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Hello, everybody. Welcome. We'll go ahead and bring the meeting to order. This meeting is being held in the council chambers, which are opened for public attendance and participation. The meeting is also to be live stream for public viewing, but not participation at the link identified in the agenda.

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Email comments sent and received by the city clerk, at least 24 hours before the meeting were distributed to the city council prior to the meeting. May I have a roll call, please.

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Mayor Harris.

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here. Vice Mayor Shaw, here. Councilmember Bumgarden, here. Councilmember Kurtcher, here. Councilmember

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Piscwally, here. All right, thank you very much. Everybody, please rise, and we'll have a

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indication by Pastor Daniel Callahan. Good to see you again, Dan. Follow by the Prejue of Allegiance

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led by Councilmember Kurtcher. Let's pray. Hopefully, Father, we thank you for life, we thank you for

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We pray that you would give guidance and direction to our city officials.

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Thank you for protecting us and giving us wisdom and direction that you would guide their

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thoughts and give them wisdom as they move our city forward.

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Thank you for blessing our city.

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We pray that you would turn the hearts of man and keep us safe.

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Thank you for first responders and their families.

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I pray that you protect them daily.

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Give them strength, mentally, and physically.

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Lord, may you pour your spirit out on this place or we thank you for blessing our city,

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blessing our government, our homes, our lives.

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Thank you for sitting in Christ's name, amen.

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Life.

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All right, thank you.

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City Attorney, we had, well, we actually

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had no close session today.

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Any agenda, modifications, gentlemen?

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All right, the only thing I may have,

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it's not considered a modification,

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but just a matter of decorum.

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We have a HVAC issue here today.

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You may have noticed it's a little warm,

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so I would just invite any gentleman who

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have a jacket on, if should you care to remove it?

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for your comfort, please feel free to do so.

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We have one taker so far, do I have two?

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Not yet.

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All right, we probably will eventually.

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All right.

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Item number one is a ceremonial presentation,

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but you have said, are transit?

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Or is yours, sir?

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Our Harris Distinguished Council members.

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My name is Matthew Moch.

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I've had the privilege of being the executive director

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of the U of the Sutter Transit Authority

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for almost exactly 11 months now.

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And thank you for the opportunity to be here this evening to provide you with an update on our ongoing efforts to improve transit service in the Bikana area.

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Particularly as envisioned in our next generation transit plan.

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That's our staff, by the way.

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No, no, I don't know who those folks are.

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Our next generation transit plan or our next gen plan was adopted by our board.

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in May of 2023 and serves as our short range transit plan for services in the area, you can

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think of it as our five-year business plan. Such plans are typically done about every five

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years and are required mechanisms for certain state and federal funding eligibility and they

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do feed into regional transportation programming efforts. What was a typical about this time around

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in the development of the next-gen plan where the circumstances leading up to the development

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of it.

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Namely, the devastating effects of the pandemic related shutdowns on transit ridership.

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Truthfully, ridership on our system had been declining slightly since a peak in 2015 where

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we had around 1.3 million boardings that year.

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But in the first full year of the pandemic, from late 2020 through early 2021, ridership dropped

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over 60%. Almost immediately.

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So although ridership has grown almost 66% cumulatively speaking

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since then, we're still at about 2-3rds of the ridership that we were before 2020.

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So that necessitated a full top-to-bottom assessment of the service and resulted in some

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wholesale recommendations for changes to our service over the next few years. I wanted to

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make a note that the next-gen transit plan was a fiscally constrained plan. In other words,

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developed to be essentially cost-neutral or implementable with, with, for seen funding sources.

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So, not, not aspirational, in other words.

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So the goal here was an operational plan that delivered

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faster travel times, connections to previously underserved areas, better real-time information,

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improved local and regional access by serving new growing areas and connecting them with

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more dynamic, innovative, travel solutions where both logical and feasible.

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Improved operating performance, reducing cross-town delays and speeding up routes and

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layover times in the current system.

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The analysis resulted in a series of recommendations for improvements to be implemented in phases

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over the next three to four years, and across all of the basic types of service that we provide.

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Given the audience, and I believe the reason you invited me here tonight, I'll be focusing today

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on the recommended enhancements to the local services.

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Primarily our local fixed route services referred to in the plan as our cross-town services,

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and also our demand response services referred to in the plan as community services.

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So, phase one, which we're coming up on now.

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We had a phase zero, we've completed it just about, really was about ramp up to the service

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changes on the street, staffing changes, technology acquisitions, we did make some reductions

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to our commuter service, it became effective late last year, to free up some additional resources

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for new initiatives.

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So, phase one is about implementation beginning with local services within and connecting to

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UBCID.

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Not mentioned on this slide, but the first big ticket item of that is streamlining of our

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route one.

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Our route one is our trunk line of our local transit service.

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It runs from UBCID over in Linda all the way over to Sam's Club in UBCID.

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We have half hourly service by directional service on that route.

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Also loops around by the high school and then Wal-Mart on harder parkway and back around.

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We'll be streamlining that route and we'll reduce the cross-count travel time by about 20%.

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Not only does that make the trip faster across town but it also allows us to continue to provide half hourly service with one less bus as it happens.

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Then comes the replacement of routes to...

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5, which are the two local fixed route services that service you was city primarily. And we're replacing

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that with a new on-demand service, or what is sometimes referred to as micro-transit, open

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to the general public. This is a service that's accessed by a phone app, or by calling into

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dispatch. And rise are scheduled without a reservation. Just depends on vehicle availability

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and response times. The service area that we're launching first in Ubicity will expand beyond

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where the fixed route actually services by quite a bit. I won't get in the details too much,

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but it kind of echoes and actually goes a little bit beyond where dialaride currently serves.

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So that's a general public service that's reaching well out from where fixed route is currently.

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And then services extended as well from 630 PM currently when our fixed route ceases to operate up until 8 PM on weekdays.

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So a later service as well as increased or expanded service area.

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And then as a part of that, because of the evening service there, we will be discontinuing what is currently a general public sort of underutilized general public dialeride.

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a railroad service that, again, I say underutilized just a handful of trips a day on that

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service and we'll be discontinuing that in favor of this later local service.

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Apologize, I think in retrospect, this is maybe a little bit out of place, but getting back to the

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plan development and we'll linger on this too much, I'm getting late on my time.

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But lots of data went into this report. Lots of good analysis, system ridership, route effectiveness,

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this travel pattern data, including GPS, available GPS data, and location-based data, trip

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origins and destinations, peer reviews, all of that kind of stuff.

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The bottom line is that if fully implemented is recommended, the system-wide ridership

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is projected to increase by up to 45%.

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And the effective coverage area of the service increases by about 60%.

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At approximately the same operating cost would adjust it for inflation.

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So again, the details, it's a long and detailed plan.

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I encourage you to read into its available on our website.

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I did bring a few hard copies of the executive summary

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if you'd like anybody's interested in that.

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It's a good read.

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So also, I wanted to just reassure the council

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that this was not done in the dark.

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Public surveys, two rounds of community open houses, stakeholder interviews, direct system

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observations, multiple boardwork jobs, and ongoing solicitation of public input throughout.

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I want to take the time to thank our board members for their participation, of course.

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One of the other public outreach efforts that we've set up recently is our micro-transit working

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group.

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This is a group of stakeholders within the new vicinity.

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I see some representatives on that micro-transit working group in the room today.

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Thank you to them.

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That's a small, again, working group of stakeholders,

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representatives from freed independent living,

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senior commission, the senior center,

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all getting together with our frontline staff,

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and working through some of the details of the implementation of these services

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and how they might affect the public.

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Resulted in some good recommendations for our board,

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and we're going to be carrying forward.

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So with that, I want to sort of just touch on the next steps.

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So this is an ongoing process.

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In a couple of days, we're going to meet with our board to discuss potential fair alternatives

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for these new services.

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And then also there's a public hearing that's already been set for the next board meeting

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on July 18th to really first take the series public input on this plan.

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It was always envisioned that as this plan is implemented in its phases, it would come

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back to the board and to the public for further discussion.

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So, nothing's said in stone at this point beyond what we've done today, or two date.

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So, again, public hearing set for the 18th, talk about service changes, potential

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fairs for the new system.

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Formal adoption of the phase one that I've gone through tonight will not be until the

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public has a few more chances to weigh in through late summer and the fall.

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I should mention that phase one is now scheduled for implementation around the first of

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the year.

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That's when the fixed routes would be replaced with that micro transit service for the general public.

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Of course, there'll be a big public education effort as we lead up to that rollout.

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And we've secured some extra consulting services to help us with that marketing outreach.

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And then, of course, there's a big technology aspect to this, so we are in the process of bringing on a vendor that will provide us with the software and the hardware for the vehicles that will run the system in the back and the app and allow people to easily access the service.

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So, with that, again, thank you for the opportunity to be here.

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I'm happy to answer any questions or try to answer any questions that you might have.

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Through the mayor, thank you for the presentation.

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I am a willing participant of the Senior Commission meetings.

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And I think I've mentioned this to them is it seems like we, at these meetings,

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that I'm hearing from the feedback from those stakeholders and participants,

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that we kind of go from here to there and here to there have we landed on a final plan or something

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that looks like the final plan I know you'd mentioned to open hearings but I guess I'm concerned

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that we started in one direction it appears that we went in a different direction and then we pivoted

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again and understand being nimble but have you guys kind of landed on where you're going to go with

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so that there's an ability to begin to educate and begin the transition?

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Yeah, I would say except for more minor details.

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We know that the plan is to roll out this on-demand service, this dynamic service that will

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provide kind of corner to corner service in a confined area.

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We know how we can provide that generally speaking.

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The exact boundaries have not necessarily been set.

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That's something we need to work through with the vendor.

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But then I think it's important to think that based on the real world

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experience that we have with that.

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It's the first time, you know, for some of us, deploying this kind of a

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micro-transit or app driven on-demand service here locally,

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although dial ride is somewhat of a dial ride.

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But this is a higher tech kind of version of that.

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There will be some real-world experience that we'll draw on as we do later phases and the

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idea is that within about the next 18 months, assuming that all is going well, we will

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begin to co-mingle some of our dialaride services potentially in this.

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We'll also roll out new zones for micro-transit service in Mary'sville and then in Olive

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in Linda as well. So it'll truly be kind of a cohesive system with a truncline, a

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frequent truncline, fixed route service, and these these zonal on-demand trips, serving

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both as of first mile last mile.

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Next to those cross town routes, order our commuters for that matter, and then circulating people

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sort of easily within those zones, where, frankly, the majority of the trips we see from the

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data are happening, or most of the demand. I'm not sure they answered your question, but

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I think so.

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We do have the basic bones.

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Yeah, I know. I appreciate that. We are going to roll this out for a little bit.

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That's what we do.

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That's what we do. I guess the other question, not I guess. I know the other question I have

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fairs. I know this is a big issue for especially for seniors who are on fixed and have you

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have you landed on a fair schedule yet or is that something that's still being contemplated?

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You had a recommendation that was adopted as part of the original plan. Again with the

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understanding that would come back to the board for final approval later closer to the implementation.

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But it did involve, for instance,

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for going monthly passes on our service in favor of just a

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daily cap and a monthly rolling cap that could only really be done with an electronic

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fair card, which we do have on our system. We do have that capability. And some of the

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initial feedback and actually some of the internal discussions with staff, we had some

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concerns about the fairs. And we looked through some of the scenarios. It could mean

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some significant out-of-pocket increases the out-of-pocket expenses for our writers.

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Our fairs have been really, really low, and it's a contributing factor to the wide usage

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of our local fixed routes.

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For those who are not familiar, folks who don't qualify for any sort of discount can get

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a monthly pass for $10 a month right now out of pocket to ride the local fixed route service

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for an unlimited for the entire calendar month.

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Folks who qualify for a discount by virtue of age or physical or mental challenge can get

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five dollars. Those are not the actual rates, but we kept those rates sort of subsidized

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with grant funding, and we've done so for many, many years. So what was proposed in the

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plan originally under certain scenarios that out-of-pocket expense for accessing the same

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local service could have gone up significantly. So that's why the board directed staff last

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month after a discussion to come back this month and we'll be doing so in the next two days

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at our board meeting to discuss an alternative that keeps fairs a little bit lower out of

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pocket. And then the July 18th is when we will officially sort of begin to take public comment

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on those fair that fair program. Bottom line is the one way fairs on the on the service are not

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likely to change. So $1.51 weigh 75 cents for persons who qualify for a discount by virtue

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of age or disability. And then we believe the right move at that point and staff will

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be recommending to the board that they consider keeping monthly passes for use of the two

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services, both the micro transit and the fixed route. They won't necessarily be $10 and $5, not

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certainly realistic, but we'll continue to use grant funds to buy down the cost out of pocket.

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And I believe, I don't think I'll be speaking at a turn that Jen has been published.

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We will be recommending a price that essentially keeps it at $10 for folks who qualify for

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a discount in $20.

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That would be for unlimited use of both the micro-transit and the fixed route services for

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calendar month.

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Appreciate that.

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Thank you.

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Appreciate the question.

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through the mayor. Matt, thanks for being here tonight. We've talked about this because I know

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this is Marksher and I've heard he's been a lot of concern about his is the service going

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away and I remember when we first came to introduce to micro transit it was more along the lines

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of think of it and it's not quite the same but it's like Uber for a bus because you basically

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click shoot they come get you and then they drop you off at a fixed point and going forward.

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Um, I'm glad you brought up the, uh, how we're back filling those fairs because they should be at the last meeting those fairs should be more than double

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where they actually are from monthly pass and it's been grants, you're like, fragment and some others that has brought it in and our LTF funding that comes from the city.

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That's where our LTF goes to, uh, to fund the local transit.

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So, um, glad you brought it up.

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We are aware of it, we're trying to keep the fairs as low as possible as a border.

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Our chairman's two seats down from me here, and I'm sure he'll probably chime in as well.

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But we're trying to find that push point of giving better service, but yeah, keeping everything

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as affordable as possible.

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And our oldest daughter used transit for years when she was going to college, and this

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is going to be so much better because she would literally have to walk from home to a bus

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up and then get in the system and go to where if this was available she could literally

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almost dial a rider, Uber bus, boom, pick up the corner and then off into the system

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and she did that rain or shine or 110 degree heat. So this is going to be so much better

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but we are going to try to keep the cost down. So thanks Matt.

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What was it?

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Good morning.

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Thanks for that presentation, Matt.

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Four days ago, we had a major major event in downtown Mary'sville.

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How is that affecting service and going forward?

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How is that going to affect service?

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It's affected us just about like it's affected everybody else.

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That's a good news about a micro-transit service, right?

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You can work around that stuff.

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We have been delayed.

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Our commuters actually interestingly enough have been the most affected.

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And so we began to reroute around, we've put into place some bus bridges to bring folks back

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to location from the 99 side rather than the Highway 70 side.

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Of course, the effects of performance of our route ones are route one and route four in

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the city.

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So we've, in some cases, we've had to bypass, but we're not officially dropping any stops

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necessarily.

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We've had some situations where Caltrans has done some last-minute street closures that did require us to divert around.

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But we're continuing to communicate with our passengers as best we can. We have social media feeds.

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We have lots of folks subscribed to our email alert system as well.

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And so we're making do as best we can, but I can't say it hasn't been difficult.

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And we've done, like I said, some additional services just to kind of get around it to try to keep people's trip times to something reasonable.

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Thank you.

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My pleasure.

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Well, thank you very much, sir.

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Appreciate your time.

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All right.

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Number two, the Appearance of Interested Citizens.

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You are welcome and encouraged to participate in this meeting.

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Public comment is taken on action.

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I am appearing on the consent calendar of business items on the agenda.

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When they are call, public comment on any other items within the scope of the city's jurisdiction, including items not listed on the agenda will be considered at this time.

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Public comment is limited to three minutes per speaker and members of the public submitting written requests, at least 24 hours prior to the meeting will be a lot of five minutes to comment per speaker.

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Repetitive comments may be limited and large groups are encouraged.

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Just to select representatives to express the opinions of the group. We have, excuse me, we have, let's see,

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John, you had, it says a agenda item number two, appearances, that's this, so you want to comment on the consent calendar, so on item on the consent calendar,

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well I've got one that says two and one that says eight, well you have two items, two things to talk about on number eight.

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Okay, number two is just okay.

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And

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if anybody else wants anything to say, please feel free to queue up.

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Good afternoon, honorable members of the council.

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It's nice to be here again.

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One thing last week or last time, June 4th, I believe, I listened to a presentation by a gentleman.

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I think very room.

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He went on and on and on for quite a long time and I couldn't make heads and tails of what

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he was trying to provide to us and thank you, Mr. Boom Garden, for your questions he

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tried to bring it to, hey, what's in it for me? And another time, a couple years ago I sat

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in a presentation that a vendor wanted to bring a hemp shop to the city and the chamber

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was full of people and they kept going on and on and on you feel like you're being filibuster.

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And everyone is waiting for the presentation to end but they kept okay well this is how it

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is how about you Sharon and they kept passing the ball back and forth.

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The reason I bring this up is the decisions that are made here and the folks that go for such

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long time,

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and the citizens have only three minutes to make response.

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I think that's unfair.

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Maybe the city would consider providing a time limit for certain vendors or their presentation.

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And I'm not talking about the gentleman that was here just before me.

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But for vendors, I don't think it's right for them to go on for hours.

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and it literally went out for like an hour and a half.

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I used to, in my previous life, as a construction engineer,

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we would put out contracts for 10, 15 million,

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six or seven construction companies would attend,

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and they had a 15 minute.

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Exactly 15 minute questions answers,

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and any presentation they have,

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and then we would make a selection on that.

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So this is my request to please consider for the benefit of time and fairness to citizens

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that have only three minutes to make a response to a two-hour presentation.

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And with that I'm done, if there is any question.

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You had to do one more thing about Bellyer, and you have 50 seconds.

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No, that's too.

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Just kidding.

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Okay, this thing happened to me a few months ago.

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I realized Valera Parking Lot is a private property,

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and there may be different rules governing that.

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Amongstable are taking a right lane going towards passing Starbucks,

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going towards UPS on the right lane.

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And there is another car coming in the same lane towards me.

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I flash my lights up, right, low, right, low.

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She, as it turns out later on, so I pull as far

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to the right as I can and I stop.

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Finally, she moves over and she looks at me

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and I say, why is she driving this way?

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So after further investigation, the stripes are all dashed white.

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The only place that you see yellow, which indicates opposing directions of traffic is

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right at the entrance at the entrance, or I will call it the gore.

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There is a dash, Chevron, in yellow.

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But the rest of it is all dashed white.

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And I think that can create a liability, it's a safety issue, eventually it hasn't happened

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me before and it hasn't happened since. But if anyone wants to talk to the owner of the property,

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I think that would be time well spent in terms of public safety. Did I make it in

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20 seconds?

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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Anybody else carry a comment?

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Oh, okay, we'll move on to Mayor.

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We have a written request.

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I do.

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Suk.

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Suk Sugira.

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A.

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Why have it in front of me?

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Yes.

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I've got the bejons.

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It's on your agenda.

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Yeah, I see now where it says written request is he here.

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Well, thank you for your time and councilmember.

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I was here before to remind you guys of the issue.

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six, six, five down each street in UBCID solar installation issue on a half-plex. That was

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encroaching onto the other roof.

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I am the real estate agent for the seller. We sold the

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property last year, but we added issue with the lender, proving the loan for the buyer.

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Because of solar, it's a half-plex. It's encroaching onto the roof of six, six, five down

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history, it should be completely on six, seven, five down history.

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To get the deal closed, the lender included some conditions.

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Fix the issue, get the solar panels installed on the track roof, and give us a roof

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certification, tell us that it's not going to be a leak from the correction.

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You know, you guys refer to me to Doug Libby, help me out, you know, got things going.

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And I believe it finished the project, got everything corrected.

