent will be able

[47:26] to look at the screens, okay, you know, these are the days that you can be serviced, these are the rates, these are the public education, so a little, any type, anything that's loaded into the system as a PDF or any kind of outreach.

[47:38] Then they get sent off to the customer for a schedule or anything else.

[47:42] Because I've had me neighbors in my area that moved down and they say, hey, where did they pick up, you know, my garbage, what day of the week is it?

[47:51] And then there's been schedules here in City Hall, and I was able to come and get one, see how very you want.

[47:55] So I was just curious what's provided to them, and you know, when they put their containers out,

[48:01] I literally required to put them back in, and it was sort of not a time, that type of thing,

[48:05] try to educate the new people that are coming in.

[48:08] I'll make note of that, and I'll check our system and just underscore some of that information that,

[48:14] you know, because we have a part of that when they first look into the set up,

[48:18] It's called call handling instructions, so that's the immediate thing where they say okay

[48:24] This is what they need to know. Okay, so I'll make sure that's all on there. Thank you

[48:27] I said one quick question. Do you have for no what percentage of customers are utilizing the bulky pickup?

[48:36] Um, I can I can't find out for you. Yeah

[48:40] Yeah, what was your question? I didn't hear it very well. What percentage of the

[48:44] Customers are utilizing the bulky pickup program?

[48:48] it's typically low in every city yeah yeah it's not a service that's used a lot

[48:54] so the customers I do use it will use it on a regular basis but but it's not a

[49:01] huge it's not it's something that pays for but not everybody uses yeah thank

[49:09] you for being here in your presentation with this kind of new I guess

[49:14] remodeling of your branch with OMB improvements made to phone service. Yes, because as we see it

[49:22] complaints of people trying to remedy problems by the phone and either they get somebody and

[49:28] somewhere else, or they don't get anybody. Yes, so local customer service is a big deal. So

[49:35] they mentioned we city willing required for that particular deal to have two local customer

[49:42] service agents. So they only take City of Woodland calls and if they have backup, if they

[49:47] have time, then they'll take a yellow collar or a winter's collar first and then they'll

[49:52] take other other calls. They will see that more and more. So on the phones, we are...

[50:00] There is a large segment segment of the customer base that wants to do online service or self service on an app, which is also very new to a lot of customers. And we're for the customers that want that feature, so we help them out and how to navigate that. But we'll still always have the phone as an option. But we're also working on getting those local customer service agents familiar with the area so that they're not confused with some other area either. But there is a there is a phone tree on there.

[50:29] but there's also the technology in there where it can move to a live person quicker or the self-service options, but yes, that's definitely something that we're focused on.

[50:43] Some of that data that we have is called the, what we call abandonment rate, which is the amount of time a customer spends on the phone before they hang up, or the time that it, what we call the average speed to answer.

[50:55] So how fast do the agents pick up the phone once the customer calls in?

[50:59] So that's all tracked and those are all in the site looks at those numbers on a weekly basis too.

[51:05] Thank you.

[51:07] I have a follow-up to your question.

[51:09] The people that do handle service calls are they bilingual.

[51:13] We have about 50% spare speakers here.

[51:16] So it's just wondering if you have a bilingual program?

[51:20] The two that we hired for will the NAR. That was a requirement.

[51:24] The recycle representatives, we all deal with customer service first, two of the recycle

[51:32] corneas that we hired are both bilingual also, so if we need a site visit or someone

[51:38] to come out to do a visit with a customer and they only speak Spanish then they won't

[51:43] call Carla or me to come out.

[51:48] Any additional questions from here?

[51:50] Are there any questions from the public?

[52:01] Could you step up to the mic and tell us who you are?

[52:05] I'm using my address for the second round of the mosquito metric control district.

[52:09] I have a presentation that's next and we have a little bus score program.

[52:13] So since you're trying to enhance your outreach program,

[52:17] for recently we actually have a mosquito mosquito bus service program for kids.

[52:21] I'd be happy to share my contact information we can maybe collaborate with some strategies for outreach down to the to the kids in the school.

[52:30] Thank you.

[52:33] Connections.

[52:36] Was that it?

[52:38] Thank you very much.

[52:40] Thank you.

[52:43] All right.

[52:46] You're up next.

[52:47] I believe the presentation of the Sacramento, your mosquito, and vector control district.

[52:52] Thank you.

[53:00] I'm looking at you.

[53:02] This is my dear colleague, Roblos.

[53:04] I'm here to give you guys my annual presentation.

[53:06] Mr. Control, thank you for having me tonight.

[53:09] And I'm so glad I could get a nice duty to serve the board member to our board.

[53:15] Mr. Gaurt House, here's a virtual representative on our board.

[53:19] He's a fabulous member and he's always here for me.

[53:22] And so thank you to him for being here tonight.

[53:25] So, presentation in the manual presentation, just talking about mishealing is already really

[53:30] hot today.

[53:31] It was a surprise of how quickly the weather is changing, so mishealing is hot weather.

[53:37] So, it might be a bit mishealing season, so I would definitely have started.

[53:42] All right.

[53:42] So, you know, with the local mishealing control this week, it's hard with protecting you

[53:46] rather than seeing mishealing and mishealing in diseases.

[53:49] What's not special talk about a little bit later, it's prevalent in our area, but now

[53:54] we have some new diseases that we should be concerned about, dengue p, which specifically,

[53:58] we operate with a cap of cap and safety code, again, with our mission that we're taking

[54:04] for the diseases, mosquitoes, and mosquito transmitted diseases.

[54:08] So, as I'm assuming is here right now, we have some late-striping vaccines, and obviously some

[54:14] very wild wilds, we're having now that combination provides the mosquito-beating conditions.

[54:19] It's still trying to tell what kindness is and it's going to be in terms of severity of

[54:25] less on the virus but based on how hot it is so quickly it just might make for a super-basic

[54:32] season.

[54:33] You can see all the different sources of hair skin and miscellaneous burglars, there's some

[54:38] often a lot of technicians fighting on the ground to conduct unsurface inspections but sometimes

[54:44] there's multiple sources where miscellaneous can breathe and obviously miscellaneous don't

[54:49] I'm just taking that with me all the way.

[54:51] So it's difficult, the skills of difficulty control,

[54:54] the flight, obviously, it's a big issue because you have to model it.

[55:02] All

[55:06] right. So, the students come from different types of breathing sources, right? I think it feels

[55:12] with rice fields are, we all know, with creeks and streams and all of the different areas

[55:16] that make the exception of the small sources in people's bagyards that are the biggest problem. We cannot beat everybody's yard.

[55:24] We stop people to see if control is a collaborative effort. We depend on people to help us do their part in helping from the skills.

[55:31] right so at least once we're dumping up those areas of stagnant water that's going to go a long way

[55:37] it's helping us control mosquitoes right so that plants also that bucket that

[55:41] don't finish anything holds water with more than a few days capable of reading mosquitoes

[55:47] I'm pretty surprised at how many people don't know that mosquitoes come from water

[55:52] you know some people are reading out of our regions and we have a mosquito display

[55:58] People will see like, oh my goodness, I've seen this in my bucket, I've seen this in my yard,

[56:04] but I thought that they were fangs or something.

[56:06] They didn't look like those were large mosquitoes.

[56:09] That turned into biting a door.

[56:11] So education is key.

[56:14] And you just made sure people first understood the mosquito recycle.

[56:19] And one thing that's also important to note is that mosquitoes can give the recycle faster,

[56:25] are in warm water. So a mosquito can go up in the 8-2nd of the mosquito in about 7 days.

[56:31] It's very hot weather like the temperatures that we're having now. And we should think about the fact

[56:35] that one people mosquito can live between 30 to 200 days at a time, a couple of times a week.

[56:41] Then that, you know, that just means it makes our problem that much bigger.

[56:45] So a mosquito is coming different types of habitats in our area. We have about 27 different species

[56:52] the mischievousness of the craft if at, you know, defensively. So the mischievousness that

[56:56] you see now on this is one of the ones that you would see in the book. Worldwide, we have

[57:02] 3500 different species of mischievousness. So definitely, we will probably come in contact

[57:10] with no matter what you travel to. Alright, so we can try mischievousness at the

[57:18] approach, where public information and education is a workforce that means that here, which is specifically, we do a fair amount of public information and education.

[57:27] We are always at a youth day, we are at a youth festival, we are often speak to a Q1 group to the World Recruitment.

[57:34] We provide a pound of mosquito pound wipes, so we do a fair amount of information only here, but just in general, we're going to fight the bike campus, which is actually just starting.

[57:44] All the great things on television with you reminding people to drain their sight in the water to wear a thousand.

[57:51] And this is going to get started now, actually, with memorial services we'll go through October.

[57:56] This is a very robust surveillance program.

[57:59] So the Victoria Tracks and Hunters were stopped at its activity.

[58:02] They collected birds and they tested their birds for were stopped at its.

[58:06] We also set many mosquito traps throughout Sacramento,

[58:10] you know, county to collect mosquitoes to test them

[58:13] from us our virus so we know where and how to respond.

[58:18] So, after they collect the traps, we test those mosquitoes

[58:23] and if the prince does, if we, if we test mosquitoes,

[58:25] they're coming from, say, winters and we know

[58:28] that they're testing positive from us our virus

[58:31] and that would, you see that, that's what they take,

[58:33] it's the spreading that we would do with our trucks.

[58:36] So that would be part of our control operations.

[58:39] We also have our ecological management department

[58:42] dealing with homeowners, shopping and how they eat

[58:46] and reduce mosquito breeding sources around their home.

[58:49] And of course, our larger control and mosquito fish.

[58:52] So in the fish, we have 24 pounds and a couple of office

[58:55] where we wear those mosquito fish, and then they're taken

[58:58] out to people that have a pound of fountain at home

[59:01] with the whole straw, we put them in awful rice skittles

[59:04] throughout the matter.

[59:06] How many did help us control mosquitoes naturally?

[59:10] So, with all of these items combined,

[59:12] I'm going to go ahead and give them a huge reinforcement approach

[59:14] that's how we keep breaded and safe

[59:17] against these mosquito-transmitted diseases.

[59:20] So, with regards to West Overs,

[59:23] I tell you, last year was actually fairly mildly year

[59:25] for West Overs especially here in Winters.

[59:28] We didn't have, actually, your Italian.

[59:30] So, 6 to 5 ratio samples in Yola County, 6 dead birds.

[59:35] So, first, the numbers, especially if you consider that last year,

[59:40] the previous year was a lot more intense.

[59:42] Second, why do we have powder and twin human cases?