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But I'm still not getting any kind of documentation on the project's been completed.

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It's been inspected.

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Not the getting the Roof Cert served.

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Doug replied back saying it's the third party issue.

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We don't pay for Roof Certification for a third party.

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But, with the way process works with solar installation, solar companies and its

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plans to the city, they approve the installation.

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So the city approved the installation onto the

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The middle of the duplex, when it should have been on one side. There are other homes on the same street, which are also duplexes, insulation is done correctly.

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So whoever approved it at planning should have done their due diligence, pull the address of saw that it was a duplex.

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But that didn't happen. They corrected it, but I am not getting any kind of documentation that has been completed. So I can submit it to Title Company, and they can see if the lender will be okay with it.

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But most likely they're going to want a real certification.

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What I got was the same that Mike Campos would get back to me.

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Mike Campos told me to contact the solar company.

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Didn't give me a contact. Didn't give me a reference number.

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So I'm going to go back into the queue because I've done this before.

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To where I'm going to sit on 800 number.

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It's been about an hour. They're going to tell me I'm not the owner.

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I'm not the city. We can't speak to you.

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And then further research today, I'm talking to the owners.

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maybe they have some kind of documentation for work completion.

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They don't have anything.

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There are elderly couple, I spoke to the granddaughter, she's informed me that the city and the

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sort of company are trying to build them for the correction that was either solar companies

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fault or the city's fault because they just want to solar.

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Then it falls into the solar companies and in the city,

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approving the permits, that's the whole permit process, right?

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So things are done correctly.

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So that's where I'm at.

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I need a roof certification, so I can send it to town company.

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So we can appease the lender and be done with this.

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It looks to me like Ben would like to say something.

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Yeah, yeah, I mean, basically, we've

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checked in with staff, we definitely

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feel for the property owner that purchased the vendor.

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But there's a certain area when it goes in the private property

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and liability will be through the line.

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And so we're happy to work with the contractor,

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the inspectors, but when somebody submits us a plan that didn't have a property line, it was approved for how was done.

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We worked with him to modify that with the res middle, or we issued a permit, the inspectors went out,

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verified the work that it was corrected, moved, we closed out the permit, we've done a final inspection, that has been provided.

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As far as having an additional third party, certify a roof, that is not part of the city scope, and I'm not coordinating with Doug,

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we're trying to do that respectfully and give them guidance.

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So he's not spinning his wheels or we think his time.

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But really it's where we've worked with the individual.

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We definitely respect that we don't want to have this situation.

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We look out for it, but we can't know where a property line might be on every rooftop.

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And so there's responsibility with the solar company.

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We worked with them to help get the correct and move it.

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But it's really stuck with this third party individual.

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And we've given clear communication that the city is not going to contract with the third party vendor to provide that service.

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And so I'm happy to follow up with any written documentation or provide that permit, but that's kind of where we're at on the situation.

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I think the rule of the day is definitely you too need to have a comment.

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I'm not here to go back and forth sir. I see shaking your head. No, and there's a disagreement, but what we'll do this is not the time replace to go back and forth.

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Okay, so then would you do me favor and set up an appointment with the gentleman and you guys can have a conversation?

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Thank you.

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Anybody else?

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All right.

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We'll go on to consent calendar.

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All matters listed under consent calendar are considered to be routine and can be enacted in one motion.

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There will be no separate discussion on these items prior to the time that council votes on the motion unless members of the city council request specific item.

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to be discussed or remove from the consent calendar for individual action.

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Due to recusals, which we have, we'll get to that in a second, items 11 through 13 will

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be voted on separately.

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Do we have any comments from the public on consent calendar items 3 through 10 and 14?

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I know we have one on number 8.

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So come on up, sir.

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Through the mayor.

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Go ahead, ma'am.

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Hold on.

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There's additional recusals.

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So when I vote tonight, since there is no other discussion,

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on item six and seven. We have property that lies within 300 feet of that property. So I will not be voting on six or seven.

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When I vote for the consent calendar tonight.

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Is it six seven and there's a was there something else to you.

446
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:40,860
Yeah, and I'm on well as well.

447
00:34:41,260 --> 00:34:42,920
I was going to be taken separately correct.

448
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,440
Well, we did last time Shannon we.

449
00:34:46,020 --> 00:34:50,840
We did one vote, but we just said when we're saying yes or no, we're not talking about those.

450
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,360
we're accusing from is that correct that is correct on the consent calendar you can designate

451
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,320
which items you're accused from and then just vote up and down on the entire consent calendar

452
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:03,940
except for the items that you're accused on until you're excluding those one at number 12 because

453
00:35:03,940 --> 00:35:08,740
my residence like we got 12 you got so you know you have three recusels okay all right we're good

454
00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:15,380
there and john you have a comment on number eight excuse me mayor there are other council members

455
00:35:15,380 --> 00:35:19,940
that need to recuse themselves on items yeah what was since we're done with this will we'll go

456
00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:24,020
Thank you. I think I'll be leaving on that list. Go ahead.

457
00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:30,030
Thank you again. Item eight,

458
00:35:33,330 --> 00:35:42,930
there is some information available about the 2025 or 2024 estimate of completion.

459
00:35:43,490 --> 00:35:50,190
But I think it's deficient without having a construction estimate.

460
00:35:50,190 --> 00:35:59,250
You have attachments that are showing some streets being rehab and you're getting 1.8 million

461
00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:08,810
a year from AB1 funding and it looks like we have 3.5 million in reserve that hasn't been used.

462
00:36:10,110 --> 00:36:18,230
So as a citizen, I would ask, well, I need to make it into a comment.

463
00:36:18,230 --> 00:36:27,230
I think I would have expected to see some more construction projects using the three and a half million dollars that's sitting there.

464
00:36:28,370 --> 00:36:41,170
And I would like to see a construction estimate with the columns that are showing the project description, project location, estimated useful life and time line.

465
00:36:42,910 --> 00:36:49,870
And paragraph eight, with starting their resolution from the top, says,

466
00:36:49,990 --> 00:36:55,610
where's the funding from SB1 will help the CD maintain and rehabilitate and goes on and on?

467
00:36:57,770 --> 00:37:05,490
And the last line of that paragraph, throughout the city this year,

468
00:37:05,490 --> 00:37:13,890
hundreds of similar projects. That's either either over-explaining or too vague. I propose

469
00:37:13,890 --> 00:37:19,030
making up the hundreds of similar projects because you don't know what that really means

470
00:37:19,030 --> 00:37:25,810
and it can come back to get you or get everyone later on. What does 100 similar projects mean?

471
00:37:27,010 --> 00:37:29,330
So that's my proposal and request.

472
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,060
Let's see.

473
00:37:35,610 --> 00:37:51,670
That's good, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anybody else care to comment? All right. So we have recusals for 1112 and 13. I know I think you recuse myself from item number 13. So I will not be voting on that tonight. Anybody else?

474
00:37:57,020 --> 00:38:00,440
11 and you're on 11 13 according my notes.

475
00:38:03,390 --> 00:38:06,290
11 13. Anybody else?

476
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:12,020
I'm recording my script here. It's 11.

477
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,480
You need to accuse yourself from 11.

478
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,140
Please excuse me for my number 11.

479
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,940
Okay, so we have Mr. Boomgarden from 11.

480
00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:24,820
Mr. Pasquale from 11 as well.

481
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,600
Vice Mayor Shaw from 12.

482
00:38:28,780 --> 00:38:29,640
Six and seven.

483
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:30,840
And myself.

484
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,100
And Council Mayor Pasquale from 13.

485
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:37,180
Through the mayor?

486
00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:37,680
Yes sir.

487
00:38:37,860 --> 00:38:38,940
And just to clarify for the record,

488
00:38:39,020 --> 00:38:41,540
the recusels are based upon owning property

489
00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:44,940
with in the areas affected by these particular items?

490
00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:48,600
All right.

491
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:50,960
All that happened in Clearers mud.

492
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:52,320
We have a motion.

493
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:53,540
Good to hear.

494
00:38:54,020 --> 00:38:54,180
Good to hear.

495
00:38:54,180 --> 00:38:54,460
Yes, sir.

496
00:38:54,740 --> 00:38:57,060
I move to approve consent counter items.

497
00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:58,940
3 through 14.

498
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,040
Second, with the recusels.

499
00:39:05,580 --> 00:39:06,420
Second, with recusels.

500
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,940
So we have motion to approve consent counter items.

501
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:16,700
3 through 14 with recusels as just previously stated due to proper ownership in the

502
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:24,860
say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. We're good. All right, consent calendar is approved. Now we move on

503
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:25,880
to

504
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:31,080
at a number 15.

505
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,300
Presentation by Pioneer Community Energy.

506
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:47,880
Thanks for having us here tonight

507
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,280
and my apologies that I'm talking about electricity on the night that the air condition isn't

508
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,400
working, but it's where I didn't plan that and I didn't take your offer on the jacket,

509
00:39:56,580 --> 00:40:01,800
but I did get rid of the tie. So, next slide, please. So, I just want to introduce

510
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:05,920
Our team here tonight, we have Gina Stasi vanacor, director of

511
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,440
Communications, Lisa de Lobby.

512
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,060
You also be hearing from community outreach manager.

513
00:40:11,940 --> 00:40:14,200
And Jake is our Jake Crumbles, our newest employee.

514
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,360
I didn't give him any slides tonight, because he just started.

515
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:18,300
He's willing to help with the contract.

516
00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,480
And I also want to talk about our board chair,

517
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,940
who's our council member from City of Auburn.

518
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:26,720
We'd love to have been here tonight,

519
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:31,360
happen to be, it's her wedding anniversary, but she sends her regrets and looks forward to talking

520
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:32,460
with you all another time.

521
00:40:33,180 --> 00:40:33,880
So next slide, please?

522
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,540
So just a lower the anxiety of what is this about?

523
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:41,160
You're not joining Pioneer Community Energy tonight.

524
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:46,460
What we're doing is talking about at the end of this presentation that actually I didn't

525
00:40:46,460 --> 00:40:51,520
we're looking at is to partake an impact assessment study that would be shared between

526
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,620
in Sutter County, which has already said yes, in the city of live oak, which has already

527
00:40:55,620 --> 00:40:56,160
said yes.

528
00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:03,960
The maximum cost for all three to join this would be $15,000 in our board, which supports

529
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,520
expansion with like-minded communities, is willing to fund the other half of the impact

530
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:09,280
assessment study.

531
00:41:09,500 --> 00:41:13,160
So, Max is $15,000 to be shared amongst the three of you.

532
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:19,000
And what that does, and we'll know the results around late August, would be we look at projected

533
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:26,180
revenues at time of launch compared to the cost to serve the new load.

534
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:32,520
And if it's positive, that means that the JPA isn't subsidizing new members, or current rate

535
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:34,140
repairs are not subsidizing new members.

536
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,080
It makes the JPA stronger.

537
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,020
It also means that you can then partake in the same benefits as everyone else so it makes

538
00:41:40,020 --> 00:41:40,520
sense.

539
00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:46,680
If the numbers are not positive, then it's something that we would pause and we look at it

540
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:47,340
at another time.

541
00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:51,420
So, just a very quick overview of what is a CCA.

542
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:53,840
So, you're not serial number one.

543
00:41:54,340 --> 00:41:58,620
There's already about 25 CCA's in the state,

544
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:00,940
serving more than 200 communities.

545
00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:04,020
How this really all started was, for some of you may remember,

546
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,700
the craziness of the early 2000s with the energy crisis

547
00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:10,120
when California opened up the market

548
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,360
and didn't go well.

549
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,260
But out of that legislation happened,

550
00:42:15,260 --> 00:42:22,400
that said, how can local communities be able to secure energy on behalf of their communities

551
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,820
and at least provide a little competition to the investor-owned utilities?

552
00:42:26,900 --> 00:42:32,640
So, that started in 2002, the first CCA then, our community choice aggregator launched

553
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:40,080
in 2010, up in Marin County, and then in the mid 2010s, many CCAs started to launch.

554
00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:41,800
It became a real revolution.

555
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:48,600
But when you look at the map from Eureka down to San Diego, everyone's represented with a CCA.

556
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,140
But you look at the in our region, they're not or in the middle of the state.

557
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:59,960
So I really proud of our board and the staff to work with folks here in our region,

558
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:04,900
because otherwise we've kind of been left out of this, and so we're really proud to be here tonight.

559
00:43:06,220 --> 00:43:06,900
Next slide, please.

560
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,160
How does the CCA work?

561
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,380
So what you're going to do is you're not going to be forming your own utility.

562
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,080
So you're not taking over the transmission and distribution system.

563
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:22,420
Just to kind of give you some numbers out there, City of Rockland, which is one of our members,

564
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:28,400
looked at securing their own transmission and distribution system from PG&E.

565
00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:32,200
Now, first of all, PG&E is not probably going to sell it, but they did their study to

566
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:39,680
at it, it would be about a half a billion to purchase a system plus all the infrastructure

567
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:46,440
in place to maintain it. Here, it gets you into the game for about 40 percent of the bill

568
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:55,320
on the generation side of the bill for a maximum risk of $15,000. So that's where we're not

569
00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:01,940
going to be replacing PG&E as far as your customer service goes if you have an outage,

570
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:08,400
But we are going to be then the electrons on the system and provide the benefits associated with that.

571
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:10,120
So next slide please.

572
00:44:10,620 --> 00:44:16,420
I want to cover all these bubbles, but the top ones would be about savings.

573
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:23,540
So since we've launched in 2018, we have saved at the end of this year.

574
00:44:23,580 --> 00:44:26,780
We've saved our ratepayers about $124 million.

575
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:31,960
The 92% of our budget is devoted to power supplies.

576
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,280
We have very little overhead.

577
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:35,880
We keep it very lean, very nimble.

578
00:44:36,980 --> 00:44:42,180
And our board has made a priority that rate pair savings is a number one issue.

579
00:44:42,820 --> 00:44:43,860
It's also about local control.

580
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,200
So an example of this would be, you know, you're sitting on our board.

581
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,200
You're making decisions about the rates, about the projects, about the programs.

582
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:59,980
and our board has been very specific about the importance of biomass and looking at local energy procurement that created.

583
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:06,120
We'll talk a little bit more about that in a few slides. As well as taking control of your energy future.

584
00:45:08,370 --> 00:45:28,090
This is right from our next slide, please. This is right from our strategic plan, our mission and vision statement, and we'll read that out, but it's the focus is on local, it's about the community partner, and just want to also emphasize for you and the public that we are not for profit, and you sit on our board, our ratepayers, our shareholders.

585
00:45:31,940 --> 00:45:36,580
This is just a snapshot of our service territory.

586
00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:42,580
As I mentioned, we are looking at Sutter County as well as some other members this year for joining us.

587
00:45:43,100 --> 00:45:47,540
We have about 170,000 meters, but we serve a population close to a million.

588
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,940
And also want to emphasize we do not compete with other public powers.

589
00:45:52,020 --> 00:45:54,700
So, for instance, Roseville Electric is public power.

590
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:57,700
truckie has their own utility, that's public power.

591
00:45:57,720 --> 00:45:59,840
That wouldn't be a place where we would go

592
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:00,400
to compete.

593
00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:03,540
The legislation was specific to compete with the

594
00:46:03,540 --> 00:46:04,880
investor own utility territory,

595
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,860
the NPG need in our course.

596
00:46:07,540 --> 00:46:08,440
And then next slide.

597
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:09,620
It's governance.

598
00:46:09,900 --> 00:46:11,400
I mentioned about sitting on our board.

599
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,160
So we have currently 11 members on our board.

600
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,700
Each one is an elected official from

601
00:46:18,220 --> 00:46:19,080
memory agency.

602
00:46:19,780 --> 00:46:22,980
It's so one of you would be eventually on our board

603
00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:24,300
and you would decide who that is.

604
00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:28,320
there's no term limits, and then also it's one member, one vote.

605
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:32,200
So it's not based on percentage of load.

606
00:46:32,660 --> 00:46:34,380
So there's not going to be a situation where you

607
00:46:34,380 --> 00:46:37,640
can have two members team up and kind of force in agenda.

608
00:46:38,060 --> 00:46:39,280
It's one member, one vote.

609
00:46:39,460 --> 00:46:40,860
So everyone is equally represented.

610
00:46:41,180 --> 00:46:44,560
And that's been well received by some of the smaller cities

611
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:45,400
that we have.

612
00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:48,520
And I think with that, I'm going to hand this off,

613
00:46:48,580 --> 00:46:52,000
actually one more slide would be, this is on the biomass.

614
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,420
So just to give you an example of what we're doing here,

615
00:46:56,060 --> 00:46:59,300
Grass Valley has a recent member that joined us.

616
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:00,440
They have some land.

617
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:04,000
They've got the wood waste trying to figure out

618
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,220
how to get a biomass plant there, it made sense.

619
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:11,420
So our role becomes, we become the technical advisor in this case.

620
00:47:11,980 --> 00:47:15,420
We issued an RFP and got responses.

621
00:47:15,660 --> 00:47:17,400
We then negotiate with that power supplier.

622
00:47:17,660 --> 00:47:20,800
We'll eventually sign a power purchase agreement.

623
00:47:21,380 --> 00:47:25,940
And then that power supplier, because they have a power purchase agreement, can then go ahead

624
00:47:25,940 --> 00:47:31,120
and get financing, and we're looking forward to closing that deal in the next two, three

625
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:31,380
months.

626
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:37,040
So that's an example where the biomass being in our territory, it's important to us.

627
00:47:37,140 --> 00:47:43,980
The board is, we talked about wildfire risk, and it's certainly hit our region, and that's

628
00:47:43,980 --> 00:47:44,860
been a priority.

629
00:47:44,860 --> 00:47:52,280
But we also look at other areas so for instance, we first thing we did with Elirado County when we went there is sign

630
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,940
37 million dollar contract with

631
00:47:55,900 --> 00:47:57,360
Elirado Education District

632
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,600
We do several million dollars at business with Placer County water agency

633
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:06,480
So we would do the same thing here where there's a local option that makes economic sense

634
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,060
That's what we would want to do

635
00:48:09,060 --> 00:48:13,280
And now I think I say good place for me to hand this off to Lisa Delobi. Thanks

636
00:48:20,290 --> 00:48:25,850
Thank you, Dawn. I'm just going to briefly touch on programs.

637
00:48:28,070 --> 00:48:29,870
So enrollment in any program,

638
00:48:29,910 --> 00:48:35,350
a customer has with PG&E, whether it's CARE, FARA, or medical baseline, that's going to carry

639
00:48:35,350 --> 00:48:41,130
over to Pioneer. So that's a top question that we get asked. In addition to the PG&E programs,

640
00:48:41,690 --> 00:48:46,510
however, Pioneer offers additional local programs that are focused on saving customers money.

641
00:48:47,270 --> 00:48:53,290
Our customers have a voice in local programs and it's based on input from our customer or

642
00:48:53,290 --> 00:48:54,910
from our community advisory committee.

643
00:48:55,510 --> 00:48:59,550
The committee meets every other month and they prioritize programs that they'd like to

644
00:48:59,550 --> 00:49:04,830
see offered and as Don mentioned, we are allocating $2 million a year on programs.

645
00:49:05,430 --> 00:49:10,930
Some additional pioneer specific programs that we offer include an online solar marketplace where

646
00:49:10,930 --> 00:49:18,510
or customers can get guided through that crazy maze of solar, and they can decide and choose which

647
00:49:18,510 --> 00:49:27,370
solar suits them best. And they get three bids from different solar customers, so it's

648
00:49:27,370 --> 00:49:33,270
a great program. We also offer GridGen a zero dollar lease program for a residence to pair

649
00:49:33,270 --> 00:49:37,950
the solar and battery storage, and it provides stability to rates and resiliency to grid

650
00:49:38,970 --> 00:49:45,490
Greenlight is a subsidized low-cost LED lighting and it's available through local retailers in our service area.

651
00:49:46,030 --> 00:49:52,590
We also just launched an HVAC TuneUp rebate and basically allows our customers to get their HVAC TuneUp,

652
00:49:52,710 --> 00:49:56,250
and then they came receive a $75 TuneUp rebate.

653
00:49:56,350 --> 00:50:01,150
And that's a check that they'll receive in the mail just by giving us the receipt that they had this work done.

654
00:50:02,150 --> 00:50:07,390
We also are going to be offering some demand side program management programs coming soon,

655
00:50:07,390 --> 00:50:10,950
so that rewards customers who lower their energy usage.

656
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:19,040
And I'm Pioneer's Community Outreach Manager,

657
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,120
and I just want to let you know we are committed to being

658
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,260
a community partner in the territories that we serve.

659
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,000
We're actively involved with RCRC,

660
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,140
the rural county representatives of California

661
00:50:31,140 --> 00:50:33,780
to help identify potential biomass projects

662
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:35,640
that lead to economic development.

663
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,400
We also participate in member agencies Chamber of Commerce,

664
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:46,920
committees and we sponsor a lot of local events and in addition to recently co-sponsoring

665
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:51,560
a League of Cities, divisional event, we also sponsor events such as the Lincoln Potter's

666
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:58,260
baseball team, Sierra Nevada, Gala and we also sponsor state of the city events as well.

667
00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:03,020
We also partner with the California biomass energy alliance and the bio-energy association

668
00:51:03,020 --> 00:51:08,360
of California along with working with economic development groups to help with business relocation

669
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,800
with our green 100 product, which is 100% renewable.

670
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:20,120
As Dawn mentioned, we believe in community investment, and this slide just illustrates

671
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:24,620
a few of the ways that Pioneer really does reinvest in our communities that we serve.

672
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:30,340
We use local vendors, we offer local programs, we sponsor local events, and we really

673
00:51:30,340 --> 00:51:36,980
work to offer and create local power purchase agreements so that those funds stay local

674
00:51:36,980 --> 00:51:45,740
create jobs. So as Dawn mentioned, we've saved customers $126 million since 2018 through

675
00:51:45,740 --> 00:51:52,020
the end of this year. We've also worked with El Dorado Irrigation District on a 10-year

676
00:51:52,020 --> 00:51:58,720
power purchase agreement, totaling $37 million. He also mentioned we've allocated and budgeted

677
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:04,920
$15 million to support local biomass and small hydro projects in our territories and we would

678
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:10,140
to do that and really get the word out here. We've also worked with the

679
00:52:10,140 --> 00:52:13,580
Plaster County Water Agency, as Dawn mentioned, on energy and resource

680
00:52:13,580 --> 00:52:18,300
adequacy purchases totaling over $10 million. And we've budgeted that $2

681
00:52:18,300 --> 00:52:24,640
million for local programs and we've also worked to procure $1.2 million in

682
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,920
renewable energy credits from Sierra Pacific Industries.

683
00:52:31,650 --> 00:52:48,590
Pioneer offers two rate products. We offer our standard product, and we also offer green 100, which is 100% renewable energy. It's still less expensive than PG&E, and even our standard rate plan has a higher concentration of renewable energy than PG&E.

684
00:52:49,690 --> 00:52:58,810
Recently, the cities of Auburn, Grass Valley and Nevada City have opted up to our green 100 to help them meet their climate action goals. So it's been very effective.

685
00:52:58,810 --> 00:53:05,370
And I wanted to keep it brief for you, but now I'm going to turn it over to Gina Stasi

686
00:53:05,370 --> 00:53:09,970
Vanicourt, who is our Director of Public Affairs, Marketing, and Programs.

687
00:53:10,710 --> 00:53:11,710
Thank you.

688
00:53:20,310 --> 00:53:20,810
Good evening.

689
00:53:22,130 --> 00:53:27,270
As Dawn mentioned, we are not here to ask you to join Pioneer tonight.

690
00:53:27,810 --> 00:53:34,770
What we are looking for is direction from the Council on conducting the Impact Assessment

691
00:53:34,770 --> 00:53:41,550
study. In between now and when service would launch there are several steps and this timeline

692
00:53:41,550 --> 00:53:48,610
helps familiarize you with what would be involved. If you turn your attention to line 3 that's

693
00:53:48,610 --> 00:53:55,670
where we are tonight but I would like to acknowledge and thank the City Manager and her staff

694
00:53:55,670 --> 00:54:01,730
for the work that has come before tonight to do a fair amount of research, compile information

695
00:54:01,730 --> 00:54:04,450
as I'm get us to this point.

696
00:54:05,930 --> 00:54:09,050
An impact assessment study, as you've been told,

697
00:54:09,450 --> 00:54:12,590
really helps determine the financial feasibility

698
00:54:12,590 --> 00:54:17,310
of having the city join our JPA for both the city

699
00:54:17,310 --> 00:54:18,350
and for pioneer.

700
00:54:19,490 --> 00:54:23,530
If that is conducted, we anticipate that the findings

701
00:54:23,530 --> 00:54:25,250
would be back in fall,

702
00:54:25,990 --> 00:54:28,730
and we would come back to share the findings

703
00:54:28,730 --> 00:54:34,530
and really help explain to you what that means, both in terms of timing and cost.

704
00:54:36,050 --> 00:54:43,410
After that, if you would city votes to join Pioneer, we go back to our member agencies.

705
00:54:43,890 --> 00:54:48,830
They also have to join or they also have to vote to approve the expansion.

706
00:54:49,690 --> 00:54:57,210
Assuming all of that happens and our JPA is amended, we would submit a plan to the California Public Utilities Commission.

707
00:54:57,210 --> 00:55:09,490
They have until about the end of March to either approve or deny that plan, and then at that point we would come back to the city of UBCIT again.

708
00:55:10,330 --> 00:55:17,510
At that point there's still one more opportunity for you to change your mind in case you decide not to join Pioneer.

709
00:55:17,950 --> 00:55:19,130
But of course we hope you would.

710
00:55:19,810 --> 00:55:25,470
And then assuming all is going forward we would begin procuring power for the city of UBCIT.

711
00:55:25,470 --> 00:55:31,730
The Impact Assessment Study will tell us a little bit more about the optimal timing for service launch.

712
00:55:32,310 --> 00:55:40,350
At this point, we anticipate that it would be either late 2026 or more likely early 2027.

713
00:55:42,510 --> 00:55:43,630
So, next slide, please.

714
00:55:45,330 --> 00:56:02,990
In between the time that you vote to join Pioneer and service launch, we would work with the city to develop partnerships and really work to educate your constituents, both residential and business about what to expect.

715
00:56:02,990 --> 00:56:11,350
we know this is complicated. We have a good sense of what the biggest questions are. We would work

716
00:56:11,350 --> 00:56:17,750
in all different mediums. We would probably run advertising. We do mailers. We do town halls.

717
00:56:18,590 --> 00:56:25,050
Speak to rotarys. Go to civic and fraternal organizations because part of what we want to do is

718
00:56:25,050 --> 00:56:29,770
be a part of the communities that we serve. And we don't just say it, we actually do it.

719
00:56:29,770 --> 00:56:36,990
So, again, what we are looking for tonight from the council is direction on commissioning the impact assessment study.

720
00:56:37,350 --> 00:56:43,150
I'm as Lisa mentioned, the Cedar County and the City of Live Oak will also be doing.

721
00:56:43,670 --> 00:56:49,770
And as part of the assessment study, it is $30,000 total of which Pioneer pays 50%.

722
00:56:50,690 --> 00:56:55,250
And there's no impact to your general fund by joining Pioneer.

723
00:56:57,070 --> 00:57:00,650
With that, could I put that up to questions?

724
00:57:03,510 --> 00:57:03,630
Sir?

725
00:57:03,810 --> 00:57:03,930
Sir?

726
00:57:05,370 --> 00:57:09,590
You say there's 126 million over a six-year secure period of time.

727
00:57:09,770 --> 00:57:10,330
Is that correct?

728
00:57:10,810 --> 00:57:12,690
How many households did you say you serve?

729
00:57:13,850 --> 00:57:14,270
We serve.

730
00:57:15,190 --> 00:57:20,210
There are 170 meters, and that serves the population of about 1 million.

731
00:57:21,870 --> 00:57:22,910
See, okay.

732
00:57:23,470 --> 00:57:25,470
Is that some meters have?

733
00:57:25,850 --> 00:57:32,890
You're saving people, I'm trying to do the number here per household is what I'm trying

734
00:57:32,890 --> 00:57:33,350
to work to.

735
00:57:33,670 --> 00:57:36,050
Do you have that?

736
00:57:36,150 --> 00:57:37,390
That's about $200.

737
00:57:38,070 --> 00:57:38,510
A year.

738
00:57:39,850 --> 00:57:40,310
Thank you.

739
00:57:40,490 --> 00:57:40,530
Yeah.

740
00:57:40,570 --> 00:57:41,390
It's my question.

741
00:57:44,590 --> 00:57:46,350
Thank you for that presentation.

742
00:57:47,470 --> 00:57:48,450
So walk me through this.

743
00:57:48,450 --> 00:57:53,390
It's some further council meeting if we decided to go with you folks.

744
00:57:53,730 --> 00:57:58,790
It's as simple as this flickin' switch or are you physically going on

745
00:57:59,950 --> 00:58:03,790
to properties of the public in New York City?

746
00:58:04,050 --> 00:58:04,470
We are not.

747
00:58:04,850 --> 00:58:05,330
Okay, we're going on.

748
00:58:05,830 --> 00:58:06,750
Thank you.

749
00:58:10,690 --> 00:58:11,750
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

750
00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:15,610
Why would peace, thank you for the presentation, by the way.

751
00:58:15,790 --> 00:58:19,990
Now, so watch your one to the county, so I have a couple of questions from that one.

752
00:58:19,990 --> 00:58:24,050
Why would PG&E, PG&E say we shouldn't do this?

753
00:58:26,710 --> 00:58:27,750
By law they can't.

754
00:58:28,690 --> 00:58:30,310
Oh, this was really created through legislation.

755
00:58:31,290 --> 00:58:34,990
I'll tell you some of the history of when this first launched in Marin.

756
00:58:35,290 --> 00:58:42,470
It was a, it got pretty nasty for between PG&E and Marin and very aggressive out of that.

757
00:58:42,530 --> 00:58:47,250
From that, CPUC put together some rules of sort of a code of conduct.

758
00:58:47,250 --> 00:58:53,550
I look at this way that you're offering your folks a choice, so you're not necessarily saying

759
00:58:53,550 --> 00:58:56,310
you have to go with PG and you're offering them a choice.

760
00:58:57,510 --> 00:59:06,970
We feel very confident in what we do and looking at our budgets that we're always going

761
00:59:06,970 --> 00:59:12,290
to be cost competitive and we keep the rates stable, we change them at most once per year.

762
00:59:14,750 --> 00:59:16,910
And, but to answer your question directly,

763
00:59:17,030 --> 00:59:20,730
PG&E by law couldn't really come up here and say you can't do this.

764
00:59:21,390 --> 00:59:24,510
So the next question then is,

765
00:59:24,970 --> 00:59:29,050
the PUC would be regulating the transmission

766
00:59:29,050 --> 00:59:31,510
and the distribution costs, is that correct?

767
00:59:32,030 --> 00:59:33,330
Well, it's still PG&E system.

768
00:59:33,750 --> 00:59:36,050
So they would be regulating those rates, that's correct.

769
00:59:36,450 --> 00:59:39,310
So, and this was a question,

770
00:59:39,310 --> 00:59:46,590
I had a presentation with a community interest at Citizen and Supervisors, Baines, and Flores.

771
00:59:47,870 --> 00:59:52,950
And the question was, okay, does PG need try to come back at us through the transmission

772
00:59:52,950 --> 00:59:59,970
and the distribution costs to make up the cost of the electricity now that's being supplied?

773
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:06,760
That's a great question. You would think if I've lost this sort of revenue, I'm just going to double down on that. That's a great question.

774
01:00:07,620 --> 01:00:17,300
So they can't. So first of all, except for their generation equipment, they're not making a rate of return on the generation portion of the bill.

775
01:00:17,420 --> 01:00:25,080
When they're out there purchasing fuel and purchase power, that is, they're not allowed to make a profit on that.

776
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:32,500
So then to go ahead and say whatever revenues, I'm not getting from generation, throw them into transmission and distribution.

777
01:00:33,140 --> 01:00:37,020
Biolates every sort of cost service law that there is.

778
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:43,120
It would be my opinion and possible for them to prove that through the CPC to recover those costs.

779
01:00:44,880 --> 01:00:46,880
So it's a very good question.

780
01:00:47,340 --> 01:00:49,780
It's just that it would not be able to fly.

781
01:00:49,780 --> 01:00:54,080
And there's no way they could justify generation cost that they're losing and putting them

782
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:55,620
into transmission distribution.

783
01:00:57,500 --> 01:01:01,900
And could you spend a little time on talking to, I mean there's a lot of solar panels

784
01:01:01,900 --> 01:01:04,000
on top of roofs in New York City.

785
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:11,040
Can you expand just a little bit about how that impacts those of us who have a solar system

786
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:15,580
and own those systems and how is that reimbursement all?

787
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:17,900
Oh, short answer is you're better off.

788
01:01:17,900 --> 01:01:23,680
Right now, we currently have 40,000 solar customers in a territory, so we have a high percentage

789
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:30,020
of solar in our system, actually more than much more than most of the CCA's, even on

790
01:01:30,020 --> 01:01:30,480
the coast.

791
01:01:31,620 --> 01:01:37,700
And in your case, if you're a net generator, you would receive a half-cent premium at the

792
01:01:37,700 --> 01:01:43,200
end of the year with pioneer for your net generation, and if you're a net consumer, then

793
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,780
you're enjoying the same discount rate that everyone else is.

794
01:01:46,780 --> 01:01:53,060
So it's a win either way, and that would be probably the group that would be the most aggressive

795
01:01:53,060 --> 01:01:57,880
about this program because they really do watch their bill very closely in the fact that

796
01:01:58,420 --> 01:02:01,400
we've kept 40,000 of them tells me that we're doing it right.

797
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaking of the bill, you showed it at the Southern County meeting for the benefit of

798
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:11,760
our viewing audience and those here, it was possible to show that just to see what the bill

799
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:12,740
would look like.

800
01:02:13,220 --> 01:02:14,440
Great, and thank you for pulling that up.

801
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,220
So this would be just a snapshot.

802
01:02:16,260 --> 01:02:19,080
The bill is very long and complicated, as you know.

803
01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:21,760
But how it would look is you're going to have,

804
01:02:21,980 --> 01:02:24,100
so we're not sending out any separate bill

805
01:02:24,100 --> 01:02:25,220
with Pioneer Community Energy.

806
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,980
You're going to have one bill, and again, PG&E is required

807
01:02:28,980 --> 01:02:30,140
to do it this way.

808
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,140
And you're going to see the Pioneer Community Energy

809
01:02:34,140 --> 01:02:35,200
Generation Chargers.

810
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:37,640
So then you pay the bill, and then the portion

811
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:41,220
that belongs to Pioneer is transferred PG&E into our account.

812
01:02:42,380 --> 01:02:48,660
final question. You've been great on all these so far. You said that we would have to be

813
01:02:48,660 --> 01:02:57,860
approved by your other member entities, why would they say no? They never have. So what

814
01:02:57,860 --> 01:03:04,180
we do, we do our homework at a time to say, are we looking at like-minded communities? And

815
01:03:04,180 --> 01:03:08,620
that's the reason for instance that the Sutter County we had our board chair there, she would

816
01:03:08,620 --> 01:03:15,560
been here tonight, if I were to go out there and recruit, for instance, looking at, I'm

817
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:19,800
not picking on Berkeley, this is just an example, but Berkeley wouldn't be a great fit

818
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:24,820
because they're looking at, they're not maybe so much concerned about cost as much as green

819
01:03:24,820 --> 01:03:30,320
green and we're not. So we do offer a green 100 product, but our default product is going

820
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:34,480
to follow the statement of them for the most part to keep our cost low. This is what really

821
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:38,540
adds up to the savings. So when we're out there looking at new communities, we want

822
01:03:38,540 --> 01:03:42,520
that that out too to make sure that I'm not just introducing conflict to the board.

823
01:03:42,940 --> 01:03:44,300
So we're doing that homework at a time.

824
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:49,400
And by the time it's going to a vote to amend the JPA, we've done that.

825
01:03:49,820 --> 01:03:52,440
I said that was a final question, but I did have one more, sorry.

826
01:03:54,540 --> 01:04:06,860
As it relates to the competition, I mean, I know that we've had discussions with CCAs in neighboring jurisdictions who have declined to include us.

827
01:04:06,860 --> 01:04:16,060
Would we expect that there would be another one of a view all coming to us or are you are you are you what we are you what we have?

828
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:25,400
We would be what what you have as far as when you join us now if you wanted to back out of the JPA at another time to join a CCA

829
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:30,300
It can happen. It's never I don't know of anyone. It's that's done that but

830
01:04:31,100 --> 01:04:33,300
if you decide to move forward with us then

831
01:04:34,580 --> 01:04:37,100
you would become part of our defined service territory.

832
01:04:39,300 --> 01:04:39,500
Okay.

833
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:40,500
Thank you, Mayor.

834
01:04:40,780 --> 01:04:42,820
The air's back on, so if you got some more questions, go forward.

835
01:04:44,220 --> 01:04:45,880
You kept you jacket on, that was impressive.

836
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,280
I'm not as strong as the city attorney, you kept us tie on.

837
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:52,480
Through the mayor.

838
01:04:53,420 --> 01:04:54,520
Thanks for being here tonight.

839
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,600
Just a couple more questions around solar and whatnot.

840
01:04:58,260 --> 01:05:00,720
There's some of us that had solar for a very long time.

841
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:08,980
we're nm1nm2 another nm3 and we know the differences under PG&E's current stronghold they

842
01:05:08,980 --> 01:05:15,680
have of being in the different levels. If someone was has solar and changes over to pioneer,

843
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:22,020
is that going to affect any of that because like nm1nm2 or grandfathered in? So that would not

844
01:05:22,020 --> 01:05:27,180
change anything there. Absolutely not. So as you mentioned, every version of nm is gets worse,

845
01:05:27,180 --> 01:05:32,580
But it wouldn't be like you joined Pioneer and now you're automatically put into NM3.

846
01:05:33,060 --> 01:05:35,260
Whatever you are right now, that's where you are.

847
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:36,040
No impact.

848
01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:46,260
Pretty much already know the answer to this, but I just want to be clear for our citizens of the city.

849
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:57,160
If we were to partner with Pioneer, we're still going to be subject to the,

850
01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:01,200
brownouts and everything else because you don't have any control over that.

851
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:07,280
So if PG&E does a brownout throughout the city, it doesn't matter what career you are,

852
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,380
they're the transmission lines, they're shutting them down.

853
01:06:10,380 --> 01:06:10,880
That is correct.

854
01:06:11,140 --> 01:06:17,440
So we've done through our Trade Association of Cal CCA, which is all the CCA's, have

855
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:22,140
done efforts on the legislative side and the regulatory side to put pressure on, have some

856
01:06:22,140 --> 01:06:29,320
oversight into the PSPS program, for instance, as is an example of that, where we want to,

857
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:35,220
at least have some oversight on it, but if they decide to shut off the power, there's really

858
01:06:35,220 --> 01:06:36,280
nothing we can do about that.

859
01:06:36,660 --> 01:06:41,580
We do, at least a product like, for instance, on the program slide, where we're looking at a

860
01:06:41,580 --> 01:06:46,620
product that, for a zero-down lease, you can have a solar-plus storage or a battery in place,

861
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:50,540
that could keep the power on for folks in those instances, that we're very excited about

862
01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:56,920
not here and about by mid July, but in aggregate now we're not to controlling the line.