[59:45] Nineteenth, they tell. These are the West outliers.

[59:48] So, for a year, we can have very different year.

[59:52] There's been years on the district for 18 years.

[59:54] I've seen some years where we've had 800 cases of human cases in the West outliers.

[59:58] and

[1:00:06] All right. So aside from West Nile voters, we have other invasive mosquitoes, which are two different species of mosquitoes. So I have a little 27 species that I mentioned that we have, but then I heard two of them contrite about West Nile voters. And then we have two of them considered invasive. So the eight is a chick-dine mosquito, and the eight is our victims and those are the two you kind of see it with the top. These are aggressive.

[1:00:30] And this by the mosquitoes, they're preferred by people.

[1:00:33] They can be very small sources of water, even a teaspoon of water that we leave in New York.

[1:00:39] It's enough to bring these mosquitoes.

[1:00:42] Last year in California, we started having more travel related cases of this fever,

[1:00:48] where we all subsided for the first time in 2023, three cases of this fever.

[1:00:53] in 18 cases of different local inquiries, which means that people are not necessarily traveling

[1:01:00] because what happens is, like that says an example, if I travel somewhere,

[1:01:04] in fact that it would definitely, if it didn't come back here,

[1:01:07] what do you see those bites mean?

[1:01:09] And then it's in fact that I'm going to let them bite somebody that not necessarily traveled.

[1:01:14] So, these local inquiries cases are taking place.

[1:01:18] So, I guess, lots of, however many wounds will work in certain, because now there are also

[1:01:26] locally acquired cases of Dengue, so it's still toward you to help kind of see that it's

[1:01:31] going to be these miscuders are maybe acted enough for, but every year we'll also kind

[1:01:37] of find them earlier and earlier in the year as well.

[1:01:40] So, in circumstances we have quite a few different communities that have very popular options

[1:01:46] of these mosquitoes, it can count the proportion of the winters, leads the cities, we do have them on woodland and in the hills, but not to the extent that we have them in winters.

[1:01:57] In Sacramento, we do have many areas with these highly infested populations of these mosquitoes.

[1:02:09] All right, so how we're doing to kind of control in this year's we're actually considering

[1:02:14] a few different techniques, we recently got approval from California to use something

[1:02:18] called sterile insect techniques which basically, these are techniques that have been used

[1:02:24] by agriculture in the past, they've been used by other mosquito districts in Florida and

[1:02:30] Texas and now you just got approved for use in here in California, so we're considering

[1:02:35] the use will be called sterile male releases where we would be releasing mosquitoes have been sterilized

[1:02:43] with a bacteria called bubacula, that bacteria is actually occurring bacteria in lots of different

[1:02:49] insects but not within these two invasive mosquitoes. So what happens is we would have these invasive

[1:02:55] mosquitoes released and where we have these manifestations of invasive mosquitoes and then those

[1:03:03] Those mosquitoes will go back in, made with the wild females, their eggs won't hatch.

[1:03:08] So basically it's a way of reducing populations of mosquitoes over time by releasing these

[1:03:14] sterilized males and the mosquitoes do not bite.

[1:03:17] So that's the good thing.

[1:03:18] So it's a way of reducing populations of, and that's what you're not using, like a pesticide

[1:03:24] free approach.

[1:03:28] All right.

[1:03:29] So moving forward, you can work exploring the use of these SITs or continue with our outreach

[1:03:34] and our outreach efforts. We're going to explore more opportunities. And of course, we're always

[1:03:40] encouraging the public to report day-by-use mosquitoes to drink themselves to the water and to make sure

[1:03:46] that they're doing everything that they can to not be brewed mosquitoes in their own backyard.

[1:03:51] So you can actually see that photo in the pink color. That's actually my mosquito. You can tell

[1:03:56] because it has the bushy feathery antenna where the picture at the top that's a female mosquito

[1:04:01] probably in somebody's arm the way to bite but you can see that she does not have the

[1:04:06] bushy feathery antennae that's how you can tell both of them apart.

[1:04:10] It's not usually a lot longer than the males and so you know both

[1:04:16] it's really see potentially releasing those infected males than the good things that they do not bite.

[1:04:24] So with that, thank you guys for your attention for your time, and I'm happy to take any questions that you might have.

[1:04:32] Do we have any questions?

[1:04:35] I'm always happy each year you come out.

[1:04:38] But I didn't hear you say chicken guinea this year.

[1:04:41] Yes.

[1:04:42] I missed it.

[1:04:43] But the thing is, because new speech, some of the skills, definitely transmit

[1:04:47] Zika, Dekia, Fitchi, and Gunia. But Dengue is the most prevalent and the highest concern.

[1:04:53] And while I was paying attention, I didn't know.

[1:04:56] I didn't know that the males didn't buy it, so thank you for...

[1:05:00] Madam, how about information? Yes, all right. Thank you. So much. You're welcome.

[1:05:05] Just

[1:05:06] concerning the hearing that we've just got of a hot spot. That is. There are mosquitoes. Yes,

[1:05:10] unfortunately it has been or discovered the first time in the winters in 2020 in a very

[1:05:16] small area up here by the Ministry, but now there pretty well spread throughout throughout

[1:05:22] the entire city. Thank you.

[1:05:27] So you were covering yellow and sacraments on counties. What

[1:05:31] Do we think we're getting things coming over from Salano County, do you work with Salano County Departments?

[1:05:37] So, as a mosquito control district, not as big as ours, we do collaborate with them.

[1:05:43] You know, and definitely mosquitoes can't fly the cute species of mosquitoes that can transfer what's on their lives.

[1:05:50] They can fly the 10 miles. These invasive mosquitoes do not fly very far.

[1:05:55] So they are small, back to our miscarriage source type miscarriage, so they only fly about 150 feet from where they lay their eggs.

[1:06:04] Another thing I want to know, I appreciate you always provide the packets of miscarriage pellets.

[1:06:09] And we have usually here available to anybody who wants them at City Hall and available for, if you're having events, things like that, where you can have a lot of them available. So thank you.

[1:06:19] Yes, and if you guys need more than happy day to paint some on the firm distribution

[1:06:27] Richard, I had a question about

[1:06:30] the map on slide 7

[1:06:33] We know

[1:06:36] The detection sites

[1:06:39] As there's all section of the city that there were none set because there's nothing to detect there or

[1:06:45] Let's see

[1:06:52] That's all your house?

[1:06:54] Not that one, it's the one with the basement.

[1:06:57] The basement?

[1:06:59] Yes, so we've seen those triangles.

[1:07:00] That's where those were on detection sites.

[1:07:03] So if you don't see a little triangle in the neighborhood

[1:07:06] or at the left corner there, that means that there were no detections there.

[1:07:13] So there were no more homes out there?

[1:07:16] No.

[1:07:16] You're not seeing any detection.

[1:07:17] And I wonder if it's because of the different landscaping that's in the new homes?

[1:07:20] Perhaps, or, you know, sometimes if people are new to a neighbor, then they just don't have as many sources as many

[1:07:26] part of a plant as many areas where mosquitoes can grow.

[1:07:29] You'd be surprised sometimes our field takes go into a single home and they find hundreds of like

[1:07:35] part of a plant. People like to, you know, they have like a lot of cutlings or they like to just, you know,

[1:07:42] wait, take like a, I don't know, like a certain plant and like put it in water and they share with their neighbor.

[1:07:47] So I don't know that that could be a reason that the new homes just don't have the amount of sources.

[1:07:57] Are there any questions from the public?

[1:08:10] Please come up so that people out in zoom land can hear you.

[1:08:17] Hi, I'm Shell Famila also in Yolo County.

[1:08:20] I'm curious you mentioned your mosquito fish and a lot of times people throw like bowl fish in ponds and stuff like that.

[1:08:26] Do the mosquito fish work better?

[1:08:29] The mosquito fish actually do work a little bit better just because of the way that the mouth parts are.

[1:08:34] So mosquito fish have a mouth part that affects the upward.

[1:08:38] And in terms of mosquitoes also hang out like at the top of the water because they mean to breathe.

[1:08:43] So that's why they're kind of great for each other.

[1:08:45] And because one mosquito fish is only doing about two and a half days per day.

[1:08:50] So they're very efficient for a horse drop or fountain for an enemy and being too important for righty skills

[1:08:56] And you know just have to tap and general that that's that has water

[1:09:00] Very cool

[1:09:02] Anyone else so

[1:09:07] people the request of space for you charge. That's whenever free services

[1:09:11] People can request them just by going to the call mess and then we will deliver the fish to you

[1:09:16] And you should have to actually go in what they what they need to be

[1:09:20] Do they come in a little plastic bag?

[1:09:22] Yes, they do.

[1:09:24] Before people were able to just pick them up,

[1:09:27] like come to the district and put their little bucket

[1:09:29] and we give it to them, but then we found out

[1:09:31] that they were being used for fishing.

[1:09:34] Oh, but miss using the bench, so, you know,

[1:09:39] because of that, now we need to deliver them.

[1:09:42] Thank you.

[1:09:44] All right, I think it's that.

[1:09:47] Thank you very much.

[1:09:48] I always appreciate seeing you over here.

[1:09:51] Thank you.

[1:09:52] Speak to us about mosquitoes.

[1:09:54] Yes, thank you.

[1:09:57] All right.

[1:10:00] Next. Presentation introducing the new League of Women Voters of Yolo County.

[1:10:08] Hi. Good evening there and city councilmembers. My name is Michelle Fagila. As I said, I'm a resident of Yolo County for four years on District 2. Like you guys just outside of Davis. I send my apologies for my co-president who is unable to generally receive me due to a family.

[1:10:29] illness and she is in winters. So I'm coming this evening. I really appreciate you giving me a

[1:10:36] little bit of time just to create a little greater understanding about the week of women voters

[1:10:41] and to let you know about our new week of women voters of yellow county which was chartered this year.

[1:10:50] Yes that worked okay. The week of women voters is a grassroots nonprofit non-partisan organization

[1:11:02] We are not indoors, we do not endorse individual candidates or political parties, but we are political, and that is to say that we do support and advocate for governance policies that align with our principles and our positions.

[1:11:19] The league supports voters in our community through education and advocacy to enable them

[1:11:25] to confidently exercise their growing rights.

[1:11:29] The league formed the response initially to the passage of the 19th of the 19th of the

[1:11:34] 19th.

[1:11:34] The United States the right to vote, but then as now our goal is to prepare all voters, especially

[1:11:42] new voters, to engage through greater understanding of voter participation rules, candidate option

[1:11:49] and ballot issues.