863
01:06:57,260 --> 01:06:59,880
Thank you.

864
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,220
We'll need public comment on this item.

865
01:07:06,350 --> 01:07:08,390
All right, we can come back for a motion.

866
01:07:16,590 --> 01:07:18,030
Oh, through the mayor.

867
01:07:18,630 --> 01:07:25,050
Sir, I move the authorize city manager to jointly commission an impact assessment study to determine the financial

868
01:07:25,050 --> 01:07:29,350
visibility and timing of the city joining Pioneer Community Energy's joint exercise

869
01:07:29,350 --> 01:07:29,890
of powers.

870
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:31,740
We make a junction with Cedric County.

871
01:07:32,320 --> 01:07:32,580
Second.

872
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:37,160
First and second to approve the motion.

873
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:38,780
All those in favor say aye.

874
01:07:38,800 --> 01:07:39,040
Aye.

875
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,240
And it posed is not a pass of unanimously.

876
01:07:42,420 --> 01:07:43,300
Thank you very much.

877
01:07:43,460 --> 01:07:44,200
We look forward to working with it.

878
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:45,980
Move on to the next step.

879
01:07:46,980 --> 01:07:47,980
Move on to number 16.

880
01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:51,200
Adoption of the city of UBCD's fiscal year,

881
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:54,600
2425 operating capital budgets and fiscal year,

882
01:07:54,660 --> 01:07:56,860
2425 appropriations limits.

883
01:07:59,160 --> 01:07:59,720
Dianna,

884
01:08:03,010 --> 01:08:04,010
can the money people?

885
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:18,640
Good evening Mr. Mayor, members of the Council tonight.

886
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:24,860
We are presenting you with a high-level overview of the fiscal year 2425 operating budget.

887
01:08:25,460 --> 01:08:31,180
For the general fund and a summary of the enterprise funds, joining me is Dianna Pope Accounting

888
01:08:31,180 --> 01:08:31,760
Manager.

889
01:08:32,060 --> 01:08:38,460
I also like to recognize Emergeet Corps and list to both the responsible for coordinating

890
01:08:38,460 --> 01:08:45,640
stewarding and building this budget for. More on the capital budget, I would refer everybody

891
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:50,700
back to the June 4th meeting where it was covered in depth.

892
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:54,840
Here's a slide that just

893
01:08:54,840 --> 01:09:01,180
basically shows the UPCD budget allocations in the general fund and you can see that 62% is

894
01:09:01,180 --> 01:09:07,640
public safety which supports council priorities, add in another priority infrastructure and public

895
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:12,180
works and that brings us to about 74% of the general fund budget.

896
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:17,420
We are expecting nearly a 2.7 million dollar surplus.

897
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:23,920
Once we close the books in 2344, however, this is not an operating surplus per save, but

898
01:09:23,920 --> 01:09:28,880
rather unused reserves transferred into the general fund in July of 2023.

899
01:09:30,060 --> 01:09:35,660
So those reserves will go on to help close budget deficits in the future.

900
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:48,040
We are experiencing just like every most every household probably rising cost of goods, every household city, local government across the country.

901
01:09:48,680 --> 01:10:05,680
A rising cost to include the big one is really insurance. This is an index from 2014-15 where I'm tracking the percentage of increase across that 10-year period.

902
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:22,440
You can see lots of increases there do include inflation just as an index, so many of the increases are outpacing the percentage of inflation for that same period.

903
01:10:23,580 --> 01:10:29,140
The budget process is lengthy to say the least on my team starts around January.

904
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:32,900
And we, after this adoption,

905
01:10:34,920 --> 01:10:37,760
after this budget is adopted, then we still have the publishing

906
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:41,400
of the budget remaining, so it's quite a lengthy process.

907
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:48,780
But the council, through the ad hoc budget committee and department heads, are very involved

908
01:10:48,780 --> 01:10:51,640
involved as is the city manager and my staff,

909
01:10:53,760 --> 01:10:55,560
speaking of a budget ad hoc committee.

910
01:10:56,120 --> 01:11:07,800
This year it was staffed to buy Mayor Harris and Council Member Pascuali and this is this

911
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:13,980
I believe the sixth year of using a budget ad hoc and the committee met with each department to hear budget needs

912
01:11:13,980 --> 01:11:19,620
and to deliberate it over a few days to come up with a recommended budget.

913
01:11:24,290 --> 01:11:31,970
As we get into the budget detail, we will be drawing on reserves on this recommended budget.

914
01:11:33,430 --> 01:11:38,770
The reserves are intended to come from the budget stabilization reserve, about 5.5 million.

915
01:11:42,300 --> 01:11:50,560
This city does have adequate reserves at the moment, about 30 million before we use any to close any deficits.

916
01:11:51,180 --> 01:12:17,480
So, you can see that we keep just under eight million in a healthy cities reserve, which is by policy 15% in this budget, as we, we are recommend not not bringing that to 15% necessarily without, you know, we, we, we, I'm sorry, we will bring it to 15% but we'll move money from another,

917
01:12:17,480 --> 01:12:22,820
recommending we do many's from another reserve and the general fund CIP

918
01:12:25,480 --> 01:12:27,340
and that gets us to

919
01:12:27,340 --> 01:12:32,740
some general fund at this point. I'm going to have Diana Pope. Continue.

920
01:12:42,510 --> 01:12:43,110
Good evening.

921
01:12:46,950 --> 01:12:51,610
This shows graphically the changes in total general front revenues over time.

922
01:12:52,050 --> 01:12:58,710
There are 10 years of actual historical results. The fiscal year 2324 projected and the fiscal year

923
01:12:58,710 --> 01:13:01,310
24-25 proposed budgets.

924
01:13:01,870 --> 01:13:05,390
These figures do include transfers and from other funds.

925
01:13:07,450 --> 01:13:13,150
Here, I'm drying your attention to the largest revenue changes proposed for fiscal year 24-25.

926
01:13:16,100 --> 01:13:21,120
This is a similar slide for general fund expenditures, including actual results for 10 years

927
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:27,580
along with the fiscal year 23 budget, fiscal year 24 projected, and fiscal year 25 proposed.

928
01:13:27,580 --> 01:13:33,640
This is broken down for each year into the categories of salaries and benefits and MSNS,

929
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:35,580
material services and supplies.

930
01:13:37,340 --> 01:13:41,660
The next two slides will provide a list of the largest general fund expenditure changes

931
01:13:41,660 --> 01:13:48,120
from the 23-24 budget to the 24-25 budget, and this is the second slide.

932
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:53,440
pension.

933
01:13:55,680 --> 01:14:00,660
This represents a cost for perse retirement as a percent of every dollar of payroll.

934
01:14:01,220 --> 01:14:11,580
Safety is in red and miscellaneous is in blue. This is a blended composite rate of all the tiers including the UAL payment and is based on CalPERS payroll cost estimates.

935
01:14:12,380 --> 01:14:16,720
This is only the employer portion and it doesn't include the portion paid by our employees.

936
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:25,360
These projected rates are based on the actual reports as of 630-2022 put out by CalPERS in July of 2023.

937
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:30,220
Binance will update this information when new actual reports are received.

938
01:14:39,030 --> 01:14:43,550
Rising costs are outpacing revenues producing a declining debt coverage ratio.

939
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:53,800
Another way to look at it is available water fund cash reserves is declining as operating expenses outpaces revenue.

940
01:14:53,800 --> 01:14:57,920
declining that revenues has put more pressure on the debt coverage.

941
01:15:01,100 --> 01:15:10,640
The fiscal year 2425 wastewater fund revenue budget is showing slightly decreasing revenues, increasing expenditures, and the declining debt service ratio.

942
01:15:16,380 --> 01:15:26,260
This is a similar slide, as what you saw for water, but shows a very large spike on CIP for the wastewater plant improvement and increase in cash due to bond proceeds.

943
01:15:29,480 --> 01:15:35,380
The department's present today identified needs to your budget at Hock Committee for Capital Acquisition Request.

944
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:42,280
This is a summary of items requested as part of the capital acquisitions requested by general fund departments.

945
01:15:44,920 --> 01:15:50,580
This is a summary of vehicles requested as part of the capital acquisitions requested by departments.

946
01:15:53,630 --> 01:16:00,910
This is a summary of equipment requested as part of the capital acquisition required for the continued health of the city's technology infrastructure.

947
01:16:01,710 --> 01:16:07,150
These items are purchased from the technology replacement fund which relies on transfers from all divisions.

948
01:16:10,440 --> 01:16:17,220
personnel count changes. This slide identifies the three personnel requests from departments.

949
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:24,700
Additionally, the Code Enforcement Officer and Development Liaison will go from limited turn positions to full-time.

950
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:37,240
Community contributions. This slide is dedicated to the Community Contributions for the fiscal year 2425.

951
01:16:41,940 --> 01:16:50,060
Operating Budget wrap-up, the recommendations are to make ADP for general fund portion from the 1-15 plan.

952
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:56,860
Only do so at the utility funds debt coverage ratio, stays at or above 1.2.

953
01:16:57,260 --> 01:17:00,840
Use UAL repayment savings to make an ADP.

954
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:09,400
Commit remaining budget stabilization reserves to close the deficit rather than using other discretionary funds or making permanent cuts.

955
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:15,780
Fund the Healthy Cities Reserve at 15% by transferring from an allocated general fund CIP.

956
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:22,580
Other options include don't make the ADP, the first two bullet points, and utilize the funds

957
01:17:22,580 --> 01:17:28,240
or other purposes, use discretionary funds to pay some general fund costs instead of budget

958
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:29,560
stabilization reserves.

959
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:35,980
Staff can look to bond debt where possible to free up cash long term to pay down unfunded

960
01:17:35,980 --> 01:17:36,580
liabilities.

961
01:17:36,580 --> 01:17:43,640
Do not, fund healthy cities reserve at 15% and leave general fund CIP for future projects.

962
01:17:45,790 --> 01:17:50,690
The resolutions we're proposing is a doctor resolution approving the proposed fiscal year

963
01:17:50,690 --> 01:17:57,770
2425 operating budget, a doctor resolution approving the fiscal year 2425 capital improvement

964
01:17:57,770 --> 01:18:03,070
program, and a doctor resolution approving the city's appropriations limit for fiscal year

965
01:18:03,990 --> 01:18:04,770
2425.

966
01:18:05,270 --> 01:18:07,150
Any questions or comments?

967
01:18:15,600 --> 01:18:16,640
Not yet.

968
01:18:19,540 --> 01:18:22,300
All right. Yeah, if you're there. I'm

969
01:18:26,010 --> 01:18:28,990
seeing it. I mean, this is bear bones.

970
01:18:29,470 --> 01:18:34,990
This is bear bones budget. It's clear that it's a bear bone budget. I know in the

971
01:18:34,990 --> 01:18:40,110
ad hoc committee, I made the comment, gentlemen, that this this budget is pretty close

972
01:18:40,110 --> 01:18:44,970
to what you, but community college history has. We serve 70,000 people.

973
01:18:50,610 --> 01:18:51,130
You

974
01:18:51,130 --> 01:18:54,110
go to task with anyone that we are not bare bones.

975
01:18:54,390 --> 01:18:57,630
This is bare bones, so with that comment,

976
01:18:58,550 --> 01:18:59,830
I can make wishes to someone else.

977
01:19:00,670 --> 01:19:00,910
I agree.

978
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:07,700
So I've labored hard on this one.

979
01:19:08,220 --> 01:19:12,200
And first let me say that I, in no way,

980
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:15,940
I'm in conflict with the work of the ATHOT committee.

981
01:19:16,580 --> 01:19:20,380
I'm certainly not in no way, in conflict with the work

982
01:19:20,380 --> 01:19:23,260
of Spencer or Deona or Emergey or the rest

983
01:19:23,260 --> 01:19:27,580
of the staff department heads. However, I cannot support this budget.

984
01:19:29,480 --> 01:19:38,160
And the reason is, as we embrace our embark on this journey of asking our residents to

985
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:45,300
consider taxing themselves, we can call it a revenue measure, we can call it a tax. It's imperative

986
01:19:45,300 --> 01:19:56,520
to me and something that I feel very, very important to me that we spend wisely. And I'm

987
01:19:56,520 --> 01:20:01,480
not suggesting that we don't spend wisely because I know I've been an active participant

988
01:20:01,480 --> 01:20:08,340
in the budget ad hoc committee. And again, I respect consensus and I respect the fact that

989
01:20:08,340 --> 01:20:13,840
I may be in the minority here. But there are some things in contained within this budget

990
01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:20,360
that I would not spend money on personally, nor would I have spent that money on any business

991
01:20:20,360 --> 01:20:22,780
that I had the opportunity or privilege of running.

992
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:30,600
I need to be true to myself, and I know others on this council at different times have

993
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:36,580
made that claim as well as that, hey look, I get it, I'm not suggesting that this budget

994
01:20:36,580 --> 01:20:43,820
is frivolous by any matters, but it does contain some things that I feel are highly, highly

995
01:20:43,820 --> 01:20:47,000
related those and communicated those at the last meeting.

996
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:58,620
I was apparently either confused the writer for the territorial dispatch or perhaps I

997
01:20:58,620 --> 01:21:04,860
mispoke, but there was a comment printed that I was in somehow not in support of the Sacramento

998
01:21:04,860 --> 01:21:07,080
area of Council of Governments, saycock.

999
01:21:07,700 --> 01:21:09,140
That is the furthest from the truth.

1000
01:21:09,140 --> 01:21:20,140
I see the return on the our investment from say cog and I believe in that organization and I will be following up with the territorial dispatch to make sure that they understand that.

1001
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:31,820
It's just important for me that as we as we stand in front of our constituents it's at I stand in front of our constituents they absolutely understand that.

1002
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:40,740
I have been entrusted with them by them to spend their money wisely, and when I see things

1003
01:21:40,740 --> 01:21:46,900
that I just fundamentally do not agree with, then I have to take this particular action.

1004
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:52,700
I will be voting no on the budget, but I really really want to make sure that my colleagues

1005
01:21:52,700 --> 01:21:59,160
here understand that I understand and respect consensus and to Spencer, Deanna, I'm

1006
01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:06,400
and the staff, this is no personal reflection on any of the work that you have done this year or in previous years.

1007
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:07,440
Thank you.

1008
01:22:08,930 --> 01:22:09,630
All right, thank you.

1009
01:22:09,750 --> 01:22:10,810
Any comment from the public?

1010
01:22:14,420 --> 01:22:14,760
Good night.

1011
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:15,640
You have this.

1012
01:22:28,950 --> 01:22:29,490
Thank you.

1013
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:38,260
One of the graphs you showed showed inflation as a red line, and then a whole bunch of other items.

1014
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:49,180
As I'm looking at it, I wondered if any or many of those other items are what constitutes inflation.

1015
01:22:49,920 --> 01:22:57,760
Looks like you're showing inflation, and then a whole bunch of other such as labor or other costs.

1016
01:22:57,760 --> 01:23:03,400
Is there an opportunity to see that slide? Maybe you can explain.

1017
01:23:04,880 --> 01:23:09,840
I don't mind if you, I'm not sure what slide it is, but if it's a quick and easy question,

1018
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:15,220
we've tried before about this is common period, but if you have, if it's a quick and easy question,

1019
01:23:16,060 --> 01:23:18,960
the definition of a red line, I don't have a problem with that.

1020
01:23:27,090 --> 01:23:29,710
The red line, you have inflation.

1021
01:23:30,790 --> 01:23:36,510
And then you have gas and electric going up in price, fuel is going up, labor.

1022
01:23:37,530 --> 01:23:44,270
It seems to me, many of those items that you're showing constitutes inflation, that's

1023
01:23:44,270 --> 01:23:45,590
what inflation is,

1024
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:54,660
what, what, what, what, I would say the general rate of inflation,

1025
01:23:54,860 --> 01:23:59,760
nationwide would be a general number, the red line, the numbers, the lines that are above

1026
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:03,840
that have exceeded more than inflation in general.

1027
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:07,580
So if we have a, you know,

1028
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:08,940
the inflation goes up,

1029
01:24:08,980 --> 01:24:10,920
X percent these one up higher percent.

1030
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:13,840
So that graph is intended to demonstrate

1031
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:15,960
that basically cost or rising.

1032
01:24:17,680 --> 01:24:17,760
Okay.

1033
01:24:18,600 --> 01:24:19,240
Thank you.

1034
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:19,740
You're welcome.

1035
01:24:21,100 --> 01:24:21,780
Is that correct?

1036
01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:27,040
Mr. Mayor, if I may, I would add that the timing

1037
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:30,280
of the, a lot of these increases coincided more

1038
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:34,320
with insurance, for instance, a national disaster,

1039
01:24:35,460 --> 01:24:37,260
which we've experienced in Northern California,

1040
01:24:37,700 --> 01:24:43,860
which contributed, we've also have supply chain issues

1041
01:24:43,860 --> 01:24:47,400
that were a result of the global plant pandemic.

1042
01:24:48,500 --> 01:24:51,920
And then, I would argue that subsequently,

1043
01:24:53,300 --> 01:24:57,560
the dumping of $6 trillion into the economy later,

1044
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:03,160
later was a big impact on inflation.

1045
01:25:04,220 --> 01:25:07,900
So you can't, I don't think you could separate all of these, but there were definitely

1046
01:25:07,900 --> 01:25:11,800
much more economic issues that were involved.

1047
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:15,100
A lot of reasons behind those figures right there.

1048
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:16,040
Very good.

1049
01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:17,200
Any other comment from public?

1050
01:25:18,740 --> 01:25:18,840
All right.

1051
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:20,100
We bring about the council for action.

1052
01:25:20,700 --> 01:25:21,180
Through the mayor.

1053
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:21,740
Yes, sir.

1054
01:25:22,260 --> 01:25:25,940
Before we go to action, I'd like to make a couple of comments here.

1055
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:26,280
All right.

1056
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:33,740
First of all, my colleague, I really respect your mark, really to hear my colleague, and it takes a lot of

1057
01:25:34,260 --> 01:25:36,340
tenacity and guts to just hand your ground.

1058
01:25:36,540 --> 01:25:37,340
I've been there.

1059
01:25:39,060 --> 01:25:45,200
But when I look at the budget, what we're doing this year, I look at it not only as a single year,

1060
01:25:45,300 --> 01:25:49,720
where we're at as my colleague on the other side and said, it's a tight budget.

1061
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:55,860
But this is the sixth year we've done this, and Mark, you've been a integral part of that over the years.

1062
01:25:56,060 --> 01:26:05,380
We have managed this city along with our city team and our finance and our city manager to where we're not in the situation that I'm seeing other cities.

1063
01:26:05,540 --> 01:26:11,340
I mean, if you just look, such a county is upside down. Sacramento counties upside down.

1064
01:26:11,780 --> 01:26:19,100
Sacramento City of Sacramento is upside down, and they're hundreds, not such a county, but Sacramento hundreds of millions of dollars upside down.

1065
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:31,140
And I just want to commend the council and the city staff before we go forward with five years of a good job done because we really dug in and we can't overlook that.

1066
01:26:31,660 --> 01:26:35,340
We made it through some of the tough times. Is it pretty an optimal?

1067
01:26:36,480 --> 01:26:43,560
Yeah, he's Joe, he's lap and it's not. I mean, we identified last year if we really wanted to do everything that we need to do for our residents.

1068
01:26:44,220 --> 01:26:52,620
I don't remember off top, ma'am, but somewhere from 4 and 500 million dollars that we would need to do all the things that the department has brought forward.

1069
01:26:53,460 --> 01:26:54,640
We don't have it.

1070
01:26:55,740 --> 01:26:59,760
So, you know, I fully respect you and I understand exactly where you're coming from.

1071
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:04,620
But I think we've got to take a look at the five years leading into this and pardon the French.

1072
01:27:04,620 --> 01:27:07,480
Well, we've done a hell of a job and you've been a part of that.