[1:11:53] Today's National League of Women and Voters has local chapters in all 50 states in the District of Columbia,

[1:12:00] and our new yellow County League replaces the four Davis League of Women and Voters,

[1:12:05] and within League of Voters both of which were retired, so that we could merge to form the yellow County League of Women Voters,

[1:12:12] And we did so so that we could enroll more members across the entire county and serve

[1:12:18] the county's municipalities as well as the rural communities to promote voter participation.

[1:12:26] We do seek to increase voter understanding and influence public policy through advocacy

[1:12:33] to support good governance that benefits communities and individuals.

[1:12:38] some of our services include holding forms, candidate forms or issue forms to help people better understand ballot issues and measures.

[1:12:49] We can see how there is restricted to those positions we have studied, analyzed and adopted following member consensus and board approval.

[1:12:59] So we don't just pick up a topic to advocate for, it usually always, as a matter of fact, has gone through a prior study in position development.

[1:13:11] There we go.

[1:13:13] A question is simply to empower voters and to defend democracy.

[1:13:18] Our vision remains a democracy in which every eligible voter has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate.

[1:13:29] Today, we have an expanded vision that is inclusive beyond the initial women vote of history

[1:13:35] as we encourage both membership and outreach to all in our community in pursuit of a more

[1:13:41] perfect democracy in which we can all see ourselves represented regardless of our individual

[1:13:47] identity or our party preference. Sounds a little bit lofty, but we choose to champion

[1:13:53] in the concept of the consent of the government

[1:13:57] as defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration

[1:14:00] of Independence.

[1:14:02] High aspiration indeed.

[1:14:06] So just to conclude by getting a little information

[1:14:10] about our local chapter, our chapter initiate studies

[1:14:13] and offers advocacy positions to promote civic engagement.

[1:14:18] Our local chapters have a responsibility

[1:14:20] to educate and advocate on issue policies

[1:14:24] that have been studied and adopted. Our numbers also have a responsibility and are encouraged

[1:14:30] to engage in political involvement in the independent of their legal affiliation as they see fit.

[1:14:37] So we encourage our members to exercise their personal political positions, but what we're doing

[1:14:43] so, if it does not follow the legal's position, we require them to identify that they're speaking

[1:14:48] for themselves and not for the organization.

[1:14:51] A battle has, however, due to the President's

[1:14:56] co-presidents and their new services

[1:14:57] directors from taking aim.

[1:15:00] The visible role are making any public financial contribution to any local statewide or national

[1:15:06] political candidate campaign. And then, finally, just to you, what you know about how

[1:15:13] legal voting voters, your local county program priorities. First off, we welcome the council

[1:15:20] to reach out to our nonpartisan organization as appropriate to help promote voter participation

[1:15:26] as you would best see fit in winter's regarding issue priorities in addition to supporting

[1:15:35] voting rights and voter education. We are currently conducting a study looking at mental

[1:15:42] health resources in New York County and have looked at health care policy in the past.

[1:15:48] And we are learning more about the housing, climate, and social justice issues that impact

[1:15:54] our county. We look forward to meeting with community groups and governance

[1:16:00] councils such as yourself as in this presentation this evening as part of

[1:16:07] our 2025 outreach plan to introduce ourselves across the county and we have to

[1:16:14] seek to grow our membership and service throughout the county so that hopefully

[1:16:18] we might do tailoring voter education we might do in Winters has many Winters

[1:16:24] members who are participating in that and so that we can adequately not just represent

[1:16:30] but understand the issues of the local community.

[1:16:35] So thanks very much for having me today and I welcome any questions you may have.

[1:16:41] Thank you.

[1:16:42] Are there any questions?

[1:16:42] Thank you.

[1:16:43] I was just kidding.

[1:16:44] So if you work on your partnerships with the high school, so try to get a really, really

[1:16:53] exciting register to vote.

[1:16:55] Yes.

[1:16:56] We welcome, in fact, we love invitations by local high schools, particularly when we can

[1:17:05] educate students about the ability to pre-register, to vote at 16 or 17 and then be automatically

[1:17:11] directly in the world to vote at 18 without having to remember as they're trying to remember

[1:17:17] all the other transitions of being 18 to register to vote because the state will automatically

[1:17:23] elevate that pre-registration to registration if it's already there.

[1:17:28] So we received limitations, actually I participated in one when I was with with me this week here

[1:17:38] And we really love talking to young people about the importance of having their voice heard through their vote.

[1:17:45] I'm sure that the district would have welcomed an opportunity to call a great crowd right now.

[1:17:50] Thank you. That would be wonderful.

[1:17:56] Anyone else?

[1:17:58] Sort of along those lines, do you work with the elections officer in Jessie Selene?

[1:18:04] So this is office because he has a program that he does once a year.

[1:18:09] Yes.

[1:18:10] Yes.

[1:18:11] Yes.

[1:18:12] What the acronym stands for.

[1:18:14] Yes.

[1:18:14] You empower the office on it.

[1:18:17] Yes.

[1:18:18] Yes.

[1:18:19] Thank you for asking.

[1:18:21] We are really blessed in New York County to have an elections office that reaches out to us when they need additional support

[1:18:31] for doing things like the outside.

[1:18:34] Sometimes it really is a matter of manpower.

[1:18:37] So sometimes what we have done particularly in 2020,

[1:18:41] I can recall some of our members

[1:18:42] went through a process of being deputized

[1:18:45] so that we could be election observers

[1:18:47] because they simply did not have

[1:18:50] that level of manpower within the office.

[1:18:53] And that office did an amazing job

[1:18:56] in outreach when the voters choice

[1:18:59] Act was passed to make sure that that was available through you know the parts of your county that they were able to commit to so

[1:19:07] Yes, we definitely work with them when it works for them

[1:19:13] Thank you. Are there any questions from the public?

[1:19:17] All

[1:19:21] right. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the fresh air presentation. I appreciate the opportunity

[1:19:26] And

[1:19:31] our last presentation for this evening is a proclamation honoring the 150th...

[1:19:40] No, I skipped one. I'm sorry.

[1:19:42] Stay in the sector.

[1:19:46] I beg your pardon.

[1:19:49] Presentation of the 2025 State of the Sector Report.

[1:19:53] Your local community foundation?

[1:19:55] That's right. Thank you so much for having us here tonight.

[1:19:58] Thank you so much for having us here tonight.

[1:20:00] The executive chapter of the Yellow Community Foundation.

[1:20:05] And we're here to show the 12.5, your full

[1:20:09] nonprofit sector report. This is our 50th year, please, Mr. Court, which is coming to go into detail.

[1:20:15] That gives you a profile of sort of our local nonprofit sector with me to find how we can best support it.

[1:20:21] Um, just pray for us to share this with the LGBTQ Foundation, our mission is to inspire and support

[1:20:27] giving and provide long-term leadership in our university and the community, we do that in

[1:20:31] very primary ways.

[1:20:33] First, we work to inspire giving up if you can go ahead to the next slide.

[1:20:38] Oh, great, thank you.

[1:20:43] Excellent, thank you.

[1:20:45] We work to inspire giving to encourage more giving in the other accounts than beyond.

[1:20:49] We do that kind of thing.

[1:20:50] offering, trying to give in funds, like donor funds, which are more to foundations, scholarship

[1:20:56] funds, nonprofit funds, the making more convenient, more powerful and tax advantage to encourage

[1:21:03] people to give more, throughout EO County, and to causes and priorities that matter most

[1:21:09] to them.

[1:21:10] So that's work to support throughout the best, our fund holders, but other donors in the

[1:21:14] community as well, our goals for our fund holders to feel inspired to get educated to achieve

[1:21:20] of giving goals and connected to a community that's working together in Serbia,

[1:21:23] or County. We do that through educational violence, through the leadership of their

[1:21:28] portal, you'll hear about tonight and just ask the board. And then by doing what most

[1:21:33] importantly to serve them in our province and our community, what we really do is by doing

[1:21:37] those first two things well in which case we're increasing the quality and quality of giving

[1:21:41] work away. We have different types of travel, but giving accounts on one of those is

[1:21:46] and nonprofit funds, those are reserve accounts, endowments, chemical accounts, other funds

[1:21:53] that allow nonprofits to gather and grow their resources, and those are not only to nonprofits

[1:21:59] but other tax entities, so present the City of Winters has opened the Winters Senior Centre

[1:22:04] Fund, and we have quite a few government agencies with funds with us.

[1:22:09] We have about 115 funds totaling about $14, $14, $15, $9, and about a third of those are set up by non-profit agencies, so it's a really important part of our work.

[1:22:22] We also serve non-profit stoke red making initiatives last year we get to $1.9 million from both grants lighted by the yellow community foundation itself, and our fund holders, our donor-by-sponsored scholarships, and so on.

[1:22:36] And in addition, we have training programs for nonprofits.

[1:22:39] Most importantly, we are going to encourage them to just communicate with us on this.

[1:22:43] We're participating in our medical work.

[1:22:45] It's a program to help you have a small and medium-sized nonprofits

[1:22:49] build up a lot of operations.

[1:22:52] But in that case, the HRIT will get their policies and procedures in place,

[1:22:56] so they can little risk and increase impact.

[1:22:59] And then, in addition, we'll come in on proper leaders' alliance,

[1:23:02] which is a long-standing program.

[1:23:04] We hold community building and capacity building,

[1:23:07] trainings, workshops, panels, and so on, roughly monthly.

[1:23:12] There's a fun time sentence in those.

[1:23:14] Different ways that individuals and organizations can work

[1:23:18] with your kind to increase the impact of their giving.

[1:23:21] And with that, let's turn it over to Carolina.

[1:23:28] Good evening.

[1:23:29] I'm Karen, and I'm the Program Manager

[1:23:30] at the Illinois Community Foundation.

[1:23:33] And to start off, we do have a QR code

[1:23:35] that has the full support on it.

[1:23:36] We'll be going to work on the bridge version tonight.

[1:23:39] So if you want to take a few months,

[1:23:41] I'll give you a moment to take a break or pull up your camera.

[1:23:45] If you want, if not, we also have on our website.

[1:23:48] We have this linked as well.

[1:23:52] I'm sorry.

[1:23:53] No, go on.

[1:23:54] Oh, I'm sorry.

[1:23:56] I won't print out like I'm not looking.

[1:23:58] OK.

[1:24:00] Is that all ready?

[1:24:01] OK, sorry about that.

[1:24:04] OK, here we go.

[1:24:05] So, each year we need to understand the things and the trends that are impacting the non-profit sector and the communities in which they serve.

[1:24:14] This goal is to conduct this year in this sector report and this year we've sent it after over 600 non-profit professionals across the county.

[1:24:23] The organizations represent all of Yellow County where we have organizations serving youth, mental health organizations, arts and culture organizations,

[1:24:33] and developmental sustainability, just to name a few.

[1:24:37] The results of the survey help us understand

[1:24:40] and that leads encourage collaboration

[1:24:42] and provide transparency of the successes and challenges.

[1:24:47] It allows us to upload the voices and lots

[1:24:49] who are often marginalized and show that needs

[1:24:51] the perspectives of underserved community members

[1:24:54] are recognized and addressed.

[1:24:56] Last week, it allows us to create a path forward.

[1:25:00] When we're educated, we're able to make strategic decisions on how we can best support our leaders

[1:25:05] and co-operable bias impact as well as long-term sustainable change. For the general, we had 68

[1:25:14] nonprofits complete the report this year. And something interesting that we found out this year

[1:25:20] and analyzed in the data is that out of those 60 nonprofits, 29 of them did not complete the survey last year.

[1:25:26] So it's not necessarily complying all those troubles when I give comparisons from year

[1:25:32] to year, just something for us to keep in mind as we tracked data over time.

[1:25:38] The majority of those responses did come from Davis and then followed by Whitland and then

[1:25:44] Winters and West Sacramento and one of the biggest areas that was highlighted this year

[1:25:51] I'm happy to do the finances which I'm sure you've heard a lot about up to this point.

[1:25:56] We're seeing expenses outpacing revenues quite considerably.

[1:26:01] With 53% of organizations seeing their expenses increased by at least 10%

[1:26:05] and 37% of organizations reporting an increase that revenue by 10%.

[1:26:12] They expect this trend to continue through 2025 with 30% of nonprofits expecting their expenses

[1:26:18] is to continue to increase while 15% expect their revenues to increase.

[1:26:25] None of this could be financially challenging year.

[1:26:28] We explored what safeguards organizations have in place

[1:26:31] to allow for sustainability.

[1:26:35] Reserves and improvements are a great way for organizations

[1:26:37] to weather financial storms.

[1:26:40] We're seeing a decrease in the amount of reserves

[1:26:42] on behalf of organizations with almost 52% of organizations

[1:26:47] organizations reporting, they have less than six months of reserves on hand.

[1:26:51] This is a pretty significant increase from last year, which was 29% of organizations reported

[1:26:57] less than six months. With that in mind, that could mean that organizations were in growth

[1:27:02] phase, and therefore they pulled from loans, which would be great, or it means that they're

[1:27:08] having some financial challenges and had to pull from their reserves.

[1:27:11] We have also seen certain stations staff salaries, which the majority of organizations

[1:27:19] didn't able to provide some increase in sales for staff and 30% saying they were able

[1:27:24] to provide salaries that keep pace with inflation.

[1:27:28] This is going to come later in the moment when we talk about retention as well.

[1:27:36] There we go.

[1:27:36] And then from volunteering trends, volunteer burnout is still one of the main concerns our organizations

[1:27:42] have, and some organizations are trying to strategize new ways to engage new communities

[1:27:49] and volunteers, new demographics offering different shifts for volunteering is available,

[1:27:56] not usually in the 9 to 5 when people might be working so that they can engage people

[1:28:01] when they're working, and then also making sure that they're tearing the types of volunteer

[1:28:07] work. There's been two people saying they can remain engaged and excited about the work

[1:28:12] that they're doing. So I think that we're going to talk about a lot throughout this

[1:28:18] report is sustainability. Throughout the report, sustainability is as essential being

[1:28:25] across staffing, volunteers, finances, and organizational systems. But in the foundation,

[1:28:30] and how it's not probably so effective

[1:28:32] and fulfill permission long term.

[1:28:35] This is identified by big key things

[1:28:37] while reading your responses,

[1:28:39] and it has been made from the presentation

[1:28:40] we focus on those three things.

[1:28:43] The three things are the confidential constraints,

[1:28:47] strengthening nonprofit boards,

[1:28:49] and sustainability for staff and volunteers.

[1:28:54] So going into ongoing financial constraints,

[1:28:57] we know that the nonprofit is acting as experiencing

[1:28:59] a lot of financial challenges,

[1:29:01] especially since COVID.

[1:29:03] We want to understand what some of those major factors are right now in this moment.

[1:29:09] First and foremost, many nonprofits are concerned about government funding.

[1:29:13] With 47% of nonprofits reporting a decline in government funding,

[1:29:17] we'll add them somewhat or significantly drive down their revenues this year.

[1:29:22] This couple to the end will want having pandemic-era fines as organizations

[1:29:26] consigned about their financial futures.

[1:29:28] Despite the challenges, organizations are diversifying funding in building resilience and

[1:29:34] maintaining optimistic ways that they're diversifying funding in student fundraising events,

[1:29:42] building rents, using marketing and communications, and also building capacity to improve financial

[1:29:47] stability. With concerns about finances, it also leads to questions about staffing capacity

[1:29:53] and impacts on those providing services.

[1:29:57] And please go ahead and nonprofit.

[1:30:00] We have support in a form of the Board of Directors, who are up-and-change organizations, financially, healthy and stable, to create lasting impact for the communities they serve.

[1:30:12] For our non-profit boards, we've heard that there is an opportunity for increased board diversity and interested in engaging a broader range of perspectives, experiences, and skills to better reflect the communities they serve. This thing continues. This year is 48% of the organizations reported

[1:30:31] that less than 10% of their board is BIPOC,

[1:30:35] which stands for Black Indigenous People of color.

[1:30:38] This picture doesn't reflect your accounting population

[1:30:41] with census data showing that over 50%

[1:30:44] of your accounting residents are identified as BIPOC.

[1:30:48] In addition to this, only 13% of nonprofits report

[1:30:51] having a majority BIPOC board.

[1:30:55] In conversations with not-profits,

[1:30:57] they did that volunteers, including board members,

[1:30:59] There is often come from a limited demographic, and there is growing interest to engage a broader

[1:31:05] group, of course, on a native group.

[1:31:07] When asked what the biggest challenges are, when creating new board members,

[1:31:16] nonprofits

[1:31:18] cited time constraints for prospective board members and a new pool of candidates, nonprofits

[1:31:25] feel that potential board members might be hesitant to join because of busy schedules and

[1:31:30] Since many communities or niche organizations struggle to find qualified or interested individuals.

[1:31:37] Lastly, we're going to staff, staffing volunteers.

[1:31:42] We've seen a civilisation and staffing with 59% of organizations reporting that they're

[1:31:47] staffing would remain the same and with some growth with almost 30% organizations having

[1:31:53] an increase in staff which is great since we're seeing a recovery in civilisation since

[1:31:58] COVID.

[1:31:59] However, this is overshadowed with high concerns and

[1:32:02] with 44% organizations reporting they're concerned about their staff bringing out

[1:32:08] and potentially moving on to other sectors.

[1:32:11] When we asked organizations if they had extra funds,

[1:32:14] what would they utilize the funds for?

[1:32:16] 40% said they would hire more program staff.

[1:32:20] What this tells us is that organizations are sending the hydrogen for services

[1:32:24] and don't have the capacity to meet that need right now.

[1:32:29] Our volunteer organizations offer experience in our own challenges.

[1:32:34] We did have 75% organizations fit with the volunteer needs

[1:32:38] or either a little safer than that.

[1:32:41] However, considering how we bring out the needs the same.

[1:32:46] Two codes out.

[1:32:49] I want to go back to our theme of sustainability

[1:32:53] and how it relates to the three things.

[1:32:55] Since, succinctly is the foundation that supports nonprofits and delivering vaccine impact,

[1:33:01] financial stability and powers nonprofits to plan, grow and adapt effectively.

[1:33:07] Consistent staffing reduces burnout and strengthen song-term organizational impact.

[1:33:12] Indigenous volunteers explain reach, strengthen community ties, and boost capacity,

[1:33:19] and strong operations ensure structured accountability and smooth program delivery.

[1:33:27] Last thing we encourage you to learn should be that we created this for the day today,

[1:33:32] but running the field for non-profit sharing with your networks and then of course

[1:33:37] giving you the encouraging others to give all your strength as our non-profit sector.

[1:33:42] Thank you so much.

[1:33:44] And we've been to questions, if you have questions.

[1:33:48] As I mentioned earlier, as I've already heard, you know, it's a great idea.

[1:33:54] And we have all these wonderful groups that would love to recruit, but it's a very high

[1:33:58] net to crack.

[1:33:59] We've been trying, because I think you're still challenging the people to get off the

[1:34:04] couches and get involved, but we're still working on it, so that's why you do.

[1:34:11] I wanted to say thank you for all you do, and just give a little pitch to the NEON program.

[1:34:16] So non-profit excellence in operations, now we get it, now we get it, okay, I couldn't

[1:34:23] I don't remember.

[1:34:24] So, you know, it's a great program for small nonprofits like Coliseum to, you know,

[1:34:32] learn and buy by all the expectations from the state level, the federal level, personnel,

[1:34:40] so forth.

[1:34:41] We, I will just say very candidly that when we formed Winters Community Coliseum, it was

[1:34:48] kind of like, you guys need to make a nonprofit from Hispanic Advisory Committee.

[1:34:52] We had no idea really of the operational expectations at the time.

[1:35:07] We've learned so much by being part of your program. I'm really excited about it and really excited that all of the nonprofits and winners worked very closely together on the big day of giving and shout out to Crystal and the back because she really put it out there in the newspaper. But we're all excited that we can grow with this.

[1:35:29] your own community foundation.

[1:35:32] Thank you.

[1:35:33] Thank you.

[1:35:37] Anyone else?

[1:35:39] Anyone in the public?

[1:35:43] Yes, thank you for coming.

[1:35:45] Given us a presentation, give me a much better understanding

[1:35:49] of how you work and what you work.

[1:35:52] And I sort of following with Jessie,

[1:35:56] he has a member of Code of Son as well.

[1:35:59] And we haven't participated in at least one of your workshops.

[1:36:03] Thank you.

[1:36:04] Thank you. We'll see you Thursday.

[1:36:10] All right, now we're

[1:36:11] item E. Proclamation honoring the 150th anniversary of the first

[1:36:18] municipal election of the city of Winters. And I don't think

[1:36:24] does anyone here to present it?