1073
01:27:07,860 --> 01:27:09,460
So I want to say thank you for that.

1074
01:27:09,460 --> 01:27:12,740
and I appreciate your forthcoming tonight.

1075
01:27:13,020 --> 01:27:14,200
So I just wanted to say that.

1076
01:27:14,480 --> 01:27:16,300
But on that, we've got a job to do.

1077
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,220
And it is not optimal.

1078
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:22,940
And Spencer, thank you to you and your team.

1079
01:27:23,460 --> 01:27:27,560
Because we've asked you to be wizards and do things

1080
01:27:27,560 --> 01:27:29,680
and you guys have put it together.

1081
01:27:30,440 --> 01:27:32,880
So I just want to say thank you to you and your team.

1082
01:27:33,020 --> 01:27:35,700
So with that, I would go ahead and move

1083
01:27:35,700 --> 01:27:44,960
we adopt a resolution approving the proposed physical year 2425 operating budget, adopt a resolution

1084
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:52,300
approving the physical year 2425 CIP project summaries by funding source or attached to the

1085
01:27:52,300 --> 01:27:58,600
resolution for your reference and see adopt a resolution approving the city's appropriations limit

1086
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:01,160
for the physically year 24-25.

1087
01:28:02,620 --> 01:28:03,840
Second, through the mirror.

1088
01:28:04,060 --> 01:28:04,700
Yes, sir.

1089
01:28:05,440 --> 01:28:09,100
I would like to vote singularly on item A.

1090
01:28:10,260 --> 01:28:11,620
And then B and C.

1091
01:28:12,380 --> 01:28:12,880
Friendly amendment.

1092
01:28:13,780 --> 01:28:13,800
Sure.

1093
01:28:14,540 --> 01:28:14,820
That's fine.

1094
01:28:14,980 --> 01:28:15,300
Okay.

1095
01:28:15,540 --> 01:28:15,860
Roll call.

1096
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:16,260
Yep.

1097
01:28:16,660 --> 01:28:18,060
So we can do a roll call.

1098
01:28:19,220 --> 01:28:20,660
For A and then B and C.

1099
01:28:27,590 --> 01:28:27,610
Yes.

1100
01:28:27,650 --> 01:28:29,410
So item A.

1101
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:35,980
We have a first from Vice Mayor Shaw.

1102
01:28:35,980 --> 01:28:47,760
Correct, second from Councilmember Presqually, and then we have Councilmember Kirchner. Yes,

1103
01:28:49,810 --> 01:28:50,710
and

1104
01:28:50,710 --> 01:28:55,390
Councilmember room garden. No. And Mayor Harris. Yes.

1105
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:08,400
Okay, so item B. I'm sorry. Did we get Councilmember Charlotte? I missed that one.

1106
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:11,860
She just took it because I made the motion on me. Yes, and

1107
01:29:11,860 --> 01:29:15,880
Pasqualee as he is because he's seconded. So got it. Okay, just so we're clear for the record

1108
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:20,700
We're assuming you're voting for your own motion. Okay. Thank you. Now we can run through the roll call for B and C.

1109
01:29:21,740 --> 01:29:24,520
I didn't be Councilmember Boom Garden. Yes.

1110
01:29:26,200 --> 01:29:28,380
Councilmember Kirchner. Yes.

1111
01:29:29,540 --> 01:29:31,240
Councilmember Hisqualee. Yes.

1112
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:34,000
Vice Mayor Shaw. Yes.

1113
01:29:34,940 --> 01:29:36,200
Mayor Harris. Yes.

1114
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:39,080
I didn't see.

1115
01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:42,280
Council member Boom Garden. Yes.

1116
01:29:43,180 --> 01:29:44,860
Council member Kirchner. Yes.

1117
01:29:46,020 --> 01:29:47,780
Council member Pasquale. Yes.

1118
01:29:48,700 --> 01:29:50,100
Vice Mayor Shaw. Yes.

1119
01:29:50,980 --> 01:29:52,420
And Mayor Harris. Yes.

1120
01:29:53,980 --> 01:29:55,640
All right. So we got that.

1121
01:29:59,280 --> 01:29:59,980
Mayor before we go.

1122
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:11,080
One, can I just note that this is Spencer Morrison's last adopted budget before he retired at the end of the year, and I just want to say thank you for all of his work on this budget.

1123
01:30:11,180 --> 01:30:12,740
And I want to say happy birthday, Spencer.

1124
01:30:13,420 --> 01:30:14,300
Thank you.

1125
01:30:14,700 --> 01:30:15,420
Thank you, Spencer.

1126
01:30:20,970 --> 01:30:22,970
All right, number 20, downtown noise ordinance.

1127
01:30:23,210 --> 01:30:24,390
We're stuck.

1128
01:30:26,020 --> 01:30:27,360
That says dog anyway.

1129
01:30:28,060 --> 01:30:28,800
Through the mayor.

1130
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:29,760
I'll give a page.

1131
01:30:31,000 --> 01:30:32,140
Forgive me. I'm sorry.

1132
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:33,080
No worries.

1133
01:30:33,220 --> 01:30:33,800
Sometimes a page.

1134
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:34,360
pages.

1135
01:30:37,930 --> 01:30:40,290
That's why Doug wasn't getting up looking at me like I have three eyes.

1136
01:30:42,330 --> 01:30:46,430
Number 17, you soul source and Spencer, that's why he's still there. One of these days

1137
01:30:46,430 --> 01:30:47,650
all wake up.

1138
01:30:55,140 --> 01:30:58,180
Even there. Good evening again.

1139
01:30:59,240 --> 01:31:04,840
And members of the council tonight I bring before you this my very last city wise soul source

1140
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:12,640
and professional service purchases. Staff report for fiscal year is 2425. I just want

1141
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:18,420
The first to foremost say this is not an 8.75 million dollar project or proposal.

1142
01:31:19,020 --> 01:31:27,680
That would be the culmination of all of these agreements and anticipated dollars that

1143
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:36,120
could be potentially spent, but we don't always spend the entire amount of every agreement

1144
01:31:36,120 --> 01:31:38,380
or for every one of these items.

1145
01:31:38,380 --> 01:31:48,100
It is intended the staff reporters intended to streamline the process if we did not include all

1146
01:31:48,100 --> 01:31:52,320
these sole source and professional services agreements that are mostly ongoing.

1147
01:31:52,800 --> 01:32:00,200
In the staff report, then we will be bringing a great volume of staff reports to you over

1148
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:03,900
the coming fiscal year in these meetings.

1149
01:32:03,900 --> 01:32:13,940
And we just really want intent to put together information that will inform and create awareness.

1150
01:32:14,940 --> 01:32:17,140
And again, these are not appropriations.

1151
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:18,960
That's a separate process.

1152
01:32:21,450 --> 01:32:24,370
A separate process that will come before Council for approval.

1153
01:32:26,670 --> 01:32:33,830
Again, these are future purchases with a high likelihood that invoices invoices with a vendor will total more than a hundred thousand dollars a year,

1154
01:32:33,830 --> 01:32:39,610
which just happens to be your city manager's purchasing authority and all vendors requiring

1155
01:32:39,610 --> 01:32:42,230
a formal bid this year will be brought before Council.

1156
01:32:43,870 --> 01:32:50,190
These are all the items that we presented in the list in the staff report.

1157
01:32:50,390 --> 01:32:51,210
I have that in common.

1158
01:32:53,410 --> 01:32:54,770
How do they get on the list?

1159
01:32:55,090 --> 01:32:57,650
These are sole source and professional service agreements.

1160
01:32:57,650 --> 01:33:07,350
typically they are the only known provider or the only response of vendor or have specialized

1161
01:33:07,350 --> 01:33:09,190
knowledge or expertise.

1162
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:16,890
There could be vendors that are in, there could be HVAC vendors that could be less expensive

1163
01:33:16,890 --> 01:33:26,610
that are well outside their response distance to the city but we know who are HVAC vendors

1164
01:33:26,610 --> 01:33:32,050
are, for instance, that's probably a bad example because we do have to go out to bid for

1165
01:33:32,050 --> 01:33:37,590
HVAC for several years. But when we have multi-year contracts, we are including a lot

1166
01:33:37,590 --> 01:33:42,530
of those vendors in this staff report. Just to remind you that this is who we're doing

1167
01:33:42,530 --> 01:33:49,710
business with. Multi-year agreements, another example would be, another example would be

1168
01:33:49,710 --> 01:33:55,690
landscape contracts, so we are including the multi-year agreements and then existing system.

1169
01:33:55,690 --> 01:34:05,110
So while we do plan to turn over our financial system, our ERP is what it's called, we will

1170
01:34:05,110 --> 01:34:11,190
be bringing that a proposal to a future meeting, but that's not something that we can

1171
01:34:11,190 --> 01:34:15,750
just go out to bid for every two or three years, like landscape.

1172
01:34:16,790 --> 01:34:19,770
So those types of vendors are also on this report.

1173
01:34:20,610 --> 01:34:30,170
So, I did include a list, a full list of all the vendors in the in staff report as an

1174
01:34:30,170 --> 01:34:30,590
addendum.

1175
01:34:31,250 --> 01:34:36,190
So if you have any questions for myself, or for any of the department heads that might

1176
01:34:36,190 --> 01:34:40,910
be holding some of those contracts in this room, that was a great time.

1177
01:34:41,530 --> 01:34:42,490
Yes, it is.

1178
01:34:43,110 --> 01:34:43,590
Questions?

1179
01:34:44,930 --> 01:34:45,130
All right.

1180
01:34:45,470 --> 01:34:47,410
Public comment on that.

1181
01:34:47,410 --> 01:34:58,270
Hello, a motion please move to accept number 17 citywide sole source of professional services purchases adopt the resolution pre-authories in city manager

1182
01:34:58,270 --> 01:35:09,250
Regents needs to enter in a citywide sole source of professional services purchases from July 1 24 through June 30 at 2025 for specified items based on purchase

1183
01:35:09,250 --> 01:35:15,070
Recommendation being in the best interest of the city. Second first and second to approve staffs recommendation

1184
01:35:15,070 --> 01:35:16,450
I was in favor of say aye.

1185
01:35:16,450 --> 01:35:16,870
Aye.

1186
01:35:17,230 --> 01:35:17,750
Opposed.

1187
01:35:18,330 --> 01:35:19,210
As you unanimously.

1188
01:35:19,490 --> 01:35:20,090
Number 18.

1189
01:35:20,510 --> 01:35:21,570
Design a community ordinance update.

1190
01:35:21,750 --> 01:35:22,990
Thank you Spencer and happy birthday.

1191
01:35:24,130 --> 01:35:26,910
Present by Ben Moody.

1192
01:35:27,350 --> 01:35:28,450
Public hearing.

1193
01:35:29,850 --> 01:35:30,410
Good evening, Mayor.

1194
01:35:30,410 --> 01:35:31,410
Members of the City Council.

1195
01:35:33,870 --> 01:35:34,490
Good presentation.

1196
01:35:41,410 --> 01:35:41,830
All right.

1197
01:35:42,050 --> 01:35:43,770
So this is pretty straightforward item.

1198
01:35:44,150 --> 01:35:46,490
It's really in regards to considering

1199
01:35:46,490 --> 01:36:00,090
formerly documenting authority of approving plans and designs to clearly preserve design immunity that's established under state law for various sea projects.

1200
01:36:00,650 --> 01:36:12,070
And so the government code 830.6 addresses injuries causes by plans designs it provides immunity for public entities and employees when plans designs approved by legislative bodies.

1201
01:36:12,070 --> 01:36:14,790
So that is why when we have a project,

1202
01:36:15,550 --> 01:36:18,170
one of the reasons we bring it forward to the City Council

1203
01:36:18,170 --> 01:36:22,430
to formally approve the plans, specifications, and estimate,

1204
01:36:22,750 --> 01:36:25,390
because it provides that immunity should something come,

1205
01:36:25,810 --> 01:36:28,730
it puts us in a better position for those lawsuits

1206
01:36:28,730 --> 01:36:29,850
and defend ourselves.

1207
01:36:30,650 --> 01:36:34,830
And so recently the city insurance risk pool,

1208
01:36:35,050 --> 01:36:37,430
the City participates, and they formally requested

1209
01:36:37,430 --> 01:36:40,330
that we adopt this language.

1210
01:36:41,270 --> 01:36:49,010
And part of that reason is to also bring into items or designs that projects that we don't

1211
01:36:49,010 --> 01:36:50,710
formally bring to the city council.

1212
01:36:51,230 --> 01:36:54,010
A lot of those are rehab, maintenance, in manner.

1213
01:36:54,630 --> 01:36:59,550
It's often made in some emergency, direct negotiation through some sort of sole source.

1214
01:37:00,170 --> 01:37:08,690
And so with this proposal is that it would formally establish that in document, so there's

1215
01:37:08,690 --> 01:37:13,730
this loophole to maybe help mitigate and put the city in a better position for potential

1216
01:37:13,730 --> 01:37:16,050
lawsuits in the future for those contracts.

1217
01:37:16,690 --> 01:37:21,210
And so with that, I'm recommending the conduct of public hearing that introduced an ordinance

1218
01:37:21,210 --> 01:37:25,910
of the city council of the city of the city, adding chapter 12, title six, including six

1219
01:37:25,910 --> 01:37:29,910
12.01 to the municipal code, establishing powers and authority.

1220
01:37:30,020 --> 01:37:34,800
To approve plans or designs for public works projects and wave the first reading.

1221
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:37,320
I'm happy to answer any questions.

1222
01:37:38,060 --> 01:37:40,000
Questions before we do it?

1223
01:37:40,580 --> 01:37:41,020
All right.

1224
01:37:41,620 --> 01:37:44,520
The public hearing for a design immunity ordinance update is now open.

1225
01:37:44,680 --> 01:37:50,140
If there are any members of the public who would like to address the council on this issue, please provide your statement via public comment.

1226
01:37:50,620 --> 01:37:52,100
And state your name and address for the record.

1227
01:37:52,100 --> 01:37:54,780
Do we have any comments from the public on this item?

1228
01:37:55,860 --> 01:37:57,840
You're in no further comment, close in the

1229
01:37:57,840 --> 01:37:59,960
calendar for the McMatter Council, and we do have

1230
01:37:59,960 --> 01:38:02,400
to read the entire thing if you make the action.

1231
01:38:04,550 --> 01:38:05,970
We'll do acceptate, team design,

1232
01:38:06,150 --> 01:38:08,650
community ordinance updates, A, conducted public

1233
01:38:08,650 --> 01:38:10,770
caring, then B, introduced ordinance to the

1234
01:38:10,770 --> 01:38:12,670
City Council, the City of Yubes City, adding

1235
01:38:12,670 --> 01:38:15,930
12, the title six, including sections six,

1236
01:38:16,110 --> 01:38:18,770
dash 12.0, one to the missed code establishing

1237
01:38:18,770 --> 01:38:20,970
powers authority to approve plans and

1238
01:38:20,970 --> 01:38:23,390
designs for public works projects and wave the

1239
01:38:23,390 --> 01:38:23,990
first reading.

1240
01:38:23,990 --> 01:38:24,610
Okay.

1241
01:38:24,930 --> 01:38:28,370
First and second to approve the SAS recommendation, I was in favor of say aye.

1242
01:38:28,390 --> 01:38:28,850
Aye.

1243
01:38:29,310 --> 01:38:30,010
And opposed.

1244
01:38:30,450 --> 01:38:31,050
Pass you dance.

1245
01:38:31,190 --> 01:38:32,250
We thank you very much, Ben.

1246
01:38:32,430 --> 01:38:38,290
It looks like you're at print number 19 also 2024 community development grant annual action

1247
01:38:38,290 --> 01:38:39,170
plan.

1248
01:38:41,530 --> 01:38:41,730
Okay.

1249
01:38:41,830 --> 01:38:45,510
So this is our annual consideration of the action plan.

1250
01:38:46,070 --> 01:38:51,210
And so as you've heard from me before, the season, the title meant jurisdiction.

1251
01:38:51,210 --> 01:38:51,890
So

1252
01:39:01,110 --> 01:39:04,230
I've left it open when I printed it

1253
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:08,280
over right

1254
01:39:33,530 --> 01:39:39,490
it bear with me here for a second

1255
01:40:04,840 --> 01:40:11,180
Yeah, it doesn't like us I can you got it and you'll close it

1256
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:17,300
All right, Sierra thank you all right exciting stuff

1257
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:21,140
all right

1258
01:40:21,140 --> 01:40:22,860
So a lot going on here.

1259
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:25,720
Thank you for the patience with that.

1260
01:40:25,900 --> 01:40:28,820
So tonight, I'm number 19, CBG Annual Action Plan.

1261
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:31,980
So with the city being, oh, it does click.

1262
01:40:32,340 --> 01:40:35,180
With the city being an entitlement jurisdiction,

1263
01:40:35,840 --> 01:40:39,700
annually we're allocated funding through HUD.

1264
01:40:40,180 --> 01:40:42,680
And with the purpose for decent housing,

1265
01:40:42,780 --> 01:40:45,540
suitable living environment, expand economic opportunities,

1266
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:48,440
primarily for low and moderate income persons.

1267
01:40:48,440 --> 01:40:54,880
So, through our CDBG objectives or annual action plan that we coordinate with HUD with, we look

1268
01:40:54,880 --> 01:41:01,200
at that for our area for the low moderate income persons and then we request applications.

1269
01:41:01,920 --> 01:41:05,260
And just so for definitions, it changed quite a bit this year, which was interesting.

1270
01:41:05,420 --> 01:41:08,720
And we went from almost 50,000 to 87,000 as a big deal.

1271
01:41:08,880 --> 01:41:12,160
It kind of comes into that inflation and HUD updating their amount.

1272
01:41:12,160 --> 01:41:19,300
So, a low income person via HUD is defined as less than 50% of the area medium income.

1273
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:24,120
The area medium income has been updated this year for a household of four to be close to $88,000.

1274
01:41:24,780 --> 01:41:27,620
And then, modern income is less than 80% for that.

1275
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:34,140
So, qualifying an individual is in that range of family having less than 44,000,

1276
01:41:34,460 --> 01:41:36,740
and then the moderate 70,000, just for reference.

1277
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:46,000
This year, annually, it's 567,000, so it's been training down a little bit.

1278
01:41:46,160 --> 01:41:50,460
We were 6.50, 6.30, we were up, and then this last couple of years we've been around

1279
01:41:50,460 --> 01:41:51,940
this 5.60 mark.

1280
01:41:52,480 --> 01:41:57,060
With that funding, there's some stipulations regarding the maximum percentage for

1281
01:41:57,060 --> 01:42:05,480
administration, maximum percentage for services, and then the remaining for construction projects.

1282
01:42:07,820 --> 01:42:15,440
So, as we worked through that, there were some numbers here for the 20% 113 cap with that.

1283
01:42:15,600 --> 01:42:20,060
We're asking for 110,000 for project administration, which is higher than normal.

1284
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,120
But there was a little bit of a basis to that.

1285
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:26,380
And then we have a call out for this public service.

1286
01:42:26,540 --> 01:42:30,660
That's usually an area where we receive a lot of applications.

1287
01:42:30,660 --> 01:42:36,420
and so it's always kind of a pinch point, as far as how much funding is available for those types of services.

1288
01:42:37,620 --> 01:42:46,340
And so the process to get here, it's an annual process, but this is with the dates tweaked a little bit.

1289
01:42:46,620 --> 01:42:58,280
As far as notifications, having a workshop, releasing it to the public and to pass applicants and then also reaching out to nonprofits in the area.

1290
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:01,500
and then receiving applications and then vetting them.

1291
01:43:01,980 --> 01:43:09,900
And then we go through a public 30 day notice period that we're in right now with finalizing the 30 day notice period and then how it conducting the public hearing.

1292
01:43:10,700 --> 01:43:12,700
And then ultimately sending it to HUD for approval.