[1:36:29] I'm here to present it. I don't

[1:36:39] And then I would just recommend, again, checking if there's public comment has been taking

[1:36:44] a quick vote before it will just be up to you, the proclamation, thank you.

[1:36:54] Is there any discussion needed?

[1:37:06] All right, we have the motion from Council Member Lorraine, 2nd, Council Member of the

[1:37:14] Casa Vecchia.

[1:37:15] All those in favor.

[1:37:16] Please say aye.

[1:37:17] Aye.

[1:37:18] Opposed?

[1:37:19] Carries unanimously.

[1:37:21] Oh.

[1:37:23] We have a proclamation here.

[1:37:26] the city council of the city of winters, honoring the 150th anniversary of the first municipal

[1:37:33] election of the city of winters, and I'll read quickly, whereas on May 22, 1875, the residents

[1:37:43] of winters held their first municipal election, marking the establishment of local governance

[1:37:49] and the beginning of a community-led journey at the southwestern edge of the

[1:37:54] Olo County in the shadow of the Blue Ridge. And whereas this pivotal event laid

[1:38:00] the foundation for a vibrant, resilient, and welcoming community nestled along

[1:38:05] Peter Creek in the western Sacramento Valley, and whereas for 150 years,

[1:38:12] Winters has grown from a small agricultural hub into a thriving city known for its

[1:38:17] strong sense of community, scenic beauty, rich heritage, and dedication to

[1:38:24] progress and sustainability. And whereas generations of residents, business

[1:38:30] owners, educators, farmers, artists, civic leaders, and volunteers have shaped

[1:38:37] the character and spirit of winters, making it a place where tradition and

[1:38:42] innovation coexist and all are welcome.

[1:38:46] And whereas the city of Winters honors the contributions

[1:38:50] of the indigenous peoples, early founders, settlers,

[1:38:55] and all those who followed whose knowledge, labor, culture,

[1:38:59] and perseverance are woven into the fabric of our shared story.

[1:39:05] whereas in 2025 the City of Winters celebrates this CESC core centennial a milestone to reflect not only 150 years since the first

[1:39:19] Manip's municipal election but also 150 years of community resilience and pride and whereas the City Council encourages all

[1:39:29] residents and visitors to reflect on the past, celebrate the present, and look forward

[1:39:35] to a future full of promise and opportunity.

[1:39:39] Now, therefore, a proclaim that the Winter's City Council, on behalf of the people of

[1:39:47] this great city, does hereby commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first municipal election

[1:39:54] of the city of Winters and urges all citizens to take part in the events and activities.

[1:40:00] Council, mayor of the city.

[1:40:00] Federal housing activities, honoring the historic occasion.

[1:40:04] 4B resolved, city council of city winters.

[1:40:08] Hereby, passing adopted this 20th May 2025.

[1:40:22] So Charlie Wallace brought that up a couple of months ago that it was a 50th year, and he

[1:40:27] looked me straight inside and said, well, what are you going to do about it?

[1:40:32] So after I started talking to boys, I was about to come in and start nagging at how

[1:40:37] bad I am.

[1:40:38] And Charlie was like, okay, he's just going to do a proclamation, what the city is going to

[1:40:43] do.

[1:40:43] and we ended up just coming up some working interest in the maintenance.

[1:40:50] We did our 10 decentralized work in 1975, and we celebrated it again in 2000, and I don't

[1:40:56] really know the express.

[1:40:58] And so just pouring over the Centennial Edition and the last time we touched it was,

[1:41:02] it was really interesting to just kind of see how the community and even a city

[1:41:06] we've just really grown and started to make real positive stats to include everybody

[1:41:11] everybody and make things better for our citizens.

[1:41:14] So thank you so much for updating the proclamation for new

[1:41:18] health and health.

[1:41:20] So fishermen, there is a solo fishing

[1:41:23] on Thursday at Governor's Museum,

[1:41:25] putting on England for Historical Society.

[1:41:28] They're taking up a really firm 150 $1,000

[1:41:33] by hopefully 150 residents or groups

[1:41:35] to help raise money for the Historical Society

[1:41:39] and their continued research and just documenting

[1:41:41] what our city does on the expressors during the 30 special editions.

[1:41:49] The first one

[1:41:49] out last week for business and culture on Wednesday and Thursday. I'll see you in

[1:41:56] for a community and then next week we'll be focusing on the City of Rutgers and our

[1:42:02] public safety departments. I hope everybody will. If you don't have some script and go grab

[1:42:06] one just it's it's really cool to see not just the 1800 articles we printed but just just

[1:42:12] just some of the things that happened in the university in the last 50 years from our last

[1:42:17] sometime the other day so thank you. Cool. Do you do you think you could explain what the

[1:42:23] spirit of Winters is up to with the 100. So I've sent up the meeting but I was tasked to help with the

[1:42:32] We are trying to set up 150 service projects that we've been doing in our community.

[1:42:39] It doesn't matter who.

[1:42:41] Call us out to Timmy.

[1:42:43] I just am like we started.

[1:42:45] Might know big everything.

[1:42:47] My friends.

[1:42:48] It's going on recently.

[1:42:49] There's still a lot to do.

[1:42:51] But including things like Crony's Festival.

[1:42:54] It's as little as like just these little service projects that are going on.

[1:42:58] but we are all that are tied to different things

[1:43:01] and several girls get picked up with her.

[1:43:04] So I'm just trying to look at all the different little things

[1:43:07] that happens in countries.

[1:43:08] There's so much that goes on that people may not know about

[1:43:12] just because we don't always talk about it,

[1:43:15] but it's worth celebrating.

[1:43:17] Thank you, thank you for that synopsis on that

[1:43:19] and I'm gonna speak first for once, I guess.

[1:43:24] It's just I'm always surprised by how much

[1:43:27] our community does. And how much is going on? I mean, I don't live in any other small towns.

[1:43:33] I really can't compare, but I would imagine we have a lot going on compared to many, many other

[1:43:43] places that are sort of equal in sort of size. But thank you. Thank you for all you do.

[1:43:49] You're not going to just go out there and just pull through our cabinets.

[1:43:53] I'm going to do it the whole year 1972 for some reason.

[1:43:55] I'm not going to go out there.

[1:43:56] But it's really interesting to see how our cities used to have these big events

[1:44:02] that maybe they're more inclusive.

[1:44:06] That's right.

[1:44:07] I hope we're empowered.

[1:44:08] It just includes my things that maybe just really added a whole lot more.

[1:44:13] I'm not just a respite.

[1:44:14] Some are proficient at it.

[1:44:16] I'm not proficient at it.

[1:44:17] Exit our city.

[1:44:17] I think you're more coming.

[1:44:19] Yes, I'm working.

[1:44:21] It's amazing.

[1:44:23] So may I present this to you?

[1:44:25] Yeah, I'm thinking of bringing it to the museum

[1:44:27] so that they can have it on the square.

[1:44:30] The building, I think, I'm going to say.

[1:44:31] Good.

[1:44:33] I just wanted to give this a shout out.

[1:44:37] We hope to do this.

[1:44:44] To give this to you, to have everybody sign it and we would sign it.

[1:44:48] I couldn't get this out of the, I couldn't get it out of the frame.

[1:44:51] You can get the matter off the frame.

[1:44:54] You got high hopes of, you know, providing it to the events on Thursday.

[1:45:00] And maybe somebody else could get it out of there by then. But it would be really nice for the people that show up to kind of, you know, have their names at the 150th day. Yeah, sorry. Thank you. You're welcome.

[1:45:32] It's like really stuff in there, like it's, oh my god, should we all get a photo?

[1:45:38] You want to do a photo?

[1:45:39] Come on, you guys.

[1:45:40] Yeah, everyone comes.

[1:45:42] You got it.

[1:45:43] Yeah.

[1:45:45] Raise your gun.

[1:45:46] Raise your

[1:45:50] gun.

[1:45:50] It's like, it's like the better thing you do.

[1:45:53] I'll try it.

[1:45:54] I'll try it.

[1:46:58] Okay, thank you, everyone, moving right along to discussion items.

[1:47:03] Thank you, Mayor.

[1:47:04] I have made to this evening as a public hearing and grant

[1:47:06] a resolution 202529, the preliminary application,

[1:47:10] SB2, permanent local housing allocation program

[1:47:13] funding.

[1:47:14] I think this is kind of unfair because Kelly

[1:47:15] had to stay the whole night for a public hearing

[1:47:17] when there's no public left.

[1:47:19] So it will be brief.

[1:47:21] Thank you.

[1:47:23] Thank you, Jeremy.

[1:47:25] And thank you all for being on council members, members

[1:47:28] of the city of Washington.

[1:47:29] to person. Tonight we have a public hearing which is agenda item 8A regarding resolution

[1:47:36] number 2025-29, potentially approving application for SB2 permanent local housing allocation

[1:47:43] program funds. So the recommendation tonight from the staff report is to conduct a public

[1:47:51] hearing regarding the grant application for permanent local housing allocation program

[1:47:55] and two to potentially adopt resolution 2025-29.

[1:48:01] A little bit of background on the funding source for the PRAHA.

[1:48:08] Grant is that the city back in 2019 was allocated for the year 2019 and 2020 in the amount of $200,000, $704.

[1:48:20] dollars. The program coordinator has since reached out to city staff and reminded us that

[1:48:27] we are eligible for further years of funding. Due to the fact that we have a change of

[1:48:34] city management from the last time we applied to this time, the program managers are asking

[1:48:40] us to clean things up where we need to put forth a new resolution that authorizes Jeremy

[1:48:47] Craig as a city manager to sign the agreements, applications, and anything affiliated with this

[1:48:54] grant funding source.

[1:48:56] So we are here before you tonight with a proposal on the proposed adopting resolution to

[1:49:03] approve authorization to pursue three more fiscal years of funding.

[1:49:08] And if awarded, that would increase the current allocation to, it would increase $322,000,

[1:49:21] bringing the grant total for the allocation to $532,699.

[1:49:32] The idea behind this is that if awarded, and we are confident that we'll get these three years

[1:49:40] when we actually submit, but having a bigger part of the money for very low and low income

[1:49:47] housing is going to be, it's going to be definitely a track to develop that actually has

[1:49:54] the capital and the way with all to start a project from start to end.

[1:50:01] And with some of the other developments that we have in the pipeline, there will be multiple opportunities for potential partnerships. But at the end of the day, if we don't succeed there, we do have the opportunity to, you know, partner with someone like Yolo County on a joint project. If we can't find something within the city limits. And even partnering with Yolo wouldn't limit us to their jurisdiction or ours could land with them either one.

[1:50:31] Anyway, continuing off with my staff report, the environmental assessment is that this

[1:50:39] proposal is exempt from CEQA because it doesn't constitute a project.

[1:50:43] It would be the contract or contracts or agreements that stem from the funding source

[1:50:48] that would ultimately be evaluated by CEQA at a later date.

[1:50:54] That is pretty much it on my staff report, unless Council members have questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

[1:51:04] Yeah, I have a question.

[1:51:07] Is there a time frame where we have to use this money by?

[1:51:11] If we apply for it, we get it or we'll be there until we have a project that we need it for.

[1:51:17] So we've technically already told the authority so to speak that we have a project.

[1:51:23] So, for clarification, we're not changing our project scope at this time.

[1:51:30] So, we're only against the timeline if we choose to change our project scope.

[1:51:35] So, the project scope is remaining the same.

[1:51:37] We just want to, with the level of the monetary value, so to speak.

[1:51:43] If we decide that we want to change our plan, we have to bring it back to them

[1:51:49] with a new plan by June 30th and with not being the current plan, you know, we're confident

[1:51:59] that this is a good path to take.

[1:52:03] Thank you.

[1:52:04] Any other questions?

[1:52:10] I'm optimistic that we'll find a partner and we can actually have to do a project.

[1:52:16] So that would be because we're still talking about the Stowe's 26-unit project, right?

[1:52:23] Right.

[1:52:24] But we don't necessarily have to hone it on that one site.

[1:52:30] It could be other alternative sites.

[1:52:32] And we do have some interest from some other companies.

[1:52:36] But until things are actually materializing, you know, a more productive fashion.

[1:52:42] and I'll keep those names to myself.

[1:52:45] Thank you.

[1:52:47] Anyone else?

[1:52:52] I'd like to open the public hearing at 20, 23 hours.

[1:52:58] Is there any public comment?

[1:53:07] Nope.

[1:53:07] No comment.

[1:53:09] And so I'm going to close the public hearing.

[1:53:13] Are there any additional comments, or do I have motion?

[1:53:18] I have motion.

[1:53:20] I would like to know that we adopt resolution 2025-29 approving the application for SB2

[1:53:27] prevent local housing allocation program funds.

[1:53:31] Second.

[1:53:33] We have a motion from Mayor Propembiozi, a second from Councilmember Sianna.

[1:53:38] All those in favor please say aye.

[1:53:40] Aye.

[1:53:41] All those opposed.

[1:53:43] Measure passes.

[1:53:44] Thank you.

[1:53:45] Moving right along.

[1:53:48] Public hearing regarding City of Winters fee schedule update and resolution number

[1:53:53] 2025-30 adopting fees and charges for certain services provided by the City of Winters.

[1:54:04] Good evening, Mayor and Council members.

[1:54:06] I'm here today before you buy information regarding the update to the fees but the City

[1:54:12] of Winters charges to its residents for services we provide and just follow a little bit

[1:54:18] the background in 2027, our 2017 Missy undertook a few study and found that study if he

[1:54:27] schedule was adopted in 2021 Resolution 2021 specified the method how those fees would

[1:54:40] be increased year-per-year for those services that we provide so I'm here today to give

[1:54:46] a little bit of background on that and the proposal moving forward and what we're asking

[1:54:50] you to approve until Resolution 2025 starting.

[1:54:55] So the update to the piece schedule is done.

[1:55:00] And two steps, most schedules. Schedules A, B, D, E, and F are increased each year by the year, the year increase in the consumer price index as measured in December. And this year, that increase was 2.9%. So those schedules, the recommendation is to approve them. There's one addition and that is on schedule D, which is the police fee schedule. The change there is that in

[1:55:29] And in 2022, Council are added, considered carry weapon permitting to a fee schedule.

[1:55:37] And that was because processing of those permits will move from your county to the police

[1:55:43] department.

[1:55:44] Since then, there have been some changes in the law, especially under SB2, and the mandates

[1:55:51] that are required of the police department have increased.

[1:55:54] A new education is on the fee schedule, which covers some fees that were not previously

[1:56:01] represented on a fee schedule.

[1:56:03] And those are things that are mandated by the state or the Department of Judges justice

[1:56:09] and the processing of the permits through the police department.

[1:56:14] Those are fees we collect and we pass those through for the services being provided there.

[1:56:18] So we've updated those on the fee schedule.

[1:56:21] and that is inclusive in the proposal before you tonight.

[1:56:27] The other three schedule is for engineering and public works

[1:56:31] and that schedule C and that increase is updated by the engineering,

[1:56:39] excuse me,

[1:56:41] that is updated by the engineering is record construction cost index

[1:56:47] As measured year-to-year in December for the San Francisco area,

[1:56:52] initially there was no increase.

[1:56:54] However, on those schedules, we have made one change,

[1:56:57] and that is two, three line items that include

[1:57:01] the direct cost of the installation of a wild meter.

[1:57:05] And over the years, the cost of that has increased $253.

[1:57:09] So we've included that in that pre-schedule,

[1:57:12] but other than that, there has no increase in fee.

[1:57:15] So before you are asking that you hold a public hearing regarding the increase to fees and

[1:57:22] adopt the recommended staff increases to the fee schedule and I am opening any questions

[1:57:30] you may have.

[1:57:36] It looks like there's no questions come up here at

[1:57:42] the 2028 I'd like to open the public

[1:57:45] hearing there

[1:57:51] are none of those the public hearing do

[1:57:58] I have a motion.

[1:58:00] I have a discussion before we go there.

[1:58:06] No, no, you can't do that.

[1:58:08] I wanted to bring up on our recreation updates, the fees that we have there for some of

[1:58:15] the facilities that we use.

[1:58:18] I mean, we've talked about it a little bit at our strategic planning about like changes to

[1:58:24] what we could charge non-residents for, you know, the difference between what a resident

[1:58:29] pays for use of a city facility versus a non-resident, but this be a time that we could look at

[1:58:36] adjusting some of those, or I would say that we would bring back.

[1:58:42] You're looking to bring that back because that would technically be a new fee for a different

[1:58:47] category.

[1:58:50] If it was we are looking into way more fees also for nonprofit use of the community center

[1:58:57] and so if that would be that we bring those discussions back and the recommendation back

[1:59:02] at that time.

[1:59:03] Okay.

[1:59:03] Thank you.

[1:59:06] I have a quick question about animal control has, you know, we need to provide services to

[1:59:12] our community.

[1:59:13] Has animal control ever been considered as part of those fees?

[1:59:16] Just wondering.

[1:59:19] Not that I'm aware.

[1:59:20] my tenure. No, they've not. Thank you for you asking about changing when this fee here,

[1:59:31] the Community Center, out of town. Yeah. So would that be a new fee or could we? Could we adjust

[1:59:38] it if it's already on there? Should we recommend changes if it's a fee that's there? 18,

[1:59:47] 18 of 18.

[1:59:52] You could change the non-profit per hour fee and the outer town.

[2:00:02] You could not adjust it higher. I mean, it doesn't sound like you're doing that, but you could move it lower, if you'd like.

[2:00:12] Where I was thinking more of raising the fee to the out of town, rather than lowering the resident fee was what I was considering. Then that would be considered a fee increase that would have to come back at a later time. I mean, this fee is like for the community center rental. Are we covering our costs on those?

[2:00:33] So please do know I don't have all the data as I said here but I can get back to you on that okay

[2:00:39] I'm just curious because I mean we have these feet on there for use and

[2:00:44] Poor our fee of $122 and then we have to have staff there and there's a lot of yeah

[2:00:49] It's very if you'd like to take a quick poll of the rest of counsel if you'd like to be have that item brought back for discussion

[2:00:54] We can do that analysis and bring back that discussion of recreation fees related to non-resident time for it

[2:01:01] Yeah, I'm for it. Yeah, yeah. We will do that. Thanks. All right, quick question on the you mentioned concealed case on looked at it. Um, I know they're the life scans have gotten more expensive and they'll cost why not looking at the modification or duplicate so you're adding a handgun or getting a duplicate permit if you lose it.

[2:01:27] Why did that more than double?

[2:01:31] It's the cost of processing it through.

[2:01:34] So when the police department took on this task,

[2:01:38] it was singular nature and now as SB2 has come in the place

[2:01:43] and some of the more stricter requirements have been applied.

[2:01:47] The cost of processing that through the department

[2:01:49] has also increased the total number of hours

[2:01:53] and the limitation.

[2:01:55] I know that the chief is still here, yes he is still here so if you have specific questions

[2:02:01] about that I'm sure he can also answer that but the fee is intended to address issues

[2:02:08] that were not perceived or not in place or not required at the time that we put the

[2:02:15] consul weapons permit fee process on our schedule when our police department took it over

[2:02:23] from the county.

[2:02:24] There's an SP2, um, change the process for adding affidavit to an existing permit.

[2:02:33] I'll defer that to ignore that.

[2:02:35] It carries my lunch from 16 to 39, which is very nominal, but

[2:02:44] it's good to answer the

[2:02:46] question.

[2:02:47] The SP2 didn't address that specific, but, um, when we first think of one of this process,

[2:02:52] we'll be honest with you.

[2:02:54] We're the cheapest in the county for the reason is we estimate how much time was going to

[2:02:58] be involved because we're brand new to the process where we have found is especially in

[2:03:04] the amendments, we apply one gentleman who has five amendments to his one CCW and we

[2:03:12] are not accurately capturing the reasonable cost that it costs to do it. So that's why

[2:03:17] I want particular consent, you know, really brought to attention, but there are so few people

[2:03:21] who have asked for amendments and additions and such like that and it's just, it has

[2:03:25] product to us. Also, we're just getting up right now as we're at that two-year mark,

[2:03:29] where the renewals are all coming to. So we're just getting hammered with all the renewals.

[2:03:33] Makes sense. Thank you.

[2:03:41] Did you do make motion? No. No, we haven't got there. We haven't got there yet.

[2:03:45] The caravan's...

[2:03:52] Before was there any other fees for silly use stuff that you wanted to maybe discuss along with the outtown?

[2:04:01] We were going to look at all the recreation fees I think.

[2:04:05] Was what we discussed bringing back.

[2:04:08] Look at all non-resident fees.

[2:04:11] Whatever we have listed in adjusting or adding.

[2:04:13] for a recreation. I don't know that category for the recreation fees.

[2:04:21] I'm for it. Let's do it.

[2:04:23] And to clarify, you're asking staff to come back with updates to specifically facility

[2:04:29] rentals under a schedule of recreation updates.

[2:04:33] Yes.