1293
01:43:13,080 --> 01:43:18,140
And so with that we worked with the mayor and the vice mayor to review the applicants.

1294
01:43:19,340 --> 01:43:21,800
This is just kind of a visual of the process.

1295
01:43:23,220 --> 01:43:26,520
And there's always more applications than funding.

1296
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:34,480
And so we received about 1.8 million in applications with only about that 567 less admin program.

1297
01:43:35,800 --> 01:43:54,460
And so where we landed is program administration 110,000. And so where that is, that's a little bit heavier than usual, but with that, we're anticipating through that budget is utilizing more staff time to deliver the projects. We've with the recent retirement, relatively recent retirement of our project manager.

1298
01:43:55,520 --> 01:43:59,900
There's been kind of a void for delivering some of the small projects that the fire stations

1299
01:43:59,900 --> 01:44:01,800
at the bathrooms at the senior center.

1300
01:44:02,200 --> 01:44:05,840
Some of these that they're more than maintenance projects, and they have the reporting

1301
01:44:05,840 --> 01:44:12,540
and funding, there's reporting needs, there's also a lot of prevailing wage and bid documents

1302
01:44:12,540 --> 01:44:19,140
and so we're planning to provide more of a staff time to basically deliver that project

1303
01:44:19,140 --> 01:44:20,700
and then build it to the program.

1304
01:44:20,700 --> 01:44:30,680
And then we have the U-Baceter Homeless Consortium, 44,500 for various services to the Homeless

1305
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:40,420
Population, City of U-Bacete Patriot Park Playground Equipment, ADA Sidewalks at 186,000

1306
01:44:40,420 --> 01:44:46,140
City of U-Bacete Secondary Camping Site, 15,000 for various materials, the Police Department

1307
01:44:46,140 --> 01:44:54,480
is asked for cost of data from Ranza, $60,000 towards replacing rehabbing some of their

1308
01:44:54,480 --> 01:44:59,980
out their ADA ramp and some of their issues with their access, and then, um, with it.

1309
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:28,180
Free $20,000, we coordinate with them. That's been kind of ongoing coordination where they help disabled individuals, you know, fix access or different improvements into the home, ADA improvements, and then we have the food bank. And so the food bank, there was a little tricky last year, because when we had came back, they defined even though it's a food, it's a kind of product as a service.

1310
01:45:28,180 --> 01:45:32,140
And so they fell into that cap of that 85,000 dollars.

1311
01:45:32,420 --> 01:45:37,120
And so with available funds, less the other projects above,

1312
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:41,520
we were able to come in close to $28,000 for the food mills,

1313
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:44,940
the pre-made food mills, and then they had a special project

1314
01:45:44,940 --> 01:45:46,920
related to fixing their delivery truck.

1315
01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:49,840
That was a need for the delivery truck that we found.

1316
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:53,240
They were able to, whether there was a request for $27,000

1317
01:45:53,240 --> 01:45:56,040
to make that fix that truck and have it on the road.

1318
01:45:56,040 --> 01:46:01,040
Please, Jim, may they had a range from the minimum to the maximum,

1319
01:46:02,000 --> 01:46:05,200
or we're proposing a 7700, which was at the minimum,

1320
01:46:05,980 --> 01:46:09,180
and then the new training, Dacen, or counseling for 5,000,

1321
01:46:09,440 --> 01:46:10,500
which was a new applicant.

1322
01:46:10,980 --> 01:46:17,260
It was from an individual that's historically ran rest,

1323
01:46:18,360 --> 01:46:19,960
and they put a pretty good application together.

1324
01:46:20,260 --> 01:46:24,380
And so with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions

1325
01:46:24,380 --> 01:46:28,420
and the recommendations in the staff report as presented.

1326
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:41,060
I'll give a public hearing on this, I believe.

1327
01:46:41,960 --> 01:46:46,380
Public hearing for the 2024 Community Development Block Grant Annual Action Plan

1328
01:46:46,380 --> 01:46:49,400
is now open if there are any members of the public who would like to address the council on the issue.

1329
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:53,300
Please provide your statement via public comment and state your name and address for the record.

1330
01:46:54,280 --> 01:46:58,240
Do we have any comments from the public on the item? Looks like we've got one.

1331
01:46:58,500 --> 01:46:58,900
Hello, Maria.

1332
01:47:06,280 --> 01:47:08,140
Do I have to state my name and address and everything, right?

1333
01:47:08,140 --> 01:47:10,560
Okay, we're going to use a work address if you want.

1334
01:47:10,900 --> 01:47:14,520
Okay, so my name is Maria Ball, and I'm the director of the Ubisutter Food Bank.

1335
01:47:15,060 --> 01:47:18,620
And the Food Bank is at 760 Stafford Way in Ubis City.

1336
01:47:19,140 --> 01:47:22,940
I am here tonight with our esteemed board chair, Jackie Sillman.

1337
01:47:23,420 --> 01:47:27,980
And we are here just to thank Council and Mayor for your consideration for the Ubisutter

1338
01:47:27,980 --> 01:47:28,940
Food Bank.

1339
01:47:29,380 --> 01:47:33,600
You know, we're looking at that slide up there about inflation and all the different

1340
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:34,200
costs.

1341
01:47:34,620 --> 01:47:38,120
And the Food Bank is really feeling it and we're feeding a lot of people.

1342
01:47:38,120 --> 01:47:45,560
And in fact, we've, from the year 2022 to 2023, we've, we've increased the people that

1343
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:50,080
were serving over almost 100%, 80% is where we are.

1344
01:47:50,080 --> 01:47:55,960
We're serving about 25,000 people each month, and we really appreciate your consideration.

1345
01:47:56,900 --> 01:48:01,480
That truck needed a new engine, a whole new engine, 28,000 dollars.

1346
01:48:01,940 --> 01:48:06,100
We didn't have it, so we thank you for your consideration tonight.

1347
01:48:06,100 --> 01:48:12,220
Thank you so much for your support, and we can't do it without you, so thank you very much.

1348
01:48:12,500 --> 01:48:13,940
All right.

1349
01:48:13,940 --> 01:48:15,600
And thank you for all your work.

1350
01:48:15,940 --> 01:48:17,060
Anybody else, Kurt, a comment?

1351
01:48:18,080 --> 01:48:18,120
Nope.

1352
01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:21,420
All right.

1353
01:48:21,820 --> 01:48:25,600
Here in a further comment issue, I am closing the public here and bringing the matter back to council.

1354
01:48:26,340 --> 01:48:26,860
Through the mayor?

1355
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:27,580
Yes, sir.

1356
01:48:27,940 --> 01:48:35,660
I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution, improving the proposed 2024 annual action plan.

1357
01:48:35,660 --> 01:48:42,360
authorize and authorize staff to submit the required documents to the Department of Housing

1358
01:48:42,360 --> 01:48:43,260
and Urban Development.

1359
01:48:43,380 --> 01:48:44,640
I'm on the right one.

1360
01:48:44,860 --> 01:48:45,740
I'm sorry.

1361
01:48:45,860 --> 01:48:50,700
That's the Department of Development ahead for processing and authorize the finance

1362
01:48:50,700 --> 01:48:54,580
instructor to add budget appropriations for the grant revenue.

1363
01:48:55,440 --> 01:48:56,020
Second.

1364
01:48:56,780 --> 01:48:57,140
All right.

1365
01:48:57,200 --> 01:49:00,600
First and second to approve that aforementioned action.

1366
01:49:00,740 --> 01:49:01,740
I was in favor of say aye.

1367
01:49:02,120 --> 01:49:04,700
And opposed passage unanimously.

1368
01:49:05,220 --> 01:49:06,120
Thank you very much, Ben.

1369
01:49:06,560 --> 01:49:07,220
Appreciate it.

1370
01:49:14,500 --> 01:49:15,620
Power at number 20.

1371
01:49:16,220 --> 01:49:17,220
There he is.

1372
01:49:19,870 --> 01:49:22,270
Downtown noise ordinance exception.

1373
01:49:29,780 --> 01:49:30,500
Thank you.

1374
01:49:31,220 --> 01:49:32,840
Mayor council members, good evening.

1375
01:49:33,800 --> 01:49:38,140
Okay, so the first item, this item before you, the downtown noise ordinance exception.

1376
01:49:39,280 --> 01:49:48,480
So the purpose this item is to establish noise regulations for entertainment activities associated with restaurants bars or other approved entertainment facilities.

1377
01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:52,600
from 10 PM to midnight in our downtown area.

1378
01:49:53,620 --> 01:49:57,140
So as a little background, staff has heard individual

1379
01:49:57,140 --> 01:50:00,460
council members express support for developing the downtown

1380
01:50:00,460 --> 01:50:04,800
area into an entertainment zone and an effort to draw people

1381
01:50:04,800 --> 01:50:09,340
to the area. And this is currently encouraged today by our

1382
01:50:09,340 --> 01:50:12,460
downtown Business Association or DBA Annual Summer

1383
01:50:12,460 --> 01:50:15,880
Winner Stroll Events and Other Activities. Now the current

1384
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:21,880
Noise Regulations limit noise associated with music, large gatherings, or from neighbors.

1385
01:50:22,660 --> 01:50:26,700
Basically, the quiet hour starts at 10 p.m. under the current Noise Regulations.

1386
01:50:26,840 --> 01:50:31,820
And although that is really appropriate for a residential area, if you're trying to encourage

1387
01:50:31,820 --> 01:50:37,600
any form of nightlife in your downtown area, it presents some challenges.

1388
01:50:38,580 --> 01:50:43,880
And so the current noise ordinance includes a number of exemptions built into it.

1389
01:50:43,880 --> 01:50:49,780
includes everything from emergency response vehicles, parades, legal fireworks displays.

1390
01:50:50,420 --> 01:50:57,440
Also includes activities on publicly owned land, religious activities, railroad activities,

1391
01:50:57,720 --> 01:51:02,660
solid waste collection, operations at the fair, organized sports event, and the lawful

1392
01:51:02,660 --> 01:51:04,600
discharge of safe and safe fireworks.

1393
01:51:06,710 --> 01:51:09,470
So the ordinance that we're bringing forward to you this

1394
01:51:09,470 --> 01:51:15,270
evening for consideration would apply to properties, and I'm going to show you a map in a

1395
01:51:15,270 --> 01:51:23,570
applies to properties that are zone commercial, C2, or general commercial, C3, that front

1396
01:51:23,570 --> 01:51:26,970
plume-street, and I mean the properties that front plume-street.

1397
01:51:27,530 --> 01:51:31,450
Between Cluse Avenue or State Highway 20 on the north side, bridge street on the south side,

1398
01:51:31,670 --> 01:51:35,190
and properties also fronting center street between plume-street and Chasta.

1399
01:51:36,230 --> 01:51:41,230
This would extend the current time limit from 10pm to midnight.

1400
01:51:41,230 --> 01:51:48,230
on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays weekly, and then would also add the special days

1401
01:51:48,230 --> 01:51:56,550
of New Year, St. Patrick's Day, St. Nicodemio, the weekends of the DBAs summer Christmas

1402
01:51:56,550 --> 01:52:03,390
stroll events and federal holidays. Now, would apply to entertainment activities associated

1403
01:52:03,390 --> 01:52:07,890
with restaurants and bars as I've cited, or other approved entertainment facilities that

1404
01:52:07,890 --> 01:52:14,990
include live or amplify music, indoors or an approved onsite patio, outdoor dining, location,

1405
01:52:15,250 --> 01:52:21,890
established, consistent with city standards. So the noise, it's still required to be consistent

1406
01:52:21,890 --> 01:52:29,610
with a general plan. And so in practice, we see businesses who are within 100 feet of residences

1407
01:52:29,610 --> 01:52:29,970
would agree.

1408
01:52:30,000 --> 01:52:39,360
Quarages submit a plan to the development services department to show us how they would address noise for their area.

1409
01:52:39,900 --> 01:52:57,220
The city would reserve the right to require a noise analysis, be done either ahead of time or afterwards if we get noise complaints to determine the real noise level out in the area and mitigation that could reduce noise to be consistent with the general plan.

1410
01:52:57,220 --> 01:53:02,780
So, here is a map of this area.

1411
01:53:02,820 --> 01:53:09,520
The colored area represents the boundary of the downtown business association and I point

1412
01:53:09,520 --> 01:53:11,280
out so

1413
01:53:16,340 --> 01:53:21,600
on the north side, close to Avenue Highway 20, this is Plumist Street, down here

1414
01:53:21,600 --> 01:53:23,900
bridge street on the south, center street.

1415
01:53:24,340 --> 01:53:30,700
And so the green properties reflect the parcels that front plumists or center street.

1416
01:53:30,700 --> 01:53:36,560
The properties that are highlighted purple are those still within the DBA area, but they

1417
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:40,580
don't have land-frenting plomus or center street.

1418
01:53:42,940 --> 01:53:48,780
I think going forward, it's important to realize that this is really a first step in developing

1419
01:53:48,780 --> 01:53:51,640
our downtown into more of an entertainment area.

1420
01:53:52,420 --> 01:53:57,040
Our central city specific plan is 32 years old, and it requires updating.

1421
01:53:57,040 --> 01:54:04,300
We are anticipating receiving a federal reconnecting community's grant through SACOG in the amount of $350,000.

1422
01:54:05,000 --> 01:54:07,560
That will be allocated to updating the plan.

1423
01:54:08,100 --> 01:54:14,600
This is going to involve a lot of community outreach to get input from not only individual citizens,

1424
01:54:15,140 --> 01:54:23,280
but as well as the businesses on how they want to see the downtown area developed for the next 30 years and evolve.

1425
01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:29,680
And a part of the separate it would include updated noise analysis applicable to our downtown area.

1426
01:54:31,020 --> 01:54:36,860
So for public outreach for this item, we did coordinate with the downtown business association.

1427
01:54:37,220 --> 01:54:39,920
We consulted with them during the preparation of the ordinance.

1428
01:54:40,480 --> 01:54:45,580
And we also advised them of tonight's meeting at their June 6th board meeting this month.

1429
01:54:45,580 --> 01:54:53,980
We mail notice to property owners not only within the DBA area, but within 300 feet around the DBA.

1430
01:54:55,220 --> 01:54:58,700
We also publish the public hearing notice as required in the newspaper.

1431
01:55:00,760 --> 01:55:04,680
This type of activity we believe is exempt from environment review.

1432
01:55:04,920 --> 01:55:12,940
We cite the Secret Guidelines code section there, because the proposal would be required to be consistent with the general planned noise element.

1433
01:55:12,940 --> 01:55:15,920
allows us to make a determination of exemption.

1434
01:55:18,040 --> 01:55:22,160
So the recommended action we recommend that the Council conduct a public hearing,

1435
01:55:22,580 --> 01:55:26,240
and introduce by title only an ordinance of the City Council of the City

1436
01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:29,260
UBCD promoting business opportunities in our downtown area,

1437
01:55:30,100 --> 01:55:31,580
by many of the municipal code,

1438
01:55:32,260 --> 01:55:36,420
and adopt an exemption under SQL Guidelines Section 15061B3,

1439
01:55:36,420 --> 01:55:37,440
and wave the first reading.

1440
01:55:38,140 --> 01:55:40,640
And I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

1441
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:41,720
Thank you.

1442
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:52,120
through the mayor. Mr. Libby, a question that was posed to me earlier today by a

1443
01:55:52,120 --> 01:55:57,820
a citizen here. When you go back and you look at the map of Plumash Street, you've got several

1444
01:55:57,820 --> 01:56:03,700
of those businesses that have parking lots on the backside, and I just want to be clear because I

1445
01:56:03,700 --> 01:56:09,840
think I understand the way this is written, but what prevents them from suddenly setting up an outdoor

1446
01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:15,340
patio as we did during COVID in those parking lots and putting a band back there, which is

1447
01:56:15,340 --> 01:56:21,180
to you know residents can you can you address that and how this would affect that?

1448
01:56:22,180 --> 01:56:28,220
Yes absolutely I think what's key to remember is if you are within a hundred feet of a

1449
01:56:28,760 --> 01:56:34,620
of residences today you're going to have to come to the development services department with the

1450
01:56:34,620 --> 01:56:40,680
plan to say here's where we would like to have some type of entertainment activity and this is how

1451
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:46,860
we plan to address noise and then we're going to scrutinize that and if we think that

1452
01:56:46,860 --> 01:56:52,680
their proposed plan won't meet the test then we can require that a noise study be completed

1453
01:56:52,680 --> 01:56:57,380
in order to ensure that the noise level will be maintained.

1454
01:56:58,940 --> 01:57:00,780
Okay, and I'm reading it.

1455
01:57:00,860 --> 01:57:02,980
I thought there was kind of these safety nets in there.

1456
01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:07,940
Again, what was brought to me was the question of what stopped some next Saturday night after

1457
01:57:07,940 --> 01:57:14,840
passes to just put in the band out in the back parking lot and open it up for a patio type

1458
01:57:14,840 --> 01:57:15,140
party.

1459
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:16,820
There are provisions to stop that.

1460
01:57:16,820 --> 01:57:16,940
Yeah.

1461
01:57:17,060 --> 01:57:24,960
It is limited to they have to on a proof location so any type of a patio that they want to

1462
01:57:24,960 --> 01:57:25,420
put up.

1463
01:57:25,440 --> 01:57:27,680
Sometimes what they want to do requires a building permit.

1464
01:57:27,720 --> 01:57:30,280
They still have to do those type of things and go through the process.

1465
01:57:30,540 --> 01:57:30,780
All right.

1466
01:57:30,840 --> 01:57:31,760
Thank you.

1467
01:57:32,040 --> 01:57:32,580
Through the mayor.

1468
01:57:32,580 --> 01:57:38,060
So this, Mr. David, this only triggers when you're within a hundred feet of residential

1469
01:57:38,060 --> 01:57:38,820
correct.

1470
01:57:40,000 --> 01:57:45,820
So the, the, the, the ordinance applies to the properties colored green on the map.

1471
01:57:46,400 --> 01:57:51,980
Now, if your, your property is colored green, and you're within a hundred feet of a residence,

1472
01:57:52,180 --> 01:57:57,780
then you would have to come get a plan approved from the city, but if you're not within

1473
01:57:57,780 --> 01:58:08,600
100 feet. You could, you still need to conduct business consistent with, you know, all the regulations for access and get permits for if you want to have a certain type of facility.

1474
01:58:10,220 --> 01:58:10,320
But.

1475
01:58:10,420 --> 01:58:10,680
Okay.

1476
01:58:11,380 --> 01:58:14,040
We're kind of leading towards because there's a lot of other.

1477
01:58:14,120 --> 01:58:24,180
I mean, I just went to a function that the hearty shop and they had music in such an ingot 10 o'clock, but there's no residential within a hundred feet of that shop.

1478
01:58:24,180 --> 01:58:39,580
Yeah. So they just have to submit a permit to do their function. So it's still available to other businesses throughout the community without getting triggered unless they're with a hundred feet of residential.

1479
01:58:39,800 --> 01:58:47,280
So yeah, they just want to be clear that this particular ordinance is an exemption just for the plume history area, not citywide.

1480
01:58:51,340 --> 01:58:55,960
It's basically when I go past 10 o'clock, that's when this kicks in.

1481
01:58:57,650 --> 01:58:58,610
Um, okay.

1482
01:58:59,050 --> 01:58:59,890
There he is.

1483
01:59:00,710 --> 01:59:01,470
Any public comment?

1484
01:59:01,910 --> 01:59:03,170
Yes, ma'am.

1485
01:59:04,770 --> 01:59:05,310
Through the mayor.

1486
01:59:05,450 --> 01:59:07,330
May we actually just open this as a public hearing?

1487
01:59:07,590 --> 01:59:08,350
No, it's a cost.

1488
01:59:08,410 --> 01:59:09,330
I'm sorry about that.