[2:04:34] Thank you.

[2:04:37] Councillor.

[2:04:39] Can we also do park area non-resident fees,

[2:04:49] there's park area rentals non-resident, too.

[2:04:51] That's in the recreation section.

[2:04:53] and sexism, the fluctuation, anything that's in the recreation.

[2:05:04] That would be included in the future discussion. Councillor, do we continue this item? No, you will

[2:05:14] adopt the recommendation to adopt the resolution as is and then as at a subsequent meeting,

[2:05:23] there could be discussion of revisions to the staff at that time. So as stated, it becomes a separate item, essentially.

[2:05:34] We are looking at the resolution as stated in the packet tonight, anything in the future

[2:05:39] would be a separate item to amend.

[2:05:42] It's more like an approving the increases that are noted as the representative and the

[2:05:47] proposed fee.

[2:05:48] We're going to be looking at voting on that.

[2:05:50] Okay.

[2:05:51] Thank you.

[2:05:54] So still need a motion?

[2:05:57] Thank you.

[2:05:57] I'd like to appeal the resolution.

[2:06:06] We have a motion by Councilwoman Sianna,

[2:06:11] second by Councilwoman Lauren.

[2:06:15] All those in favor, please say aye.

[2:06:16] Aye.

[2:06:17] Hi, motion passed.

[2:06:28] Item C, we already completed earlier.

[2:06:34] The public hearing,

[2:06:41] public hearing and reporting on C winters of vacancies and recruitment,

[2:06:47] recruitment and retention efforts.

[2:06:51] Thank you, Mayor.

[2:06:53] This evening you receive a presentation from Kathy.

[2:06:55] this is a new requirement under AB 2561 this has no cost according to the bill

[2:07:02] so there's no recovery from the state but these times are free but this is

[2:07:08] a new requirement that we'll have to and we present this public hearing to the

[2:07:11] council this is the first one

[2:07:15] I'm not sure what I thought it is our state

[2:07:37] Okay, perfect. Well, we're all good. Oh, yeah, thanks for having me back. I'm here tonight to talk about AB 2561 presentation regarding the vacancies and recruitment. It's a new requirement.

[2:07:52] under the law.

[2:07:56] You might want to close the microphone so we can hear it a little better.

[2:08:00] Is that better? Much better. Thank you. I've got to come back here because I'm short and so I have to be able to see the top of the screen.

[2:08:07] So the legislature declared that a highway can see where it's lead to heavy workloads, burnout, increased traffic load,

[2:08:13] and negatively impacting services, and as a result, AB 2561 was signed into line, it had certain requirements for cities like Winters to hold a public hearing and to provide information regarding the vacancies and recruitment and strategies in the city related to our employees.

[2:08:38] So, the requirements under AB 2561 is that we do have this public hearing presentation,

[2:08:47] and if any of our bargaining units have, they can see, like, over 20% that after request,

[2:08:55] we would have to provide additional information as well.

[2:08:58] Now, many of our student bucketing units have, they can see in excess or equal to 20%.

[2:09:08] This is how our units look like right now.

[2:09:12] The number one is one senior at the end of the prior calendar year.

[2:09:18] So this is an extension of December of 2024.

[2:09:21] And as you can see, the Miscellaneous Employees Association

[2:09:26] had the highest percentage of vacancies.

[2:09:30] That's a 10 employee unit,

[2:09:34] and they had one vacancy at the summer of 2024.

[2:09:39] And well, of course, we'll be management and firefighters

[2:09:42] which have no vacancies at that time.

[2:09:44] Please, had a vacancy in the unrepresented group

[2:09:48] which includes management, confidential employees, and department heads have one vacancy.

[2:09:56] So the overall city line vacancy.

[2:10:05] We do look at vacancies, month over month, so the vacancy rates are still definite. Showing the number of vacancies that were created. Month and then the number of vacancies that were deemed and the full-time equivalence. That changed throughout the year because we have seasonal employees that come and go through failure and

[2:10:29] And employees consider any iteration of an employee, so the community center needs to have

[2:10:36] three employees, and now they have two, and they just have additional hours that still

[2:10:41] counts as one employee body.

[2:10:44] So the average was 5.3% to figure out the highest month was November, and that's a 4.4%

[2:10:54] And the lowest wasn't June.

[2:10:59] As we continue at vacancies and recruitment efforts,

[2:11:04] we want to have plenty of understanding

[2:11:06] that recruitment is about identifying and talking

[2:11:09] and hiring the right people for the civil matters

[2:11:13] and the positions that we have available of that.

[2:11:16] That can be a challenging aspect here,

[2:11:18] because we are small and our employees

[2:11:20] with a lot of hats and then accomplish lots of goals

[2:11:25] and they have to lean on a lot of background and abilities in order to do the many different

[2:11:34] tasks that they're asked to do, and in the area of retention it's about keeping employees

[2:11:38] engaged, satisfied, and committed long-term.

[2:11:44] So another thing that we've created here in the city of Winters is that one of the things

[2:11:50] and it seems created because an individual has left the city.

[2:11:55] And it's important to remember that

[2:11:57] although we have had long-term means of absence,

[2:12:00] which affect us greatly because oftentimes

[2:12:03] there's one seat in an entire discipline.

[2:12:07] That is not a lake and sea,

[2:12:09] and they can see it's created when an employee

[2:12:12] leaves the jungle and when they're put in a little retire,

[2:12:15] there, they transfer to another position,

[2:12:20] or they take a job someplace else.

[2:12:23] That is a vacancy.

[2:12:25] So I mean, you can see it's created.

[2:12:26] We are in the private nature by using the department head

[2:12:30] and there's a discussion about the vacancy that's created

[2:12:34] and the process for which we're going to plot the two,

[2:12:38] try to recruit somebody for that position.

[2:12:42] And then the job is posted.

[2:12:43] Let me get the applications in, even at the end of the advertised recruiting cycle, or

[2:12:51] for ongoing cycles and recruitment, whatever we have stated would be the first review

[2:12:58] of the application.

[2:12:59] This week, I put an application screening process based upon the criteria that we will establish

[2:13:05] through the position of trying to show,

[2:13:08] and then that leads to counting the areas of the top group,

[2:13:13] the group of eight individuals in that,

[2:13:16] and then from that conditional checkboxer is given

[2:13:19] and then made into pre-employment process now.

[2:13:23] This can be as quick as two weeks for public safety

[2:13:27] who has a much more stringent and drawn out.

[2:13:31] We view it can take months to get home

[2:13:33] found the conditional job offering to the last step is placement in the job.

[2:13:41] So for recruitment summary for 2024, there are 10 vacancies created with 12 job postings

[2:13:48] indicating that some of the job postings we have were filled and we have two weeks established

[2:13:55] another recruitment with 233 applications received and we filled 7 vacancies.

[2:14:03] It's notable that one of the vacancies that have been listed is that the police sergeant,

[2:14:11] and that has been making since September of 2024, and as activity will still not feel beautiful.

[2:14:19] Multiple times about the challenges that Chief Miller has in attracting, retaining, and recruiting officers,

[2:14:29] It's difficult across the state.

[2:14:31] It's even difficult here in the city of New England.

[2:14:39] So the media time to fill an expansion.

[2:14:42] They can see an expansion.

[2:14:44] They can see, as well, that we are recruiting both internally and externally.

[2:14:49] And we're trying to use a broad spectrum of platforms to engage applicants with the city.

[2:14:56] It's about 37 days.

[2:15:00] We've even looked at that in 2025, that would be a longer period of time because we've had police officers and accountants, and those positions are very difficult to fill these days in the city of California and also in the city of Winters. So the minimum time to fill focus vacancies, and those vacancies that we're filling internally, is zero days in that zone, because we had a full time employer go to

[2:15:29] a part time slot that became available, and in the middle of time to fill on-going, they can see,

[2:15:36] it's not going, but going, but can see, this one that we recognize is going to be difficult

[2:15:40] to fill, and so we place the equipment as ongoing and difficult, and we periodically check

[2:15:47] the pool of applicants that are coming in, we go through the screening process, we see if

[2:15:52] we can find somebody who can fill position, and it has been difficult here. Two of the positions

[2:15:59] so that we're most problematic with that of plan and being built in a position and

[2:16:05] it can attribute that to that as a within seat department, there are a lot of disciplines

[2:16:10] that are required, and there are not a lot of applicants in the job pool.

[2:16:19] And so that was very difficult, so quite a lot of those positions will contract later.

[2:16:26] Kathy, I have a question, if that's okay.

[2:16:28] Yes.

[2:16:29] When we filled those with contract labor, does that count as having that position filled?

[2:16:34] Yes.

[2:16:35] So, when we fill out that position is no longer vacant, and that helps us being filled.

[2:16:41] So, no, that counts again to spuddy.

[2:16:44] We did have 42 days of trying to fill some of those positions.

[2:16:52] the plan was a little bit short, but the building official was quite lengthy.

[2:17:00] So the recruitment and retention challenges and opportunities, I don't have many policy

[2:17:05] recommendations today for anything that is prohibiting us from recruitment and retention efforts

[2:17:12] and trying within the city, those are things that we looked at as we go through some of these processes.

[2:17:18] But we have to identify challenges and opportunities that exist.

[2:17:24] And one of the most, uh, the first one for us is the base rate of pay, uh, the city

[2:17:29] and wind terms.

[2:17:30] The base rate of pay is an indicator that applicants look at first and foremost, and they make

[2:17:37] a decision at that point to apply on the line to the next recruitment advertisement that's

[2:17:45] out there.

[2:17:45] Our total compensation is not, is, is, is great.

[2:17:53] We offer these innocent winter things that are not offered in a lot of cities.

[2:17:59] And that makes up the difference often times.

[2:18:03] Offer package and relationship to benefits is very, very, very heavy.

[2:18:10] But the applicant that's looking to fill the position is a fantastic or disengaged son

[2:18:19] that is based on the pay and that was identified through the class and come studying the first

[2:18:23] of the cities that were undergone and that was a good and important in that class and come

[2:18:29] to study the difference between based with the pay at the city of Winters and at the campaigns

[2:18:35] whether those are geographical or by size and they're how we excel in memory.

[2:18:42] So that brings the total comp up.

[2:18:44] But that doesn't help us in the area of recruitment often.

[2:18:49] We have geographical competitors that are around us

[2:18:53] that are not really our counterparts in size and per capita revenue.

[2:19:00] that there are competitors because they're geographical and it's not a constraint from employees that are here to go outwards into those areas to work for employment.

[2:19:13] We have merge competitors and if you every day you go to the recruiting platform, you will see that likewise we're recruiting for officers and sergeants and accountants and planners

[2:19:29] and those kinds of things.

[2:19:31] That's a challenge for us.

[2:19:33] Promotional opportunities where small-seat departments

[2:19:36] can be in one seat, if individuals

[2:19:41] are looking for positions or looking for a place

[2:19:44] where they can learn, be mentored, and then be promoted.

[2:19:49] They may not look at the city of mentors

[2:19:51] just because of their size, and most opportunities

[2:19:54] are not inherently sheer in the abundance

[2:19:57] that they would be an immortal journey.

[2:20:00] And then I mentioned that we put people with the discipline, experience, knowledge and skills to fill a job that we may build. They're just not out there. They're winners, and they're not in other cities as it's just a challenge. And then, small city, smaller cities, so we can be as big of a draw for somebody younger into the workforce. They're looking for, you know,

[2:20:29] place to be but the City of Wales has so many things to offer that we need to do a better

[2:20:37] job of making sure that we highlight those things that will allow you to join in and grant me

[2:20:44] beneficial to any employee and they get those here in the City of Wales so that's one of

[2:20:49] the things that we can do much better. We did one of the good class and comm study and that

[2:20:54] We're looking at it and trying to take steps to determine how we can mitigate the fact that we have very high benefits versus a road that is ready to pay.

[2:21:07] That's a presentation problem. It's not a compensation problem, but we have to get through that piece, we'll get through that piece.

[2:21:14] Many of us really may have counseled by staff giving a past and in place helps us as a small city that does not have the same per capita revenue inflow.

[2:21:28] Of counterparts would have that revenue inflow per capita is what helps us to do us carpet compensation in the city, so that was very important.

[2:21:40] Colleague development and employee recognition, targeted recruitment strategies, we've started

[2:21:46] to apply those and I have to say that the addition in the city of Winters with some of

[2:21:52] over as the HR technician and Doug Lee and Aguilar and the father have been instrumental in

[2:22:00] helping him out.

[2:22:01] I agree with the targeted recruitment strategies, really being able to apply on the recruitment

[2:22:06] side and maybe be made a difference.

[2:22:08] So, I just want to say a good job about those individuals and the work life balance,

[2:22:15] which here in the city of Lincoln's is one of the things that I think employers come

[2:22:20] for and they stay for.

[2:22:24] So, the 20th, 25th retention summary, that's just a recap of how our employees lack.

[2:22:32] So, some of those were voluntary separation, two were involuntary separation and then we

[2:22:38] We have one internal transfer, and another monetary separation that began with that could

[2:22:45] be in the left for a city with some poor reason.

[2:22:51] We know that some left because they need debtors out of state, or they got married and wanted

[2:22:58] to be closer to home, there are married reasons for that, but 70 percent of what you can see

[2:23:05] is related to employees voluntarily determining to leave the city.

[2:23:12] So key take of the city aggressively recruits for vacant positions, addressing hard-to-file

[2:23:19] vacancies requires multifaceted approach and you see that applied in the decision that

[2:23:25] was made to fill hard-to-fill positions with contract like we did for both of them.

[2:23:35] and for planning. And then the both chiefs have been very instrumental and the recruitments

[2:23:42] come up in their areas that they identify areas where we can do recruitments. Those recruitment

[2:23:54] advertisements are geared specifically for that platform. And I can say that the last couple

[2:24:00] of recruitments that we've had with that application,

[2:24:03] I believe the defined presence to recruit

[2:24:06] has been fruitful.

[2:24:09] So that's good, that engagement with that.

[2:24:11] Chiefs is good also.

[2:24:13] Then classifications have been 15 and a more appealing

[2:24:16] and a time you go to look up for a new job.

[2:24:19] If you're looking at the job classification,

[2:24:22] if it looks like it's 30 years old and outdated,

[2:24:26] that gives you a very specific impression

[2:24:29] about where they're going, and so we've had some of those. We've had cost of occasions

[2:24:34] that they were of more 20 years old. So it's been updated and they look at the presentation

[2:24:42] as better and it is a more realistic representation of the cost of occasion and the duties you're

[2:24:48] going to be asked to do when you come to work here at the city. So the city must continue

[2:24:54] to that way and we're indicating the improvement of all the compensation because we know that.

[2:25:00] That also is a factor in decision-making for foreign police. And when the city of Winters,

[2:25:07] this is an important impact on the city of Winters, is substantial. Very different than a city that might have five of those. And one leads.

[2:25:20] Here, if we have one, and one, and that leads, we have a complete void. So we want to be mindful of that. But those were key takeaways for tonight.

[2:25:29] And the recommendation is to conduct a public hearing regarding the City of Winters workforce

[2:25:34] vacancies recruitment and retention trends and to receive and file this presentation.

[2:25:40] And I don't know if there are any questions that you have.

[2:25:45] Please go ahead.

[2:25:49] At first I didn't realize how important AB 2561 would be.

[2:25:55] Other agencies that I said on their boards, we've had this process but basically it's kind of a consent item

[2:26:01] I'm like, here's the stuff.

[2:26:02] So I really appreciate having a presentation on it.

[2:26:06] But I was wondering, where can this information be found

[2:26:10] after tonight?

[2:26:11] So if somebody wants to work in the city of Winners

[2:26:14] and they see that there's a really high rate of people

[2:26:17] leaving voluntarily or so far, maybe they would judge

[2:26:21] or have an impression of the city of Winners.

[2:26:23] So where can this be found?

[2:26:25] So this presentation will be posted on the website, probably

[2:26:28] not tomorrow but Monday and it'll be under the HR portfolio along with the class and

[2:26:37] cost study that's up. So they can find that information and you know, we have these

[2:26:42] that some of these impacts in other municipalities, they're not as detrimental and here at the city

[2:26:52] of winners because we are so, so tight and constrained and one employee makes all the difference

[2:27:00] in the world. Chief Miller has been like I said since September trying to build a position

[2:27:06] for the Sergeant and an officer position and he's in the throes of interviewing the recruitment

[2:27:15] been interviewing testing process now, but we received notification of the

[2:27:21] mother and officer who is going to be leaving the city. So that hurts, and that's a

[2:27:27] large percentage of our police force. It hurts when the only accounting person,

[2:27:34] you know, we don't have any high level of accounting management in the city, and it hurts

[2:27:42] when we don't have a plan or a building official because those are revenue generating functionalities within the city.

[2:27:51] So this is an important thing and it's always difficult for cities like Winters to grasp and look at.

[2:27:59] But we're moving in the right direction with the class and comp study and getting understanding of our strengths and weaknesses,

[2:28:06] what helps us in recruitment, and what helps us in retaining our current workforce,

[2:28:13] and what we can do to improve that's important and that's the direction that we're going to go in.

[2:28:20] Which leads me to retention.

[2:28:22] And I really appreciate your comments.

[2:28:25] I have a question about retention process.

[2:28:28] Is there a process for retention that measures employee satisfaction, engagement, and commitment?

[2:28:33] those were the values that were on the slide is a process to measure that. So we know there's not a form of process most

[2:28:43] organizations institute an exit interview focus now. That is done effectively at the police department. It's not

[2:28:54] followed through in other areas of the city. It's something that we are implementing. So we have a regular standard

[2:29:02] Gaining and gaining information from individuals, especially individuals who choose to leave the city,

[2:29:10] information that they have helps us.

[2:29:13] We do get a resignation, typically, which gives the reasons that individuals are leaving,

[2:29:20] but what it doesn't do is it doesn't drop down into what specific aspects

[2:29:26] It's enticed you to go to another area, especially if they're moving to another city.

[2:29:34] Now we can overcome everything.

[2:29:38] I'm not here to say that we can compete with a very, very large city and a very,

[2:29:44] very large revenue inflow.

[2:29:46] But the high things that we can do, and having gleaming, understanding, and asking

[2:29:51] you know, questions help us and we'll continue to help us.

[2:29:56] So those are things that are in process.

[2:30:00] And, you know, I have to say city manager Craig has been at a lot of cities and he has a lot, a lot of knowledge on how to measure gather and then use data. And so as we start to implore the full word and start to engage, it will be helpful to us. I would just like to suggest that we have some way to measure retention. And I would just like to suggest, because of

[2:30:29] experience that sometimes cities do when they have the review of the city manager they

[2:30:38] do 360 and they ask employees questions that have to do with your satisfaction, engagement,

[2:30:47] commitment and duties. It would just be really nice if we've never done that to kind of have

[2:30:52] a baseline for that. This is a suggestion. It's a good recommendation. Thank you.

[2:30:57] Anyone

[2:31:01] else?

[2:31:10] Thank you. Mr. Mayor. If we just further record if the public hearing could

[2:31:18] be considered to have started prior to miss Matthew's presentation, just because AB 2561

[2:31:28] notes that this staff presentation occurred during the public hearing and I would just recommend

[2:31:33] that for the rest of the day. Thank you.

[2:31:37] You could certainly ask for public comment in accordance to the

[2:31:40] amendment. Is there any public comment?

[2:31:49] I see none. Close public

[2:31:51] comment.

[2:31:56] I'll move that item to motion to adopt resolution 2025

[2:32:03] dash. No, no, no. It's just. Yeah. It's so close. Retention

[2:32:09] In recruitment efforts, you can staff as stated.

[2:32:15] We have motion?

[2:32:16] This is a motion.

[2:32:18] I will ask the motion.

[2:32:19] Required.

[2:32:20] Thank you.

[2:32:21] Just try to tidy it up.

[2:32:26] That's a no motion.

[2:32:27] I need to go around this.

[2:32:29] No, just any closing work.

[2:32:31] Yes, I'm closing the public hearing.

[2:32:33] If there was anything, the only requirement for the public hearing

[2:32:38] was to identify any changes to any policies or recruitment

[2:32:42] and efforts or retention efforts and you have satisfied that requirement.

[2:32:48] So the only thing left would be to close the public hearing.

[2:32:56] Let's close the public hearing.

[2:32:57] I

[2:33:02] think we've reached the end.

[2:33:07] We have a city manager's report to see me.

[2:33:10] No report to see me, Mayor.

[2:33:12] Aw, come on.

[2:33:14] Really?

[2:33:17] You sure?

[2:33:18] Yes.

[2:33:19] We've had enough presentations for the evening.

[2:33:22] Yeah, I'm working kind of fucking good.

[2:33:26] Got a plane?

[2:33:28] What was that?

[2:33:30] I joined the meeting.

[2:33:34] 104.

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