1489
01:59:09,530 --> 01:59:10,630
Thank you so much.

1490
01:59:13,140 --> 01:59:15,260
This is a public hearing as well.

1491
01:59:15,400 --> 01:59:15,660
Yes.

1492
01:59:16,100 --> 01:59:17,560
It's been requested by staff.

1493
01:59:18,300 --> 01:59:18,360
Okay.

1494
01:59:18,620 --> 01:59:18,860
Sure.

1495
01:59:19,060 --> 01:59:20,100
We'll open this a public hearing.

1496
01:59:20,460 --> 01:59:20,660
Welcome.

1497
01:59:21,560 --> 01:59:21,660
Again.

1498
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:23,580
Thank you.

1499
01:59:23,620 --> 01:59:23,860
All right.

1500
01:59:23,860 --> 01:59:32,860
I am a homeowner at 764 Shasta Street, which is directly affected by this ordinance, can you hear me?

1501
01:59:35,420 --> 01:59:39,920
A major issue I already have is that the current ordinances aren't even followed.

1502
01:59:40,660 --> 01:59:48,800
It's pretty consistent when any event happens that the sound prolongs past 10 o'clock.

1503
01:59:49,460 --> 01:59:55,720
it's been that way for as long as we've been there, which is like 14 years. So at this point,

1504
01:59:55,800 --> 01:59:59,980
I don't understand how extending it again or two midnight.

1505
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:07,660
Is going to change anything and what regulations are in place for that to be managed if it's not already being managed already.

1506
02:00:08,460 --> 02:00:16,620
So, in addition to that, this is a family community and I'm not sure, and it's predominantly families.

1507
02:00:16,620 --> 02:00:23,920
And then we were trying to draw more entertainment, but is the entertainment that's extending

1508
02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:31,180
from 10 to 12 really what UBCD is trying to enhance, are we trying to make this more of

1509
02:00:31,180 --> 02:00:32,060
a nightlife?

1510
02:00:32,240 --> 02:00:38,000
I don't think that it's really there, honestly, after living here for so long, I really think

1511
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:44,380
that it's more of a family community and putting any kind of measures in and changing should

1512
02:00:44,380 --> 02:00:48,520
probably go directly towards enhancing some

1513
02:00:48,520 --> 02:00:52,800
or more daytime events, not necessarily extending it

1514
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:54,800
to the night life that really,

1515
02:00:57,000 --> 02:00:58,000
I'm not sure if that's

1516
02:00:58,000 --> 02:01:01,000
really where the UBCDs headed, or that's the goal.

1517
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:07,260
So I would like to very much oppose extending anything

1518
02:01:07,260 --> 02:01:10,840
when we're not even respecting what exists currently.

1519
02:01:11,860 --> 02:01:12,740
Thank you.

1520
02:01:12,920 --> 02:01:13,800
All right, thank you.

1521
02:01:14,060 --> 02:01:15,100
Anybody else, Kira, comment?

1522
02:01:23,960 --> 02:01:28,040
Okay, sorry I have to take off my glasses because I can't read with them.

1523
02:01:28,180 --> 02:01:31,700
All right, thank you Mayor Harris and Council for allowing me the time to be in front of you tonight.

1524
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:36,040
My name is Sandy Drown and I am a board member of the University Downtown Business Association.

1525
02:01:36,940 --> 02:01:45,140
We would like to greatly express our gratitude to the Council and City staff for granting us the opportunity to establish this ordinance and harmony with the vision of our organization.

1526
02:01:45,140 --> 02:01:52,460
Our DBA Vision Statement characterizes our anticipations to be acknowledged as the premier shopping,

1527
02:01:53,060 --> 02:01:59,320
dining, and entertainment district, or I'm sorry, destination in the region. The DBA

1528
02:02:00,160 --> 02:02:04,120
wholeheartedly endorses this ordinance and extensive syrup appreciation today's

1529
02:02:04,120 --> 02:02:07,980
shop and the city council are the city staff for their invaluable contributions,

1530
02:02:08,500 --> 02:02:14,600
notably Doug Libby, who we've had several discussions to collaborate and advance this initiative.

1531
02:02:15,840 --> 02:02:22,380
And as I know for our strolls, I just wanted to speak from the person before me that spoke.

1532
02:02:23,040 --> 02:02:28,520
Our strolls end at nine, and I know that I help close down all the strolls.

1533
02:02:28,640 --> 02:02:33,180
And so at 10 o'clock, there is no music that even happens just because we don't have that opportunity.

1534
02:02:33,920 --> 02:02:37,240
And this ordinance would give us an opportunity to make that event,

1535
02:02:37,240 --> 02:02:42,900
especially in the summertime a little bit later because of the heat to for our community and others to enjoy.

1536
02:02:45,820 --> 02:02:46,660
Thank you.

1537
02:02:46,700 --> 02:02:46,900
All right.

1538
02:02:46,900 --> 02:02:47,400
Thank you.

1539
02:02:47,800 --> 02:02:48,680
Anybody else?

1540
02:02:49,820 --> 02:02:49,960
All right.

1541
02:02:50,060 --> 02:02:51,280
We'll go ahead and close public hearing.

1542
02:02:51,400 --> 02:02:52,060
Bring about the council.

1543
02:03:01,290 --> 02:03:01,770
Through the mayor.

1544
02:03:01,970 --> 02:03:02,170
Yep.

1545
02:03:02,550 --> 02:03:05,050
We have to read the whole thing under action to begin.

1546
02:03:05,270 --> 02:03:05,970
Yes, sir.

1547
02:03:07,170 --> 02:03:07,510
I moved.

1548
02:03:07,670 --> 02:03:11,350
We introduced by title only an ordinance of the city of.

1549
02:03:12,550 --> 02:03:13,810
Ordnance of the city council.

1550
02:03:14,010 --> 02:03:18,030
The city of UBC to promote business opportunities in the downtown area.

1551
02:03:18,030 --> 02:03:27,030
by a mending section 4-17.2 of chapter 17.04 of the UBCD municipal code and adopt an exemption

1552
02:03:27,030 --> 02:03:32,550
under SQL guidelines section 15061, B3, and wave the first reading.

1553
02:03:34,730 --> 02:03:37,030
First and second to approve recommended action.

1554
02:03:37,130 --> 02:03:38,450
All those in favor say aye.

1555
02:03:38,510 --> 02:03:38,990
Aye.

1556
02:03:39,270 --> 02:03:41,050
And opposed passes.

1557
02:03:41,950 --> 02:03:48,010
I would add, man, that I'm not sure how you've dug into the issue that concern you have.

1558
02:03:48,010 --> 02:03:53,670
If you've talked to the DBA or folks there, maybe the source of the music or the noise,

1559
02:03:54,330 --> 02:03:57,890
if you have not, I would encourage you to do that 100 feet, notwithstanding.

1560
02:03:58,650 --> 02:04:01,390
I don't think anybody wants to have any bad feelings.

1561
02:04:02,090 --> 02:04:07,310
The intent to provide options and entertainment options for the community and business owners

1562
02:04:07,310 --> 02:04:10,430
and what not, the intent is not to make your life miserable.

1563
02:04:10,890 --> 02:04:16,090
And we talked about mitigation factors that we're going to be requiring and having people step into.

1564
02:04:16,090 --> 02:04:20,910
Again, 100 feet or not, we'd be worth the conversation so I guarantee you no one wants to

1565
02:04:20,910 --> 02:04:24,150
Great problems for you. Okay? All right. Thank you.

1566
02:04:26,320 --> 02:04:27,820
1, 2, number 21,

1567
02:04:30,420 --> 02:04:31,680
Citizens Oversight Committee.

1568
02:05:13,460 --> 02:05:14,760
We are near the end here.

1569
02:05:15,420 --> 02:05:20,060
So we have the Citizens Oversight Committee and the item that we're talking about tonight are

1570
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tasks, objectives, composition, and member qualifications. So since December of 2022,

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The City Council has evaluated a potential revenue measure and we had an ad hoc committee

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of Mayor Garis and Councilmember Boomgarden that through process of working with a citizen's

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02:05:40,500 --> 02:05:47,840
group came forward last December with a recommendation of a 1% general tax in which funds

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can be spent on items such as roads and public safety.

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02:05:51,320 --> 02:05:54,780
Share a portion of the revenues with federal county for services that provide benefit to

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capacity residents, include a Citizens Oversight Committee, and then the measure would be

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in effect until ended by voters.

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So it's important at the July 16th Council meeting, this item will be coming before Council

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in terms of the potential of placing a measure on the ballot, and so it's what we wanted

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to do.

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02:06:14,600 --> 02:06:18,520
As we are going around and doing the informational meetings, there's a lot of questions that

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have come up about the Citizens Oversight Committee, so we wanted to bring forward the structure

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02:06:22,340 --> 02:06:25,960
so that individuals would understand what the intent is.

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02:06:27,020 --> 02:06:32,560
So there's a series of several tasks that would be the responsibility of this committee.

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02:06:32,860 --> 02:06:36,740
So they would review the revenue and expenditures of the funds generated by the measure.

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02:06:37,320 --> 02:06:41,520
They would also review the annual independent financial audit that's prepared for the city,

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02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:44,140
and specifically would include these funds as well.

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02:06:44,760 --> 02:06:52,320
They would prepare an independent report for the city council to understand how the funds were budgeted and then spent.

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02:06:52,320 --> 02:06:57,340
They would also act as a citizens oversight committee for fun shared with Sutter County.

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02:06:58,100 --> 02:07:02,380
And then this is the key is that they would have the Retain the Authority to submit

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02:07:02,380 --> 02:07:04,900
the committee's annual report to the Sutter County grand jury.

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This would not require council approval.

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So if they deemed it necessary that they were concerned with how the money was spent or

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budgeted that they could submit their report directly to the grand jury without council authorization.

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02:07:17,420 --> 02:07:21,700
The committee type would be a standing committee. It would be advisory and nature.

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02:07:22,500 --> 02:07:25,940
There would be five members. They would need to be at least 18 years of age.

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Need to reside in Uvis City or own a business in Uvis City.

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02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:55,720
Register to vote. And for appointment, an application would be required. The review committee would be comprised of the mayor, the finance director, the city manager, but ultimately the city council would approve the appointments to this committee. The term for the first round two members would have two year terms, three members would have three year terms, and then every appointment thereafter would be based upon the three year term.

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The meetings they would be required to participate in at least two meetings per year.

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All meetings would be noticed per the Ralph and Brown Act, and then minutes would be prepared

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by city staff and become public record.

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02:08:11,360 --> 02:08:15,600
Funding there would not, these members would not be compensated, so it would be voluntary and

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02:08:15,600 --> 02:08:21,440
nature, and the other thing is that committee members would be required to file statements

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02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:27,340
of economic interest and then also complete AB 1234 local ethics training upon appointment.

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02:08:28,720 --> 02:08:31,500
The fiscal impact, again, participation is voluntary.

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02:08:31,980 --> 02:08:35,640
There would be staff time to provide information to the committee members.

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02:08:35,640 --> 02:08:39,760
It's intended that the finance department would be the liaison with the committee.

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02:08:41,080 --> 02:08:47,260
Alternatives would be to modify the task objectives composition or qualifications or to delay

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02:08:47,260 --> 02:08:55,280
discussion of this item until after the November 2024 election, should the A measure be

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02:08:55,280 --> 02:09:01,980
successful at that point in time Council would adopt an ordinance and the creation of

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02:09:01,980 --> 02:09:06,600
the Citizens Oversight Committee would be incorporated into the ordinance, so the tasks would

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currently be set by resolution the committee would be created by ordinance. So the recommendation

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is to adopt a resolution, establishing the task,

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02:09:15,660 --> 02:09:18,340
objectives, composition, and member qualifications.

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02:09:19,160 --> 02:09:21,700
And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions,

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02:09:22,340 --> 02:09:26,760
or encourage any members of the Council on the ad hoc,

1617
02:09:26,760 --> 02:09:29,300
if they wanted to add to this discussion as well.

1618
02:09:29,460 --> 02:09:30,400
So thank you.

1619
02:09:33,140 --> 02:09:35,620
Through the mayor, thank you, Ms. Langley.

1620
02:09:35,760 --> 02:09:39,300
I think that at the presentations to the community

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02:09:39,300 --> 02:09:40,600
that I've been involved with this

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02:09:40,600 --> 02:09:51,120
seems to be extremely consistent and question that comes up is what's the citizen's oversight committee, what are they going to do?

1623
02:09:51,280 --> 02:10:05,900
How often are they going to meet? What is their real power to hold in the spending accountable to those items that we have if past that we have designed the revenue measure money to be spent?

1624
02:10:05,900 --> 02:10:11,660
So I'm encouraged by the fact, and thank you for getting this done early, so that we can

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02:10:11,660 --> 02:10:18,040
begin to at least articulate communicate that to those who folks who have a concern over

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is the money going to be spent in the way that you say it's going to be spent, which

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02:10:22,580 --> 02:10:28,960
is a key item that I believe we learned from previous sales tax revenue measures in the

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02:10:28,960 --> 02:10:29,300
community.

1629
02:10:29,520 --> 02:10:31,360
Thank you.

1630
02:10:32,860 --> 02:10:38,240
That's been a common question that we get at these presentations as to how do we know.

1631
02:10:38,380 --> 02:10:43,060
And so this oversight committee definitely a key component not only is it a good business,

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02:10:43,340 --> 02:10:49,360
but it also helps sell the idea and build that built in a level of trust for the folks out there.

1633
02:10:50,160 --> 02:10:55,240
I had a couple of questions presented to me with the Minis B public and the line item that are

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the Brown Axle Museum is going to be a public meeting which is good. Question we are thinking

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02:10:59,680 --> 02:11:07,260
about too when we're discussing this is the 1% will be going into general fund, how are we going

1636
02:11:07,260 --> 02:11:12,020
to differentiate what is, how are they going to critique the additional one and what's all coming

1637
02:11:12,020 --> 02:11:16,900
out of the same pod? I don't know if this is going to be an extra process we have to go through

1638
02:11:16,900 --> 02:11:22,300
to be able to tell which what. So we would work with finance that they would go into a specific revenue

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02:11:22,300 --> 02:11:28,340
account, so that they would be set aside separately from other, I mean, we have multiple revenue

1640
02:11:28,340 --> 02:11:30,840
accounts. This would become another one that the funds go into.

1641
02:11:30,920 --> 02:11:33,240
Perfect. That's a good answer. Thank you very much for that.

1642
02:11:33,360 --> 02:11:35,340
Thank you.

1643
02:11:35,500 --> 02:11:40,720
Um, yeah. Why you don't know? Right. Um, you can pick and choose and cherry pick your thoughts.

1644
02:11:41,040 --> 02:11:41,880
Um, and you have nothing.

1645
02:11:42,200 --> 02:11:42,320
No.

1646
02:11:42,860 --> 02:11:45,180
Mike has one. Nothing.

1647
02:11:45,960 --> 02:11:47,880
All right. Good to meet you. Go ahead.

1648
02:11:48,220 --> 02:11:52,200
Um, I just want to say thank you to our ad hoc committee because you guys have been

1649
02:11:52,200 --> 02:11:57,880
this long and hard for a long time, and just like you said, everybody's been asking about this,

1650
02:11:57,880 --> 02:12:02,020
and the word that comes to mind is accountability, because that's what's been the problem

1651
02:12:02,020 --> 02:12:06,620
with previous rev measures is, where's the accountability piece, and this is huge in this.

1652
02:12:06,900 --> 02:12:12,540
So I want to say thank you on that, and this just re-emphasizes what we just went through.

1653
02:12:14,180 --> 02:12:19,560
We got to get this assistance oversight established, and we got to get the rev stuff moving,

1654
02:12:19,560 --> 02:12:22,280
And that's gotta be our focus, so I just want to say thanks.

1655
02:12:22,760 --> 02:12:22,880
Sure.

1656
02:12:23,520 --> 02:12:23,740
All right.

1657
02:12:23,960 --> 02:12:24,680
Is he public comment?

1658
02:12:29,440 --> 02:12:30,500
Been waiting for you.

1659
02:12:46,390 --> 02:12:49,230
I named his Lawrence Merch, some member resident in Yuba County,

1660
02:12:49,890 --> 02:12:51,350
a southern county excuse me.

1661
02:12:51,990 --> 02:12:54,790
And I'm curious about the oversight committee.

1662
02:12:55,270 --> 02:12:58,210
What penalties will they have if they don't follow the

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02:12:58,970 --> 02:13:00,210
with the oversight committee?

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02:13:00,470 --> 02:13:00,990
The Germans.

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02:13:02,450 --> 02:13:04,250
So they're going to be any kind of penalty function.

1666
02:13:04,250 --> 02:13:12,010
I suggest I wash where we have oversight committee, but nothing happens because there's no follow-up on it.

1667
02:13:12,350 --> 02:13:25,250
The follow-up would be that they would go to the grand jury and then basically it becomes public knowledge that we didn't do what we say we were going to do and no one wants that to happen and we certainly don't attend for it to be the case.

1668
02:13:27,510 --> 02:13:29,850
It's pretty much the extent that I'm aware of this.

1669
02:13:29,850 --> 02:13:36,270
Yeah. I take that question a little differently in terms of what if the committee members aren't performing their duties?

1670
02:13:37,010 --> 02:13:38,770
Did I misunderstand your question there?

1671
02:13:39,790 --> 02:13:39,990
Okay

1672
02:13:41,210 --> 02:13:46,290
I will admit I didn't quite hear everything, but I think that but okay, we're good

1673
02:13:46,290 --> 02:13:47,730
You have your question answered

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02:13:48,770 --> 02:13:49,850
Okay, sir.

1675
02:14:05,440 --> 02:14:06,240
You want me to take a shot

1676
02:14:06,240 --> 02:14:10,230
Two things. I think number one obviously the grand jury could be

1677
02:14:12,190 --> 02:14:15,590
You make grand jury aware that the money is not being spent.

1678
02:14:15,750 --> 02:14:19,870
The oversight committee could make a recommendation or pass the information known to the

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02:14:19,870 --> 02:14:20,450
grand jury.

1680
02:14:20,890 --> 02:14:24,250
But ultimately, it's a power of the vote.

1681
02:14:24,810 --> 02:14:31,290
If a council comes up here and starts spending the money in ways that are not in concert

1682
02:14:31,290 --> 02:14:34,990
with how the money was supposed to be spent, then those are the consequences.

1683
02:14:34,990 --> 02:14:46,890
I think it's important for people to vote for folks that are going to follow what the intent of these revenues are for, which are roads, public safety, and dealing with the homeless issue.

1684
02:14:47,970 --> 02:14:51,270
So there's a couple of fail-safes in there, as far as I'm concerned.

1685
02:14:52,430 --> 02:14:57,590
I know people probably want more, but that's what we can provide at this particular point in time.

1686
02:14:58,670 --> 02:14:59,050
You're welcome.

1687
02:14:59,050 --> 02:14:59,970
I should go inside.

1688
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:01,700
Glorify, whistleblower.

1689
02:15:03,320 --> 02:15:04,720
Can I have the mayor thing Mr. Mayor?

1690
02:15:05,460 --> 02:15:07,000
So, through the mayor, if I could be Vice-Minister.

1691
02:15:07,480 --> 02:15:12,380
And I usually don't jump in on policy sort of items, but I did want to note in many other communities.

1692
02:15:13,800 --> 02:15:19,920
And what is being proposed here this evening is Citizens Oversight Committee is basically a watchdog who posted what's going on.

1693
02:15:20,140 --> 02:15:23,940
But the alternative to that is to have them have control over funds.

1694
02:15:23,940 --> 02:15:28,780
many communities in fact every community have been in and said no we don't want that because

1695
02:15:28,780 --> 02:15:34,980
you have unelected people who are not responsible to the electorate starting to control

1696
02:15:34,980 --> 02:15:41,420
public funds when they're not subject to public review or public control or public election.

1697
02:15:42,060 --> 02:15:47,320
So usually the balance between that is you set up a division of powers just like we have

1698
02:15:47,320 --> 02:15:52,560
separation of powers where you have an independent watchdog group making sure you're publicly

1699
02:15:52,560 --> 02:15:56,740
elected officials are doing what they're supposed to do, so that's part of the concept

1700
02:15:56,740 --> 02:15:57,840
in there as well.

1701
02:15:58,180 --> 02:15:58,940
Thank you.

1702
02:16:00,440 --> 02:16:01,200
Through the mayor?

1703
02:16:02,280 --> 02:16:07,340
One other point, Larry, on this, and she's, what she had it up there a second ago.

1704
02:16:10,270 --> 02:16:12,670
Yep, what there was, there you go.

1705
02:16:13,630 --> 02:16:17,970
The Citizens Oversight Committee, because we are going to be sharing the revenues with

1706
02:16:17,970 --> 02:16:22,110
Center County for Sheriff and District Attorney and staff as the intent there.

1707
02:16:22,110 --> 02:16:26,930
The same oversight committee is not only going to look at the city and the five people that are

1708
02:16:26,930 --> 02:16:30,470
setting here, but it's going to look at the county and how they spent the shared funds and the

1709
02:16:30,470 --> 02:16:36,070
five that sets on their board. So they have a dual purpose. They're not just looking at just what goes to

1710
02:16:36,070 --> 02:16:38,030
the city. So they're looking at everything.

1711
02:16:43,780 --> 02:16:44,580
All right.

1712
02:16:44,780 --> 02:16:45,840
When you're in action, please.

1713
02:16:51,420 --> 02:16:51,820
Through the mayor.

1714
02:16:52,280 --> 02:16:53,160
It's good.

1715
02:16:53,880 --> 02:17:00,680
I like to make motion to adopt a resolution to establish, to establish the tasks objectives composition,

1716
02:17:00,680 --> 02:17:06,320
and member qualifications for a Citizens Oversight Committee should a potential revenue measure

1717
02:17:06,320 --> 02:17:07,000
be successful.

1718
02:17:09,360 --> 02:17:13,400
First and second to approve staff recommendation and all those in favor say aye.

1719
02:17:13,820 --> 02:17:14,540
Anniposed.

1720
02:17:14,540 --> 02:17:15,620
Passage unanimously.

1721
02:17:15,920 --> 02:17:17,480
Thank you very much.

1722
02:17:18,720 --> 02:17:23,840
Any future agenda items from us or comments from the public?

1723
02:17:25,100 --> 02:17:25,320
Nothing.

1724
02:17:26,360 --> 02:17:28,640
Reports and communications beginning with City Manager.

1725
02:17:31,570 --> 02:17:31,750
All right.

1726
02:17:31,750 --> 02:17:32,890
Thank you.

1727
02:17:35,040 --> 02:17:37,700
So tomorrow afternoon at the Happy Viking,

1728
02:17:37,740 --> 02:17:39,020
we have a shop talk.

1729
02:17:39,340 --> 02:17:41,780
So it's a noon and we will be doing a presentation

1730
02:17:41,780 --> 02:17:43,480
related to the revenue measure.

1731
02:17:44,680 --> 02:17:46,820
June 25th, we have another presentation

1732
02:17:46,820 --> 02:17:50,240
at the Center of Ube Association of Realtors at 9 AM.

1733
02:17:50,760 --> 02:17:53,960
June 26th, we are going to be at Waffle Wednesday

1734
02:17:53,960 --> 02:17:57,400
at the Senior Center at 9.30 AM, doing a presentation.

1735
02:17:58,340 --> 02:18:01,200
And then also at the upcoming UbeCitter Fair

1736
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starting Thursday night through Sunday we will be doing I will have the booth there next to the police department booth and we will have council members and department heads there to answer questions and then also over the next couple of weeks you will see increased

1737
02:18:19,180 --> 02:18:22,400
information related to 4th of July fireworks

1738
02:18:22,400 --> 02:18:27,220
as safe and sane and as we ramp up for that holiday.

1739
02:18:27,620 --> 02:18:29,280
So thank you.

1740
02:18:29,540 --> 02:18:30,260
Thank you.

1741
02:18:30,340 --> 02:18:31,260
Council member Kirchner.

1742
02:18:31,940 --> 02:18:32,700
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1743
02:18:34,420 --> 02:18:38,680
Since we last met, I attended the Gillesizer Board of Directors meeting.

1744
02:18:39,040 --> 02:18:44,120
We had the adoption of the fiscal year 2020-25 budget.

1745
02:18:45,420 --> 02:18:49,620
With the mosquito vector, the personnel committee, which I was on,

1746
02:18:49,620 --> 02:18:55,280
We got together and moved forward and we approved with the rest of the board.

1747
02:18:55,660 --> 02:19:02,000
Every salary of a 4% bump in call-up for their employees, also passed preliminary budget approval.

1748
02:19:03,060 --> 02:19:06,160
With Seboofka ongoing projects are pretty much the same.

1749
02:19:06,280 --> 02:19:12,700
We did the approval of the amendments to consultant agreements for Adency Support for Fiscal Year 2425.

1750
02:19:13,320 --> 02:19:18,580
attended the summer stroll, which was very well attended, was nice to see folks going out

1751
02:19:18,580 --> 02:19:26,860
because the weather was very agreeable this year. I was happy to attend the push in ceremony

1752
02:19:26,860 --> 02:19:31,340
of station four this year. We have a new piece of equipment that's at the site's fire right now,

1753
02:19:31,400 --> 02:19:39,780
is that right? Did you mention? I did take the opportunity to have a discussion with our fire chief

1754
02:19:39,780 --> 02:19:47,180
and some of the firefighters that were called out Saturday night to one of the largest fires

1755
02:19:47,180 --> 02:19:58,600
that I've seen in this community over in Mary'sville, and it was an eye opener for me to see what

1756
02:19:58,600 --> 02:20:09,760
I'm in and women do on a daily basis just throwing themselves in harm's way. The video and the

1757
02:20:09,760 --> 02:20:20,280
or going to level to level, room to room in that old building to make sure it was clear.

1758
02:20:21,340 --> 02:20:30,220
And it was just amazing that we have employees that do that, but their lives in a harmless

1759
02:20:30,220 --> 02:20:30,560
way.

1760
02:20:30,760 --> 02:20:35,400
So I want to applaud them for doing what they do day in and day out.

1761
02:20:35,920 --> 02:20:37,840
And with that, I'll conclude my report.

1762
02:20:39,020 --> 02:20:41,320
All right, thank you, Council Member Bungarten.

1763
02:20:43,260 --> 02:20:44,080
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1764
02:20:44,680 --> 02:20:50,380
Participated in several revenue measure information meetings throughout the community.

1765
02:20:50,660 --> 02:20:54,600
Happy to report that at the ones that I was at anyway.

1766
02:20:55,180 --> 02:20:56,200
Excellent questions.

1767
02:20:56,720 --> 02:20:59,720
Lots of nodding heads doesn't mean that everybody's an agreement,

1768
02:20:59,920 --> 02:21:01,560
but the information is being shared.

1769
02:21:01,680 --> 02:21:07,180
And I think the outreach, outreach efforts are doing good.

1770
02:21:07,180 --> 02:21:12,620
Attendance, the Sutterbeats Flight Control Agency, we have passed their annual budget.

1771
02:21:13,740 --> 02:21:19,960
Council, a person, Piscqualini and I met with members of Habitat for Humanity, the

1772
02:21:19,960 --> 02:21:26,700
Homeless Consortium, the Life Center, somebody else too, Mike, maybe you can help me there.

1773
02:21:27,100 --> 02:21:31,900
For the Baptist Church property, I think that's kind of been on people's minds.

1774
02:21:31,900 --> 02:21:37,980
We are working with them, and hopefully we will have an operational plan from them shortly.

1775
02:21:38,280 --> 02:21:40,900
They have said that they were going to do that.

1776
02:21:42,360 --> 02:21:48,540
I attended the Push in Ceremonie for the New Wildland Engine, which was immediately placed into service to the west of us.

1777
02:21:48,700 --> 02:21:51,960
All you have to do is look at the smoke column and know they are probably busy.

1778
02:21:53,260 --> 02:21:56,320
I attended a senior commission meeting, thank you all.

1779
02:21:57,380 --> 02:22:01,880
I think there's a big bingo thing or something coming up, but I'm sure John will have that.

1780
02:22:01,880 --> 02:22:11,280
going, but waffle Wednesdays and everything else was able to staff a booth at the summer

1781
02:22:11,280 --> 02:22:16,360
stroll for the revenue measure as well. A lot of people looking at the posters as you might

1782
02:22:16,360 --> 02:22:21,560
imagine is probably wasn't high on their list of things to come over and shit chat about.

1783
02:22:21,680 --> 02:22:26,680
A sales tax measure, but we were there and I know that the vice mayor and the council person

1784
02:22:26,680 --> 02:22:29,960
her turn was there as well. One of you look, you know, again.

1785
02:22:30,140 --> 02:22:46,060
And to our firefighters that placed themselves in Mary'sville to assist Mary'sville, fire during the hotel Mary'sville, which I think if we went back through records, I'd probably at least a third or fourth time that you've a city firefighters have been inside that building.

1786
02:22:46,840 --> 02:22:56,320
It does not appear that that building at this particular point in time is going to be able to exist any longer. We'll have to wait and see what the engineers reports are.

1787
02:22:58,060 --> 02:23:24,520
And just, you know, more on a kind of a regional thing, those of you who are baseball fans will be disappointed to hear that Willie Mays passed today, and a guy was kind of a guy that was important to a lot of us who paid attention to San Francisco Giants baseball, so maybe we can close a little bit in memory and let's not necessarily the most protocol thing, but man did have an impact.

1788
02:23:25,800 --> 02:23:28,480
Thank you.

1789
02:23:28,520 --> 02:23:29,620
And let's remember Pascoli.

1790
02:23:30,780 --> 02:23:31,260
Thank you, Mayor.

1791
02:23:32,200 --> 02:23:34,580
I, as I've been discussed in previous reports,

1792
02:23:36,060 --> 02:23:37,860
Strolls brought very well attended.

1793
02:23:38,360 --> 02:23:40,560
I think it's starting at the game momentum.

1794
02:23:41,780 --> 02:23:45,500
And we had several conversations about the revenue.

1795
02:23:45,880 --> 02:23:48,120
Then the final question was, where do you live?

1796
02:23:48,820 --> 02:23:51,840
And they weren't even in the community, but we had good conversation.

1797
02:23:53,180 --> 02:24:01,940
push in was always a treat to do. I'm probably going to embarrass my nephew. He was with

1798
02:24:01,940 --> 02:24:07,880
me. This is my nephew's here. He's serving our country and he's being relocated to Fort

1799
02:24:07,880 --> 02:24:14,600
Erwin. He attended with me to the push in at Hot Committee at the Habitat. I think

1800
02:24:15,860 --> 02:24:22,160
Councilwoman Bungard and I were both very clear of what our expectations were for that and the Lieutenant

1801
02:24:22,160 --> 02:24:31,720
Brazil gave a very succinct explanation of what the expectations of the, at least the Department

1802
02:24:31,720 --> 02:24:33,140
is as well.

1803
02:24:34,540 --> 02:24:43,580
Went to the Hispanic Advancement Scholarship Dinner last week, very well attended, they gave

1804
02:24:43,580 --> 02:24:54,560
I would say approximately 15 to 18 scholarships to the young people moving on with their education.

1805
02:24:55,200 --> 02:25:01,360
A lot of moving stories, Judge Santana gave the keynote speaker, he was a keynote speaker,

1806
02:25:01,900 --> 02:25:06,040
and talked about perseverance and hard work and all of those things.

1807
02:25:06,820 --> 02:25:12,480
I think he was kind of preaching to the choir because these kids were all very dedicated and what they did.

1808
02:25:12,480 --> 02:25:19,160
And what I was really impressed with is the fact that the Hispanic community is even giving

1809
02:25:20,060 --> 02:25:25,620
out scholarships and non-Hispanic children is really need-based.

1810
02:25:25,660 --> 02:25:32,020
And if you bring them a story and a need, they step up and I commend them for that.

1811
02:25:32,140 --> 02:25:34,260
And without it, I conclude my report.

1812
02:25:34,980 --> 02:25:35,820
All right, nice mirror.

1813
02:25:35,820 --> 02:25:37,320
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1814
02:25:38,440 --> 02:25:39,360
I attended a few things.

1815
02:25:39,380 --> 02:25:41,100
I was tied up with continuing education

1816
02:25:41,100 --> 02:25:43,800
in my profession during the last couple of weeks.

1817
02:25:44,540 --> 02:25:46,360
But did go to this stroll.

1818
02:25:46,780 --> 02:25:48,240
And we worked the booth in the afternoon

1819
02:25:49,400 --> 02:25:50,920
and people came by and talked.

1820
02:25:51,080 --> 02:25:52,380
I think if we had had food and drinks,

1821
02:25:52,600 --> 02:25:54,480
we'd probably got more people in there.

1822
02:25:56,100 --> 02:25:57,640
So, middle note, next time,

1823
02:25:57,800 --> 02:25:59,440
sort of margaritas that might get them in there.

1824
02:25:59,800 --> 02:26:00,940
But it was a good reception.

1825
02:26:01,080 --> 02:26:04,180
People seemed inquisitive as far as what's going on.

1826
02:26:04,180 --> 02:26:10,720
Really no negative pushback people are ready to see the roads fixed in our city and more money put into public safety

1827
02:26:11,420 --> 02:26:18,640
One of thank our U.V. City Police Department for helping us at the stroll get all set up and get us going

1828
02:26:18,640 --> 02:26:23,180
We got there and was missing a few things the next thing I know they start pulling out tables and stuff

1829
02:26:23,180 --> 02:26:27,820
So chief. Thank you to you and your team and it was joy to hang out not only

1830
02:26:28,440 --> 02:26:34,160
With my colleague, but with PD and right next to us was FD and it was it was a great afternoon

1831
02:26:34,180 --> 02:26:41,340
So I really appreciate that and thank you Ms. Langley for coming to our rescue and bringing us all the stuff that we needed.

1832
02:26:41,620 --> 02:26:43,140
So thank you to you and Matt.

1833
02:26:44,060 --> 02:26:48,180
And I want to say thank you to our Far Department and Chief Alexander.

1834
02:26:49,940 --> 02:26:54,980
It was an honor for me to be able to say the blessing over the new engine.

1835
02:26:56,020 --> 02:27:02,060
And as I've said it many, many times, I respect you and your entire team.

1836
02:27:02,740 --> 02:27:09,160
And a way that words can, it's hard to express because of the job that you do because every

1837
02:27:09,160 --> 02:27:14,380
time those alarms go off, you're really doing things like you did it with Mary's will.

1838
02:27:14,400 --> 02:27:22,480
We're going into very dangerous situations that, you know, it could be a very bad situation.

1839
02:27:22,700 --> 02:27:26,020
I just want to say thank you and it was my honor to be a part of that.

1840
02:27:26,300 --> 02:27:31,620
The next couple of weeks are going to be real busy as the mayor and I have a lot of meetings

1841
02:27:31,620 --> 02:27:36,120
coming up on the seek festival and parade and we've got some ad hoc meetings and such

1842
02:27:36,120 --> 02:27:43,420
coming up so that will be forthcoming and the last thing is the RWMA. We are moving forward

1843
02:27:43,420 --> 02:27:50,400
with the recruitment process so we had a timeline come through today that we're looking and the

1844
02:27:50,400 --> 02:27:57,260
goal right now is if it can be pulled off is to try to have a new executive director in the fall.

1845
02:27:57,260 --> 02:28:01,180
So we're looking probably the October November timeframe.

1846
02:28:01,920 --> 02:28:04,660
So we are daily working on that.

1847
02:28:05,220 --> 02:28:06,960
So with that, I'll hand it back to you, sir.

1848
02:28:08,180 --> 02:28:08,660
All right.

1849
02:28:09,660 --> 02:28:11,760
One of the bad things about going last

1850
02:28:11,760 --> 02:28:13,080
is everybody still is your thunder,

1851
02:28:13,300 --> 02:28:15,060
because we all attend so many things.

1852
02:28:15,980 --> 02:28:18,640
But I reiterate with Councilman Boom Garden said

1853
02:28:18,640 --> 02:28:20,240
about the revenue major presentations.

1854
02:28:20,420 --> 02:28:22,120
We've had a lot of good participation,

1855
02:28:22,120 --> 02:28:29,920
a lot of good will fought out questions and reception to our answers and I think it's going

1856
02:28:29,920 --> 02:28:34,780
quite well and this is I think one of the biggest public outreach efforts we've made as a

1857
02:28:34,780 --> 02:28:39,860
city and I can definitely think it's paying off and going very well. I attended the River Valley

1858
02:28:39,860 --> 02:28:47,160
High School graduation which was very good. It was the weather cooperated as council member

1859
02:28:47,160 --> 02:28:50,400
Kirchner said, Gil Siser, we approve the annual budget.

1860
02:28:51,320 --> 02:28:53,440
Today, we've been cutting for a new business,

1861
02:28:53,640 --> 02:28:55,840
Clover Beauty Supply, which is on Plum Street,

1862
02:28:55,920 --> 02:28:59,000
between AMPM and the Baptist Church.

1863
02:28:59,280 --> 02:29:01,040
They're tucked in there in that little strip mall.

1864
02:29:01,280 --> 02:29:04,380
They seem to be doing really well, very well appointed.

1865
02:29:04,500 --> 02:29:06,800
And a lot of amenities and services they provide there.

1866
02:29:06,840 --> 02:29:09,040
It was nice to meet the owner and neighbors, Catherine.

1867
02:29:10,320 --> 02:29:12,000
Some are stroll, as already stated, of course,

1868
02:29:12,260 --> 02:29:16,180
was a very good attendance and a very good community event.

1869
02:29:16,180 --> 02:29:18,880
It's always a pleasure to be a part of that.

1870
02:29:18,900 --> 02:29:22,580
The push in ceremony once again was wonderful to see.

1871
02:29:22,760 --> 02:29:27,200
It's nice to see the continuation of traditions,

1872
02:29:27,840 --> 02:29:30,460
the fire departments have done for years and years back

1873
02:29:30,460 --> 02:29:33,440
when they literally had to push the horse drawn stuff

1874
02:29:33,440 --> 02:29:34,460
into the garage.

1875
02:29:35,520 --> 02:29:37,640
But a sense of camaraderie and pride in tradition

1876
02:29:37,640 --> 02:29:39,740
for a fire department reminder to them

1877
02:29:39,740 --> 02:29:43,440
of the responsibility that they have and our commitment

1878
02:29:43,440 --> 02:29:49,620
to public safety as a council, just right literally shining an example of that effort and it was

1879
02:29:49,620 --> 02:29:53,760
very nice to be a part of that historic moment and of course it immediately gets put into use.

1880
02:29:54,640 --> 02:29:59,980
So, and I learned a lot of details about that particular vehicle that I didn't quite

1881
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:08,380
I know before and there's a lot of things feature an specific type of vehicle that's going to be really good for our folks and keep them safe and I actually more efficient.

1882
02:30:09,260 --> 02:30:20,180
I did some interviews for our personnel board. I still have one left to do and as always spoke and met with a lot of very good people, all of whom would do a good job in that role.

1883
02:30:20,520 --> 02:30:24,020
So it's got a decision to make there, but it went well.

1884
02:30:24,020 --> 02:30:28,860
and things are progressing, I think we have youth commission interviews, a set of those coming

1885
02:30:28,860 --> 02:30:36,480
up sometime soon too. So other than that, there's nothing more. And we will close in remembrance

1886
02:30:36,480 --> 02:30:39,460
of Mr. William Ace. Thank you very much.